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

prayer of all agesi
From this housetop ON the December
afternoon we look out in another direc-
ton, and see the Kings palace cover
ing 100, 900 square feet, three rows Of
windows illumining the inside brill
lance, the hallway wainscoted with all
styles of colored marbles surrounded
by arabesgue, vermit1ion and gold.
looking down on mosaics, music of
waterfalls in the garden outside answer
ing the music of the harps thrummed
by deft fingers inside, banisters over
VIII ch Princes and Processes leaned
and talked to Kings and Queens ascend
ing the stairway. Oh, Jerusalem, Jeru-
salem! Mountain ethyl City of Godf
Joy of the whole earthi Stronger than
Gibraltar and Sebastopoi, surely it never
could have been captured
But while standing there on the house
top that Decent Der afternoon, hear the
crash of the twenty-three mighty sieges
which have come against Jerusalem in
the ages past Yonder is the pool OF
Hezekiah andSiloam, but again and again
were those waters Redeemed with human
gore. Yonder are the towers but again
and again they fall. Yonder are the
high walls. but again and again they
were leyeled- To rob the treasures
from her temple and palace and de-
throne this queen city of the earth all
nations plotted David taking the
throne at lie DrOn Qcc-GeS mat ne uSc
have Jerusalem for his capital, and.
coming up from the South at the head
of $50, 600 troops, he captures it Look.
here comes another siege of JerusalemI
The Assyrians under Sennacherib. en-
shaved nations at his chariot wheel,
having taken 200, 900 captives in his one
campaign, Phonician cities kneeling at
his feet Egypt trembling at the flash
of his sword, comes upon Jerusalem.
Look. another siegei The armies of
babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come
| down and take plumber from Jerusa-
lem such az no other city ever had to
/ yield and 10000 of her citizens trudge
/ off into Babylonian bondage Look,
another sieget and Nebuchndnezzar and
his hosts by night go through breach
of the Jerusalem wall, and the morning
| finds some of them seated triumphant
in the temple, and what they conld not
| take away because too heavy they break
| up-the brazen sea and the two wreathed
pillars. joachim and Boaz-
Another siege of JerusalemI and POM
pey with the battering rams which 100
men would roll back and then at full run
forward would bang against the wall of
/ the city and catapults hurting the rocks
upon the people. left IL, 600 dead, and
the city in the clutch of the Roman war
eagle. Look, q more desperate siege OF
JerusalemI Titus with his tenth legion
ranged on the principle of the pendu-
lum to swing great powders against
walls and towers, and miners digging
under the city making galleries of beams
| underground which, set on fire, tum bled
great masses of houses and human be-
ings into destruction and death All ia
taken now but the temple and Titus,
the conqueror, wants to save that I'M
harmed, but soldier, contrary to or
ders, hurls torch into the temple and
1t is consumed. Many strangers were
in the city at the time and $4,000 cap
tives were taken, and Josephus says
1, 100, 600 lay dead.
But looking from this housetop. the
siege that most absorbs us is that of the
crusaders England and Franco and all
Christendom wanted to capture the Holy
/ Sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in pos
| session of the Mohammedans under the
command of one of the loveliest bravest
and mightiest men that over lived-for
| Justice must be done him though he was
/ a Mohammedan glorious Saiadini
Against him came the armies of Europe
under Richard Coeur de Lion, King of
| England; Philip Augustus, King OF
| France; Tancred, Raymond, Godfrey
and other valiant men, marching on
through fevers and plaques, and battle
charges, and sufferings as intense
| as the world ever saw. Saladin
in Jerusalem, hearing of the Sickness of
King Richard, his chief enemy. sends
him his own physician, and from the
Richard afoot, sends him a horse.
With all tho world looking
on the armies of Europe come
within sight of Jerusalem. At the first
glimpse of the city they fall on their
faces in reverence, and then lift an
thems of praise. Feuds and hatred
among themselves were given up. and
Raymond and Tancred. tho bitterest
rivals, EN- braced while the armies looked
on Then the battering rams rolled,
and the catapults swung, and the swords
thrust. and the carnage ragged. Godfrey
of Bouillon is the first to mount the
wall and the crusaders, a cross upon
every shoulder or breast have taken tho
city, march bare headed and bare-footed
to what they suppose to be the Holy
Sepulcher. and kiss the tomb. Jerusa-
lem the possession of Christendom. But
Saladin retook the city, and for the last
400 years it has been in possession of
cruel and polluted Mohammedanisml
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, a crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those of the
past cen turtles put together. A crusade
in which you and 1 will march. cru
sade without weapons of death, but only
the sword of the spirit A crusade that
will make not q single wound nor start
one homestead. A crusade of Gospel
peacel And the cross again be lifted
on Calvary, not as once an instrument
of pain, but a signal of invitation, and
the mosque of Omar shall give place TO
Church of Christ, and Mount Zion be-
come the dwelling place not of David.
but of David's Lord. and Jerusalem,
purified of all its idolatries, and taking
back the Christ she once cast out, shall
be made a worthy type of that heavenly
city which Paul styled 1.-THE mother of
us all, and which St John saw 1.-THE
holy Jerusalem descending out of
Heaven from God"
Through its gates may We enter when
our work is done. and in its temple,
greater than all the earthly temples
piled in one, may We worship Russian
pilgrims lined all the roads around the
Jerusalem we visited last winter. They
had walked hundreds of miles, and their
feet bled on their way to Jerusalem.
Many of them had spent their last farth-
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