Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-18
sgYH HERE CUR LORD DIED.
DR.. sTALMAeE DESCRIBES HIS VISIT.
TO MOUNT CALVARY.

TO MOUNT CALVARY.
Jerusalem tho holy clty-scencs of Past
spiondor The Twenty-Three Mighty
IS .slsges--A Crusade of tho Nineteenth
Century.
BROOKLYN. Oct. 12-This morning
FDr.lrallnage delivered his third sermon
on his recent tourin Palestine in the
Academy of Music in this city. The
large building was crowded and null
Fbers went away. disappointed. This
was the more significant because it had
been publicly announced that thesame
sermon would be preached in the even
singsat the Now York academy, Which
The Christian Herald had rented for
that, purpose. In spite of this fact,
unprecedented since the days Of Chal-
rneri both buildings were crowded to
excess. and many were turned away
from the doors,. both morning and
evening Dr.. Talinage must have
preached today to ten thousand differ
ent persons The doctor spoke as fol Z
lows from the text: IF forget thee,
70 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning Psalm cxxxvii. s.
Paralysis of his best hand, the with
ering of its muscles and nerves, is here
invoked If the author allows to pass
out OF mind the grandeurs of the Holy
City where once he dwelt. Jeremiah,
seated by the river Euphrates. wrote
this psalm, and not9David. Afraid |
am of anything that approaches impre-
cation. and yet can understand how
any one who has ever been ut Jerusa-
lem should in enthusiasm of soul, cry
out. whether lie be sitting by the Eu-
pirates. or the Hudson, or the Thames,
IF forget thee, U Jerusalem, ler
my right hand forget her cunlling"
You see it is II city unlike all others for
topography, for history, for significance,
for style of population, for water works,
for ruins. for towers, for doInes, for
ralnpurts. for literature, for tragedies,
for memorable brtlplaces, for sepul-
chers for con!iagr;rtions and faInincs.
for victories and defeats.
ZION. oLIvKT AND CALVARY.
ain here at last in this very Jerusa-
lem. and on, IL llousetop, just after the
dawn of the morning of December 3,
with an old inhabitaut to point out the
salient features of rhe scenery. Now"
| said. where is NlouRt, zon?" Here
at your right" Where is Mount Oil
vets" I'm front of where you stand.
,Nyhere is tile (ilr,len of Getilseluane?"
in yonder valley" Where is Mount
Calvary" Before he answered | saw
it. No unprecedented mind can have
moments doubt as to where it is. fon-
der see Il hillin the SHAPE Of a human
skull, and the Bible says that Calvary
was tile place of skull. Not only
is it skull shaped, but just beneath the
forehead of the hill is n cavern that
looks like eyeess sockets. Within the
grotto under it is the shape of the in
side of skull Then the Bible says
that Christ was cruciied outside the
gate, and this is outside the gate, while
the site formerly selected was inside
the gate. Besides that, this skull hill
was for ages the place where malefac-
tors were put to death, and Christ was
slain as IL nalcfactor.
The Saviour's assassination took
place beside tlloroughfare along
which people went 'wagging their
heads" and there is tile ancient thor
ouglfare | saw at Cairo. Egypt, IL
clay mold of that skull hill, made by
the late Gen. Gordon, the arbiter of
nations While Empress Helena, so
years of age. and imposed upon by
having three crosses exhulned before
her dim eyes, as though they were the
three crosses OF Bible story. selected
another site us calvary, all recent trav-
clcrs agree that the one point out to
you was, without doubt. the scene of
the most terrific and overwhelming
tragedy this planet over witnessed.
VISIT 10 CALVARY.
There were thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of Decem-
Der, and our draGonan proposed this
and that and the other journey, but
said: First OF all show US Calvary.
Something might Happen if we went
elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might hinder us seeing the sacred
mount. If we see nothing else. we
must see that and see it 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 the base of the Hill we first went
inside the skull of rocks 1t is called
Jereniah's grotto, for there the prophet
wrote his book of Lamentations The
grotto is thirty-five feet high, and its
top and sides are malachite, green,
brown, black. white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured
subterraneous passages we begin to
climb the steep sides OF Calvary. As we
go up we see cracks and crevices in the
rocks, which think were made by the
commissions of nature when Jesus died.
On the hill lay limestone rock. white,
but tingcd will crimson, the white SO
suggestive of purity and the crimson of
sacrifice that said THAT stone would
he beautifully appropriate for Il memo
rial wall in my church. now bttil,lingin
Amer;c:,: and the stone now being
brought on camcl's back from Sinai
across the desert. when put under it,
how significant Of the law and the
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