Connecticut western news., 1890-10-15
OVERCOME BY CulsISTS SACRIFICE.

It is impossible for you to realize what our emotions were as we gath cred, a 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. 1 said to my family and friends, 'I think here is where stood the cross of the impenitent burglar, and there the cross of the mis- creant, and here between, think, stood the cross on which all our hopes de- pend" As I opened the nineteenth chapter of John to read chill blast struck the hill and cloud lowered, the natural solemnity impressing the spiritual solemnity. read a little, but broke down. I 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 account in Luke and John of which these sentences are fragment: |: ''They took Jesus and led him away, and he, bearing his cross, went forth into place called the place of skull, where they crucified him and two oth- CTS with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst" 'Behold thy moth erl" 'I thirst;" ''This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise;" Father, for give them, they know not what they do;" eff it be possible, let this cup pass from me-" What sighs, what sobs, what tears, what tempests of sorrow, what surging oceans of agony in those utterances!
 While we sat there the whole scene came before us. All around the top and the sides and the foot of the hill a mob ragged. They gnash their teeth and shake their clinched fists at him. Here the cavalry horses champ their bits and paw the earth and snort at the smell of the carnage. Wonder group of gamblers 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 comforted and whose guilt he had par doned. Here a man dips sponge into sour wine, and by stick lifts it to the hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage of the five wounds has done its work.
 THE HEAVENS BEREAvED.
 The atmospheric conditions are such as the world saw never before or since. It was not solar eclipse, such as as tronomers record or we ourselves have seen; it was a bereavement of the of the temple were no longer visible. Darker! until the surrounding hills disappeared. Darker! until the in scription above the middle cross be comes nlegible. Darker! until the chin of the dying Lord falls upon the breast, and he sighed with this last sigh the words, Ut is fnished!"
 As we sat there a silence took pos session of us, and we thought this is the centre from which continents have been touched, and all the world shall yet be moved. Toward this hill the prophets pointed forward. Toward this hill the apostles and martyrs pointed backward. To this all heaven pointed downward. To this, with foaming ex- ecrations, perdition pointed upward. Round it circles all history, all time, all eternity, and with this scene paint CTS have covered the mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut the richest marble, and orchestras roll their grandest ora torios, and churches lifted their great est doxologies, and heaven built it's highest thrones.
 Unable longer to endure the pressure of this scene we moved on and into a garden of olives, a garden which in the right season is full of flowers, and here is the reputed tomb of Christ. You know the book says, ''In the midst of the garden was a sepulcher." I think this was the garden and this the sepsl cher. It is shattered of course. About four steps down we went into this, which seemed a family tomb. There is room in it for about five bodies We measured it and found 1t about eight feet high, and nine feet wide and four teen feet long. The crypt where think our Lord slept was seven feet long. I think that there once lay the king wrapped in his last slumber. On some of these rocks the Roman government set it's seal. At the gate of this mauso- leum on the first Easter morning the angels rolled the stone laundering down the hill. Up these steps walked the lacerated feet of the conqueror, and from these heights he looked off upon the city that had cast him out, and upon the world he had come to redeem and at the heavens through which he would soon ascend.
 THE PROPHECY FULFILLED.
 But we must hasten back to the city. There are stones in the wall which Solomon had lifted. Stop here and < see startling proof of the truth of prophecy. In Jeremiah, thirty y-frst chapter and fortieth verse, 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 fill up2 No! the meaning has been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now being built out in certain 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 of the wood and ashes of bones of ami malls. There are great mounds of ashes, accumulation of centuries of sacrifices. It has taken all these thousands o1 years to discover what Jeremiah meant when he said, Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower o1 Hananeel unto the gate of the corner, and the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes" The people of Jeru salem are at this very time fulfilling that prophecy. One handful of that ashes