South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-23

ApAoC vas near u III the temple a
Of a great multitude saying. lie
US remove hence"
other prodigies are related b.
Josephus with great variety OF de
tail, he taking the view that all o
them we're warnings from God tina
the Jews ought 10 have needed.
Another strange episode was tina
a man appeared in the Holy Cit.
crying continually, Woe. woe Z,
Jerusalem" and after four years o
this prophesying. in the midst o
the siege, he one day shouted. Woe
woe. 20 the city again. and 10 tn,
people. and the holy house" anC
added, Woe, woe 10 myself also.
when a stone from one Of the en-
gines struck him, and he was in
stantly killed.
Romans Take Holy City.
Finally, the Romans captured IL,
upper city, and putting their en-
gines upon the walls finally be
came masters of the lower cit
likewise. Eleven hundred thou
sand. more than one million. perish
ed during the siege, while 97,OOl
were sent into captivity, and 1900
crucifed on the heights which haC
given the Romans such ado 10 cap
ture.
Five times before had Jerusalem
( been captured. once before had i
been destroyed.
Titus went to Antioch and amused
! himself by setting Jews 10 figh
and kill one another as gladiators
or TO die fighting wild beasts
or. by burning them as Nero befor'
this had burned Christians in hi
| Roman pleasure gardens.
Following the horrors Of tn,
siege, and the conclusion of tn,
war. Titus had left the tenth legior
as a garrison for Jerusalem anC
( had departed 10 meet the acclaim
/ atoms of people hailing his marcf
/ 20 Rome as that of a triumphan
conqueror.
Hence the desolaton Of the pres
| ent day Jerusalem. The hills, de
nuded by Titus to make war en-
/ gines, from that day to this have
/ never been again covered Will
( timber and had there been an!
I planted, it would have been de
/ stroyed ruthlessly by the Turks, i
not already by the crusaders.
/ Work of the Crusaders.
When we reach the crusader pc
riod of the history of Jerusalem
we have at hand all the element
| of romance: Knights with shinin.
/ armor, riding upon horses alsc
armOred. The crusader tank
/ was an armored horse and the cru
sader rapid fire gun was bow OF
/ crossbow in the hands of the mar
who rode in armor on the armOreC
horse. Four hundred yards was the
utmost range of the arrows of the
| most powerful bows, bent by the
most powerful bowmen; and the
range of the later Cross bow proba-
bly, was not any greater.
The first crusades were intended
10 vindicate the right of Christian
pilgrims TO visit the Holy Sepulchre
When Palestine was captured by
the Arabs i'm the seventh century
they respected the devoutness OF
Christian pilgrims who came hither
but the Seljuk Turks capturing
Syria and Canaan in 1865, respec-
ed neither their fellow Arab Mo-
hammedans. nor the Christian
population in Palestine.
The Seljuks were from the eau
casu and massacred MOslem and
Christian alike. if it suited their
brutal fancy. Gregory VII had
proposed 10 join the Byzantine (COn-
stanantinople) kings in a war on
the Turks. but died before his pro-
ject was fully launched. In 1895
two councils were held, the second
Of which was in Clement, France
with the cry raised. Deus vult''
God wills it, 1t only needed the
fiery zeal and preaching of Peter
the Hermit to set Europe aflame
with a new slogan. to rescue the
Holy Sepulchre out Of the hands OF
the Turks
BY the spring OF 1896, not less
than 100000 self-appointed cru
saders were on the way 70 Pales-
tine. Twenty thousand started
under the lead of Walter the Pen
nylesS; 10000 men, women and
children followed Peter the Hermit:
$4,000 Germans led by priest
named GOttschalk departed on the
same errand; 100000 French, Eng
lish and Flemish went through Ger
many committing terrible excuses
as they went, which included the
wholesale massacre of Jews, but of
all these, perhaps none reached the
Holy land, being drowned or mas
sacred on the way.