The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-13


yourself present. Immediately the mosque
OF Omar. which has stood for ages on Mount
MorIah, the site of the ancient temple. dis
appeared and the most hOnOred structure OF
all the ages hftei Itself in the light aud
saw 1.-THE temple, the ancient temple J
Not Solomon's temple, but something
grander than that. Not ZerubbabeFs tenn
pie. but something more gorgeous than that.
1t was Herod's temple built for the one pur-
pose of eclipsing all its architectural prede-
cessors. There it stood, covering nine
ten acres. and ten thousand workmen had
been forty-six years in building It. Blaze
of magnificeucel Bewildering ia nge Of
porticos, aud ten gate ways, aud double
arches, end Corinthian capitals chlselef
into lilies and acanthus. Masonry bowed
and groovei into such delicate forms that it
seemed t. trembls in the light. Cloisters
with two rows Of Corinthian columns
royal arches, marble steps pure as though
made out of frozen snow, carving that
seemed like panel of the door OF heaven
let down and set IN. the facade of the build
ing on shoulders at each end lifting the
glory higher and hig 1er, aud walls wherein
gold put out the silver, and the carbuncle
put out the gold, and the jasper put out the
carbuncle until in the changing light they
would all seem TO come back again into a
| chorus of harmonious color. The temple!
The templel DoxolOgy in soonel Anthems
soaring in rafters of Lebanon cedar From
side Co side and from foundation to gilded
pinnacle. the frozen prayer of all agesl
From this house-top on the December
afternoon we look out in another direction
and l see the kings palace covering hun
drad and STRAIGHTFORWARD square feet, three
rows of windows illumining the inside bril-
lance, the hallway wainscoted with all
styles OF colored marbles surmounted by
arabesque, vermillion and gold, looking
down on mosiacs, music OF waterfalls In the
garden outside answering the music OF the
harps thrummed by deft fingers inside;
banisterS over which princes and princesses
leaned, and talked to kings and queens
ascending the stairway. o Jerusalem,
Jerusalem! Mountain ethyl city of Code
Joy Of the whole earthl Stronger than
Gibraltar and Sebastopol surely it never
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
and Sloan, but again and again were those
waters Redeemed with human gore. Yonder
are the towers, but again and again they
fall. Yonder are the high walls, but again
and again they were leveled. To rob the
treasures from her temple and palace and
dethrone this queen city of the earth, all
nations plotted. David taking the throne
at Hebron decides that he must have
Jerusalem for his capital and, coming up
from the south at the head of two hundred
and eighty thousand troops, he captures it.
Look, here comes another siege of Jerusa-
leml The Assyrians under Sennacherib,
enslaved nations at his chariot wheel, hav-
ing taken two hundred thousand captives
in his one campaign, Phoenician cities
kneeling at his feet. Egypt trembling
at the flash Of his sword, comes upon Jeru-
salem. Look another siegel The armies of
Babylon under ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS come down
and take plumber from Jerusalem such as
no other city ever had to yield, and ten
thousand of her citizens trudge off into
Babylonian bondage Look another siegel
and NebuchadneZzar and his hosts by night
go through breach of the Jerusalem wall.
and the morning finds some of tlem seated
triumphant in the temple, and what they
could not take away because too heavy,
they break up-the brazeu 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 ruu
forward would bang against the wall of the
city, and catapuIts hurting the rocks upon
the people, left IL, 900 dead, and the city in
the clutch of the Roman war-eagle. Look,
a more desperate siege of Jerusaleml Titus
with his tenth legion on Mount of Olives,
and ballast arranged on the principle of the
pendulum to swing great boulders against
ging under the city making gal
leries Of beams underground. which,
set on fire, tumbled great masses of houses
and human beings into destruction and
death. All is taken now but the temple,
and Titus, the conqueror, wants to save
that unframed, but soldier, contrary to
orders. hurls torch into the temple and it
is consumed. Many strangers were in the
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taken, and Josephus says 100, 900 lay dead.
But looking from this house-top, the siege
that most absorbs us is that of the Cru
saders. England, and France. and all
christendom, wanted to capture the holy
sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in posses
sion of the Mohamnedans under the COM
mand of one of the loveliest, bravest and
mightiest men that ever lived, for justice
must be done him though he was a Moham-
Neutrality-suspicious. Salaiin! Against him
came the armies of Europe, under Richard
Ceur de Lion, King of England. Philip
Augustus, King of France; Tancred, Ray
mond, Godfrey and other valiant men,
marching on through fevers, and plaques,
and battle charges, and sufferings, as in
tense 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
their faces in reverence, and then lift
anthems of praise. Feuds and hatred
among themselves were given up, and Ray
mond and Tancred, the bitterest rivals,
embraced while the armies looked on. Then
the battering-rams rolled, and the catapults
swung, aud the swords thrust, and the car
mage 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 the tomb. Jerusalem
the possession of christendom. But Saladin
| retook the city, aud for the last four hun
bred years it has been in possession of cruel
and polluted Mohammedanism!
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, a crusade in this nineteenth CEN
fury greater than all those of the past
centuries put together. A crusade IN
which you and / will march. A crusade
without weapons of DEATH but only the
sword of the spirit. A crusade that will
make not single wound nor start not one
tear of distress. nor incendiarize one home
stead. 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 to a church of Christ, and