The Forrest City times., 1890-10-18

eghes. Wnat 6Snea, peOpic nhsc Ooen dsktusf We're those ashes Just put into the proph-
 ecy to nil upi No! tho meaning has been | recently discovered. Jerusalem is now
 being bait out in certain direction where | the ground has been submitted to chemical
 analys sis and 1t has been founo to be the
 ashes cast out from the sacrifices of the
 ancient temple, ashes of the wood and
 ashes of bones of animals. There arc
 great mounds of ashes, accumulation of
 centuries of sacrihces.s It has taken all
 these thousands of years to discover what Jeremiah meant when he said, "Behold the : days shall come saith the Lord that the city shall De built to tho Lord from the l tower of Hananecl unto the gate of the cor
 ner, and the whole valley of the dead ] bodies ando the ashes. The people of Jcru- salem are at this very time fuib,ling that | prophecy. One handful of that ashes on which thoy arc buildn; enough to prove | the divinity of the scrip ures' Pass by tho place whore the corner stone of the aneicut l temple was laid 3.000 years ago by
 Solomon. Explorers havc been digging aud | they found that corner stone 75 feet beneath i the surface. It k II feet long. and three | feet eight inches high, and beautifully cut l aud shaped and near it was an carthen jar | that was supposed to have contained the oil | of consecration used at the ceremony of | layng the cCraer-stone. Wonder from adepth
 of 70 feet signet ring has been brought | up inscribed with the words; ''taggai the Son of Sbebnaiah,' showing It belonged tu 1 the prophet liaggai. and to that seal-ring he
 refers in his prophecy. saying 'I will make
 thee as a slynct' l walk further on, far : under ground, and l find myself In Sol | ompn stables, and see the places worn in l the stone pillars by the baiters of some of
 his l2.000 horses. Further on look at she
 pillars on which Mount Moriah was built. | You know that the mountain was too small for tho temple and so they built themountain
 out on pillars. and 1 saw elght Of those pill
 lars. each one strong enough to hold a | mountain.
 l Here we enter the Mosque of Omar. | throne Of Mohannedanism, where we arc
 met at tho door by officials who bring slip | pers that we mustput on before we take . 1 step further. lest our feet poliute the sacred
 places. A man attempting to go In without these slippers would be struck dead on the
 spot. These awkward sandals ad usted as l well as we could, we are lcd to where we see
 rock with an opening in it through which,
 no doubt, the blood of sacrifice in the an
 cient temple rolled down and away. At vast expense the mosque has been built, but
 so somber is the place l am glad to get l through 1t and take of the cumbrous slip I pers. and step into the clear air.
 | Wonder Is curve of stone which Is part of n bridge which once reached from Mount 1 Morah to Mount Zion, and over 1t David
 walked or rode to prayers in the tenn i pie. Here is the wailing place of the Jews where for centuries almost pcrpetually I during the daytime, whole generations of the Jews have stood putting their head or l lips against the the wall of what was once Soiomon's temple. It was one of the taddest and most solemn md impressive 1 seen B over witnessed to see scores of those l descendants of Abraham with tears rlioing down their cheeks, and lips trembling with | emotion. u book of Psalms open befors them. bewailing the ruin of the ancient | temple and the captivity of their race. and | crying to God for the restoration of the temple in all its original splendor. i Most affecting scene! And such prayer
 as that, century after century. 1 am sure ] God will answer, aud in some way the de-
 parted grandeur will return, or some hing | better. looked over tho shoulders of some
 of them and saw that they were reading from the mournful psalms of David. while have been told that this Is the litauy which
 some chant:
 s'For the temple that lies desolate; | We sit in solitude and nourn
 1 For the palace that is destroyed, | We sit in solitude and mourn;
 For the walls that arc overthrowu | sit in solitude and mourn,
 For our majesty that is departed. We sit in solitude and mourn
 For our great men that lie dead, | We sit In solitude and mourn;
 1 For priests whonave stumbled.
 We sit In solitude and mourn"
 1 I think at that prayer Jerusaicm win come
 again to moro than Its ancient magnit- | cence; 1t may not be precious stones and 1 architectural maiesty. but In moral splen-
 dor that shall eclipse forever all that David | or solomon saw
 l But I must get back to the house. top
 where stood early this morning. and be.
 fore the sun sets that may catch wider vision of what the city now is and once was. Standing here on the house. top see hat the city was built for military safety,
 some old warrior. l warrant. selocted the | spot. It stands on hill 26eo feet abov. he level of the sea. and deep rasines on 1 three sides do the work of military | trenches Compact as no other city was l ,onaact. Only three miles journey round
 md thc three ancient towers. iiippicus, | Phasaelus, Marianne, frowning dcathuron | the approach of all encmles.
 As stood there ou the house-top In the
 midst nf the city. 1 said; "oh Lord. reveal | to me this metropolis of the world. that l
 may see 1t us it once appeared. No one ] was with me. for there arc some things you
 ,an see more vividly with no ono but God l and yourself present Immediately the Mosque of Omar. which has stood for ages ! m Mount Moriah. the site of the ancient temple, disappeared and the most honored | structure of all the ages lifted inself in the light and saw 1.-the temple. the ancient temple, Not Solomon's temple, but some ! temple, but something more georgeous than
 that. IL was Herod's temple built for the | one purpose of eclipstng all its architectur- al predecessors. There 1t stood. covering 10 acres and 10000 workmen had been 46 years in building IL. Blaze of marnifcence' | Bewldoring range of porticos, aud Sen gato ways, and double arches. and Cor.nthian 1 capitals chiseled into lilies and acanthus. | Masonry beveied and groved into such deii- sate forms that it seemed to tremble in the light. Cloisters with two rows of Corinthian columns, royal arches, marble steps pure us 1 though made out of frozen snow, carving l hat seemed like panel of the door of
 heaven let down and set in, the facade of the building on shoulders at each end lift Ing the glory higher and higher and walls
 wherein gold put out the silver, and the
 'arouncie put out the gold, and
 he jasper put out the carbuncle, until in tho changing light they
 would all seem to come back again into 1 chorus of harmonious color. The temple, | Tho tcmplel DoNolo-y In stone, Anthems 1 sparns in rafters Of Lebanon cedar From
 s'de 10 side and from foundation to gilded plnacic the frozen prayer of all ages
 l From this bouse-iop on tho December uf- l ternoan we look out in another direction
 and sec the kings palace covering hum dred and sixty thousand square feet. three ! rows of windows lliumining the inside briiliance. the hallway wainscoted with all styieS ot cotofcu marbles Surfnouhttd by nrabcsqnc, vermiilion and gold,
 looking down on mosaics, music of | waterfalls in the garden outside an- swering tho music of the harps thrummed by deft fingers inside; banisters over which princes and prineesses leaned. and talked to 1 kings and queens ascending the stairway.
 Q Jerusalem, Jerusalem' Mountain city, l City of GodY Joy of the whole earth Stronger than Ghraiter and Schastopol | surely it mover could have been captured. But while standing there on the house. | top that December afternoon, hear the crash of the s3 mighty sieges which have
 come against Jerusalem in the ages past. | Wonder Is the pool of Hcsekiah and sloan. but again and again were those waters red
 dened with human gore. Wonder are the towers. but again and again they fall. Wonder are the high walls. but again and again they were leveled. To roh the treas
 ares from her temple and palace and | acthrune thls queen city of the earth, all nations plotted. David taking the throne at Hebron decides that he must have Jcru-
 taiem fu, his capital. and, coming up from
 tbe south at the head cf two hundred and