The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-15
IN JERUSALEM
DE- Talmage Tells About ais First
Day in the Holy City.
a Visit to Calvary rad Lsok % the Rs-
gated Tomb OF Chtist- sstanding on
Calvary aud Viewing tho Scene OF
the ssviour's crnolaxion. X

Palestine to an immense congregation
an the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. He
spoke as follows, from the text "If
Lforget thee, o Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her cunning"-Psalm
cxxxyii., 8; sy FFItV.
- Paralysis Of his best hand, the wither-
ing Of his muscles and nerves, is here
Invoked II the author allows to pass out
OF mind the grandeurs Of the Holy City
whore once he dwelt jeremiah, seated
By the river Euphrates, wrote this psalm
and not David Afraid | am Of anything
that approaches imprecation, and yet l
can understand how any one who has
ever been at Jerusalem should, In en-
thusiasm Of soul cry out whether he be
sitting by the Euphrates or the Hudson
or the Thames, "If forget thee, o Je-
fusalem, may my right hand lose her
cunningr You see, 1t is city unlike
all others for topography, for history.
for significance, for style Of population,
for waterworks, for ruins, for towers,
for domes, for rsmparts, for literature,
for tragedies, for memorable birth
places, for sepulchers, for conhagra-
hons and famines, for victories and do
feata s-ss.s. 4 -.
lam here at last in this very Jerusa-
lem and on housetop, just after the
dawn Of the morning Of December 8,
with an old inhabitant to point out the
salient features Of the scenery. ''Now,"
I said, "where is Mount Zion?' "Here
at your right" where is Mount Oil
vet7" "In front of where you stand"
"Where is the Garden OF Gethsemane2"
''in yonder valley" where Is Mount
Cslvary2" Before he answered, l saw
II No unprejudiced mind can have
moments doubt as to where II Is. Yon-
der ] see hill in the shape OF q human
skull and the Bible says that Calvary
was the "place OF skull" Not only is
II skull-shaped, but Just beneath the
forehead Of the hill is cavern that
looks like eyeless sockets. Within the
grotto under 1t, is the shape Of the in
side Of skull Then the Bible says
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 Agos the place whore malefactors
we're put to death, and Christ was slain
% . malefactor.
A'The Saviour's assassination took place
beside o thoroughfare along which peo-
pie went "wagging their heads" and
there is the ancient thoroughfare. I
ssw at Cairo, Egypt, . clay mold OF that
skull hill, made BY the late General
Gordon, the arbiter OF nations While
Empress Helena, eighty years Of age,
and imposed upon, by having three
crosses exhumed before her dim eyes,
% though they were the three crosses
of Bible story, selected another site as
Calvary, all recent travellers agree that
ths one point out to you was without
doubt, the scene of the most terrific and
overwhelming tragedy this planet ever
Witnessed.
There were thousand things we
wanted TO see that third day Of Decem-
Der and our drsgoman proposed this and
that and the other journey, but said:
"First Of all, show us Calvary. Some
thing might happen II we went else
where and sickness or accident might
hinder our seeing the sacred mount. II
- see nothing else, we must see that
spd see 1t this morning" Some OF US
Ii carriage and some on mule-back, we
wore soon on tho way 10 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. 1t is called Jeremiah's grotto,
for there the prophet wrote his book Of
lamentations. The grotto is thirty-five
feet high and It's top and side arc
fnalachite, green, brown, black, white,
rcd, and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
terrain eous passage, we begin TO climb
the OF eep sides Of Calvary. As we 60
up wc see cracks and crevices In the
rocks which think were made by the
convulsions Of nature whom Jesus died.
On the hill lay lime stone rock, white
bot tinted with crimson, the white 30
suggestive Of purity and the crimson OF
sacrifice that I said, THAT stone would
b beautifully appropriate for memo
rial wall inlny church. now bnilding IN
America; and Sths stone now being
brought on camers back from Sinai
sofpzEfhs dsssrt, when put under Il
hon signiacsnt Of the law and gospel
Ara tbsssllips ofstsne will. oontinte 70
spsa,f 81 jnstics andp mercy long altar
kii our living lips have uttered their
lset message" 80 rolled II down the
hill and transported It. When that day
comes for which many Of you have
praysd-the dedication Of Brooklyn
1hbsrnacle, the third immense structure
w have reared In this city, and that
makes IL somewhat dificult being the
third structure, work such as no other
church was ever called on TO undertake
1--WE invite you in the main entrance Of
that building 10 look upon 9 memorial
wall containing the most suggestive and
solemn and tremendous antiquities ever
brought together; this, rent with tho
earthquake st the giving Of the law st
Sinai. the other rent at the crucihxion
on Calvary. .80bJ9iHDD n
II is impossible forIypu torealize what
our emotions were d we gathered, .
group Of men and women, all saved BY
the blood OF tho Lamb, on blum Of
Calvary, Just wide enough to contain
three CROSSES. said TO my family and
friends: II think hers Is where stood
the GROSS Of the impsnitent burglar. and
thefe the cross Of the nniscreAnt, and
here between, think, stood the cross
cc,whioh all our hopes depended" As
/ opened the ninot oteenth ohapter Of John
t11t<-.l !. nhttl htaat atrt,clr tha hil1 and