The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-18
I'AI.MAGE'S SERMON.
Third Discourse Of the Series on the
Holy Land.
Tho Places of Interest In and About Je.
rusaIem-NIount Zion, Mount OH
vet, Gethsemane, Calvary, All
in Panoramic View.


York City. The text was:
III forget thee, 0, Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning.-Psalm c4Xxv.
IT,, 5.
] am here at last in this very Jeru-
salem, and on housetop, just after the
dawn of the morning of December z,
with an old inhabitant to point out the
salient features of the scenery. Now, F"
/ said. where is Mount Zion?"
Here at your right" Where is
Mount Olivet?'' "In front of where
you stand" where is the Garden of
Gethsemane?" SIN yonder valley"
''Where is Mount Calvary?" Before he
answered, / saw it. No unpreiudiced
mind can have moments doubt as to
where it is. Yonder see hill in the
shape of human Skull and the Bible
says that Calvary was the place of a
skull" Not only is it skull-shaped,
but Just beneath the forehead of the
bill is a cavern that looks like eyeless
sockets. Within the grotto under it is
the shape of the inside of skull. Then
the Bible says that Christ was crucified
outside the gate, and this is outside
the gate, while the site formerly Sc
lected was inside the gate. Beside
that, this skull hill was for ages the
place where malefactors were put to
death, and Christ was slain as male
factor.
The Saviour's assassination took place
beside a thoroughfare along which peo-
pie went ''wagging their heads, and
there is the ancient thoroughfare.
saw 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,
as though they were the three crosses
of Bible story, selected another site as
Calvary, all recent travellers agree that
the ono point out to you was, without
doubt, the scene of the most terrific and
overwhelming tragedy this planet ever
witnessed.
There were a thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of Decem-
Der, and our dragoman proposed this
and that and the other journey, but
said: First of all show us Calvary
Something might happen if we went
elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might hinder our seeing the sacred
mount If we see nothing else, we must
sec that, and see it this morning. +"
Some of us in carriages and some on
muleback, we were soon on the way to
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 rock. 1t is called Jere-
miah's grotto, for there the prophet
wrote his book of Lamentations. The
grotto is thirty-fve feet high, and it's
top and side are malachite, green,
brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
teraneous passages, We begin to climb
the steep sides of Calvary. As we go
up we see cracks and crevices in the
rocks which l think were made by the
commissions of nature when Jesus died.
On the hill lay limeston rock, white
but tinged with crimson, the white so
suggestive of purity and the crimson of
sacrifice, that said: ''Thatsto would
be beautifully appropriate for me-
mortal wall in my church, now building
in America, and the stone now being
brought on camefs back from Sinai
across the desert when put I'M
der it. how significant of the
law and the Gospel! And these
lips of stone will continue &c
speak of justice and mercy long after
all our living lips have uttered their
last message" So rolled it down the
hill and transported it. When thatday
comes for which many of you have
prayed-the dedication of the BROOKLYN
tabernacle, the third immense struct-
ure We have reared in this CITY. and
that makes it somewhat difficult BEING
the third structure, work such as no
other church was ever called on to un-
dertake-we invite you in the main en-
trance OF that building to look upon 2.
memorial wall containing the most sug-
geStlVe and solemn and tremendous an
uquities ever brought together; this
rent with the earthquake at the giving
OF the law at Sinai, the other rent with
the crucifixion on Calvary
1t is impossible for you to realize
what our emotions were as we gathered
group of men and women, all saved
by the blood of the Lamb, on a bluff of
Calvary, just wide enough to contain
three crosses. said to my family and
friends: II think here is whore stood
the cross of the impenitent burglar, and
there the cross of the miscreant. and
here between, think, stood the cross
on which all our hopes depend" AS I
opened the nineteenth chapter of John
to read, chill blast struck the hill and
a cloud lowered, the natural solemnitv
impressing the spiritual solemnitv.
| read little, but broke down.
defy any emotional Christian
man sitting upon Golgotha to read
aloud and with unbroken voice. or with
any voice at all, the whole of that ac
count in Luke and John, in which these
sentences are fragment: ."They took
Jesus and led Him away, and He bear
ing His cross went forth into a place
called the place of skull, where thew
crucited Him and two others with
Him, on either side one, and Jesus in
the midst Behold thy. motherr' II
thirst tvThiS dav shalt thou he ,,;tl