The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-17

1t was a bereavement of the heavens!
Darkeri Until the towers of the temple
were no longer visible Darker. Until
the surrounding hills disappeared
Darkeri Until the inscription above the
middle cross becomes iIlegible- Dark
eri Until the chin of the dying Lord
falls upon the breast and He sighed
with this last sigh the words. 1T is
hnishedi"
As we sat there a silence took posses
sion of us and we thought: This is the
center from which continents have been
touched. and all the world shall be
moved. Towards this hill the apostles
and martyrs poiD ted backward. To this
all Heaven pointed downward To this
with foaming excavations perdition
pointed upward Round it circles all
history, all time, oil eternity. and with
this scene painters have covered the
nigh tiest canvas, and sculptors cut the
richest marble, and orchestras rolled
their grandest oratories, and churches
lifted their greatest doxologies, and
Heaven built its highest thrones
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene, we moved on, and into
garden OF olives. a garden which in the
right season is full of flowers, and here
is the reputed tomb OF Chr St You
know the Book says: '.In the midst of
the garden was sepulcher." l think
cher. 1t is shattered of course About
four S teps down we went into this, which
seemed a family tomb There is room
in it for about Ave bodies We measured
il and found 1t about eight feet high
and nine feet wide and fourteen feet
long. The crypt where l think our
Lord slept was seven feet long, think
| that there once lay the King wrapped in
His last slumber. On some of these
| rocks the Roman government set Its
| seal At the gate of this nausoleum on
the frst Easter morning the angels roll
the stone laundering down the hill. Up
these steps walked the decorated feet of
the Conqueror and from these heights
He looked off upon the city that had
| cast Him out and upon the world He
had come to redeem and at the heavens
| through which He would soon ascend.
But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the wall which
| Solomo on had lifted Stop here and see
a startling proof of the truth of prophecy.
In Jeremiah XXI 40. it is said that
| Jerusalem shall be built through the
ashes What ashes. people have been
| Aslfing9 We're those ashes just put into
| the prophecy to fill up? No, the mean
| ing has been recently discovered Jeru-
salem is now being built out in GER
! tain direction where the ground has
been submitted to chemical analysis
1
| cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient
temple, ashes OF the wood AMI ashes of
| bones of animals There are great
| mounds OF ashes, accumulation of CEN
turtles of sacrifices.
Here we enter the mosque of Omar, a
throne of Mohammedanism. where we
were met at the door by officials, who
| bring slippers that we must put on be-
fore we take a step further, lest our feet
pollute the sacred places. A man at
tempting to go in without these slippers
| would be struck dead on the spot These
awk ward sandals adjusted as we'll as we
could, we are led to where we see a rock
with an opening in it, through which,
no doubt, the blood of sacrifice in the
ancient temple rolled down and away.
At vast expense the mosque has been
| built, but SO somber is the place 1 am
| glad to get through it and take off the
| cum bersome slippers and step into the
clear air. Yonder is a curve of stone,
which is part of bridge which once
reached from Mount Moriah to Mount
Zion. and over it David walked or rode
| to prayers in the temple
Here is the waiiing place of the Jews
| where for centuries, almost perpetuaily
| during the day time, whole generations
| of the jews have stood putting their
| head or lips against the wall of what
was once Solomon's temple. 1t was one
pressive scenes 1 ever witnessed to see
scores of these descendants of Abraham
| with tears rolling down their cheeks
| and lips trembling with emotion, a book
/ of psalms open before them, bewaiiing
the ruin of the ancient temple and the
captivity of their race. and crying tc
God for the reStoratiO of the temple in
all its original splendor Most affecting
scene! And such a prayer as that cen
| fury after century, / am sure God will
answer, and in some way the depar ted
grandeur will return. or sons thing bet
| ter. l looked over the shoulders OF
some of them and saw that they were
| reading from the mournful psalms oil
David, while 1 have been told that this
is the fitany which some chant:
.For the temple that lies desolate,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For the palace that Is destroyed,
| We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For the walls that are overthrown,
| We sit In solitude and mourn;
| For our majesty that is departed
We sit In solitude and mourn;
For our great msn that lie dead,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For priests who have stumbled.
We sit In solitude and mourn"
1 think at that prayer Jerusale EN- will
| come again to moro than its ancie nj
| magnificence; it may not be precious
| stones and architectural majesty, but in
a moral splendor that shall eclipse for
p ever tu6t Ds-Nla OF oOlOiuOn saw.
But l must get bSck to the house-t tor
where l stood early this morning, and
before the sun SETS that may catch a
| wider vision of what the city is and
once was Standing hero on the house
top, see that the city was built fol
military safety. Some old warrior,
warrant selected the spot 1t stands
on a hill 2. 600 feet above the level OF
the sea, and deep ravines on the three
sides do the work of military trenches
| Compact as no other city was compact
Only three miles journey round, and
the three ancient towers, Hippicus,
Phasaelus and Marianne, frownine
death upon the approach of all enemies
As stood there on the housetop IL
the midst of the city, said: 30, Lord.
reveal TO me this metro polls of the
world, that may see it as it once ap
peared- No one was with me. for there
are some things you can see more vivid,
| ly with no one but God and yourseii
present immediately the Mosque of
Omar. which has stood for ages on
| Mount Moriah. the site of the ancient
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