Telegram-herald., 1890-11-10
n to Bethany.
VIEW FROM MOUNT sCoPUs.
kerxisn il seemed q small thing


VIEW FROM MOUNT sCoPUs.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem TO Nazs-
reth. But it will take us four days of hard
horseback riding, sometimes on trot and
sometimes on a sallop, to do il this week.
The way is mountainous in the extreme.
To those who. went mp TO the Tip Top
house on Mount Washington before the
railroad was laid l will say that this
journey from Jerusalem to Nazareth is
like seven such American Journeys. So,
all UP and down and across and recFossing
Palestine Jesus walked. Ahab rode
David rode Solomon rode Herod rode
Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With
swollen ankles and sore muscles of the
legs, and bruised heel and stiff joints and
painting lungs and faint head. along the
roads and where there were no roads at
all Jesus walked.
We tried to get new horse other than
that on which we had ridden on the jour
nsy TO the Dead sea, for he had faults which
our close acquaintaneeship had developed
But after some experimenting with other
qaadrupeds Of that species, and finding
that all horses, like their riders, hsve
faults, we concluded to choose a saddle on
that beast whose faults we were most pre-
pared to pity or resist. We rode down
through the valley and then up on Mount
Scopus and, as our draeoman tells Us that
this Is the last opportunity we shall have
Of looking &C Jerusalem, we turn our
I horses head toward the city and take
| long sad and thrilling look at the relig
| ious capital Of cur planet. This is the
most impressive view Of the most TIRE men
1 dous CITY of all time
/ On and around this hill the arr g OF the
| crusaders at the first sight of the city
| threw themselves on their faces in worship.
! Here most Of the besieging armies en-
camped the night before opening their vol
| leys OF death against Jerusalem. Our last
! look. Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount No
| riah, Mount Of Olives. Mount Calvary
1 VIII we never see them agein' Never
/ The world is so large and time is so short.
I and there are so many things we have
never seen et all, that we cannot afford TO
/ duplicate visits or zee anything more than
! once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray
rock. and the three thousand years Of
architecture and battleHelds. Farewell,
sacred. ssnguinarv, triumphant, humili-
ated Jerusslern Across this valley Of the
Kedron with my right hand throw thee
kiss OF vsledictory Our last look. like our
first look. an agitation OF body. mind and
soul indescribable-
TIE CORPSE CUT INTO TWELVE PIECES
And now. like Ezekiel in my text. lift
| up mine eyes the way toward the north
Near hero was one Of the worst tragedies
! Of the ares mentioned in the B{ble. A hos
pitabie old man coming home at eventide
from his work in the fields finds two stran-
gers. = husband and wife. proposing 10
LODGE in the street because no shelter IL Of
fered them. and invites them 70 come in
and spend the night In his home. Dur
ing the night the rufians OF the neigh
boFhood corspired together, snd sur
ro1ad-d the house, and left the WON
an dead on the doorstep, and the
husband. 10 rally In revenge the twelve
tribe. cut the curp~e of the woman into
twelve parts and s~nt = twelfth 81 n %
sseh trihe. ard tn. fury Of sbs sasson vas
roused. and . per-mptory demand vss
msSe for the surrender o< the sssassiDs
and, the desnaDd refused. in one day twen
~ thca-sod people were left dead on ths
asld and the next day s.esteen tseo~@nd
Wherever cur hoTss sodsy pls1ts hrs foot
IN these aocisnt tsnns- = carp>e lay, and tbs
roads wsre crossed by red rivslet- of o~r
ssgc.
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were PIT 70 desth and their eoasss G7h
b~ted OF hupe In chsins, net feT aeFsaiRz
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