Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-13

acanthus. Masonry beveled and grooyed
into such delicate forms that it seemed TO
tremble ia the light. Ciosters with two
rows Of CorinJhian columns, royal arches,
marble steps pure as though made out Of
! frozen snow, carving that seemed like a
panel OF the door of heaven let down and
set in, the facade of the building on shoul-
deTs Mt each end lifting the glory higher
and higher, and walls wherein gold put
out the silver, and the carbuncle put out
the gold, aud the jasper put out the car
bunclc, until in the changing light they
would all seem to come back again into a
chorus Of harmonious color The temDleI
| The temple DoXology in stone! Anthems
soaring in rafters Of Lebanon ccdar From
side to side and from foundation to giIded
pinnacle the frAzen prayer of all agesl
from rms TIA pdis cETY OF OF i Sop ,aco,,,e
ternoon we look outin another direction,
and see the kings palace, covering a hun
dred and sixty thousand square feet. three
rows of windows iliumluilg the in
side brilliance, the hallway wainscoted
with ali styles of coiored marbles sur
mounted by arabesquc, vermiion and
| gold, looking down oil mosaics music Of
waterfalls in the garden outside answering
| the musia Of the harps thrJinGnod by dcft
fingers inside; banistcrs over which princes
and prime esses leaned, and talked to kings
and queens ascending the stairway o
Jerusalem, Jerusaleml Mountain city!
City of God! Joy of the whole earth!
Stronger than Gibraltar and Sebastopul,
surely il never could have been captured!
| But while standing there on the house
| top that December afternoon ] hear the
| crash of the twonty-thrcc mighty sieg.s
which have come against Jerusalem in the
| ages past. Yonder is the pool of IIezcliah
| and Sloan, but again and again were
| those waters Redeemed with human gore.
Yonder are the towers, but again and again
| they fell. Wonder are the high walls but
again ana again they We're leveled Torob
| the treasures from her temple and palace
| and dethrone this queen city Of the earth
| all nations plotted. David taking the
| throne at Hebron decides that he must
| have Jerusalem for his capital, aud coming
up from the south at the head Of two hun
dred and eighty thousand troops no capt
ures it. Look, here comes another siege of
! Jerusalem
The Assyruns under Scnuachcrib, en-
| shaved nations at his chariot wheel, having
taken two hundred Thousand captiyes in
his one campaign; Phpnician cities l,nee
ing ut his feet, Egypt trembling at the
fash of his sword, comes upon Jerusalem
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Ion under observation-disclosures come d0WnHnd
take plumber from Jcrsusalem such us no
other city ever had to yield, and ten thou
sand of lcr citizons trudge off into Baby
lonian bondage. Look, another siege! aud
NebucAadneHz;tr Gad his hosts by night 20
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and the morning finds some Of them seat
ed triumphant in the temple, and Whnt
they could not tal.o away because too
heavy they break uY--thc brazcn sea, and
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THE slisJEs or JEHUsALElI,
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with the hlttasng rams which u hundred
men would roll back, and chen, mt full run
forward would bang against the wall OF
the city, and catapults hurting the rocks
upon the people left twelve thousand dead
and the city in the clutch Of the Roman
war eagle Look, a more desperate SIEGE
of Jerusalem! Titus with his tonth legion
on Mount OF Olives. and ballista arranged
on the principle of the pendulum TO swing
great bowldcrs against the walls and tow.
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