The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-31

up-the brazen sea. and the two wreathed
pillars, Jachin and.Boaz.
Another siege OF Jerusalem, and Pompey
with the battering rams which . hundred
men would roll back, and theu, 60 fals rpm
city' and c@atapufts hurting the rocks
upon the people. left twelve thousand dead
aud the CITY In the clutch Of the Roman war
eagle. Look, q more desperate siege or Je-
rusaleml Titus with his tenth legion on
Mount Of Olives, and ballista azrangedo on
the principle of the pendulum to swing great
powders against the walls ana towers, ana
miners digging under the eity making gal
leries of beams underground which, set ON
fire, tumbled great masses d& horses and hu.
man beings into destruction aud death All
is taken now but the temple, and Titus the
~conoueror, wants to save that urharraeds
but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls q
torch into the temple and ii is CONSUMED.
Many strangers were Id the city at the time
and ~ninety-seven thousand captives were
taken, and Josephus says n million onS
hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this house top. the siege
that most absorbs us is thatof the Crusaders.
England and France and all Chrfstendom
wanted TO capture the Holy Sepulchrs n
Jerusalem, then in possession Of the Moham-
medans, under the command of ono of the
lOVSll6SU, DFbVeab aDU il1SntiSSO llcn OLAdL ever
lived; for justice must be done him, though
he was a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Saladinl
Against him cameth armies of Europe, u1der
Richard Caur de Lion, King Of England;
Philip Augustus, King OF France; TaDcred,
RAYMOND, Godfrey and other valiant men,
marching on through fsvers and plaques and
battle charges and sufferings 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 a 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 hatreds among them
selves were given up, and Raymond and
Tancred, the bltterest rtvals, embraced while
the armies looked on. hen the battering
rams rolled, and the c~atapults swung, and the
swords thrust, and the carnage ragged. God
frey, Of Bouilion, is the first to mount the
wall, and the Crusaders, a. cross On every
shoulder or breast, having taken the city,
march bareheaded and barsfooted to what
they suppose to be the Holy Sspulcher, and
kiss the tomb. Jerusalem the possession of
Christendom. But Saladin retook the city,
and for the last four hundred years ID has
been in possession OF cruel and polluted
Mohammedanism!
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, a crusade in this Nineteenth
centuries put together. a crusade in
which you and I will march. A crusade
without weapons Of death, but only tbs
sword of the Spirit. A crusade that will
make not a single wound, nor start
tear Of distress, nor incendiarize one home
stead. A crusade of Gospel Peacel And
the Gross again be lifted on Calvary, not
n g rnaa on spntEvFrraNt az min h1gf O clnnna1
of invitation, 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 Jerusa-
lem, purified Of all Its idolatries, and taking
back the Christ she once cast out, shall be
made a worthy type of that heaving city
which Paul styled ''the mother Of us al, ''and
which st. John saw. ''the holy Jerusalem
descending out of heaven from God"
work is done, and in its temple, greater than
all the earthly temples piled In one, may we
worship.
Russian pilgrims lined all the roads around
the Jerusalem we visited last winter. They
had walked hundreds of miles, and their feet
bled on the way to Jerusalem. Many Of
them had spent their last farthing to get
there, and they had left some OF those who
started with them dying or dead by the road
side. An aged woman, exhausted with the
long way. begged her fellow pilgrims not to
let her die until she had seen the Holy City.
As she cane to the gate Of the city she could
not take another step, but she was carried in,
and then said, 'Nowh hold my head up till I can
look upon Jerusalem and her head lifted,
she took one look, an said: Now I die con-
tent; ] have been it'll I have seen itr' Some
OF US before wereaeh the heavenly Jerusalem
may be as tired as that, but angels of mercy
will help usin, and one glimpse Of the temple
Of God and the Lamb, and ons gooi look at
the ssking In his beauty" will more than
compensate for all the tolls anil tears and
heartbreaks OF the pilgrimage. Hallelujahl
Ament