Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16


and impressive scenes ever witnessed to
see scores of these descendants
of Abraham with tears rolling
down their cheeks, and lips
trembling with emotion, book OF
psalms open before them, bewailIng the
ruin of the ancient temple end the cap
tiyity of their race, and crying TO God
for the restoration of the temnle In ell its
original splendor. Most affecting scene!
And such prayer as that, century after
century, am sure God will answer, and
in some way the departed grandeur will
return, or something better. l looked
over the shoulders of some of them, and
saw that they were reading from the
mournful psalms OF David, while have
Teen told that this is the litany which
some chant:
'For the tenn pie that lies desolate:
We sit in solitude nd 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 great men that lie dead;
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For priests who have stumbled,
We sit in solitude and mourn 49,
[ think at that prayer Jerusalem Will
come sgaiu to more than its ancient
stones and architectural majesty, but IN
moral spleudor that shall eclipse for
ever all that David or Solomon saw.
But l must get back to the house-top
where stood early this morning. and
before the sun sets, that 1 may catch
wider vision of what the city now is and
once was. Standing here ON the house,
top, l see that tn g city was built for mil
itary safety. Some old warrior, war
rant, selected the spot. 1t stands on
hill 2600 feet above the level of the sea,
aud deep ravines on three sides 40 the
work of military trenches. Compact as
no other city was compact Only three
miles journey round, and the three an
cient towers, Hippicus, Phasaelus, MARI
| anne, frowning death upon the ap-
proach of all enemies.
| As stood there ON the house top in the
| midst of the city, l sald, so Lord, re-
veal to me this metropolis of the world,
that may see it as it once appeared.
| No one was with me, for there are some
| things you can
SEE MORE WILDLY
with no one but GCd and yourself pres
| ent. Immediately the mosque of Omar,
| which has stood for ages on Mount
Moriah, the site of the ancient temple,
disappeared, and the most houored struc-
| ture Of all the ages lifted itself III the
light and l saw it-the temple, the
ancient templeI Not Solomon S temple
but something grander than that. Not
Zerubbabel's temple, but something
| more gorgeous than that. Ii was
Herod 8 temple, built for the one pur-
pose of eclipsing all its architectural
predecessors There 1t stood, covering
nineteen acres, and 10, 600 workmen had
been forty-six years in building it. Blaze
of magnificencel BewilderIng range OF
porticos, and ten gatewsys, and double
arches, and Corinthian capitals chiseled
into lilies and acanthus. Masonry
beyelled and grooved into such
delicate forms that it seemed to
tremble in the light. Cloisters with
two rows of Corinthian columns,
royal arches. marble steps pure as though
made out of frozen snow, carving that
seemed like panel OF the door of heaven
had let down and set in, the facade OF
the building on shoulders at each end
lifting the glory higher and higher, and
walls wherein gold put out the silver,
aud the carbuncle put out the gold, and
the jasper put out the carbuncle, until in
the changing light they would all seem
to come back again into chorus of har-
monious color. The temple! The
temple! DoxologY in stone! An
thems soaring in rafters OF
Lebanon cedarl From side to side and
from foundation to gilded pinnacle, the
frozen prayer of all ages!
From this house-top on the December
afternoon we look out in another direc-
ton and l see the kings palace covering
100 900 square feet, three rows OF win
dows illuminating the inside brilliance,
the hallway wainscoted with all styles OF
colorod marbles surmounted by arh-
besoue, vermilIion and gold, looking
down on musiacs, music of waterfalls in
the garden outside answering the music
of the harps thrummed by deft fingers
inside; banisters over which princes and
princesses leaned and talked to kings and
queens ascending the stairway. o Je-
rusalem, Jerusalem! Mountain city!
CITY of God! Joy of the whole earth
Stronger than Gibralter and Sebastopol
surely il never could have been captured
But while standing there on the house.
top that December afternoon, hear the
crash of the twenty-three mighty sieges
which have come against Jerusalem II
the ages past. Yonder is the pool OF
Hezekiah and Sloan, but again an6
again were those waters Redeemed witt
human gore. Ynuder are the towers
but again and again they fall. Yondel
/ are the high walls, but again and again
, they were leveled. To rob the treasurer
from her temple and palace and dethrou'
this queen city of the earth, all nations
, plotted. David taking the throne a
Hebron decides that he must have Jer'
usalem for his capital and, coming VI
, from the south at the head of 2SO, OOC
, troops, he captures it. Look, herr
} comes another siege of Jerusalem! Tit
Assyriaus under Senuacherib, enslavet
; nations at his chariot wheel, having
T taken 200, 200 captives IN his on
{ campaign, Ph9nioian cities kneel'
, ing at his feet, Egypt trembling
/ | at the fash Of his sword, comes upon Je
rusalem.
LOOK, ANOTHER SIEGE!
The armies Of Babylon under Nebu.
: chadnezzar come down and take plunde
| from Jerusalem such as no other Gilt
r ever had to yield, and ten thousand o
( her citizens trudge of into Babylonial
S bondage. Look, another segei AM
$ ACKNOWLEDGMENT and his hosts b
nigh. go through q breach of tn
b Jerusalem wall, and the morn
' ing finds some of them seated tri
nd tha,