The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-15

Of her citizens trudge OF into Babyion-
ian bondage. Look, another siegei and
Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts by night
20 through breach OF the Jerusalem
wall. and the morning finds some Of
them seated triumphant In tho temple,
and what they could not take away be-
cause too heavy, they break up-the
brazen sea, and the two wreathed pillars
Jachin and Boaz-
Another siege Of Jerusalem; and Pom
pey with the batteriug-rams which hun
dred men would roll back, and then at
full run forward would bang against
the wall Of the city, and catapults hurl-
ing the rocks upon the people, left
twelve thousand dead and the city In
the clutch Of the Roman war-eagle.
Look, q more desperate siege OF Jeru-
salem! Titus with the tenth legion on
Mount of Olives, and ballist arranged
on the principal Of tho pendulum to
swing great boulders against walls and
towers, and minors digging under the
city making galleries of beams under
ground, which set on fire, tumbled great
masses OF houses and human beings into
destruction and death. All is taken now
but the temple, and Titus, the con-
queror, wants TO save that unharmed,
but . soldier, contrary to orders, hurls
torch into the temple and II is con-
surned. Many strangers were in the city
at the time, nrnetJ-seven thousand cap
tives were taken. and Josephus says one
million one hundred tho usand lay dead
But looking from this housetop the
siege that most sbsorbs US is that Of the
Crusaders. England and France and all
Christendom wanted TO capture the Holy
6epulcher and Jerusalem, then In pos
session OF the Mohammedans under the
command Of one Of the loveliest, bravest
and mightiest men that ever lived, for
jnstice must be done him, though he
MAS . Mohammedan-glorious Saladinl
AGAINST him came the armies Of Europe,
under Richard Ceur de Lion, King OF
England; Philip Augustus, King Of
France; Tancred, Raymond, Godfrey.
and other valiant men, marching on
through fevers, and plaques, and battle
charges and sufferings as intense
as the world ever saw. Saladin In
Jerusalem, hearing Of the sickness 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 Of praise. Feuds and hatred
among themselves we're given up, and
Raymond, and Tancred, the bitterest
rivals. embraced while the armies looked
Oh. Then the battering-rams rolled, and
the catapults swung, and the swords
thrust, and the carnage ragged. Godfrey
OF BouillOn Is the first TO mount the wall
and the Crusaders, a cross on every
shoulder or breast, having taken the
city march bare-headed and bare-footed
TO the Holy Sepulcher, and kiss the
tomb. Jerusalem the possession Of
Christendom. But Saladin retook the
city and for the last four hundred years
Il has been In possession OF cruel and
polluted Mohammedanismi
Another crusade is needed TO start for
Jerusalem. q crusade In this nineteenth
century greater than all those Of the
past centuries put together. A crusade
In which you and ! will march. A cru
SADIE without weapons OF death, but only
the sword Of the spirit A crusade that
will make not single wound. nor start
one tear OF distress, nor incendiariEe one
homestead. A crusade OF gospel peacel
And the cross again be lifted on CAL
vary, not as once an instrument OF
pain, but a signal OF invitation,
and the Mosque OF Omar shall give
place to a church OF Christ, and
Mount Zion become the dwelling
place not OF David but OF David's Lord,
and Jerusalem, purified Of all its idola-
tries, and taking back the Christ she
once cast out shall DO made q worthy
type Of that heavenly city which Paul
styled 'the mother OF us all, and which
st. John saw, "the holy Jerusalem de-
scending out OF heaven from God"
Through its gates may we all enter
when our work is done, and in Its tenn
pie, greater than all the earthly tenn
Piles piled in one, may we worship. Rus
sian pilgrims lined all the roads around
the Jerusalem we visited last winter.
They had walked hundreds Of miles,
and their feet bled on the way TO Jeru-
salem. Many OF them had spent their
last farthing to get there, and they
had left some of those who started
with them, dying or dead by the
roadside. An aged woman, exhausted
with the long way, begged her fell
low-pilgrims MOTTO let her die until she
had seen tho holy City, As sbe came 70
the gate OF the city she could not take
another step, but she wss carried III. and
then said; Nov hold my head pp till
lean look upon, Jerusalem, pnd Der
Head lifted, she took one look snds aid:
Snow I die cohtent l have fseeh lei
iIhave seen IT. Some Of ms before I'VE
reach the heavenly Jerusalem may be
~ tired - thstbut angels Of mercy will
help us in, and one glimpse Of the Tenn
pie Of God and the Lamb, and ono good
look ct sthe king In his, beautyfwiil
more than, ,oompsnsAbe,fo III the toils
and tears aud hSAfthreAks,ot the pill
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