The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-13
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN
REV. TALMAGEs THIRD SERMON
ON The HOLY LARD.


Crusade Wanted to start for Jeru-
salem.
BROOKLYN, Oct 12.-This morning DR..
Talmage delivered his third sermon on his
recent tour in Palestine in the Academy of
Music In this city. The large building was
crowded, and numbers went away disap-
pointed. This was the more significant
because it had been publicly announced
that the same sermon would be preached in
the evening at the New York academy.
which the Christion Herald had rented for
that purpose. In ite of this fact, un-
precedented since the days of Chalmers,
both buildings we're crowded to excess, and
many were turned away from the doors,
both morning and evening. DIR. Talmage
must have preached to-day to ten thousand
different persons. The doctor spoke as fol-
lows from the text; IF forget thee, o
Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning. Psalm cxxxvii, s.
Paralysis of his best hand, the whitening
of It's muscles and nerves. is here invoked
IL the author allows to pass out Of mind the
grandeuIs OF the Holy City, where once he
dwelt. jeremiah, seated by the river Eu-
pirates, wrote this psalm and not David.
Afraid | 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, q, Jerusalem, may my right hand
forget her cunningn You see, it is city
unlike all others for topography, for his
tory, for significance, for style Of popula-
tion, for water works, for ruins, for towers,
for Comes, for rarnparts, for literature. for
tragedies. for memorable birthplaces, for
sepulchers, for confiagrations and famines,
Tor victories and defeats.
am here at last In this very Jerusalem
and on housetop, Just after the dawn OF
the morning of Dec. 3, with an old inhabi-
tant to point out the salient features of the
scenery. "Now,n | said, "where is Mount
Zionw Here at your right" "Where is
Mount Olivet" I'm front of where you
stand" "Where is the Garden OF Geth-
semanep "In yonder valley" Where is
Mount Calvaryp Before he answered |
saw 10. No unprejudiced mind can have
moments dougbt as TO where 1t Ia. Tonder
see a hill In the shape of a human skull.
and thy Bible says that Calvary was the
place of IA skull" Not only IA it skull
shaped, but just beneath the forehead OF
the hill is cavern that looks like eyeless
sockets. Within the grotto under 1t Is the
shape OF the inside Of skull. Then the
Bible says that Ghost was crucihed outside
the gate, and this is outside tine gate, while
the site formerly selected was inside the
gate. Beside that, this skull hill was for
ages the place whore malefactors were put
TO death, and Christ was slain as a malefac-
tor.
The Savior's assassination took place be-
side thoroughfare, ong which people
went "wagging their heads" and there IL
the ancient thoroughfare | saw at Cairo,
Egypt, a clay mold Of that skull hill, made
by the late 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
Bibls story. selected another site as Cal
vary, 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 u thousand things we wanted
to SEQ that third day OF December and our
dragoman proposed this aud that and the
other journey. but | said: First OF all.
show US Calvary. Something might happen
If we went elsewhere and sickness or acci-
dent might hinder our seeing the sacred
mount. Ii we 500 nothing else, we must
see that and SEQ 1t this morning." Some of
US In carriage and some on mule
back, we were soon on the way to the most
sacred spot that the world has ever seen or
ever will see. Coming TO t5e base OF the
hill we first went inside the skull of rocks.
1t is called Jeremiah's grotto. for there the
prophet wrote his book Of Lamentations.
The grotto is thirty-Hve feet high and its
top and side are malachite, green, brown,
black. white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
terraneous passages, we begin to climb the
steep sides of Calvary. AS we go up, we
think were made by the convulsions of ma
ture when Jesus died. On the hill lay
limestone rock, white. but tinged with
crimson, the white so suggestive OF purity
and the crimson of sacrifice, that / said:
"That stone would be beautifully appro-
PIRATE for memorial wall in my church,
now building In America; and the stone
now being brought on camels back from
Sinai across the desert, when put under it.
how magnifcant OF the law and gospel |
And these lips of stone will continue
to speak of justice and mercy long
after all cur living lips have uttered their
last message" So / rolled il down the hill
and transported it. When 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 diff
cult being the third structure, work sucn
as no other church was ever called on to un-
dertake-we invite you In the main en-
trance Of that building to look upon a me-
mortal wall containing the most suggestive,
and solemn and tremendous antiquities
ever brought together; this. rent with the
earthquake at the giving OF the law at
Sinai, the other rent at the crucifixion on
Calvary.
1t is impossible for you to realize what
our emotions were as we gathered, group
OF men and women, all saved by the blood
Of the 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 impeni-
tent burglar, and there the cross of the mis-
creant, and here between, l think stood the
cross on which all our hopes depend" As
l opened the nineteenth chapter of John
10 read, a chill blast struck the hill and a
cloud lowered, the natural sole unity i'm
pressing the spiritual solemnity. l read q
little, but broke down. / defy any emo
tional christian man sitting upon
Golgotha to read aloud and
with unbroken voice, or with any
voice at all, the whole of that account in
Luke and John, of which these sentences
are fragment: "They took Jesus and led
him away, and he bearing his cross vent
forth in place called the place Of skull,
where they crucified him and two others
with him, on either side one, and Jesus In
the midst: "Behold thy mother" II
thirst ~ sThis day shalt thou be with me in
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