Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-23

w nat signs 2ual SObSs NHttl tcaASf WHAT
tempests Of sorrow, what surging oceans
of agony in those utterancesl
While we sat there the whole scene came
before US. All around the top and the
sides and the foot of the hill mob ragged
They gnash their teeth and shake their
clinched fists at him Here the cavalry
horses champ their bits and paw the earth
and snort at the smell Of the carnage.
Yonder group of gamblers are pitching
up as to who shall have the coat of the dy-
ing Saviour There are women almost
dead with grief among the crowd-his
mother and his aunt. and some whose sor-
rows he had comfortel and whose guilt he
had pardoned Here "A man dips a sponge
into sour wine, and by sticl lifts il to
the hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage
Of the five wounds has done its work
.IT is FINISHED
The atmospheric conditions are such as
the world saw never before or Since. 1t
was not solar eclipse. such as astrono-
mers record or we ourselves have seen. 1t
was II bereavement of the heavens Dark
er until the towers OF the temple were
no longer visible Darkerl until the sur
rounding hills disappeared. Darker! until
the inscription above the md lie cross be.
comes illegible Darker until the chin
Of the dying Lord falls upon the breast,
and be sighed with this last sigh the words,
at is finished"'
As we sat there n silence took possession
of MS, and we thought, this is the center
from which continents have been touched,
and all the world shall yet he moved To
ward this hill thcprophetsP pointed forward.
Toward this hill the apostles and martyrs
pointed backward To this all heaven point
ed downward To this with foaming exc
crations perdition pointed upward Round
1t circles all history. all time, all eternity,
and with this scene painters have covered
the mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut
the richest marble, and orchestras rolled
their grandest oratorios and churches
lifted their greatest doxologies and heaven
built its highest thrones.
THE GARDES OF OLIVES
Unable longer TO endure the pressure OF
this scene we moved on and into "a garden
of olives, a garden which in the right sea
son is full Of flowers. and here is the re-
puted tomb of Christ. You know the Book
says. "ln the midst Of the garden was a
sepulcher | think this was the garden
and this the sepulcher. 1t is shattered Of
course About -four steps down we went
into this. which seemed family tomb
There is room in il for about five bodies
We measured il and found il about eight
feet high. and nine feet wide and fourteen
feet long The crypt where think
our Lord slept was seven feet long.
think that there once lay the king
wrapped in his last slumber On some
Of these rocks the Roman government
set it, seal At the gate Of this mausoleum
on the first Easter morning the angels
rolled the stone laundering down the bill.
Up these steps walked the iacerated feet
Of the couqueror. and from these heights
be looked Oh upon the city that had cas-;
him ont, and upon the world he had come
10 redeem, and at the heavens through
which he would soon ascend.
But we must hasten back 10 the city.
There are stones In the wall which Solo
mon had lifted Stop here and see a start
ling proof OF the truth of prophecy In
jeremiah, thirty-ilrsi chapter and fortieth
verse. ii is said that Jerusalem shall be
built through the ashes What ashes,
people have been asking Were those
ashes just put into the prophecy TO ill up,
No. The meaning has been recently dis
covered Jerusalem is n0w being built
out In certain direction where the ground
has been submitted 70 chemical analysis,
and il has been found To be the ashes cast
GU; from the sacrifices Of the ancient tenn
ple-ashes of wood and ashes Of bones of
animals. There are great mounds % ashes,
accumulation Of centuries Of sacrifices. II
has taken all these thousands Of wears 70
discover what jeremiah meant when he
said. Behold the days shall come, saith
the Lord. that the city shall be built to the
Lord from the tower Of Hauaneel unto the
gate Of the corner ana the whole valley Of
the dead bodies and Of the ashes " The
people OF Jerusalem are at this very time
fulfilling that prophecy. One handful Of
that ashes on which they art building is
enough to prove the divin! Of the Script
ures' Pass rs the place where the corner
stone of the ancient temple was laid three
thousand years ago by solomon.
Explorers have been digging, and they
found that corner stone seventy-five feet
beneath the surface. Il IS fourteen feet
long. and three feet eight inches high, and
beautifully clt and shaped, and near il was
an earthen jar that was supposed TO have
contained the oil OF conservation used at
the ceremony OF laying the corner stone.
Yondcr. from n depth of forty feet, a signet
ring has been brought mp inscribed with
the words "Haggai, the son OF Shcbnalah,
showing it belonged TO the Prophet Hag
gai. and 10 that seal ring he refers in his
prophecy, saying. II will make thee as a
signet" | walk further on fa- under
ground. and | fluid myself in Solomon's
stables, and see the places worn in the
stone pillars by the halters of some Of his
twelve thousand horses. Further on, look
at the pillars on which Mount Moriah was
built You know that the mountain WAS
too small for the temple, and so they built
the mountain out on pillars, and saw
eight OF those pillars, each one strong
enough to hold mountain.
THE MOSQUE OF OMAR
Here we enter the mosque Of Omar, a
throne Of Mohammedanism where we are
met al the door by officials who bring
slippers that we must put on before we
take a step further, lest our feet pollute
the sacred places. \ man attempting to
go in without these slippers would be
struck dead on the spot. These awkward
sandals adjusted as well as we could, we
are led to where we see rock with an
opening in Il, through which, no doubt,