Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-31

And when He was come near, He
beheld the city and wept over 1t.
For the days shall come upon thee,
| that thine enemies shall cast trench
| about thee: and compass thee round,
| and keep thee in on every side.
And shall lay thee even with the
ground, and thy children within thee;
and they shall not leave in thee one
stone upon another"
Those words of lament and prophecy
| we're spoken by Jesus about 40 years
| before Jerusalem was conquered and
laid waste by the Roman, Titus GO
ADJ. After Titus victory. there was
then no longer any city there, where
Solomon's Temple had been one of the
Seven Wonders of the World, and the
Chosen People" had thought to exceed
the glory of any other race.
Already, the Jews had been subject
to Rome, under Herod the Great, who
lost Jerusalem through revolt, then re-
captured it, and in his pride had sought
to ingratiate himself in the favor of the
inhabitants by erecting temple to re-
place that of Zerubabel. five centuries
old. The Jerusalem Of Herod was the
most magnificent that the city had
ever been in all its history. Yet, 40
years later, 1t wholly disappeared, and
for two generations thereafter, its ruin
ed site bore not vestige of its glory,
but was only Roman camp-not even
lone stone upon another"
Then, in 135 AID. the Romans built
a new city. where Jerusalem had been,
and named it Ella Capitolinea, and all
Jews were forbidden to enter it. The
Jews we're scattered over the face of
the earth; nor have they ever since
possessed country they could call their
own.
For, 479 years after the building of
Ella Capitolinea there was Roman
peace in Palestine. and Christians from
all parts of the world made pilgrimages
to the land that, to them, as we'll as
to the Jews, was Holy Land" That is
a longer period than from today back
to pre-Columbian days. Within that
period of peace in Palestine the Roman
Empire split. and Palestine passed in
395 AID. to the Eastern Empire, other
wise known as the Greek Empire, with
its seat Of power in Constantinople.
Then in 6l4 AID. the Persians, under
Chosros II, captured Ella Capitolinea,
and murdered all its inhabitants, in
Guiding the Christians; there were no
Jews therein. War continued between
the Greeks and Persians, until King
ChoSros was captured and executed by
the victorious Greeks.
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Five years before that Greek victory.
a new power had come upon earth; Mo-
manned had fled to Medina, and that
hegira marks the beginning of the Mos
lem era. Soon the Greeks faced the
Moslems and in 634 AID. lost Palestine
to them after a four month siege of
Ella Capitolinea, alias Reconsideration,
after the fall of Rome, the Holy City
had regained its old name, though none
of its architectural glory nor political
prestige.
In that surrender to the Moslems. the
Christians were permitted security in
person and property and for the next
1918 years-a lapse Of years almost long
enough to carry us back to the landing
of our Pilgrims upon Plymouth Rock
at least back to 1650--JeruSalem was at
peace, even under Moslem' rule, and
Christians were safe, with freedom to
worship, until the Mad Caliph Hakim,
like a veritable BolShevik. ordered the
destruction of all churches in his do
minion, which, Of course, included the
Christian churches of Jerusalem. There
were still no Jews there.
Then, in 107T, the Seljik Turks, with
much bloodshed, took the city from the
Fatimite Moslems of Egypt, who, how
ever, recaptured it in 1893.
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Even while Jerusalem was In the pos
session of the Turks, Peter the Hermit,
priest from Amiens, France, visit
ed it, and, returning to Europe, fired
with zeal as a Christian, reused the
Christians of the world, and organized
the First Crusade, which resulted in the
Christian possession Of Jerusalem In
| 1899, with bloody massacre Of all Mos
lens and the few Jews who had gotten
residence in the city.
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For 90 years, the christian heroes, 2
| the Crusaders, and their descendants,
ruled Jerusalem and all Palestine, in
peace. until on October :, lls7, the