Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-13

had pardoned. Here man dips a sponge
into sour wine, ard by stick lifts it to
the hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage
OF the five wounds has done its work.
"TT IS FINISHED"
Tho atmospheric conditions arc such as
the world saw never before or since 1t
was not Il solar eclipse such rs astrono-
mors record or VIC ourselves have seen. It
was u bereavement Of the heavens! Dark
erl until the towers of the temple were
! no longer visible Darker! until the sur
rounding hills disappeared Darker! until
che Inscription above the MD he cross he
comes illegibla Darkerl until the chin
| of The dying Lord falls upon the BREAST,
and he sighed with this last sigh the words,
ct is Gnishcdr
As we sat there silence took possession
Of rs, and we thought this is the center
from which continents have been touched,
and all tho world shall yet be moved To
ward this hill theproDhets pointed forward
| Toward this Hill the apostles and martyrs
pointed backward To this all heaven point
ed downward. To this with foaming exc
crations perdition pointed upward Round
IL circles ell history, all time, all eternity,
and with this scene painters have covered
the nlightiest canvas, and sculptors cut
the richest marble, and orchestras rolled
their grandest oratorios and churches
lifted their greatest doxologies and heaven
built its highest thrones.
THE GARDEN or OLIVES.
Unable longer to endure the pressure of
! this scene we moved on and into garden
of olives, u garden which in the right sea
son is full of flowers, and here is the re-
putcd tomb Of Christ You know the Book
says, an the midst of the garden was
sepulcher" | think this was the garden
and this the sepulcher 1t is shattered of
course. About four steps down we went
! into this, which seemed Il family tomb.
! There is room in it for about 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 slumbcr 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
| Up these steps walked the decorated feet
| Of the con1ueror, and from these heights
| he looked on upon the city that had cast
! him ont, and upon the world he had come
to redeem, and at the heavens through
which he would soon ascend.
Eut we must hasten back to the city
There are stones in the wall which Solo
mon hal lifted. Stop here and see a start
ling proof Of the truth Of prophecy In
jeremiah, thirty-lrst chapter ana f0rtieth
verse it is said that Jerusalem shall be
built through the ashes What ashes,
| people have hcen asking, Were those
ashes just put into the prophecy to fill up?
| No! Tho meaning has been recently dis
covered. Jerusalem is now being built
out IN certain direction where the ground
| has been submitted to chemical analysis,
and il has been found to he the ashes cast
out from the sacrifices OF the ancient ten.
| plc--nshcs OF wood and ashes of Bones of
animals There are great mounds OF ashes,
accumulation Of centuries OF sacrifices Ii
has taken all these thousands of years to
discover what jeremiah meant WHOM he
| said, "BeAold the days shall come saith
the Lord, that the city shall bc built to the
lord from the tower Of IIananeel unto the
gate Of the corner and the whole valley Of
the dead bodies and Of the ashes" The
people Of Jcru6alcm are at This very time
fulfilling that prophecy. One handful of
that ashes on which they are building is
enough to prove the divinity Of the Script
urcsl Pass by the place where the corner
| stone Of tho ancient temple was laid three
thousand years gro BIZ Soln---a
THE MOSQUE or OMAR.
Here we enter the mosque of Omar a
throne Of Mohammedanism where we are
met ut the door by officials who bring
slippers that we must put on before we
! take Il step further, lest our feet pollute
the sacred places. A man attempting to
go Ia without these slippers ~would be
struck dead on the spot. These awkward
sandals adjusted rs well as we could, we
are led to where we see rock with an
opening in il, 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 sumbcY
Is the place am glad TO get through it,
and take OFF the cumbrous slippers and
step into the clear air
Wonder is u curve of stone which is part
Of n bridge which once reached from
Mount Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it
David walked or rode to prayers in the
temple Here is the waiing place of the
Jews, where for centuries, almost perpetu
ally, during the daytime whole genera
tons of the jews have stood putting their
head or ljps against the wall of what was
once Solomon's temple. 1t was one of the
saddcst and most solemn and impressive
scenes | ever witnessed 20 see scores Of
these descendants of Abraham, with tears
rolling down their checks and lips trem-
bling with emotion, a book Of psalms open
before Them bcwniing the ruin of the an
cicut temple and the captivity of their
race, and crying to God for the restoration
of the temple in all its original splcndor.
Most affecting sccncl And such n prayer
a. that century after century, | am sure
God will answer, and il some way the de-
parted grandeur will return, or something
better. | locked over the shoulders OF
some Of tAsm and saw that they were read
Ing from the mouulfUl psalms of David,
while / have been told that this is the
litany wEiuh some chant:
For the temple that les desolate,
We sit in solitude ana mourn;
For the palace that Ia destroyed,
NoG.t in solitude and mourn;
For the walls that are oyGrtGrown,
We sit ia solitude and mourn;
For our majesty that is departed,
We sit IN solitude und mourn;
For oar great men That tic dead,
NoHt ia solitude uHl mourn;
orIri'sts who have stumbled,
Wost n solitude and mourn.
think at that prayer Jerusalem will
come again to more than its Hnvicut mag.
uillccucc; it may not lie precious stones
and architectural majesty, but in Il moral
splendor that shall eclipse forever all that
David or Solomon saw.
PROM A tlOUSTTOP.
But | must get hacl, to the houaotop
where stood carly this morainI. and he
i5re Jnc sun sets, that may catch n wider
vision Of what the city now Is and once