The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-10-18

not anu CFdCh0u lips. lue HSHlOTFDdRS
of the five wounds has done it's work.
The atmospheric conditions are such
the world saw never before or since.
1t was not q solar eclipse, such as astron-
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.
Darkerl Until the inscription above the
middle cross becomes illegible. Dark
erl Until the chin of the dying Lord
falls upon the breast, and lie sighed
with this last sigh the words, 1T is
f~inishedi"
As we sat there q silence took posses
sion Of US and we thought: This is the
from which continents have been
touched, and all the world shall be
moved. Towards this hill the apostles
and martyrs pointed backward. To this
all Heaven pointed downward. To this
with foaming excavations perdition
pointed upward. Round it circles all
history, all time, all eternity, and with
this scene painters have covered the
mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut the
richest marble, and orchestras rolled
their grandest oratories, and churches
lifted their greatest doxologies, and
Heaven built its highest thrones.
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene, we moved on, and into a
garden of olives, O garden which in the
right season Is full of flowers, and here
Is the reputed tomb Of Christ You
know the Book says: SIN the midst of
the garden was a s~epulcher." L think
this was the garden and this the sepul-
cher. 1t is shattered OF course. About
four steps down we VENT into this, which
seemed o family tomb. There is room
In II for about five bodies. W. measured
It and found II about eight feet high
and nine feet wide and fourteen feet
long. The crypt whore I think our
Lord slept was seven feet long. / think
that there once lay h King wrapped in
His last slumber. On some OF these
rocks the Roman government set Its
seal At the gate OF this mausoleum on
the first Easter morning the angels roll
the stone laundering down the hill. Up
these steps walked the lacerated feet of
the C%onqueror, 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 Don ascend.
But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the wall which
Solomon had lifted. Stop here and see
q startling proof of the truth of prophecy.
In jeremiah XXI. 40. it is said that
Jerusalem shall be built through the
ashes What ashes, people have been
asking? We're those ashes just put into
the prophecy to fill up? No! the mean
ing has been recently discovered Jeru-
salem Is o being built out in o cer-
tain direction where the ground has
been submitted to chemical analysis
and 1t has been found to be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient
temple, ashes OF the wood and ashes Of
bones Of animals. There are great
mounds Of ashes, accumulation of CEN
turtles of sacrifices.
Here we enter the mosque Of Omar, q
throne Of Mohammedanism, whore we
were met at the door by officials, who
bring slippers that we must put on be-
fore we take a step further, lest our feet
pollute the sacred places. A man at
tempting to go in without these slippers
would be struck dead OF the spot These
awkward sandals adjusted as we'll as we
could, we are led to where we see a rock
with IN opening in it, 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 somber is the place l am
glad to get through 1t and take of the
cumbersome slippers and step into the
clear air. Yonder Is Q curve OF stone,
which is part of a bridge which once
reached from Mount Moriah to Mount
Zion, and over 1t David walked or rode
to prayers in the temple.
Here is the wailing place of the Jews.
where for centuries, almost perpetually
during the day time, whole generations
of the Jews have stood putting their
head or lips against the wall of what
was once Solomon's temple. 1t was one
of the saddest and most solemn and i'm,
pressive scenes / ever witnessed to see
scores of these descendants OF Abraham
with tears rolling down their checks
and lips trembling with emotion, g book
OF psalms open before them' oewalilng
the ruin OF the ancient temple ana the
captivity of the r race, and crying to
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