Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1902-05-15
Jerusalem, City Of the Great King.
By WAITER WILLIAMS IN ec.vsmA HERALD

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eight older cities-those Of Solomon,
Nehemiah, Herod, Hadrlan, Constan-
tine, Omar, Godfrey, SaIadin, Sulei-
man. 1t has been beselged twenty
seven times, arecord of vicissltude un-
parallelled in the history Of the worlds
cities. II has been burned, sacked,
razed to the ground, its Inhabitants Of
every faith put to the sword, all the
woes uttered by its own prophets
against ii have come to pass, yet Jeru-
salem still resembles a great fortress
of the middle ages Seen from the
Mount Of Olives, its massive grey
walls, its fiat-roofed houses, its
mosques and churches with their con-
spicuous towers and minaIets, pre-
sent marvellous picture, beautiful,
sublime, unfading from the picture
gallery Of the mind. The city itself
has narrow, dirty streets the water
supply for its 10000 people comes in a
four-inch pipe!-the open courts are
few and small, the houses are punched
together with no regard for room or
cleanliness. Some houses are under
lground and Others on top of the high
enclosing walls. The people are fanat-
ical, ignorant, selfish. There is much
TO detract from the ideal city, but
despite all this and more Jerusalem
from the Mount of Olives is the same
In its essential details, the same in
the framework Of its setting, the
same in fascinating suggestion, as the
Jerusalem of which David sung and
over which Jesus wept. 1t is city
''compactly built together" 1t could
not be anything else. The letter V
fairly represents the mountain spurs
upon which the Jewish capital was
founded. Upon the extremity Of one
prong OF the V was the great temple,
upon the extremity of the other was
Solomon's palace while between was
the Tyropoean Valley now Glled with
rubbish All around the V were nat
ural high, PERCEPTIONS walls of rock,
unscalable by ordinary means. ancient
Jerusalem being accessible only from
the point where the base Of the V
Joined the mountain plateau.
Come with the Glass while we view
Jerusalem from Olivet. We climb
tall tower upon the bill called the
Mount of Olives and turn our faces
toward the west. just below us the
road from the village of Bethany
sweeps around the hill. At the point
where the curve in the road gives the
first view of the city Jesus wept
over Jerusalem. Here is the
road over which He descended on
Palm Sunday amid the hozzannahs
Of tickle people. Still below in an
enclosure made by rough stone walls is
the Garden of Gethsemane, with giant
olive trees OF great antiquity. Beyond
Gethsemane is the KedrOn Valley, the
brook dry save after the heaviest
rains. Then the ascent of the hill is
seen and on its summit the city walls,
the open space of the Temple Area,
and all the buildings of the crowded
town. The valley of Hinnom lies
further to the south and east and, un-
expectedly, in the distance, we see
the Dead Sea, the Jordan and the
hills of Moab Sacred places are on
every hand. To describe all in the brief
space of fragmentary letters would be
impossible. To catalogue them all
would occupy column after column. A
word as to few.
CALVARY, THE PLACE OF A SKULL.
Two sites are pointed out as the
probable place of the crueifixion Of the
Savior. One is within the city walls,
surrounded by other so-called sacred
places of doubtful authenticity COW
cred with more than twenty chapels
Of all branches of the Catholic church,
This is the church Of the Holy Sepul-
chre where a Turkish guard stands in
uniform at the door to keep Chris
tians from flying at each others
throats. This, the Christians did
some weeks ago because two rival sects
each claimed the right to sweep three
steps leading into gallery Of the
church. There we're dozen dead
next day and the Turkish general in
endeavoring to stop the row lost an
eye. The consul Of every Catholic
country upon his first arrival in Jeru-
salem goes to the church Of the Holy
Sepulchre, then to h0spice for day
or two and afterward to a hotel. The
tide Of historical and scientific re-
search has set against this site, how
ever, and except for the tenaclty with
which it is maintained by the great
Catholic churches, Latin and Greek, it
would soon be abandoned. Over it
has been built series of chapels or
small churches, with altarS, statues
and decorations Of various sort. Here
is shown not only Calvary, but the
Sepulchre, Joseph's second tomb, the
spot where Mary stood near the Cross,
the holes rent in the rock and-as II to
complete the story-Adam's skull. So
far as could be determined the skull
Of the progenitor of the human race
was not negroid and thereby is ex-
ploded the theory which certain
estimable ethologists hold as to the
fact that Adam was an Ethiopian.
Many thousands OF good people cling
to the belief that these sites are gem
uine. Their simple faith is shown by
the worn places In the rocks kissed
away by devout lips Of pilgrims. At
any hour Of any day these pilgrims
can be seen bowling, prOstrating them
selves upon the door and weeping. But
the church of the Holy Sepulchre and
this site of Calvary did not appeal TO
the Glass in any such way. 1t was
not real, genuine, but rather suggest
ed quarrels among Christian than
Golgotha and dying Christ.
The other site Of Calvary is without