Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-17

has taken all these thousands Of years to dis
cover 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 TO the gate Of the cor
ner, and the whole valley of the dead bodies
and Of the ashes" The people Of Jerusalem
are at this very time fulfilling that prophecy.
One handful Of that ashes ON which they ara
building is enough to prove the divinity %
the Scripturesl Pass by the place where thu
corner stone Of the ancient temple was laid
three thousand years ago by Solomon.
Explorers have been digging, and they
found that corner stone seventy-fve feet BE-
meath the surface. 1t is fourteen feet long.
and three feet eight inches high, and beauti-
fully cut and shaped, and near it was an
earthen jar that was supposed to have con-
tanned the oil of conservation used at the
ceremony of laying the corner stone. Yon-
der, from depth of forty feet. a signetr ring
has been brought up inscribed with the
words "Haggai. the Son of Shebnaah,"
showing it belonged to the Prophet Haggai,
and to that seal ring he refers in his prop
phecy, saying, 81 will make thee as a signet"
l walk further on far under ground, and
find myself in SolomOn's stables, and see the
places worn in the stone pillars by the hal
ters of some of his twelve thousand horses.
Further on, look at the pillars on which
Mount Moriah was built. You know that
the mountain was too small for the temple,
and so they built the mountain out on pl-
lars, and | saw eight of those pillars each
one strong enough to hold a mountain
Here we enter the mosque Of Omar, &.
throne of Mohammedanism where we are
met at the door by officials who bring slip
pers thatwe must put on before we take
step further lest our feet pollute the sacred
places. A man attempting to go in without
these slippers would be struck dead on the
spot. These awkward sandals adjusted as
well as we could we are led to where we see
a rock with an opening in it, through which,
no doubt, the blood Of sacrifice in the ancient
temple rolled down and away. At vast ex-
pense the mosque has been built. but so SOM
Der is the place / am glad to get through it,
and take Off the cumbrous slippers and step
into the clean air.
Yonder is a curve Of stone which is part OF
bridge which once reached from Mount
Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it David
walked or rode to prayers in the temple.
Here is the waiting place of the Jews. where
for centuries, almost perpetually during the
daytime whole generations of the Jews have
stood putting their head or lips against the
wall of what was once SOlomons temple.
1t was one of the saddest and most solemn
and impressive scenes ever witnessed to ses
scores Of these desc ndanis OF Abraham, with
tears rolling down their cheeks and lips trem.
bling with emotion, a book OF psalms open
before them, bewai.ing the ruin of the an
cient temple and the captivity of their race
and crying to God for che restoration Of the
temple in all its original splendor Most
affecting scenel And such a prayer as that
century after century, l am sure God will
answer, and in some way the departed gran
deur will return, or something better. 1
looked over the shoulders of some of them
and saw that they were reading from the
mournful psalms of David, while l have been
told that this is the litany which some chant: