The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-25
60. Boorn M 5ERusALEat.
Commander in chief of the Salvation
Army Makes a Stirring Appeal.
TBy Gen. WllIiam Booth.l

by Gen. William Booth.
I am in Jerusalem. at the heart Of
the scenes forever halIOWed by my
Lord and Masters life sufferIpgs, and
death. I have visited Bethlehem, and
in imagination have listened 10 the
anthems with which the angels
hera1ded the Savior's coming to our
world L have walked the streets OF /
the city once tr0dden by his sacred /
feet; I have stood on the brow OF /
Mount Olivet and gazed with tne
deepest sympathy upon the plying /
tears he weDt over those who were
about TO shed his blood; and l. nave
looked on the other places mace |
Tnemora Bile by their connection Win
the tragic incidents OF his earIhly
career Il
They have shown me the pool Of
Sloan ana the village OF Betnally, /
while Nazareth, Jericho, ana lhe river
Jordan lay in the distance, 4hey nave
shown me the reputed sites OF the
Temple, of the place of the Master
BETRAYAL of the palace Of Herod, ana !
of the Judgment hall where Fllats
condemned him to die. AS looked
back into that hall 1 saw again the /
crown of thorns, the mockiug robe, /
the mimic scepter, the cruel seours- /
ing. while down through the ages
seemed to hear again the crtes OF the
mob, Cruelty Him.
With indescribable feelings [ have
knelt in the garden of Getnsefnahe /
ascended the hill called Calvary, and /
WOrSnIDeQ with solemn awe OH NAA- 1
ground where stood the cross OF |
shame on which my Lord purchased, |
by his broken hearN abundant SOW |
ereisn saving grace to meet the needs |
of the whole human family
have looked into the empty /
sepulcher. where. cold in the arms OF
death, my Savior lay, and have Won |
deriugly beheld the mount from Whlcn |
he assembled to the father. triumphant /
over sin, and death, and hell to plead /
of
gloriously redeemed.
As my eyes have rested upon these |
sacred scenes. again the old question
has suggested itself, Why all this suf-
fering? Why did he 1ive2 And for
what did he die? And then [ have
rem embered the answer which came /
from his own blessed lips; The Son
of Man is come to seek and to save
that which was lost
That was his commission received /
from the Father: and as the Father
commissioned him. so he commission /
ed his disciples; and if we are his
disciples. our task is the same
namely: the salvation of the lost. !
About the length and breadth of the
commission there can be no mistake. /
Beyond question it cOmprehended
then. and cOmDrehends today, the con-
ditiOnal deliVerance of every man
from every sin, irrespective of nations
alfty, of character, or circumstance.
VVhosoever cometh to him he will in
no wise cast out. BY the grace Of God
he tasted death for every man. He
was, and is, the one Savior of the
whole world.
But standing here today may I not
make special claim on behalf of the
more helpless and hopeless section of
the peoples2 Could their condition be
much more unlike that kingdom
which he came to establish, OF more
closely resemble what we know of the
kingdom of hell?
Look at the cruel, selfish, senseIess,
1nhuman wars in which the poor are
ever the main sufferers! Look at the
starvation in which millions slowly
pine, wasting and wailing. until deliV-
cred from their misery by the gravel I
Look at the countless array Of drunk
ards held by the chains of their demon
Rlizlng appetitesi Think Of their desc
late wives and children, their dreary
homes. and of their march to death and
helIi
Look at the hideous slavery of inpur-
tty Haunting itself in the centers of civ
Iization and Christianity, and at the de-
passing results that follow in its traini
Look at the melancholy criminals
shut behind prison bars. for whose re-
formation for this world or the next so
little intelligent effort is made! Look at
the gay, frivolous crowds found every
where. who in the paltriest pursuits
waste the sacred opportunities given
them to bless their fellows and prepare
to meet their God.
Look at the dark, heather world.
numbering more than half of the
earths population utterly ignorant Of
the mercy Of Jesus, and often abandon
ed 10 conditions of misery and vice, ter
rible to contemplate.
Comrades friends, belonging to every
section of the Christian faith. look at
the waste bowling wilderness, only
family pictured here. Look at it, o.
look with the spirit of the great Christ
when he stood upon this sacred hill. the
spirit in which he looks at it today,
and say, viii YOU not do something ade-
quate for these sufferers?
am not Obvious to the Christianiz-