The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

Jingling Gold to Be the Weapon En-.
ployed.
A new crusade for the rescue Of the
sepulcher Of Christ and all the other
holy places in Jerusalem from the grasp
OF the unbeliever is now being preached
by the Catholic church. The pope has
given it his sanction, and the Army of
the Holy Cross is organizing throughout
all Catholic Christendom. Not with
sword and lance, however, will it's great
battles be fought, nor with the modern
farms OF precision" that have taken the
place of those ancient accouterments of
the soldiers of Godfrey de Bouillon.
Neither will there be clash of arms and
bloodshed, nor boom of cannon and pow
der smoke. No armed mass Of moving
men will attack the infidel in his strong
holds; neither will hungry hordes Of
zealots attempt the impossible task of
crossing hostile country in pursuit of a
chlmerical but sublime idea.
Children may join the new crusade
as they joined that preached by the
youthful Stephen in France and the
young Nicholas in Germany and as
thousands of them have no doubt
Joined in spirit the gayly panoplied
throngs that followed Frederick of Bar
barossa, Richard of the Lion Heart or
st. Louis when they read the doings
of those doughty heroes in the chronicles
of olden days. And in joining the new
crusade the children need not dread the
dangers of shipwreck and the horrors Of
Saracen slavery, to which their youthful
prototypes were condemned, nor the
sometimes unpleasant results of the gal
liant hand to hand encounters so often
engaged in by their favorite heroes.
The new crusade is not being con-
Quoted on the same lines as those Of Pes
ter the Hermit and ST. Bernard It is
being preached with equal fervor, no
doubt, but the methods proposed are en-
tirely different. It is pre-eminently
nineteenth century idea and will prob
ably have the usual nineteenth century
effectiveness. The leaders Of the new
movement intend to rely upon the power
Of gold rather than upon force Of arms
or strategy to win their battles and will
try to purchase with accumulated wealth
what SO many lives and SO much treas
ure were yainly sacrificed to win. The
duties of the modern crusader will be
confined TO furnishing the means where
with to make this possible. There is
but one condition imposed upon those
who join the Army Of the Holy Cross,
the payment Of the prescribed fee-25
cents annually or $12 for a life member
shin army uuJg hers hr1ndreds ..of
world and already counts its member
ship i'll America by the thousand. Its
headquarters in the United States are
in the city Of New York.
With the contri ributions furnished the
army has already purchased the Turkish
novels that surrounded the ancient basil
ics Of St. Joseph, the first church ever
dedicated to the foster father of Jesus,
said to have been erected on the site of
his workshop, and at Nazareth a house
for Catholic pilgrims is being erected
with these funds. But the grand idea
of the army is to raise sufficient money
to purchase all the shrines including
the holy sepulcher, which is now, as ii
has been since the year 1903, under the
joint control of the Orthodox Greek
priests and the Franciscan fathers, who
have charge of it on behalf of the Roman
church.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is a
very large building and includes be-
meath its roof, besides the traditional
tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, wherein
Christ was laid, many other spots made
sacred by association with tho passion
and death of the Redeemer. The holy
sepulcher stands right under the cupola,
and about 80 feet away from it is the
rock of Calvary, whereon the cross was
raised. just across the rotundn is an
altar marking the spot where Christ ap-
peared to Magdalene, and farther on is
the prison Of Christ Another altar is at
the spot where the Roman soldiers di-
vided Christ's garments, and just at the
foot of the steps which lead to the chapel
of Calvary is the stone on which Christ
sat when crowned with thorns and
Knocked in the pretorium. On the rock
of Calvary are the place where Jesus was
stripped of his garments, the spot where
he was nailed to the cross, the place
where the cross was planted and the
spot where his lifeless body was placed
in his mothers arms after being taken
down from the cross. Here also is one
of the rocks that We're split across at the
time Of his dissolution.
The Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher, the
center of all the sanctuaries, is divided
into two parts. First is the Chapel of
the Angel, wherein the angel appeared
on Easter morning, and where there is
shown piece of the store that closed
the tomb, on which he sat, and then
comes the sepulcher itself The en-
trance to this is SO low that Il person can
only enter in a STOPPING position or on
bended knees, and there is barely room
within for three persons at a time The |
original rock is covered over with white
alabaster to preserve it from profana-
ton, and the slab now there is said to be
the identical one put in place by St. Hell
en-, mother Of Constantine the Great. On
panels behind the tomb are two repre-
sentations in relief of the resurrection,
one belonging to the Greeks and the 9TH
er to the Romans. The latter is a beauti-
full solid silver reproduction of Raphael's
famous painting. H. T. WHITE.
Hatching Fish Under Hens.
Chinese fishermen collect with care
from the margin and surface of water
all those gelatinous masses which con