Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-13
in THE HOLY CITY.
REV. TALaAGgS SECOND SERMON ON HIS
TRIP TO PALESTINE.
He Views Inc Place From the HOUss!op, and Has
Pointed Out tie Localities Where Christ
Suffered and Died-Ths Great Di-
vines Impression Of Calvary.
Social Telegram 70 ne Register.

BEOOKLNN, October l2.-This morn
Ing Or. Talmage delivered his third SER
mon on his recent tour in Palestine, in
the Academy of Music in this city. The
large building was crowded, and num-
bers went away disappointed. This
was the more significant because it had
been publicly announced that the same
sermon would be preached in the even
ing ut the New York Academy which
the Christian Herald had rented for that
purpose. In spite of this fact, unprece-
dented since the days of Chalmers, both
buildings were crowded to excess, and
many were turned away from the doors,
both morning and evening. DIR. Tai
mage must have preached today TO ten
thousand different persons. The Doc
tor spoke as follows from the text: "lf
forgot thee, o Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget hcr cunning Psalm
1876: ..
Paralysis of his best hand, the with
eriug of its muscles and nerves, is here
invoked IL the author allows to pass out
of mind the grandeurS of the Holy City
where once he dwclt, jeremiah, seated
by the river EuphrateS, wrote this
Psalm and not David. Afraid am of
anything that approaches imprecation,
and yet l 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 cunning" You see, ii is 4
city unlike all others for topography,
for history, for significance, for style of
population, for water works, for ruins,
for towers, for domeS, for rampartS, for
literature. for tragedies. for memoir
able birth-places, for SepulchreS, for
conAagrationS and famineS, for victories
aud defeats.
am here at last in this very JeruSa-
lem and on houSetOp, lust after the
dawn OF the morning OF December ,,
with an old iuhabitant 10 point out the
salient features of the scenery. "NOw."
l said, where is Mount Zion?" Here
AZ your right" "Where is Mount Oil
yet?" In front of where you stand. -
"Whcrc Is the Garden of GcthScmaue?'
| In Wonder valley" Where is Mount
| lCaiyary?" Before he answered, saw
lie. No unpreiudiced mind can have Il
moments doubt aS to where it is. Yon-
/ der see Il hill i'm the shape Of human
SllUll and the Bible says that Calvary
was the place OF SKULL Not only
| is it skull shaped, but just beneath the
/ forehead of the hill is cavern that
/ looks like cyeleSS sockets. Within the
grOttO under il, is the shape of the
/ inside Of skull. Then the Bible says
| that Christ was crucifcd outside the
gate. and this is outside the gate. while
the site formerly selected was inside
Ihe gate. Beside that. this skull hill
was for ages the place where malefac-
tors were put 10 death, and Christ was
slain IS malefactor
TIE SAvIoR's ASSASSINATION.
The Savior's assassination took place
beside thoroughfarc along which
/ people went ''wagging their heads, -
aad there is the ancient thOr0ughfarc.
/ / saw az Idlru, Ely pl, a. vid3 nVuiH vi
that skull hill, made by the late Gen
cral Gordon, the arbiter OF nations,
while Empress Helena, eighty years Of
age and imposed upon, by having three
lcro,Ses cXhumcd before her dim eyes,
las though they were they three crosses
l0f Bible story, selected another site is
calvary. all recent travellers agree that
the one point out 10 you was, without
doubt, the scene of the most terrific and
Overwhelming tragedy this planet ever
witnessed.
There we're thousand things we
wanted TO see that third day Of Decem-
Der aud our dragOman proposed this and
that and the other journey, but | said;
First OF all, show us Calvary. Some
thing might happen if We went elsewhere
and sickness or accident might hinder
our seeing the sacred mount. IL We
see nothing else, we must see that and
see 10 this morning" Some Of us in
carriages and some on mule-back, we
We're soon on the way TO the most Sa-
cred 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
rocks. 1t is called Jeremah's grctto,
for there the prophet wrote his book oil
Lamentations. The grotto is thirty-iive
feet high ana its top and side are
malachite, green, brown, black, white
red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured
SubterraueOuS passages, we begin to
climb the steep sides of Calvary. As
We 20 up. we see cracks and crcviceS In
the rocks which | think were made
by the cOnvulSionS OF nature when
Jesus died. Ga the hill lay a limestone
rock. white, but tinged with crimson,
the white 50 suggestive of purity and
the crimson of sacrifice, that l said,
That stone would be beautifully APP
propriate for memorial wall in my
church, now building in America; and
the stone now being brought on cameIS
back from Sinai across the desert, when
lput under it. how significant of the law
land the Gospel, And these lips of stone
Twill continue TO speak OF justice
land mercy long after all our liv-
ing lips have uttered their last
message" So | rolled it down the hill
and transported it. When that day comes
for which many Of you have prayed
THE dedication of the Brooklyn Tab
eruacle, the third immense structure
we have reared in this city, and that
makes il somewhat difficult, being the
third structure. a 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 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 rent at the cruciiiXtion OF
Calvary.
ny CATVAHY
IL is impossible for you to realize
what our emotions were as we gathered,
a group of men and women, all saved by
| the blood of the Lamb, on Il bluU OF
Calvary, just wide enough to contain
three crosses. | said to my family and
/ friends: Il think here is where stood
/ the cross Of the impenitent burglar, and
there the cross of the miScreant, and
/ here between, | think stood the cross
on which all our hopes depend" As |
opened the nineteenth chapter of John
/ To read. a chill blast struck the hill and
a cloud lowered, the natural solemnity
impreSSing the spiritual Solemnity.
read a little. but broke down.
defy any emotional Christian man
sitting upon G0lgotha to read
aloud and with unbroken voice, or with
anv voice at all. the whole OF that ac-
count i'm Luke aud John, Of which these
sentences are fragment: They took