Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-25
WHERE OUR LORD DIED.
rAIMAGE DESCRIBES HIS
usIT TO MOUNT CALVARY.

.o,em the Holy City-Scenes OF Past
The Twenty-Three Mighty
crusade of the Nineteenth
Century.
~. To1mage delivered his third SER
~ an his recent tour in Palestine in
mo ACADEMY w., of Music, Brooklyn. The
tHo t snake smoke as follows from the text:
u uJf forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my
;.ht hand forget her cunning. Psalm
cA 1ara1vsis of his best hand, the wither-
~ its muscles and nerves, is here in
llg If the author allows to pass out
WIN wind the grandeurs of the Holy City
' VI D,,a once he dwelt. jeremiah, seated
w., tho river Euphrates, wrote this psalm,
W va not David. Afraid | am OF anything
+bot approaches imprecatlon, ana yet
ann understand how any one who has
o''or hppn at Jerusalem should, in enthu-
oiosr of sOul. cry out, whether he be sit
ting nv the Euphrates, or the Hudson,
W. o,, fbo Thames, ''If l forget thee, O Je-
UnsoIpm, let my right hand forget her
annnfnpI'' You see it is city unlike all
otbnrs for topography, for history, for
oignifcance, for style of population, for
wafer works, for ruins, for towers, for
danes for ramparts, for literature, for
troopdfes. for memorable birthplaces,
for sppulchors, for CONGREGATIONS and
fominps for victories and defeats.
lam here at last in this very Jerusa-
lem, and on hOusetop, just after the
dawn of the morning of December 3,
with an old inhabitant to point out the
salient features of the scenery. "NoW,
said, where is Mount Zion?' Here
At vour right ''Where is Mount OH
vpt?" SIN front of where you stand. :
"Wbere is the Garden of Gethsemane?
SIN wonder valley" ''Where is Mount
Calyary?'' Before he answered saw 1t.
No unpreiudiced mind can have mos
mept's doubt as to where it is. Yonder
7 see hill in the shape OF human
skull. and the Bible says that Calvary
was the ':pace of skull" Not only is
if sknll shaped, but just beneath the fore
head of the hill is cavern that looks
like eveless sockets. Within the grotto
updpr it is the shape of the inside of a
skull. Then the Bible says that Christ
was crucfed outside the gate, while the
site formerly selected was inside the gate.
Resides that. this skull hill was for ages
the place where the malefactors were
nut to death, and Christ was slain as a
maGfaCtOr.
The SaviOur's assassination took place
4 beside a thoroughfare along which peo-
pIe went ''Wagging their heads, and
\ there is the ancient thoroughfare. | saw
q at Cairo, Egypt, clay mold OF that skull
y hill. made by the late General Gordon,
the arbiter of nations. While Empress
Helena. 80 years of age, and imposed
mOn by having three crosses eXhumed be-
fore her dim eyes, as though they were the
e three crosses of Bible story, selected
another site as Calvary, all recent traV-
pIerS agree that the one | point out to
You was without doubt, the scene OF the
most terrific and Overwhelming tragedy
this planet ever witnessed.
There were a thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of Decem-
Der, and our dragoman proposed this and
that and the other journey, but l said:
First of all show us calvary. Something
might happen if we went elsewhere, and
sickness or accident might hinder us see
ing the sacred mound. If we see moth
ing else, we must see that and see it this
morning. Some of us in carriage and
way to the most sacred spot that the
world has ever seen or ever will see
Coming to the base of the hill we first
went inside the skull of rocks. 1t is
called Jeremiah's grotto, for there the
prophet wrote his book of Lamentations.
The grotto is thirty-fve feet high, and it's
Top and sides are malachlte, green,
brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured SUBJ
terraneOus passages we begin to climb
the steep sides of Calvary. AS we go up
We see cracks and crevices in the rocks,
which think were made by the convul-
SONS OF nature when Jesus died.
1t is impossible for you to realize what
our emotions were as we gathered, a
group OF men and women, all saved by
the blood of the Lamb, on a bluff OF Cal
vary, Just wide enough to contain three
crosses. | said to my family and friends:
thnk here is where stood the cross OF
oAe lmpenitent burglar, and there the
qoSS OF the misCreant, and near between,
Ihlnk, stood the cross on which all our
hopes depend" AS | opened the nine
tehth chapter of John to read chill
oIaSt struck the hill and cloud lowered,
'ne natural Solemnity impressing the
spiritual Solemnity. / read little, but
VI CFoke down. l defy any emotional
.nristian man sitting upon Golgotha to
lead aloud and with unbroken voice, or
WIN any voice at all, the whole of that
account in Luke and John of which these
tNtehceS are fragment: ''They took
gES0S and led Him away, and He, bearing
tt'S cross, went forth into a place called
t N, pace OF a skull, where they crucitled
l ~ and two others with Him, on either
'u 1, one, and Jesus in the midst "Be-
4ou tiny mother!' Il thirst;'' 'This
u ..T shalt thou be with me in Paradise
rather, forgive them, they know not