The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-24


Aethsms soaring In rsfesss q fSbaosa
oedari From side 20 side sad leso
foundsuoa togilded pinsaclA the froosa
prayer Of oil agesi
From this housstop % TIE Dsesobss
afternoon w look out IN smother 1irec-
ton. and ! go the KiAg's palace cover.
ing 100, 600 square feet three rows q
windows illumtning tho inside hill.
iance, the hallway w~ainsooted With al
styles Of colored nasbleA sufmounteA
By ~arsbssqua, vermillioA and eolA
looking down On mosaioA 0ns1c of
wsterfallsi in the garden outside a1Swet.
ing the music Of tho hsfps thfummed
BY deft fingers inside. banistefs over
which Princes and Prinoesses leaned
and talked to Kings and Queens ascend
ing the stairway. Oh. jerusalem, Jeru-
salem! Mountain city! City OF 0odl
Joy Of the whole earthi Stronger tAa1
| Gibraltar and Sebastopol, surely Il neves
could have been captured
But while standing there On the house
top that December afternoon. hear the
crash Of the twenty-three mighty sieges
which have come against jerusalem In
the ages past Yonder is the pool OF
Hezekiah andSiloam, but again and again
were those waters Redeemed with human
gore. YOnder are the towerx but again
and agaim they fall. Yonder are the
high walls. but again and again they
were leveled. To rob the trcasures
from her temple and palace and de-
throne this queen city Of the earth all
nations plotted David taking the
throne at Hebron decides that no must
have Jerusalem for his capital. and.
coming up from the South at the head
of 100000 troops. he captures it. Look.
here comes another siege Of Jerusalem!
The Assyrisns under S~ennacherib. en-
shaved nations 1t his chariot wheel,
having taken zoo, 600 captives in his ono
campaign, Phoeuician cities kneeling u
bis feet Egypt trembling 1T the fash
| of his sword, ONE upon Jerusalem.
Look. another siege! The armies Of
Babylon under Nebuchadnexzar come
down and take . plumber from Jerusa-
lem such Is no other city eve had ia
Weld and 10, 900 Of her citizens trudge
of into Babylonian bondage. Look,
another siege! and Ncbuchadnezzar and
his hosts by night 60 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 wreathe6
pillars, joachim and BOaz
Another siege of jerusalem! and Pom
pey with the battering rams which loo
men would roll back and then at full run
forward would bang against the wall OF
the city and catapults hurting the rocks
upon the people. left ~. 600 dead, and
tho city in the clutch Of the Roman wal
eagle. Look, . more desperate siege Of
Jerusalem! Titus with his tenth legion
on Mount OF Olives. and ballast n
ranged on the principle Of the pendu'
lum to swing great powders against
walls and towers, and miners digging
under the city making galleries Of beams
underground which. set on fire, tumbled
great masses OF houses and human be-
ings into destruction and death. All II
taken now but the temple and Titus.
the conqueror. wants to save that un'
harmed, but a soldier, contrary to or
ders, hurls a torch into the temple and
it is consumed. Many strangers were
in the city at the time and 97.OO0 cap
tives were taken. and Josephus says
l., 100. 900 lay dead.
But looking from this housetop the
siege that most absOrbs US is that Of the
crusaders England and France and all
C~hristendOm wanted to capture the Holy
Sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in pos
session Of the Mohammedans under the
command of ono o.! the lOveliest, bravest
and mightiest men that ever lived-fOl
Justice must he done him though he was
q MOhammedan - glorious Saladinl
| Against him came the armies of Europe
under Richard Ceur dc Lion. King OF
England; Philip Augustus, King Of
France; Tancred. Raymond. Godfrey
and other valiant men, marching on
through fevers and plaques. and battle
charges, and sutferings. As intense
as the world ever saw. Saladin
in Jerusalem. hearing Of the sickness OF
King Richard, his chief enemy, sends
him his own physician. and from the
walls Of Jerusalem seeing King
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 theil
faces in reverence, and then lift IN.
thems Of praise. Feu6s and hatred
among themselves were given up and
Raymond and Tancrcd. the bitterest
rivals, embraced while the armies looked
on. Then the battering rams rolled,
and the catapults swung, and the swords
thrust, and the carnage ragged. Godfrey
of ROu,llon is the first to mount the
wall and the crusaders . cross upon
every shoulder or breast have taken the
city, march bare-headed and bare-footed
to what they suppose to be the Holy
Sepulcher. and kiss the tomb Jerusa-
lem the possession Of C~hristcndom. But
Saladin rctook the city, and for the last
900 years it has been in possession Of
cruel and polluted Mohammedanisml
Another crusade is needed to start fol
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 make not a single wound nor start
one tear Of distress nor incendiarise
one homestead. A crusade of Gospel
peace! And the cross again be lifted
on Calvary, not As once an instrument
OF pain, but . signal OF invitation, and
the mosque OF Omar shall give place q
. Church OF Christ, and Mount Zion b.
come the dwelling place not Of David.
but Of David's Lord. and jerusalem,
purified Of all its idolatrieA and taking
back the Christ she once cast ont shall
be made . worthy type Of that heavenly
city which Paul styled ''the mother oi
US all" and which St John NV ''the
holy Jerusalem descending out oil
Heaven from God"