Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16

emotional CHRISTIAN mau sittlue uPon
Golgotha to read aloud and with I'M
broken voice, or with any voice at all,
the whole of that account in Luke
and John, of which these sentences are
a fragment: 'They took Jesus and led
him away, and he bearing his cross went
forth into place called the place of a
skull, where they crucifed him and two
Others with him, on either side one, and
Jesus in the midst;'' ''Behold thy
mother!'' "I thlrst;'' "This day shalt
thou be with me in paradise; t'Father,
forgive them, they know not what they
do;'' eff if be possible, let this cup
pass from me-
WHAT SIGNS, WHAT soBs,
what tears, what tempests of sorrow,
what surgiug oceans of agony IN those
utterances.
While we sat there, the whole scene
came before US. All around the top anu
the sides, and the foot of the hill, mop
ragged. They gnashed their teeth,
and shake their clenched fists at him.
Here the cavalry horses champ their
bits, and paw the earth and snort at the
smell of the carnage. Yonder group
of gamblers are pitching up as to VINO
shall have the coat of the dying savior.
There are women almost dead with griet
among the crowd, his mother ana MS
aunt, and some whose sorrows he hao
comforted, and whose guilt he had par
doned. Here q man dips sponge into
sour wine, and by stick lifts 1t TO Inc
hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage
OF the five wounds has done its work.
The atmospheric conditions are such as
the world never saw before or since. 1t
was not q solar eclipse such as astrono-
mers record or we ourselves have seen.
| 1t was a bereavement of the heavens.
Darker! Until the towers of the temple
were no longer visible. Darker! Until
| the surrounding hills disappeared. Dark
| err! Until the inscription above the mid
die cross becomes illegible. Darker!
Until the chin of the dying Lord falls
upon the breast, and he sighed with TINS
| last sigh, these words, ''1t is finished!
AS we sat there, silence took possess
sion OF US and we thought: this ls the
center from which continents have been
| touched, and ali the world shall yet De
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 foamiug excavations per-
dltion pointed upward. Round II circles
all history, all time. oil eternity, and
with this scene painters have covered the
mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut the
richest marble. aud orchestras rolled
their grandest oratorios, and churches
lifted their greatest doXoiogles, anu
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
1 . full Of and here
is the reputed tomb of Christ. You know
the Book SAYS, lin the midst OF the
garden was sepulcher. l think this
was the garden, and this the sepulcher.
1t 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
II and found it about eight feet high +,
ard nine feet wide, and fourteen teet
long. The crypt where l think our LORD
slept was seven feet long. l think that
there once lay the king wrapped I'D MS
last slumber. On some of these ROCKS
the Roman government set Its seal. Al
the gate OF this mausoleum on the first
Easter morning the angels rolled the
stone laundering down the hill. Up
these steps walked the lacerated feet OF
the Couqueror, 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.
But we must hasten back to the CITY
There are stones in the wall which Solo
mon had lifted. stop here and see
startling proof of the truth of prophecy
In Jeremiah, thirty first chapter and
fortieth verse, it is said that Jerusalem
1,;It qahaa. what
ashes? people have been asking. Were
those ashes just put into the prophecy tc
fill up. No; the meaning has been re-
Gently 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 oil
animals. There are great mounds Of
ashes. accumulation of centuries OF sac
ritces. 1t has taken all these thousands
of wears 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 of Hananeel unto the
, gate of the corner and th'
, whole valley of the dead bodies and o
the ashes. - The people of Jerusalem
r are at this very time fulfilling thai
prophecy. One handful of that ashes oil
which they are building enough TO prov
, the divinity of the Scriptures! Pass b.
the place where the cornerstone of tn
, ancient temple was laid 5000 year
ago by Solomon. Explorers hav'
been digging, and they fount
that cornerstone seventy-nv
feet beneath the surface. 1t is fourteen
b feet long and three feet, eight niche
D high, and beautifully cut and shaped
8 and near it was an earthen jar that wa
supposed to have contained the oil
g conservation used at the ceremony o
{ laying the cornerstone. Yonder from
: depth of forty feet slgnet ring has BEEF
f brought up, inscribed with the words
j "Haggai the Son of Shebnaiah, - show
i ing it belonged TO the prophet Haggal
q and to that seal ring he re
e fers in his prophecy, saying, 81 vii
ii make thee as a sigDet," 1 walk furthe
on far under ground, and 1 find mysel
: in Solomon IS stables, and see the place
: worn in the stone pillars by the halter
@ of some of his twelve thousand horses
] Further on, look at the pillars on whic
u Mount Moriah was built. You kno'
&c. . ~