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pillars, Jachin and Boaz.
Another siege Of Jerusalem, and Pompey
with the battering rams which hundred
forward, would bang against the wall Of the
city, and catapults hurting the rocks
upon the people, left twelve thousand dead
and the city In the clutch Of the Roman war
eagle. Look, more desperate siege Of Je-
rusaleml Titus with his tenth legion on
Mount Of Olives, and ballista arranged on
the principle Of the pendulum to swing great
powders against the walls and towers, and
miners digging under the city making gal
leries OF beams underground which, set on
fire, tumbled great masses Of houses and hu-
man beings into destruction and death All
Is taken now but the temple, and Titus, the
conqueror, wants to save that uuharmed.
but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls
torch into the temple and 1t Is consumed.
Many strangers were in the city at the time
and ninety-seven thousand captiyes were
taken, and Josephus says one million one
hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this house top, the siege
that most absorbs US is thatof the Crusaders.
wanted to capture the Holy Sepulchre and
Jerusalem, then In possession Of the Moham-
medans, under the command of ona Of the
loveliest, bravest and mightiest men that ever
lived; for justice must be done him, though
he was q Mohammedan-glorious Saladin!
Against him came the armies of Europe, under
Richard Coeur de Lion, King Of England;
Philip Augustus, King Of France; Tancred,
Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant men,
asas e S Hss sns q. ns sas s
the world ever saw. Saladin In Jerusalem,
hearing Of the sic kness of King Richard, his
chief enemy, sends him his own physician,
and from the walls Of Jerusalem, seeing King
Richard afoot sends him horse. With all
the world looking on the armies Of Europe
come within sight Of Jerusalem. ." :,..
At the first glimpse of the city they fall on
their faces in reverence and then lift anthems
selves were given up, and Raymond and
Tarcred, the bitterest rivals, embraced while
the armies looked on. Then the battering
rams rolled, and thecatapults swung, and the
swords thrust and the carnage ragged. God
frey, of Bouilon, Is the first to mount the
wall, and the Crusaders, q cross on every
shoulder or breast, having taken the city,
march bareheaded and barefooted to what
they suppose to be the Holy Sepulcher, and
kiss the tomb. Jerusalem the possession Of
Christendom. But Saladin retook the city,
and for the last four hundred years 1t has
been In possession Of cruel AID polluted
Mohammedanism!
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, a crusade In this Nineteenth
Century greater than all those Of the past
centuries put together. A crusade in
which You and I will march. A crusade
without weapons OF death, but only the
make not a single wound, nor start one
tear Of distress nor incendiarizs one home.
stead. A crusade of Gospel Peacei And
the Gross again be lifted on Calvary, not
as once an instrument Of pain, but a Signal
Of invitation, and the mosque of Omar
shall give place to q church Of Christ and
Mount Zion become the dwelling place not
Of David, but Of David's Lord, and Jerusa.
lem, purified of all its idolatries, and taking
back the Christ she once cast out. shall be
which Paul styled ''the mother of US al, "and
which st. John saw; *the holy Jerusalem
descending out Of heaven from God.n
Through its gates may we all enter when our
work Is done, and in its temple, greater than
all the earthly temples piled in one, may we
worship. -.
Russian pilgrims lined all the roads around
the Jerusalem we visited last winter. They
tad walked hundreds Of miles, and their feet
bled on the way to Jerusalem. Many OF
there, and they had left some Of those who
started with them dying or dead by the road
side. An aged woman, exhausted with the
long way, begged her fellow pilgrims not to
let her die until she had seen the Holy City:
As she came to the gate Of the city she could
not take another step, but she was carried In,
and then said, "Now hold my head up TIL can
look upon jerusalem" and her head lifted,
she took one look, and said: "Now die con-
tent; have been it! I have seep It" Some
of US before we reach the heavenly Jerusalem
may be as tired as that, but angels Of mercy
will help US in, and one glimpse OF the temple
of God and the Lamb, and one good look at
the "king in his beauty. will more than
heartbreaks of the pilgrimage. Hslelujahi
Amenl ...