The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06

aud mountains. aud awful gulches between
I them, which make the head swim If you
I look down On and up, on and mp, until
the lathered and smoking horses are refined
in, and the dragoman rises in front, and
I points eastward, crying, ".JeTISdlemF It
was mightier than an electric shock We all
rose. There it lay, the prize of nations, the
terminus Of famous pilgrimages the object
/ Of Roman and crusading wars, and for IL
/ Assyrians had fought, and Egyptians had
/ fought, and the world had fought the place
which the Quesn of Sheba visited, and
/ Richard Ceur de Leon had conquered.
| Home Of Solomon. Home OF Ezekiel Home
of jeremiah. Home of Isaiah. Home OF
| Saladin. Mount Zion of David's heart
| break and Mount Moriah, where the sscri-
fees smoked, Mount of Olives where Jesus
preached, and Gethssmane where he ago
nizsd, and Golgotha where he died. and the
holy sspucher where he was buried. o,
Jerusalem Jerusalemi Greatest city on
ear IN, and type of the city celestial
After | have been ten thousand years in
heaven the memory of that first view from
the rocks on the afternoon of December I'd
will be as vivid as now. An Arab on a
horse that was like whirlwind, bitted and
saddled and spurred, its name ana TANKS jet
as the highland there are no such horse
men as Arab horssmen-had come far out
to meet US, and invite US to his hotel inside
made for US to stay at hotel outside the
gates In the dusk Of evening we halted in
front Of the place and entered, but / said:
mo, thank you for your courteous
reception, but l must sleep TO-
night inside the gates of Jerusalem.
l would rather have the poorest place in
side the gates than the best place out
side" So we remounted our coach and
moved on amid clamor OF voices. and be-
tween camels grunttng with great beams
and umbers on their back, brought in for
building purposes-for ID is amazing how
much a camel can carrv-until we came to
what is called thu Joppa Gate Of Jerusalem.
It is about forty feet wide, twenty feet deep
aud sixty feet high. There is sharp turn
just after you have enterted so planned as
to make the entrance Of armed enemies the
more difficult. On the structure of these
gates the safety of Jerusalem depended and
all the Bible writer's used them
for illustrations Within five minutes
walk of the gate we entered
David wrote: Enter into thy gates with
thanksgiving" Lift up your heads, Oh,
We gatesw 1.-The Lord loveth the gates of
Zion," ''Open to me the gates of righteous
ness" And Isaiah wrote: go through,
go through the gates" And the captive of
Patmos wrote: THE city had twelve gates"
Having passed the gate we went on through
the narrow streets, dimly lighted, and
passed on to our hating place, aud sat
down by the window from which we could
see Mount Zion, and said: "Here we are at
last, in the capital of the whole earth. "And
thoughts Of the past and the future
rushed through my soul in quick succession,
and thought of that old hymn, sung by SO
many ascending spirits:
Jerusalem, my happy hos4e
Name ever dear to me-
When shall my labors have an end
In joy and peace and thee?
When shall these eyes thy heav' n built walls
And pearly gates beholdY
Thy buwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
And 50 with our hearts fnl of gratitude
to God for journeying mercies all the way
from Joppa to Jerusale N, and with bright
anticipation Of our entrance into the
shining gate Of the heavenly city, when
earthly journeys are over, my second day
in Palestine is ended