The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-31

1 the Russians. If then the traditions which make this church contain tht | site where they crucified Him be true then may we we'll uncover our heads l and take off our shoes, for the place Wherevr We enter is holy ground, for il 1 was here the Lord Jesus Christ the Sor or God made known to perishing mer the love of God for lost world.
 l The key to the church of the Holy i Sepulchre is held by the Mohammedan l So the fanatical Turk has put soldiers | there to guard it's entrance. One o1 these officials said to me in tones o1 bitter satire Come unto me all ye that , labor He could not finish the pas sages in English. I turned and said tc him yes l understand that language and completed the sentence, ''and I will give the rest" and added those were the words of Jesus. The church is owned by the Greeks, Catholics, Ar menians, Syrians and Copts. Each has it's own portion of the building and carries on it's own peculiar form of wor- ship. On the fifteenth day of September which was the Sabbath day I wor- shipped with all these different sects beginning with their early service which begins at day break.
 Passing by the various places of in- terest in this building with revernt steps and subdued spirits we ascend first and at once to Golgotha, to Cal l vary. There is the hole in the rock into which it is said the cross was placed. On either side is the spot marked where the two thieves were crucified Over the scene hangs life size representa- 1 tlon Of Christ hanging upon the cross. Here l would forever stay,
 Weep and gaze my soul away; Thou art heaven on earth to me,
 Lovely, mournful Calvary.
 Near to the three crosses is a crack In the rock which is said to be the rent which was made when the Saviour died. It is finished and gave up the ghost. If you choose with me get down on your knees and see for yourself, and we find then atural work to strengthen our faith in the tradition which locates the place of the crucifixion. Standing here in front of the altar we cannot help but ask ourselves, is this the &C., tual spot where our Lord was crucif1ed :: but what does it matter; we know it could not possible have been far away, even if this were not the very place we were inclined tp believe the tradi- fion true and standing by the foot of the cross tried to realize that here was recorded tn emost momentous tragedy ever enacted in this sin scared sin cursed world, that on this historic spot, the work of sacrificial redemption so 4TD :e,.1 scheme, splendid plan, symmetric whole, grand as God; His characters transcript, His wisdoms embodiment, His loves incarnation, His ideal of good Well begun, successfully built subimely finished, And there it stands. Heavens masterpiece finished.
 Leaving this place we stand where the holy women stood beholding the sufferings of their Lord, and then by the Stone of Annointment, upon which the body of Christ lay when it was an- nointed and prepared for burial and then turning to the left we come at once to the Holy Sepulchre. It stands in the center of a round building and is itself a covered tomb. It is decorated with candles and lamps. It consists of two chambers The first the Angels Chapel" contains a piece of rock rolled from the door of the sepulchre on the morning of the Resurrection. The sec ond entrance to the inner room is low, and you stoop down in order to enter the Sepulchre. The tomb stands about threeN feet high A number of lamps are always kept burning over it. As knelt at the tomb of my Savior a Greek priest who was on duty there, sprinkled my hands With rose water but the in- spiration of greater presence over shadowed me and heard voice say ing T am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold am alive for ever more" Can not suffer since Christ suffered? Can l not die since Christ died? Can I not lay in the tomb since Jesus has lain there; To suffer as He suffered, to die as He died, and to be buried as He was buried, is to rise from the dead as He rose and Is to as- cend as He ascended up into heavan to dwell with Him forever more Yes though my bones may lie bleaching in the bottom of the ocean, or my body burned, and my ashes scattered like dust over the world. transmitted into animals or plants, diffused in the air or water or mingled with clay, faith in the risen Christ enables me to sing:
 God my Redeemer, lives,
 And ever, from the skies,
 Looks down and watches all my dust
 Till He shall bid it rise.'
 The tombs of the Kings and the tombs of David, St. John, St. James, Jeremiah, Zachariah, the tomb of the Virgin and the piller of Absalom are also not without their historic interest. Tradition also points out the church of St. Ann, the church of the Lords Prayer and the chamber of the last supper. The pool of Bethesdia, whose waters used to be troubled once year and the first sick or invalid person that was helped into the pool was healed, and also the scene where Christ healed the sick man whom he found there who had been sick thirty and eight years who had no man to help him step into the pool when the waters were troubled, is still there. I passed down through the huins of the five porches and with my own hand troubled the waters, but heard of no one being healed there from. The pool of Siloam still remains very much the same as in the ancient of days" The poet who wrote By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' evidently had never been there, for it is about the