Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-30
THE GOLDEN CITY.
Dn.' TALNAGE'S THIRD SERMON
ON THE HOLY LAND.
Graphic Picture of the Scenes and
Incidents OF the Crucifiction and
the Sieges and Destruction Of the
Holy City.


Music in this city. The large building was
crowded, and numbers went away disap-
pointed. The Doctor spoke as follows from
the text: III forget thee. o Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget her cunning"
Psalm 1877; s,
Paralysis of his best hand, the whitening
Of its muscles and nerves. is here invoked IL
the author allows to pass out of mind the
Erandeurs OF the Holy City where once he
dwelt. jeremiah, seated by the river
Euphrates, wrote this psalm and not David.
Afraid I am OF anything that approaches
imprecation, and yet can understand how
any one who has ever been at Jerusalem
should in enthusiasm OF soul cry out
whether he be sitting by the Euphrates, or
the Hudson or the Thames, '.If forget thee |
o Jerusalem, may my right hand forget her |
cumming! You sec it is Il city, unlike all |
others for topography, for history. for sigui- |
fcance. for style of population, for water
works. for ruins. for towers, for domcs. for |
ramparts, for literature, for tragedies, for
memorable birth places. for sepulchres for
CONGREGATIONS and famincS, for victories
and defeats.
lam here at last in this very Jerusalem
and on a housctop, just after the dawn OF
the morning of December ;, with an old in
habitant to point out the salient features OF
the scenery. Now" l said, where is
Mount Zion?" Hero at your right"
Where is Mount Olivot;" ,'ln front of
where you stand" "Where is the Garden
Of Gethsemane? I'm yonder valley
where is Mount Calvary" Before nc an
swered, saw IT. No unprecedented nina can
have moments doubt as to where it is
Yondcr see a hill in the shape OF Il human
skull and the Bible says that Calvary was
tho place of n skull" Not only IS it skull
shaped but just beneath the forehead of the
bill is q cavern that looks like cyelcss
sockets. Within the srotto under it. is the
cf inSj nr I'm ba
Bible says that Christ was crucified outside
the gate, and this is outside the gate. while
the sight formerly selected was inside the
gate Beside that,thS skull hill was for ages
the place. wher .nalcfactors were put to
death, and Christ Slain rs male
factor.
The saviour assassination took place be-
side II thoroughfarc along which people went
"waggins their heads" and there is the
ancient thoroughfaro. l saw at Cairo,
Egypt a clay mould of that skull bill, made
by the late General Gordon, the nrbter Of
nations, While Empress Helena, eighty
years OF age and imposed upon. by having
three crosses eXhumed before her dim eyes.
as though they We're the three crosses OF
Bible story. selected another site as Calvary
all recent travellers agree that the one l
point out to you WAS, without doubt, the
scene of the most terrific and overwhelm-
ing tragedy this planet ever witnessed,
There were q thousand things we wanted
dragoman proposed this, that and the other
journey, but i said: First OF all show us
Calvary. Something might happen ii we
went elsewhere and sickness or accident
might hinder our seeing the sacred mount.
IL We see nothing else, we must see that and
SEQ it this morning" Some OF US in car
riagc and some on lnule-baCh, we were soon
on the way to the most sacred spot that the
world has ever seen or ever will see. Com
ang to the base of the hill we first went in
-ilz ~, u. T. a., l1NI
lnah's grotto, for there the prophet wrote
his book OF Lamentations. The grottO is IS
feet high and its top and side arc malachite
green, brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured subter-
ranean passages, we begin to climb the
steep sides OF Calvary. AS We go up, VIC see
cracks and crcvices in the rocks which
think were made by the commissions of
nature when Jesus died. On the hill lay a
limestone rock, white but tinged with Grim
son, the white SO suggestive OF purity and
the crimson of sacrifice, that / said, THAT
stone would be beautifully appropriate for
a memorial wall in my church, now build
ing in America; and the stone now being
brought on camel's back from Sinai across
the desert. when put under 1t. how signih-
cant OF the law and the Gospel! And these
lps OF stone will continue to speak OF jus
tice and mercy long after all or living lips
hayo uttered their last message SO l
rolled it down the hill and transported 1t.
Whom 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, and
that makes 1T somewhat difficult being the
third structure, work such as no other
church was ever called on to undertake
we invite you in the main entrance OF that
building to look upon memorial wall con
tanning the most suggestive. and solemn anc
tremendous antiquities ever brought TO-
gether; this, rent with the earthquake al
the giving Of the low at Sinai, the othe
rent 1T the crucifxion of Calvary.
1t is impossible for you to realize wha
our emotions were as we gathered, groul
OF men and women. all saved by the blood o
the Lamb, on q bluff OF Calvary, just wild
enough to contain three crosses. l said t.
my family and friends: Il think here /
where stood the cross of the impeniten
burglar, and there the cross Of the miscre
ant. and here between, l think stood tn
cross on which all our hopes depend" A
opened the nineteenth chapter of John t
read a chill blast struck the hill and clou
lowered, the natural solemnity impressin
the spiritual solemnitv. l read a little, blu
broke down, defy any emotional Christia
rhan sitting upHn Golgotha to read alou
and with unbreken voice, or with any voic
at all, the whole OF that account in LUX
and John, of which these sentences are
fragment: .sThey took Jesus and led hiI
away, and he bearing his cross went fort
into a place called the place OF skull
where they cruclneu MIN anu Two o'hoi
with him, on either side one, and Jesus
the midst: ''Behold thy mother!
thirst" "This day shalt thou be with n
In Paradise" "Father, forgive them, the
know not what they do :" III 1t be possib
let this cup pass from me-" What Sigh
what sobs. what tears, what tempests
sorrow. what surging oceans OF agony
those utterances
While we sat there, the whole scene can
before US, All around the top and the side
ana the foot Of the hill, a mob ragged. Thu
Sashed their teeth and shake their clench
hsts at him. Here tho cavalry hors
champ their bits. and paw the earth a
snort at the smell of the carnage Yondel
group Of gamblers are pitching up as to W
shall have the coat OF the dying Savio,
There are women almost dead with or
among the crowd. his mother and his an,
and some whose SORROWS He had comfort,
and whose guilt he had pardoned, Her
man dips sponge into sour wine, and b,
ffciS ia tn thea hnt