Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-02

enter by the Jaffa Gate on the west,
the broad Temple area lies to the east
ana soon blocks the route around 10
the eastern walls, and so, as we bear
10 the north, a continuous narrow
thoroughfare is struck, below which,
far down beneath the accumulation of
ages, runs the pavement of the way
of pain trOdden by the feet OF Christ.
There is a spot where today that
actual pavement may be seen, but to
set 70 ii one must enter into a house
and descend many steps; and then,
some twenty feet below the present
street, are seen the broad level slabs
Of the Roman pavement. One of the
Sisters OF 5 on, to whom the house
game scratched on enc nat stone, anu
this, being nearer a low arch, sug,
gests that a good deal of waiting had
to be endured here, and SO the wearied
walters had scratched out this plan
of game to while away their time.
There is niche as ior figure CT seat
at the arch, and a portculls-like
groove slit in the natural rock This
is supposed TO be, and With fair
grounds for the superstition, the site of
PLATE the governors house, and so
the later arch in the street above is
called the "Ecce Homo" arch.
The terrible obstacle in Jerusalem
to the study of holy and historic sites,
is the passion for building over these
sites, and today that evil is increasing.
Every section OF the Christian church
Russian, Greek, Armenian Roman,
with all its various sections,) Coptic,
and the various Protestant nations
is trying to secure sCme historic O.
legendary site: and, this secured, up
goes building destroying the natural
configuration of the site. absolutely
celebrating the associations that the
scene would call up if left untouched
Well may a modern writer eXclaim,
even OF ST. Helena, What ght had
even the ancients TO build a church
here?" Today the Russians are The
most aggressive. In $50 A, D., Theo-
docius counted twenty six churches on
the Mount of Olives, but they were not
such mighty buildings as the Russians
are erecting there today, with all the
glare of colored and gilded domes,
and on the summit OF tne mount rises
their great high tower that dominates
the whole country around. While
bathing in the Dead sea | Looked up,
and there, in the sky, as it were, was
this peaked Russian tower These
new buildings on the Mount of Olives
are all adlit cnal to the great walled
square OF Russian building outside the
wall on the Jaffa road.
ccIeotha.
The last place to have been walleo
around is that little hill just outside
the Damascus Gate, still Gales
Golgctha by the Jewc. 1t is ne
longer possible now to climb this
i little hill and look back to the east OF
the Mount Of Olives and away It
Mount Sion on the southwest. This
site, where Gordon claimed that Chris
suffered, was almost, until today, fret
from all building as in His age, ant
free from superstitious rite AMI falls,
legend The Garden tomb beneath 4
is still unspoiled, although the Gus
todian has his little house in the Gar
den. One pays small fee to looR
! into this rock-cut tomb, and, be it the
tomb Of Christ or not, it is. indeed, o
a tomb Of that per cd, beneath the hin
that answers so minutely 10 the de'
scription of the hill of Calvary. Here
is no incessant chatter of professional
prayer. nc tricky decorations of the
lamps of fighting sects, nor those
awful receptions of holy fire coming
forth from the rcck, or such state
lments hurled at the would-be reveren,
as through this crack the blood of
Christ tr!ckled down on to the head of
Adam who was buried just under, and
awoks him" Is there no means Of Sc
curing that this little hill and this
tomb may be saved from such desecra-
ton?
The MCslem government Of today is
less strict in forbidding the entrance
of Chr stians TO their own eacreo