Sharp County record., 1890-10-30

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blers are pitching up as to who shall
have the coat of the dying saviour.
There are women almost dead with
grief among the crowd, His mother and
Ills aunt, and some whose sorrows He
had comforted and whose guilt lie had
pardoned. Here man dips sponge
into sour wine, and by stick lifts it to
the hot and cracked lips The hemor-
rhage of the five wounds has doneits
work.
The atmospheric conditions are such
as the world saw never before or since.
1t was not solar eclipse, such as as.
tronomers record or we ourselves have
seen. 1t was a bereavement OF the
heavens Darker Until the towers Of
the temple were no longer visible.
Darher Until the surrounding hills dis
appeared. Darker! Until the inscrip-
tion above the middle cross becomes il
legible. Darker! Until the chin OF the
dying Lard falls upon the breast, and
He sighed with His last sigh the words:
1T s fnishedw
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene, we moved on, and into a
garden of olives, garden which in the
right season is full of flowers, and here
is the reputed tomb of Christ Yo'I
know the Book says: 'ln the midst
of the garden was sepulchre. | think
this was the garden, and this the
sepulchre. 1t is shattered Of course.
About four steps down we went into
this, which seemed family tomb.
There is room in it for five bodies. We
measured it, and found it about
eight feet high, and nine feet
wide, and fourteen feet long. The
crypt where 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 mausoleum, on the first
Easter morning, the angels rolled the
stone laundering down the hill.
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feet Of the Conqueror, and from these
heights lie looked off upon the city that
had cast Him out, and upon the world
lie 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
Solomon had lifted. Stop here and see
a startling proof of the truth of proph-
ecy. In jeremiah, thirty-frst chapter
and fortieth verse, it is said that Jeru-
salem shall be built through the
ashes What ashes? people have been
asking. We're those ashes just put into
the prophecy to fill up? No, the
meaning mas been recently dis
covered. Jerusalem is now being built
out in certain direction where
tho ground has been submitted
TO chemical analysis, and it has
been found to be tho ashes cast out
from the sacrifices of the ancient tenn
pie, ashes of the wood and ashes Of
bones of animals. There are great
mounds of ashes, accumulation of cent
uries of sacrifices 1t has taken all
these thousands Of years to discover
what jeremiah meant when he said
"Behold, the days shall come, saith the
Lord, that the city shall bo built to the
Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto
the gate of the corner, and the whole
valley Of the dead bodies and of
the ashes" The people Of Je-
rusalem are at this very time
fulfilling the prophecy One handful
Of that ashes on which they arc build
ing is enough to prove the divinity Of
tho Scriptures Pass by the place where
the cornerstone Of tho ancient temple
was laid three thousand years ago by
Solomon, Explorers have been digging
and they found that cornerstone seven
ty-hvo feet beneath the surface. 1t is
fourteen feot long and three feet eight
inches high, and beautifully cut and
shaped, and near it was an earthen jar
that was supposed to have contained
the oil of conservation used at the cerc-
mony of laying tho cornerstone Yon-
der, from adepth OF forty feet signet
ring has been brought up, inscribed
with the wards "llaggai, tho Son of
Shcbaniah," showing it belonged to the
prophet llaggai, and to that seal ring he
refers in his prophecy, saying: 81 will
mako thee signet." | walk further
on, far underground, and find myself
in Solomons stables, and SEQ the places
worn in tho stone pillars by tho haltors
Of some OF his twelve thousand horses
Further on, look at the pillars on which
Mount Morlah was built. You know
that tho mountain was too small for the
temple, and so they built the mountain
out on pillars, and | saw eight of those
pillars, each ono strong enough to hold
a mountain,
Here wo enter the mosque of Omar, n
throne of MohOmmedanism, whero we
arc mot at tho door by officials who
bring slippers that we must put on be-
fore wo tako n stop further, lest our
feet polluto tho sacred places, A man
attempting 10 go in without these slip.
pcrs would be struck dead on the spot
Those awkward sandals adjusted as
wo'l as wo could, we are led TO whore
We SEQ ~ rock with an opening In it
through which, no doubt, tho blood of