Connecticut western news., 1890-10-15
WHERE OUR LORD DIED.
DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES HIS VISIT
 TO MOUNT CALVARY.

io mOON CHCNHhts
 Jerusalem the Holy City-Scenes of Past Splcndor - The Twenty-Three Mighty
 sieges-A Crusade of the Nineteenth Century.
 BROOKLYN, Oct. 12.-This morning
 Dr. Talmage delivered his third sermon on his recent tour in Palestine in the Academy of Music in this city. The large building was crowded and num- bers went away disappointed This was the more significant because it had been publicly announced that the same sermon would be preached in the even ing at the New York academy, which The Christian Herald had rented for that purpose. In spite of this fact, unprecedented since the days of Chal- mers, both buildings were crowded to excess, and many were turned away from the doors, both morning and evening. Dr. Talmage must have preached today to ten thousand differ ent persons The doctor spoke as fol lows from the text: eff I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. "-Psalm cxxxvii, 5.
 Paralysis of his best hand, the with ering of it's muscles and nerves, is here invoked if the author allows to pass out of mind the grandeurs of the Holy City where once he dwelt Jeremiah, seated by the river Euphrates, wrote this psalm, and not David. Afraid I am of anything that approaches impre- cation, and yet can understand how any one who has ever been at Jerusa- lem should, in enthusiasm of soul, cry out, whether he be sitting by the Flu pirates, or the Hudson, or the Thames, If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her ounning" You see it is city unlike all others for topography, for history, for significance, for style of population, for water works, for ruins, for towers, for domes, for ramparts, for literature, for tragedies, for memorable birthplaces, for sepul- chers, for confagrations and famines, for victories and defeats.
 ZION, oLIvET AND CALVARY.
 am here at last in this very Jerusa- lem, and on housetop, just after the dawn of the morning of December 3, with an old inhabitant to point out the salient features of the scenery. ''Now," said, "where is Mount ZionY "Here at your right" "Where is Mount On- vet2" 'In front of where you stand" scf fIoG Gor of do%h ''In wonder valley" ''Where is Mount Calvary9" Before he answered I saw it. No unprejudiced mind can have moments doubt as to where it is Yon- der see hill in the shape of human skull, and the Bible says that Calvary was the "place of a skull" Not only is it skull shaped, but just beneath the forehead of the hill is cavern that looks like eyeless sockets. Within the grotto under it is the shape of the in side of a skull. Then the Bible says that Christ was crucifed outside the gate, and this is outside the gate, while the site formerly selected was inside the gate. Besides that, this skull hill was for ages the place where malefac- tors were put to death, and Christ was slain as malefactor.
 The Saviour's assassination took place beside a thoroughfare along which people went "wagging their heads" and there is the ancient thor oughfAre. I saw at Cairo, Egypt, a clay mold of that skull hill, made by the latY Gen. Gordon, the arbiter of nations. While, Empress Helena, 80 years of age, and imposed upon by having three crosses exhumed before her dim eyes, as though they were the three crosses of Bible story, selected another site as calvary, all recent tray elers agree that the one point out to you was, without doubt, the scene of the most terrific and overwhelming tragedy this planet ever witnessed.
 VISIT TO CALVARY.
 There were a thousand things we wanted to see that third day of Decem- Der, and our dragoman proposed this and that and the other journey, but I said: "First of all show us Calvary. Something might happen if we went elsewhere, and sickness or accident might hinder us seeing the sacred mount. If we see nothing else, we must see that and see it this morning" Some of us in carriage and some on mule back, we were soon on the way to the most sacred spot that the world has ever seen or ever will see. Coming to the base of the hill we first went inside the skull of rocks. It is called Jeremiah's grotto, for there the prophet wrote his book of Lamentations. The grotto is thirty-five feet high, and its top and sides are malachite, green, brown, black, white, red and gray.
 Coming forth from those pictured subterraneous passages we begin to climb the steep sides of Calvary. As we go up we see cracks and crevices in the rocks, which think were made by the convulsions of nature when Jesus died. On the hill lay limestone rock, white, but tinged with crimson, the white SC suggestive of purity and the crimson o1 sacrifice that said: '"That stone would [ be beautifully appropriate for memo rial wall in my church, now building ir America; and the stone now being brought on camers back from Sina across the desert, when put under it how significant of the law and the gospel! And these lips of stone will l continue to speak of justice and mercy | long after all our living lips have ut tered their last message" So l rolled | it down the hill and transported it.
 When that day comes for whicl many of you have prayed-the dedica | ton of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, thu | third immense structure we have reared in this city, and that makes it some | what difflcult. being the third struct