Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-10-25

Paralysis II his hest hand; the whitening II
Its muscles aud nerves, j, here INVOKED i the
author allows 4. pass ont If mind the gran
deurs Of the Hoiy City where once H. dwelt.
Jeremiah. seated bv the river Euphrates,
wrote this psalm. ana not David. Afraid |
atn Of anything that approaches ltn precatlon,
and yet | can understand now any one who
has ever been at Jerusalem should ii entlu
slasm Of soul cry out, whether ke be sitting
by the Euphrates. or The Hudson, or the
Thames, II ! forge ttee, . Jerusalem. let
my right hand forget aer cunning You
see K Is u city unlike al others Tor topog-
.T~rhy, for history, fyr. olIu.hcance, for style
81 f~{silatlon. tor water works. cOr ruins,
for towers, for doner br ra'npafts for n
tiatuIr, for Tragedies, FOR rneAlorabls birth
places, for @rIulciers, for epnfiarraticns and
taInines, foc victories and 1efeat-
81 here at last IN tins very Jerusalc;u,
an, Oh u hou-etop, Just after tn" dawn OF
the morning Of Drcemb"r .. lgith All old IN
hat.taIt T. point out the s1IIeut features Of
the scenery. Now, / sad. wt.tr-i is Mount
Zlou% Here ut y~ourrlsht ..WLeItlsMoInt
Ohyet2' In front Of where Won stanl@
Nv here i, the Garden IF GetL-sfnstue>3 I'm
yon4ef valley Where's Mount Ceivary
Before be answered | saw II. No nnprcju-
alced mind can have a moments doubt as
t. where It j. Wonder ! see a hill in the
shai q II human skull, and the Btu. says
that Calvary was the place IF u skull ID
Not only Is il skull shaped, but lust b.
meath the forehead If the Alll IS Il cavern
that looks lIp@ cycles sockets WITHIN
tn" grotto under ~ - the shape Of the III
side Of a skull. Then the Bible says that
Christ was crlcitiri outside the pat-, ana
thu is outside the gatc. while the site form
erly elected wa, inside the gate. Besides
TINT. this skull hiil was for ages the plaoo
where malefactnrs we're put t. dtafA, and
thItst was slam as a ualefact0r.
he Saviour ass destination took place be
slde a tho~roughfare along which pc ,pie went
'~wagging their heads, and Their, is the an
cent thofoughfare. / saw at Carr, Egypt,
u clay mould Of that skull iill, made by the
late General Gordon. the nrbltcr Of nations.
hi, Emuress Helena, eighty years Of age,
and imposed upon by having three crosses
exhlrnel before her dina eyes, a. though
they were the three crosses Of Bible story,
collected another site rs Calvary, all recent
travellers agree that the one | point out t.
you WAS without doubt the scene of the most
terrific and overwhelming TRAGEDY this
planet ever Witnessed
There We're Il thousand things "; wanted
to see that third day Of December. and our
dragoilan proposed this aud thai and the
other journey, but | said First Of all show
us Calvary. Something might happen il we
went elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might hinder our seeing the sacred mount.
If wo see nothing else We must So. that, and
SEE It this morning. Some OF us IL carriage
and some on mule back, we We're soon Oh the
Wey To the most sacred spot that the world
has ever seen OF ever will see. Coming to
the base Of the hill Ub first went inside thu
skull OF rocks. 1t ls called Jercmiah's grotto,
for there the prophet wrote his book OF
Lamentations The grotto is thirty-five feet
high, and its top and side are Iuaiachite,
green, brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured subter-
rautous passages 70 begin to climb the steep
sides If Calvary. AS we go up we see cracks
and crevices III the rocks, which | think were
made by the commissions OF nature when
Jesus died. On the hill lay a limestone rock,
white, but tinged with crimson, the white 50
suggestive OF purity and the crimson Of sac
ritce that said, That stone would be beau
tifulfy appropriate for q memorial wall in
my church, now building in America and
the stone now being brought on canlels back
from Sinai across the desert. when put under
1t, how significant Of the law and the gospel
And these lipso stone will continue to speak
of justice and mercy long after all our living
lips have uttered their last message"
80 / roliel II uown the mn AM trans
ported 1t. When that day comes 1or which
many Of you have prayed the dedication
OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the third inn
mense structure we have reared III this
city, Qnd that makes II somewhat difficult.
being the third structure, Il work such a.
no other church was ever called On t. un-
dertake-we invite you III the main en-
trance of that building To look upon u me
mortal wall containing the most suggest
i've and solemn and tremendous antiquities
ever brought together this, rent With the
earthquake at the giving Of the law al
Sina, the other reLt at the crucifixion or
CALVARY.
Il IS" impossible for You to realize VIVA
our emotions were as we gathered Il grouI
OF men and women, all saved 10y the bloot
OF tie Lamb, on a bluff Of Cavalry, JUS
wide enough To contain three crosses.
SnI Ia Ia my fnIntiN md frI4n1S- IL rhjnl
here ; where stood the cross OF the inpeni
tent burglar, and there the cross Of tn
mleerrnnt, and here between, | think. stoo.
the cress on which all our hopes depend.
A. opened the nineteenth chapter OF Job
10 read Il chill blast struck the hill and
cloud lowered, the natural solelnnity i'm
pressing the spiritual solemnity. | read
little, but broke down. | defy any emo
tiCrai Christian man sitting ulon Col
gotta 10 read aloudand with ulibroken voice
or with any voice at all, the whole Of tina
account III Luke and John, OF which thes
sentU cos are j fragment They took Jesu,
and .el Min away and He, bearing Ills cross
weIt tnrth into u place called the plnce of
skui whore they cruciticl Him and two 9th
er> With Him, On either side one, and Jesu
III the midst Behold thy mother =
Thirst This day shalt thou he with Me il
Para lse.' Father, forgive them. they know
not Want they do. If Y te possible. let thi
~ lHE" L ClAh IA IL SiAIS. "tdj SGilS
what tears, what tempe>ts Of sorrow. wha
sur.lnS oceans Of agony III those u~tterances
White we sat there the who'll scene cam
before Us. AL around the ton ana the 81 IL
and the loot Of the Hill a mob raEel. The
lna>h their teeth and shake the!r rIlncho1
fist NJ linn. Here the cavalry horses cham
their bit and paw the earth and snort AZ III
smell ~ the carnage Wonder a group 0
Gamt@ers are pitching up asto who shall hayl
the coat of the dying Savlour There ar
women almost dead With grief among tn
crowd His mother ani His aunt. and som
whose sorrows He hal pardonei. Here
man dl!s a sponge into sour vine, and by
stlch lifts il - the hot ami cracked lips
TEe henorrhageof the five wounds las don
its w,Ik.
IAe atmospheric conditions are such as Il
the world saw never before ur since. II ",
not u solar eclipse. such as astr nnGiner
rtc,I"ur Sc ourselves Eave seen Il was
Der aNemeut II the heavens, Darker. un,
the towers 81 tile temple were no longer vi>
Die. Darker, until the surrounding hills III
appeared Darker until the inscriptil
above the middle cross becomes Illegtbl
Darker until the chm OF The dying Lord fal
upon the breast. and tie sighed with this IA
sigh the words. 1t i finishes"