The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-23
JERUSALEM VISITED
More of What Dr.. Talmage
Saw in and About the
Holy City.
A Review of Its History and
DEMONSTRATIONS as to
Its Future.

Jerusalem. lot my right hand forget her cum
ming" Psalm cxxSvii, 5.
Paralysis OF his best hand, the whitening
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
dwet. jeremiah. seated by tho river Eu-
pirates. wrote this psalm and not David.
Afraid am of any thing that approaches i'm
precation, and yet can understand how
any one who has ever been ut Jerusalem
should. in enthusiasm Of soul cry out, wheth-
sr he be sitting by the Euphrates, or the Hud-
son or the Thames. al forget thee, O Jeru-
salem, may my right hand forget her cum
ningl" You see, it is a city unlike all Others
for topography. tor history. tor significance.
TOR style of population, or water works. for
ruins, for towers, tor domes, for ramparts,
Tor literature, tor tragedies. for memorable
birth places. for sepulchres, TOR couf1agra.
tons and famines. for victories and defeats
um here at last in this very Jerusalem
and on housetop. just after the dawn OF
the morning OF Dec. 5, with an old inha hi
tant to point out the salient features ofthe
scenery. Now" said, where is Mount
Zion?" Here at your right" Where is
Mount Olivot?" I'm front OF where you
stand" Where IL the Garden of Gethse-
mane?' in yonder valley" "Where is
Mount Calvary?" Before he answered saw
it. No appropriated mind can have q mo-
u.ent's doubt Us to where it is. Yonder l
see bill in the shape of q human skull,
and the Bible says that Calvary was tho
''place OF skull" Not only is it skuIl-shaped,
but just beneath the forehead of the bill is q
cavern that looks like eyeless sockets.
Within, the grotto under it is the shape OF
the inside OF skull Then the Bible says that
Christ was crucified outside the gate while
the site formerly selected was inside the gate
Besides that, this skull hill was for ages the
place where the malefnctors were put to
death, and Christ was slain as male!actor.
The Savior's assassination took place be.
side a thoroughfnre along which people went
'wagging their heads, and there is the an
Gent thoroughfare saw at Cairo, Egypt,
Il clay mould o that skull hill. made by the
late Gen. Gordon, the arbiter Of nations
While Empress Helena, 50 years of age and
imposed upon. by having three crosses ex
humed before her dim eyes. Us though they
were the three crosses of Bible story. selected
another site as Calvary, oil recent travellers
agree that the one point out to you was,
without doubt, the scene of the III ost terrific
and overwhelming tragedy this planet ever
witnessed.
There were thousand things We wanted
to see that third day OF December and our
dragonman proposed this and that and the
other journey but Isaid: First of all show
us Calvary. Something might happen if We
Went elsewhere, and sickness or accident
mi ght hinder our sacred mount If we see
nothing else We must see that and see it this
morning Some OF US in carriage and some
mule-hack, We were soon on the way to
the most sucred 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 Jeremiah's grot-
to, for there the prophet wrote his book OF
lamentations. The grotto ia 35 feet high,
and its top and sides are malachite, green,
drown, black. white, red and gray.
Coming orth from those pictured sub
terraneous passages, we begin to climb the
steep sides of Calvary. As We go up, we
see cracks and crevices in the rocks which
l think was made by the commissions al
nature when Jesus died. On the hill lay q
limestone rock, white but tinged with
crimson, the white SO suggestive OF purity
and the crimson of eacritce that I said,
That stone would be beau tilully appropri-
ate tor memorial wall in my church. now
building i'll America, and the stone now be-
ing brought on camel's back from Sinia
across the desert, when put under it how
significant of the law and gospel! And these
lips OF stone will continue to speak of Justice
and mercy lsng after our living lips have
uttered their last message" SO rolled it
down the hill and transported it. When
that day comes for which many ofyou have
prayed-the dedication OF the Brooklyn
tabernacle, the third immense structure we
have reared in this city, and that makes it
someM hat difficult being the third structure,
work such Az no other church was ever
called on to undertake-we invite YOU in the
-
memorial wall containing the most .ug-
Gestive and solemn and tremendous antio-
uities ever hrought together; this. rent
with the earthquake at the giving of the law
at Sinia, the other rent at the crucifxion on
Calvary.
1t is impossible for you to realize what our
emotions were as We gathered. q 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 riends: 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
OH which our hopes depend" As | opened
the 10Th chapter of John to read, chill
blast struck the hill and cloud lowered, the
natural solemnity impressing the spiritual
solmnity. | read a little but broke down. |
defy any emotional Christian man sitting
upon Golgotha to read aloud and with un-
broken voice. or with any voice ut all, the
whole OF that account in Luke and John, in
which these sentences are augment: 'They
took Jesus and led him away. and he bear
ing his cross went forth into place called
she place of a skull. where they crucifed him
md two others with him, on either side one.
nd Jesus in the midst "Behold thy 10Th
VII IL thirst" This day shalt thou be
With mein Paradise" Father forgive them,
possible. let this cup pass from me-" What
signs. what sobs, wnnt tears what tempests
,fsorrow, what surging oceans of agony in
hose utterances
While We sat there the whole scene came
,efore us. All around the top and the sides,
and the foot of the HILL a mob RACES They
gnash their teeth, and shake their clenched
fists at him. Here the cavalry horses oh am
their bits, and paw the earth and snort at
the smell OF the carnage. londer q group OF
gamblers are pitching up as to who shall
have the coat OF the dying Savior. There
are women almost dead with grief am ong
the crowd, his mother and his aunt, and
some whose sorrows He had comforted, and
whose guilt He had pnrdoned. Here man
dips sponge into some wine and by a stick
lifts tito the hot and cracked lips. The hem
orrhage of the five wounds has done it's work
/ The atmospheric conditions are such az
the world saw never before or since. It was
not n solar eclipse such as astronomers re.
cord or We ourselves have seen. 1t was be.
reavement of the heavensl Darker! Until
the towers Of the temple were no longer visi.
Bile. Darkerl Until the surrounding hills
disappeared. Darker! Until the inscription
above the middle cross becomes ilegible.
Darker! Until the chin Of the dying Lord
j tails upon the breast, and he sighed with this
4 last sigh the words, 1T is fnished!''
4 AS we sat there a silence took possession
ofus and we thought; this is the center from
which continents have been touched. and ali