Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
II rg the &galm Of &gherQ hin9st 1

Jerusalem lies in tie fact that he
Knocked the God of Hezekiah, Jehovah.
while besieging the city. and that God
smote $4,000 of his soldiers in Il single
night. an event which drew from the
poet Byron one of his most stilr ring
poems. which describes the Assyrian
army as having melted like snow in
the glance of the Lord
Isaiah. 'Rapt Isaiah" Robert Burns
calls him, greatest OF seers and Droph-
cts who saw the coming of the
KING" and foretOld so faithfully His
ton in any chronicle like this. Isaiah
next claims our thought. In an age
OF doubt and gross materiaiism, how
refreshing IL is to sit at the feet of
this seer. and looking through his faith
illumined eyes behold not only Israel s
disease, and ours, but also the remedy
In Him who was wounded for our
transSreSSiOnS and bruised for our in
iquities.'
Northumberland next comes to lay the
city waste, bearing the gold and lory
OF the temple of Jehovah TO enrich his
treasury, and later to grace the impious
feast of his unworthy descendant, Bel
shaZZar.
ment, because no care of safe or
treacherouS scrutiny of evil adj, erSary
ever deferred him from his hour of
prayer. his window being open toward
ne jewish per-
severance seems to lie in the intangible
hold upon its children possessed by
this eternal shrine.
No annals of Jewish greatness and
courage would be complete without a
word concerning that great soul who
came me st nearly to Moses in the lore
illness of his leadership. 1t was Nehe-
miah who rebuilded the ruined city. dis
playing a courage. faith and leader
ship never surpassed In carrying Out
this work OF faith and love.
Cyrus the Persian next besieged the
town; the tirst Aryan To capture the
great Semitic capital Came Alexander
with his bloCdiess conquest. and then for
u brief time TIE Macca bees rose in their
valor and threw Off the invaders yoke.
and the glory of the former days re-
turned Jerusalem is free. the nation is
revived. only to pass with the death of
the Asmonian princess into the hands OF
Rome.
Pompey now comes to profane the
Holy OF Holes with his presence Herod
builds the new temple for the nation he
Is 10 shame by his infamy. Comes the
great Hillel for forty years i'm utter
ignorance of the law; for forty years its
most earnest student: for forty years its
greatest exponent" He fixed the Jewish
canon. and at his feet raised up his
grandson Gamaliel who in turn taught
Paul, and Paul the Christian world.
AS the pyramids tower above the sands
OF Egypt. as the SeQuoias stand among
the pines, as the Himalayas among
mountain peaks SO beyond all com! ari-
son. the next Name stands supreme
among the names attaching to this place.
Jesus. the Name high over all.
In nell or earth. or sky:
Angels and men before Him fall,
Ahn devils fear and fly
Besides the glory OF His name, all 9TH
er incidents seem pale, the grandeur OF
solomon temple, with its sensuous serv-
! zee is "vershadowed by the cross OF
Jesus, With its atoning sacrifice.
lame Titus to destroy Jerusalem, and
r!aVlus JosephuS to chronicle her glory
ihen Tor over siNty-fiVe years the city
Jay In heaps. mot one stone remained
upon another" Hadrian rebuilt and
oeautiDed 1t in 1876 a. D.
In did Constantine, the first Christian
emperor, upon a Il ADDITIONAL site of the
the molly sepulcher. built the church
which bears that name, and two years
idter general synod was held there.
us Christian editiccs; hut Chosroes ii OF
ters.a soon took II. and Omar came and
ouiit Il MohamIncdan mosque upon the
site of the temple of Solomon, a site
winch the Christians had never used.
Two names now touch our narrative
| mat ire the ina giuatjon and send the
blood tinglinG through both heart and
| brain. for Harun al Raschid, calf of
the Saracens and hero of the Arabian
Nights, sent 10 Charloinangne, the ere.
ator OF political Europe, the keys OF
Jerusalem, that Charlemagne might