The Iola register., 1890-10-24

which Princes and Princesses leaned
and talked to Kings and Qneens ascend
ing the stairway. Oh, Jerusalem, Jeru-
saleml Mountain cityl City Of Godl
Joy of the whole esrthi Stronger than
Gibraltar and Sebastopol, surely 1t never
could have been captured
But while standing there on the house
top that December afternoon. hear the
crash of the twenty-three mighty sieges
which have come against Jerusalem in
the ages past Yonder is the pool OF
Hezekiah andSiloam, but again and again
were those waters Redeemed with human
gore. Yonder are the towers, but again
and again they fall. Yonder are the
high walls, but again and again they
were leveled. To rob the treasures
from her temple and palace and de-
throne this queen city of the earth all
nations plotted David taking the
throne at Hebron decides that he must
have Jerusalem for his capital, and.
coming up from the South at the head
1 of 2S0000 troops, he captures Il Look,
here comes another siege of Jerusalemi
The ,Assyrians under Sennaoherib. en-
shaved nations at his chariot wheel,
having taken 200, 900 captives in his one
campaign, Phenician cities kneeling at
his feet Egypt trembling at the flash
of his sword, comes upon Jerusalem.
Look another siegel The armies of
Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come
down and take plunder from Jerusa-
lem such as no other city ever had to
yield and 10000 Of her citizens trudge
off into Babylonian bondage. Look,
another siegel and Nebuchadnezzar and
his hosts by night go through breach
of the Jerusalem wall, and the morning
| finds some OF them seated triumphant
in the temple, and what they could not
take away because too heavy they sreak
up--ths brazen sea and the two wreathed
pillars, Jachin and Boaz ss'it
Another siege of Jerusaleul and Pom.
pey with the battering rams which 100
! men would roll back and then at full run
forward would bang against the wall of
the city and catapults hurting the rocks
upon the people. left IL, 600 dead, and
the city in the clutch OF the Roman war
eagle Look, more desperate siege of
Jerusalemi Titus with his tenth legion
on Mount Of Olives, and ballast ar
ranged on the principle of the pendu-
lum to swing great powders against
walls and towers, and miners digging
under the city making galleries of beams
underground which, set on fire, tumbled
great masses of houses and human be-
ings into destruction and death. All is
taken now but the temple and Titus,
the conqueror, wants to save that un-
harmed, but soldier, contrary to or
ders, hurls torch into the temple and
it is consumed. Many strangers were
in the city at the time and $1,000 cap
tives were taken, and Josephus says
1, 100, 600 lay dead. sT H.d' .
But looking from this house top the
siege that most absorbs US is that of the
crusaders England and France and all
Christendom wanted to capture the Holy
Sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in pos
session of the Mohammedans under the
command of one of the loveliest bravest
and mightiest men that ever lived-for
Justice must be done him though he was
Mohammedan glorious Saladini
Against him came the armies Of Europe
under Richard Ceur de Lion, King Of
England; Philip Augustus, King Of
France; Tancred. Raymond, Godfrey
and other valiant men, marching on
through fevers and plaques and battle
charges, and sufferings, as intense
as the world ever saw. -Saladin
in Jerusalem, hearing Of the sickness Of
King Richard, his chief enemy, sends
him his own physician, and from the
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Richard afoot, sends him a horse.
With all the world looking
on the armies of Europe come
within sight of Jerusalem At the first
glimpse of the city they fall on their
faces in reverence, and then lift an
thems of praise. Feuds and hatred
among themselves were given, up, and
Raymond and Tancred. the bitterest
rivals, embraced while the armies looked
on. Then the battering rams rolled,
and the catapults swung and the swords
thrust, and the carnage ragged. Godfrey
of Boullon is the first to mount the
wall and the crusaders, cross upon
every shoulder or breast have taken the
city, march bare-headed and bare-footed
to what they suppose to be the Holy
Sepulcher, and kiss the tomb. Jerusa-
lem the possession of Christendom. But
Saladin retook the city, and for the last |
400 years 1t has been in possession OF |
cruel and polluted Mohammedanismi
Another crusade is needed to start for |
Jerusalem. crusade in this nineteenth |
century greater than all those Of the |
past centuries put together. A crusade |
in which you and will march. A cru.
sade without weapons Of death, but only |
the sword of the spirit A crusade that |
will make not single wound nor start
one tear of distress, nor incendiarize |
one homestead. 4 crusade Of Gospel |
peacei And the cross again be lifted |
on Calvary, not as once an instrument
of pain, but signal Of invitation, and |
the mosque Of Omar shall give place to
a Church of Christ, and Mount Zion be.
come the dwelling place not of David,
but of David's Lord, and Jerusalem,
purified of all its idolatries, and taking
back the Christ she once cast out, shall |
be made worthy type of that heavenly
city which Paul styled ''the mother OF
Us ALL" and which St John saw "ths
holy Jerusalem descending out oi
Heaven from God" .T ,r r
Through its gates may we enter when
our work is done, and in its temple,
greater than all the earthly temples
piled in one, may we worship Russian
pilgrims lined all the roads around the
Jerusalem we visited last winter. They
had walked hundreds of miles and their
feet bled on their way to Jerusalem.
Many of them had spent their last farth-
inc To rat thara and thar had Loft Soma |