The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-24

the world NV never before o. sincA
Il Vas not . solar eclipse, suoh - astron-
omers record or W ourselves have soon.
Il WAS . bereavement Of the heevensl
Darkerl Until the towers Of the temple
were no longer visible. Darker! Until
the surrounding hills disappeared
Darkeri Until tho inscription above tho
middle cross becomes illegible. Dark
Or! Until the chin Of the dying Lord
falls upon the breast and He sighed
with this last sigh the words st II
AniShedy"
Az va eat there . silence took posses
sion Of us and 70 thought: This IL tho
center from which continents have been
touched. and oil the world shall b
moved. Towards this hill tho apostles
and martyrs pointed backward. II this
all Heaven pointed downward To this
with foaming excavations perdition
pointed upward. Round it circles all
history. all time. al eternity. and with
this scene painters have covered the
mightiest canvas. and sculptOrs cut the
richest marble, and orchestrss rolled
their grandest o~rstories. and churches
lifted their greatest doxologies. and
Heaven built its highest thrones
Unable longer to endure the pressure
Of this scene. We moved on, and into .
garden Of olives . garden which in the
right season il full Of flowers. and here
is the reputed tomb of Chr St You
know the Book says: sin the midst OF
the garden was . sepulcher." l think
this was the garden and this the sepul-
cher. It is shattered Of course. About
four steps down We went into this which
seemed . family tomb. There is room
in it for about i've bodies. We measured
1t 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. I think
that there once lay the King wrappedin
His last slumber. On some Of these
rocks the Roman government set Its
seal At tho gate of this mausoleum on
the first Easter morning the angels roll
the stone laundering down the hill. Up
these steps walked the lacerated feet Of
the Conqueror, and from these heights
He looked OF upon the city that had
cast Him out and upon the world He
had come to redeem and 1T the heavens
through which He would 1901 ascend.
But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the wall which
Solomon had lifted. Stop here and zee
astartling proof Of the truth OF prophecy.
In jeremiah xxi. 40. it Is said that
Jerusalem shall be built through the
ashes What ashes, people have been
asking? Were those ashes just put into
the prophecy to I'LL up? No! the mean
ing has been recently discovered Jeru-
salem is now being built out in . GER
tain direction where the ground has
been submitted TO chemical analysis
and it has been found to be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient
temple. ashes o: the wood AMI ashes of
bones Of animals. There are great
mounds of ashes, accumulation Of CEN
turtles of sacrifices.
Here we enter the mosque OF Omar, .
throne of Mohammedanism. where We
were met at the door by officials. who
bring slippers that we must put on be-
fore We take a step further, lest u feet
pollute the sacred places. A man At
tempting to 60 in without these slippers
would be struck dead on the spot These
wkward sandals adjusted as we'll as We
could, We are led to where we see q rock
with an opening in it. through which.
no doubt, the blood Of sacrifice in the
ancient temple rolled down and away.
At vast expense the mosque has been
built, but so somber is the place l am
glad to get through it and take of the
cumbersome slippers and step into the
clear air. Yonder is q curve of stone,
which is part OF a bridge which once
Zion. and over it David walked or rode
to prayers in the temple.
Here Is the wailing place of the Jews,
where for centuries, almost perpetually
during the day time, whole generations
of the Jews have stood putting their
head or lips against the wall of what
was once SOlomon's temple. 1t was ono
Of the saddest and most solemn and inn
pressive scenes I ever witnessed to see
scores OF these descendants Of Abraham
with tears rolling down their cheeks
and lips trembling with emotion, . book
o: psalms open before them. bewailing
the ruin OF the ancient temple and the
captivity Of their race. and crying to
God for the restoration of the temple in
all its original ~splendor. Mosta1ecting
scene! And such a prayer as that en-
fury after century. l Am sure God will
answer, and in SOM way the departed
grandeur will return. or something bet
ter. l looked over the shoulders OF
some Of them and saw that they were
reading from the mOurnful psalms OF
/ David. while I have been told that this
is the litany which some chant:
''For the temple that lies desolate.
We sit in solitude and mourn:
For the palace that b Destroyed,
We sit in solitude and mourn:
For the walls that are overthrow,
We sit In solitude and mourn;
For our majesty that 10 departed.
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For our great men that lie dead,
We sit in solitude and mourn:
For prie.ts who hav. stumbled.
We sit In solitude and mourn"
/ think at that prayer Jerusalem will
come again to more than its ancie mt
magnificence; it may not be precious
stones and architectural majesty. but in
a moral splendor that shall eclipse for
ever all hat David or Solomon saw.
But l must get bsck to the house-top
where l stood early this morning, and
before the sun SETS that l may catch .
wider vision of what the city Is and
nee was Standing here on the house
top l 9 that the city was built for
military safety. Some old warrior, /
warrant, selected the spot. 1t stands
on . hill Zoo feet above the level Of
the sea. and deep ravines On the three
sides do the work of military trenches
Compact as no other city vas compact
Only three miles journey round. and
the three ancient towers HippicuA
Phasaelus and Marianne. frowning
death upon the approach Of al enemies
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