Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-18

captured.
But while standing there on tic
honsetop that December afternoon l
hear tie cr;lsLs CT the twenty-thrca
mighty siegcs which have come against
Jerusalem in the ages past. Yonder is
the pool Of Hezekiail and Sloan. but
again and again were those waters
redeemed with human gore. Yonder
are the towers, but aSain and again
they fell. Yonticr are the high walls.
but again and again they we're leveled.
To rob the treasures from her temple
and palace and detlirone this queen
city of the earth ell nations plotted.
David taking the throne at Hebron. de-
.cides thatthe; must have Jerusalem for
his capital, AMI coming up from the
south OF the bead of two lunedged and;
aeig ssionsans les it,
.usalem
The Assyrians under Sennacherib,
lenslaved nations Mt his chariot wheel,
having taken two hundred thousand
captives i'll his one campaign; Ph@nician
cities .neeling at his feet. Egypt
trembling at the fash of his sword,
comes upon Jerusalem. Look. another
siege!. The armies CT Babylon, under
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, come down and take
plumber from Jerusalem such as no
other city ever had to yield. and ten
thousand of her citizens trudgc of into
Babylonian bondage. Look, another
siege! and Nebuolladnezzar and his
hosts by night go through a breach OF
the Jerusalem wall. and the morning
finds some of thenliselted triumphant
in the temple, and what tley could not
take away because too heavy they
break up-thc brazen sen ard the two
wreathed pillars. .Iachin and BoN.
AssAILEp EY THOUSANDS.
Another siege of jerusalem, and
Polnpcy, with the battering rams which
n hundred men would roll back, and
then at full run forward would bang
against the wall of the city, and cata-
pults hurting the rocks upon the peo-
pie. left twelve thousand dead. and
the city in the clutch OF the Roman
war eagle Look, a more desperate
siege of Jerusalem! Titus, with his
tenth legion on Mount of Olives. and
balista arranged on the principle OF the
pendulum to swing great powders
against walls and towers, and miners
digging under the city making galleries
of beams underground, which. set on
fire. tunbled great masses of houses
and human beings into destruction and
death. All is taken now but the tem-
pie, and Titus, the conqueror, wants
to save that unframed, but soldier,
contrary to orders, hurts Il torch into
the temple and it is consumed. Many
strangers were in the city at tlieetirne,
and nincty-seven thousand captives
were taken. and Josephus says one
million one hundred Thousand lay
dead.
GLORIOUS SALADtN.
But looking from this liousetop the
siege that most absorbs us is that Of
the Crusaders. England and France
and all Christendom wanted to capture
the Holy Sepulclicr and Jerusalem. then
in possession of the Mohaininedans ull-
der the command Of one of the LOWEST,
bravest and mighticst men that ever
lived, for justice laust be done him
though he was Mohammedan-glo-
rious Saladin Against him came the
armies of Europe, under Richard.
Ceur de Lion. king OF England; Philip
Augustus. king of Frmce; Tancrcd,.
Raymond. Godfrey and other valiant
men. marching on through fcvers and
plaques and battle charges and suffer
ings as intense US the world ever saw.
Saladin in Jerusalem, hearing of the
sickness of King Richard, Ills chief en-
envy, 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.
ct the first glimpse of the city they
fall on their faces in reverence, and
then lift anthems of praise. Feuds and
hatred among themselves were given
up, ard Raymond and Tancrcd. the
bitterest rivcls. embraced willie tho
armies looked on. Then the batterlns
rams rolled, and the catapulss swung,
and the swords thrust, and the cnrnage
RACED. Godfrey of Bouillon is the first
to mount the wall, and tile Crusaders,
n cross on every shoulder or breast,
having taken the city, march bare
headed and barefooted to what. they
suppose to be the Holy Sepulchre and
kiss tile tomb. Jerusalem the posses
sion of Clristendom But Saladin re-
took the city, and for the last four
hundred years it has been in possession
of cruel and polluted Mohaninedan-
ism!
WITH ONLY THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
Another crusade is needed to start
for Jerusalem, Il crusade in this Nine
tcenth century greater than all those of
the past centuries put together. A
crusade in Which you and will march.
A crusade 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 incendialize one homestead. A
crusade of gospel peace! And may tho
cross again be lifted o-i C;;ls'ary. not
as once all insJ.1::.is.:. 9; ;liiin.'but a
signal Of invitation, ;l;i.i t;:a mosque of
Omar shall give p!nee - :, enrich OF
Christ. and a;can; I:ss :ieeo.s:e the