Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-18
ACgoMACc G. Il. "a. SATURDAY, OCTOBER IS 1880
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cred. q group or men ana WOiuen. III
saved By the blood of the Lamb, on a
bluff of Calvary, just wide enough TO
contain tllrce crosses. said to nly
family md friends, Il think here is
where stood the cross OF tlle impenitent
burglar, AMI there the cross of the mis-
creant. and here between. Think, stood
the cross OH which nh our hopes de-
pend" As opened the nineteenth
chapter of JOHN to read chill blast
strucl, the hill and cloud lowered,
the natural solclnnity impressing the
spiritual soelnnity. read little, but
broke down | defy any emotional
Christian l:lan sitting upon Golgotha to
read aloud and with unbroken voice,
or with any voice Mt oil, the whole OF
that account in Luke and John OF
which these sentences are fragment:
They took Jesus and led him away,
and he, bearing his cross, went forth
into IL place called the. plaee-of skull,
wheresthey crucitfed lin and Two 9TH
ers with on one,sand
Jesus in the midst; Behold thy II S otE
crl' II thirst; This day SHALT thou
be with me in Paradise" Father, for
give them. they know not what they
do 's[f it be possible, let this cup
pass from me-" What signs, what sobs,
what tears. what teinpests of sorrow,
what surging oceans Of agony in those
uttcrances!
While we sat there the whole scene
came before us. All around the top
and the sides and the foot of the hill
a mob ragged. They gnash their teeth
and Shake their clinchcd fists 1T him.
Here the cavalry horses champ their
bits and paw-the earth and snort at the
smell of the carnage. Yonder group
OF gamblers are pitching up as to who
shall have the coat of the dying Saviour.
There are women almost dead with
grief among the crowd, his mother and
his aunt, and SOME whose SORROWS lie had
conlforted and whose guilt he-had par
doned. Here IL man dips sponge into
sour wine. and by stick lifts it to the
hot and cracked lips. The helnorrhage
of tile five wounds has done its work.
THE HEAVENS BEREAvED.
The atmospheric conditions are such
as the world saw never before or since.
1t was not II solar eclipse. such us as
tronomers record or we ourselves have
seen: it was 4 bereavement Of the
heavens Darker! until The towers Of
the temple were no longer visible.
Darker! until the surrounding hills
disappeared. Darkerl until the in
scription above the middle cross be
comes illegble. Darkcr until the
chin of the dying Lord falls upon the
breast. and lie sighed with this last
sigh the words. 1t is finished."
AS we sat there u silence took pos
session of us. and we thought. this is
the centre from which continents have
been touched, and all the world shall
yet be moved Toward this hill the
prophets pointed forward. Toward this
-hilLthe. apostles and-lnartyrs pointed
backward. To this all heaven pointed
downward. To this. with foalning ex-
ecrations. pcrdition pointed upward.
Pound it circles all history, ail time,
all eternity. and with thi, scene Iaint-
ers have covered the lnighticst canvas,
aud sculptors cut the richest marble,
and orcllestias roll their grandest orl-
torios. aud churches liftcd their great
est doxologies, and heaven built its
highest thrones.
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene we moved on and into n
garden of olives, IL garden which in the
right season is full of flowers, and here
is the reputed tomb of Christ. You
know the book says, I'm the midst OF
the garden was sepulcher' | think
this was the garden and this the sep IL
cher. 1t is shattered of course. About
four steps down we Went into this,
Which seemed IL family tomb. There
is room in il for about five bodies We
measured it and found it about eight
feet high. :ull a:ac feet vide and four
teen feet long The crypt where think
our Lord slept WIS seven feet long.
think that there once lay the king
wrapped in Ills Inst sIuiuber. On some
of these rocks the Roman government
set its seal 81 the g2tc CT this lnauso-
leuni on the fri Easter morning the
angels rolled the stone laundering down
tile hill Up these steps walked the
lacerated feet Of the conqueror. and
from these heights he looked off upon
the city that had cast him out. ard
upon tho worl;l l:c had come to redeem
and at the heavens through which he
would soon ascend.
THE PROPHECY FULFILLED.
ISut we uluSt hasten back TO the city.
There are stones in the wall Which
Solomon Led lifted. Stop -cre and
sec startling proof of the truth OF
prophecy LII jeremiah. tlirty-ilrst
chapter and .fortietb verse. it is
said that Jerusalem shall be built
through the ashes. What ashes,
people have been asking. Were
those ashes just put into the prophecy
to fiji np2 No! the meaning has been
recently discovered. Jerusalem is now
being built ont in certain direction
where the ground has been submitted
to Il chemieal.;,naIysiS. and it has been
found TO brthe ashes cast ont from the
sacrifices OF; tile ancient temple, ashes
Of the Woodland ashes of bones OF nn-
;nals. i'hplF. are great mounds ct "shes
accumulation OF centuries CT sacrllices.
1t hes taken I'll thece thousands Ct
years to DISCOVER What jeremiah meant
wien lie said, "Behold the days shall
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