The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-18

dened with human gore. Yonder are
the towers, bat again and again they
fall. Yonder are the high walls, but
again and again they were leveled. To
rob the treasures from their temple and
palace and dethrone this queen city of
the earth. all nations plotted. David
taking the throne at Hebron decided
that he must have Jerusalem for his
capital, and, coming up from the
south at the head of two hum
dred and eighty thousand troops, he
captures it, Look, here comes another
siege of jerusalem! The Assgrians
under Sennacherib, enslaved nations at
his chariot wheel, having taken two
hundred thousand captives in his ono
campaign. Pb9nician cities kneeling
at his feet, Egypt trembling at the
flash of his sword, comes upon Jerusa-
lem. Look, another siege. 'fne armies
of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come
down and take a plumber from Jerusa-
lem such as no other city ever had to
yield, and ten thousand of her citizens
trudge off into Babylonian bondage.
Look, another siegel and Nebuchad-
nezzar and his hosts by night go through
breach of the Jerusalem wall, and the
morning finds some of them seated
triumphant in the temple, and what
they could not take away because too
heavy, they break up--the brazen sea,
and the two wreathed pillars, joachim
and Boaz
Another siege Of Jerusalem; and
Pompey with the battering rams which
a hundred men would roll back, and
then at full run forward would bang
against the wall of the city, and cata-
pults hurting the rocks upon the peo-
pie, 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 Tenth
Legion on Mount of Olives, and ballist
arranged on the principle of the PEN
dulum to swing great powders against
walls and towers, and miners digging
under the city, making galleries of
beams under ground, which, set on fire,
tumbled great masses of houses and
human beings iTto destruction and
death. All is taken now but the tenn
pie, and Titus, the conqueror, wants to
save that unframed, but a soldier, con-
trary to orders, hurls a torch into tie
temple and it is consumed. MANY
strangers wero in the city at the time
and ninety-seven thousand captives
were taken, and Josephus says one mill
ion one hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this housetop the
siege that most absorbs US is that of the
Crusaders. England and France and all
Christendom wanted to capture the holy
sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in pos
session of the Mohammedans under the
command of one of the loveliest, BRAY
est and mightiest men that over lived.
for justice must be done him, though he
was Mohammedan-glocious Saladin.
Against him came the armies of Eu-
rope, under Richard, Cmur de Lion,
King of England; Philip Augusta, King
Of France; Tancred, Raymond, Ged.
frey, and other valiant men, marching
On through fevers, and plaques,
and battle charges, and sufferings as in
tense as the world ever saw. Saladip
in Jerusalem, hearing of the sickness
OF King Richard, his chief enemy, sends
him his own physician. and from the
walls of Jerusalem, seeing Richard
afoot, sends him horse. With all the
world looking on, the armies of Europe
come within sight of Jerusalem. At the
first glimpse of the city they fall on
thelr faces in reverence, and then
lift anthems OF praise. 'Feuds and
hatred among themselves were
given up, and Raymond and
Eancred, the bitterest rivals,
embraced while the armies looked on.
Then She battering rams rolled, and the
catapults swung, and the swords thrust.
and the carnage ragged. Godfrey of
Bouillon is the first to mount the wall.
and the Crusaders, a cross on every
shoulder or breast having taken the
city, march bare-headed and bare-footed
to what they suppose to be the holy
sepulcher, and kiss tbs toni. Jerase
lem the possession of Christeadom. Bun
Saladin retook the city, and for tho last
400 years it has been in possession
cruel and polluted Mohammedanism:
Another crusade is needed to start 70,
Jerusalem, q crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those of the
past centuries put together. A crusade
In which you and l will march. A cru
SADIE without weapons of death, but only
the Sword of the Spirit. A crusade that
will mako not single wound, nor starr
one tear of distress, nor incendilrize
one homestead. A crusade of Gospel
Peace! And the Cross again be lifted
on Calvary, not as once an instrument
of pain, but a signal of invita-.
ton, and the Mosque of Omar shall
give place to a Church OF Christ, and
Mount Zion become the dwelling place.
not of David, but of David's Lord, and
Jerusalem, purified of all its idolatries,
and taking back the Christ she once
cast out, shall be made a worthy type
OF that heavenly Deity which Paul
styled 1.-The mother of us ALL" and
which St John saw, ''the holy Jeru,
salem descending out of Heaven from
God" Through its gates may we all
enter when our work is DONE and in It's
temple. greater than all the earthly TEN.
pies piled in one, may we worship. Rus.
sian pilgrims lined all the roads around