Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-13

little, but broke down. defy any
emotional Christian man sitting upon
Golgotha to read aloud and with uu-
broken voice, or with any voice at all,
the whole of that account in Luke
and John, of which these sentences are
fragment: "They took Jesus and led
him away, and he bearing his cross went
forth into place called the place of o
skull, where they crucified him and two
others with him, on either side one. and
Jesus in the midst;' -"Behold thy
mo,her!'' 81 thirst;'' "This day shalt
thou be with me in paradise; 90 Father,
forgive them. they know not what they
do; IF it be possible, let this cup
pass from me. -
WHAT SIGNS, WHAT soBs,
| what tears, what tempests of sorrow,
what surging oceans of agony in those
utterances.
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 CRASHED their teeth,
and shake their clenched 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 dying Savior.
There are women almost dead with grief
among the crowd, his mother and his
aunt, and some whose sorrows He had
| com forted, and whose guilt he had par
doned. Here O man dips sponge into
| sour wine, and 10y a stick lifts II TO the
hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage
OF the five wounds has done its work.
The atmospheric conditions are such Us
the world never saw before or since. 1t
was not solar eclipse such as astrono-
| ners record or we ourselves have seen.
| II was a bereavement of the heavens!
| Darkeri Until the towers of the temple
were no longer visible. Darkerl Until
| the surrounding hills disappeared. Dark
er! Until the inscription above the mid
die cross becomes illegible. Darker!
| Until the chin of the dying Lord falls
upon the breast. and he sighed with this
last sigh, these words, ''lt is ffnished!'
AS we sat there, silence took posses
sion OF US and We thought: this is the
center from which continents have been
touched, and all the world shall yet be-
moved. Toward this hill the prophets
| pointed forward. Toward this hill the
apostles and martyrs pointed backward.
| To this
ALL HEAVEN POINTED DOWNWARD.
| To this with foaming execratons per-
dItion pointed upward. Round it circles
| all history, all time, all eternity, and
with this scene painters have covered the
mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut the
| richest marble, aud orchestras rolled
| their grandest oratorios, and churches
! lifted their greatest doxologies, and
Heaven built its highest thrones.
Unable longer to endure the pressure
! of this scene, We moved on, and into
garden of olives, garden which in the
right season is full of flowers, and here
is the reputsd tomb of Christ. You know
the Book says, .'In the midst of the
garden was q sepulcher. l 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 it for about five bodies. We measured
it and found it about eight feet high,
ard 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 its seal. AT
the gate of this mausoleum on the first
Easter morning the angels rolled the
stone laundering down the hill. Up
these steps walked the lacerated feet of
the Conqueror, and from these heights
He looked off upon the city that had east
him out, and upon the world He had
| come to redeem. and at the heave MS
| through which he would soon ascend.
| But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the wall which Solo
mon had lifted. Stop here and see
startling proof of the truth of prophecy.
In jeremiah, thirty-first chapter aud
fortieth verse, it 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
fill up. No; the meaning has been re-
Gently discovered. Jerusalem is now
being built out in certain direction
whera the ground has been submitted to
chemical analysis, and it has been found
to be the ashes cast out from the
SACRIFICES OF THE ANCIENT TEMPLE,
| ashes of the wood and ashes of bones of
animals. There are great mounds of
ashes, accumulation of centuries of sac
ritices. 1t has taken all these thousands
of years to 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 Hananeel unto the
| gate OF the corner ana the
whole valley of the dead bodies and of
the ashes'' The peorle of Jerusalem
are ut this very time fulfilling that
prophecy. One handful of that ashes on
which they are building enough TO prove
the divinity of the Scriptures! Pass by
the place where the cornerstone OF the
ancient temple was laid 5000 years
ago by Solomon. Explorers have
been digging, and they found
| that cornerstone seventy-five
feet beneath the surface. 1t is fourteen
i feet long and three feet, eight inches
high, and beautifully cut and shaped.
and near it was an earthen jar that was
supposed to have contained the oil of
conservation used ct the ceremony of
laying the cornerstone. Yonder from q
depth of forty feet sIgnet ring has been
brought up, inscribed with the words:
"Haggai the Son of Shebnaiah, show
ing it belonged to the prophet Haggai,
aud to that seal ring he re-
fers in his prophecy, saying, 81 will
make thee as a signet,' l walk further
on far under ground, and l flnd myself
in Solomon g 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