Sharp County record., 1890-10-30
TALMAGEYS SERMON.
Third Discourse of the Series on the
Holy Land.
Tho rlaccs of Interest In and About Je-
rus tlem-Mount u on, Mount OIL
vet, CethSemine, Calvary, All
In Panoramic View.

Rev II. Dewitt Talmago delivered
The following discourse, the third of the
Holy Land series, in brooklyn and Nc"
York City. The text was;
Ill forget thee, o, Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning Psalm cxxxv'
H., g.
am here at last in this very Jeru-
salem, and on a housotop, tst after the
dawn of tho morning of December B.,
with an old inhabtant TO point out the
salient features Of the scenery. Now, "
/ said, "where is Mount Aion|"
"lIere at your right" "Where IS
Mount Olivet?" "In front of where
you stand" "Where is the Garden OF
Gethsemane?" SIN yonder valley"
"Whero is Mount Calvary?' Before he
answered. ! saw it. No unprecedented
mind can have a moments doubt as to
where it is. Yonder see hill in the
shape of human skull, and the Bible
says that Calvary was tho place OF
skull" Not only is it skull-shaped,
but just beneath the forehead OF the
hill is a cavern that looks like eyeleSs
sockets, Within the grotto under 1T is
the shape Of the inside of skull. Then
the Biblo says that Christ was cruciiied
outside the gate, and this is outside
the gate, while the site formerly Sc
lected was inside the gate. Beside
that, this skull hill was for ages tho
place where malefactors were put to
death, and Christ was slain as a male
factor
The Saviour's assassination took place
beside a thoroughfare along which peo-
pie went "wagging their heads, and
there is the ancient thoroughfare. !
saw at Cairo, Egypt, clay mold OF that
skull hill, made by tho latc General
Gordon, the arbiter of nations. While
Empress Helena, 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, selected another site as
Calvary, all recent 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.
There were q thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of Decem-
DER, and our dragoman proposed this
md that and the other journey, but |
jad: First of all show US Calvary,
Something might happen If we went
elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might hinder our sooing the sacred
mount If we see nothing else, we must
see that, and see it this morning.
Some of us in carriages and some on
muleback, we were soon on the way 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 &oclS., 1t is called Jere-
miah's grotto, for there the prophet
wrote his book of Lamentations. The
grotto is thirty-llve feet high, and its
top and side are malachite, green
brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
teraneous passages, w9 begin to climb
the steep sides of Calvary. AS we go
10 we see cracks and crevices in the
rocks which think were made by the
convulsions Of nature when Jesus died.
On the hill lay limestone rock, white
but tingod with crimson, tho white so
suggestive of purity and the crimson Of
sacrifice, that Isaid: "Thatstone would
bo beautifully appropriate for a me-
mortal wall in my church, now building
in America, and the stone now being
brought on camel's back from Sinai
across the desert, when put un-
der it, now significant of the
law and tie Gospel! And these
lips of stone will continue to
speak of justice and mercy long after
all our living lips have uttered tbcir
last message" SO rolled it down the
hill and transported it, When thatday
comes for which many of you have
prayed d-the dedication of tho Brooklyn
Tabernacle, the third immense struct.
Nre We have reared in this city, and
that makes IT somewhat difficult being
the third structure, work such as nc
other church was over called on to un.
dertako-we invite you in the main en-.
trance OF that building to look upon a
memorial wall containing the most sug-
gostivo and solemn and tremendous an
tiQuities ever brought together; this,
rent with the earthquake at tho giving
of tho law at Sinai, the other ront with
tho cruci6Xion on Calvary,
II is impossible for you TO realize
what our emotions were as wo gathered,
group of men and women, all saved
by tho blood of tho Lamb, on bluff OF
Calvary just wide enough to contain
three crosses. ! said to my family and
friends: II think here is where stood
the cross Of the impenitont burglar, and
there tho cross of tho miscroant aNl
hero between, think, stood tho cross
on which all our hopes depend" As |
opened the nineteenth chapter OF John
to read, chill blast struck tho hill and
cloud hovcrod, tho natural solomnity
impressing the spiritual solomnity.
read u little, but broke down,
| defy any emotional Christian
man sitting upon Golgotha to read
aloud and with unbrokon voice, orwith
any voice at all, the whole OF that Oc,