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srcmbls Ia the light. Cioisters with two
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marble steIs pure a. though made ost of
fruzsa snow, carving that seelned like =
panel of The door Of heaven let down and
set in, the facade of TIE baiidins on shout
des al each end lifting the glors higher
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out the silver, and the carbuncie pat ogt
the gold. aud the jasper pat out Tie car
bundle, Until in the changing light they
would oil seem 20 come back again into a
chorus Of harmonious color The tsiaple'
The temple. Doxology IN stonel Anthems
soaring IN raftsrs os Lebanon cedar Prom
eide 10 side and from foundation % giidod
pinnacle the frozen prayer of al ages
THE CITY OF GOD.
From this honsetop on tie December sf-
ternoon we look cut ia another direction.
and ! see the Kings palace, covering hun
dred and sixty thousand square feet, three
rows OF windows illumlning the in
side brllhanee, the hallway wainscoted
with al styles Of colOred marbles sur
mounted BY srabssque, verIniiion and
gold, looking down on mosaios, music Of
waterfalls in the garden outside answering
tie music Of the hsrps thrummed by deft
fingers inside; izntsters over which princes
and prinoesSes leaned, and talked 10 kings
and queens ascending the stairway o
Jerusalem, Jerusalemi Mountain city
: City OF God! Joy Of the whole earth
Stronger than Gibraltar and SebastopOl,
surely il never could have boea captured
But while standing there on the house
top that December afternoon ] hear the
crash OF the twenty-three mighty sieges
which have come against Jerusalem in the
ages past Yonder Is the pool Of HeLekiah
and Sloan, but again and again were
those waters rcddeDed with human gore
Yonder are the towers, but rgain and again
they fell Yondx are the high walls, but
again and again they were leveled. To rob
the treasures from her temple and palace
and dethrooe this queen city Of the earth
all nations plotted. David taking the
throne at Hebron decides that be must
have Jerusalem for lns capitol, and coming
up from the south at the head Of two hun
dred and eighty thousand troops he capt
ures it, Look, here comes another siege Of
Jerusalemi
The Aseyrians under SenDachcrib. en-
shaved nations at his chariot wheel, having
taken two hundred thousand captives in
his one campaign; Phonicisn cities kneel-
ing at his feet, Egypt trembling At the
flash Of bis sword, comes upon Jerusalem.
Look, another siegel The armies Of Baby
lon under NebuchadDezzar come down and
take plumber from Jersusalem such as no
other city ever had to yield, and ten thou
sand OF her citizens trudss OF into Baby
lonisn bondage. Look, another SIEGE and
Nebuchadnszzar and his hosts by night 20
through breech of the Jerusalem wall,
and the morning finds some OF them seat
ed triumphant In the temple, and what
they could not take away because too
heavy they break up-the brazen sea, and
the two wreathed pillars Jaohin and Boaz.
THE sIEoEs OF JERUsALEa
Another siege of Jerusalem, and Pompey
with the battering rams which hundred
men would roll back, and then, at full run
forward, would bang against the wall Of
the city. and catapults hGTling the rocks
upon the people, left twelve Thousand dead
and the city in the clutch ot the Roman
war eagle. Look. a more desperate siege
OF Jerusaleml Titus with his tenth legion
on Mount Of Olives, and ballista arranged
on the principle OF the pendulum TO swing
great bowlders against the walls and tow
ers, and miners digging under the city
making galleries OF beams underground
which set on fire. tumbled great masses Of
houses and human beings into destruction
aud death All is taken now but the TEN
pie, and Titus, the conqusror, wants 10
save that unharmed, but "A soldier. contra
~ 70 orders, hurls torch into the temple
aud it is consumed Many str angcrs were
in the city ut the time and ninety seven
thousand osptires were taken. and Jo-
sephus SAYS one million one hundred thou
sand lay dead.
TUE sIBGE OF TIE cRusADERs
But looking from this house top the
siege that most sbsorbs us Is that Of the
crusaders England and Fraaoe and all
Christ<ndom wanted 20 capture the Holy
Sepulcber and Jerusalem, then in posses
sion Of the Mobanmcdan., under the com
maDd OF one Of the loveliest. bravest and
nigbtieSt men that ever lived. for justice
must be done him though he Wa No
hsmmedsR - glorious S0lsdfni Against
him came the armies of Europe. under
Richard Coeur de Lion. King Of England.
Philip Augustus, king Of France. Tancred.
Raymond. Godfrey Gne other valiant men,
marching on through icvers and plaques
and battle charges and sudsrings a. in
,ensc a. the world ever Saw Sslsdin n
Jerusalem, bearing of the sickness = King
Richard. his chief enemy. sends him bis
,wu physicssp. and from the walls Of Je-
rusalern. seeing Kiug Richard afoot. sends
him horse With nil the world looking
On the .rrniss 81 Europe come within sight
5f Jerusalen-
Al The first glimpss of tbe csty they fan
sn their faces In reverence and then AT sD-
tbezns Of praise. Ps1as ADD bstrszis
among tbeEnselves we're gwen ~, aud
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