Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-13
THE HOLY CITY.
DR.. Talmage's Third Sermon on
His Recent Tour in Palestine.
In Jerusalem, from a House-Top, to
Him Are Pointed Out the Salient
Features of the Scenery.
The Most Interesting OF His Observations Min
utely DeserIb d, Mount Calvary
Chief Among Them.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Oct. 12.-This
morning DR.. Talmage delivered his third
sermon on his recent tour in Palestine, In
the academy of music in this city. The
large building was crowded ,and numbers
went away disappointed. This was the
more significant because it had been
would be preached in the evening at the
New York academy which the Christian
Herald had rented for that purpose. In
spite Of this fact, unprecedented since
the days of Chalmers. both buildings
were crowded to excess, and many were
turned away from the doors, both morn
ing and evening. DR.. Talmags must
have have preached to-day to 10. 900
different persons. The doctor spoke as
follows from the text: "1f | forget thee,
o Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning. Psalm 1871 20.
Paralysis of his best hand, the wlther-
lsing of its muscles and nerves, is here in
| voked if the author allows to pass out Of
mind the grandeurs OF the holy city where
once he dwelt. Jeremiah. seated by the
river Euph-ates, wrote this psalm, and
| not David. Afraid l am of any thing
that approaches imprecation, and yet l
can understand how any one who has
ever been at Jerusalem should, in enthu-
| sasm of soul cry out, whether he be sit
| ng by the EuphEates or the Hudson or the
| Thames: elf forget thee, o, Jerusn-
| lem, may my right hand forget her cum
| ningi' You see IL Is q city unlike all
others for topography, for history, for
| significance, for style Of population, for
| waterworks, for ruins, for towers, for
| domes, for ramparts, for literature, for
| tragedies, for memorable birth places,
for sepuIcnres, for contagratious aud
famines, for victories and defeats.
IAN HERE AT LAST
| in this very Jerusalem and on house,
| top, just after the dawn of the morning
| of December 5, with an old inhabitant
| to point out the salient features of the
scenery. "Now,' said, "where is
Mount Zion?'' "Here at your right. -
"Where is Mount Olivet?'' '1n front
of where you stand. - "Where is the
| Garden of Gethsemeue? cir yonder
Valley :Where is Mount Calvary?'
! Before he answered saw It. No unpre-
| JUDGED mind can have a moment doubt
as to where it is. Yonder 1 see hill in
the shape OF human skull and the
Bible says that Calvary was the 'place
of skull" Not only is it kull-shaped i,
but just beneath the forehead of
the hill is cavern that looks
| like eyeless sockets. Within the grotto
UNDER it is the shape of the inside OF o
ssssstlfl. Then the Bible says that Christ
WAS crucified outside the gate, and this
| is outside the gate, while the site for
| rIr fafyv ius sHa
side that, this skull hill was for ages the
place where indicators were put to
death, and Christ was slain as a male
| factor.
The Savior's assassination took place
| beside thoroughfare along which people
went '.wagging their heads and there
is the ancient thoroughfare. / saw at
| Cairo, Egypt, a clay mould of that SIX ull
| hill made by the late General Gordon the
arbiter of nations. While Empress He
| lena eighty years of age and imposed
upon, by having three crosses exhumed
| before her dim eyes, as though they
| were the three crosses of Bible story, Sc
lected another sight Us Calvary, all re-
cent travellers agree that the one point
out to you was, without doubt, the scene
| of the most terrific and overwhelming
tragedy
THIS PLANET EVER WITNESSED.
r There W. re q thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of Decem-
Der and our drngoman proposed this and
| that and the other journey, but l said:
"First of all, show us Calvary. Some
| thing might happen if we went else
where aud sickness or accident might
| hinder our seeing the sacred mount. If
| we see nothing else. we must see that +,
aud see it this morning. Some of US
| in carriage and some on mule back, we
| we're soon on the ay 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 Lamenta-
tons. The grotto is thirty five feet high
aud its top aud eide are palachte
green, brown, black, white, red aud
gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
| terraneous passages, we begin to climb
the steep sides of Calvary. As we go up
we see cracks and crevices in the rocks
| which 1 think we're made by the convul-
sions of nature when Jesus died. On the
hill lay a limestone rock, white but
Il Hinged with crimson, the white so sug-
gestive of purity and the crimson of
] sacrifice, that said, "That stone would
4 be beautifully appropriate for memorial
| wall i'm my church, now building in
| America; and the stone now being
brought on camel's back from Sinai
across the desert, when put under it ,
how sisH5feant of the Law and the gos-
&npsSSesSahd these lips of stone will con-
TIME 10 speak of justice aud mercy long
after all our living lips have uttered
their last message. So I rolled it down
the hill and transported it. When that
day comes for which many of you have
prayed-the dedication of the
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,
the third immense structure we have
reared in this city, aud that makes II
somewhat difficult being the third struc-
ture. u work such as no other church
was ever called on TO undertake-we iu-
wife you IN the main entrance of that
building to look upon memorial wall
containing the most suggestive, and
solemn and tremendous antiquities ever
brought together; this, rent with the
earthquake at the giving OF the law al
Sinai, the other rent at the crucfixion
on calvary.
1t Is impossible for you to realize what
our emotions were as We gathered, q
group of men aud women, all saved by
the blood of the Lamb. on q bluff of CAL
vary just wide enough to contain three
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