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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-29, Page 3,010 MOUNT AALYAatY'S SUE 3)ESQ7lll3E.0 1311 '.CAIALSGE IN AN .GLOQLJEN7.' SE1tION. ^Overpowered by Emotion, the Tabor natio Preacher Broke Down WiulQ, Attempting to Road the Nineteent! Chapter of St. Joint to Iris Party on tite Mount,.Mount,. the carnage. Yonder a group of gain - biers are pitching up asto who ishall h coatof have the c a the dying Saviour. There are woocea almost dead with grief among the crowd, his mother and his aunt, and 60111e whose sorrow He had comforted, and whose guilt He had pare _ cloned. Here a man dips a sponge into sour wino, and by a stick lifts it to the hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage of the five wounds has done its work. The atmospheric conditions are such as the world saw never before or since. It was not a solar eclipse; such as astrono- mers record or we ourselves have seen. It was a bereavement of the -heavens! Darker ! Until the towers of the temple ,were no longer visible. Darker ! Until the surrounding hills disappeared. Dark- er! Until the inscription above the middle cross is. illegible. Darker ! Until the chin of the dying Lord falls upon the breast, and He sighed with His last sigh the words, "It is finished 1" As we sat there, a silencetook posses- sion of us and wo thought : This is the neater from which continents have been touched, and all the world shall be mov- ed. Toward this hill the prophets point- ed :forward. Toward this hill the apostles and martyrs pointed. backward. To this all heaven pointed downward. To this with foaming execrations perdition point- ed upward. Round its circles all time, all eternity, and with this seen°, painters have covered the mightiest canvas, and sculptors cue the richest marble, and or- chestras rolled their grandest oratorios, and churches lifted their greatest dox- ologies, and heaven built its highest thrones. Unable longer to endure the pressure of this scene, we move on, and into a garden of olives, a garden which in the right season is lull of flowers, and here is the reported tomb of Christ. You know the book says, 'tin the midst of the garden was a sepulcher." I think this was the garden and this the sepulcher. It is shattered of course. About four steps down we went into this, which seemed a family tomb. There is room in it for about five bodies. We measured it and found it about eight feet high and nine feet wide and fourteeon feet long. The crypt where I think the Lord slept was seven feet long. I think that there once lay the King wrapped in His lastslumber. On some of those rocks the Roman gov- ernment set its seal. At the gate of this mausoleum on the first Easter morning, the angels rolled the stone thundering down the hill. Up these steps walked the .lacerated feet of the Conqueror, and from these heights he looked off upon the city that had east Him out, and upon the world He had coins to redeem, and at the heavens through which He would soon ascend. Bit he must hasten back to the. city. There are stones in the wall. which Solo- mon had lifted. Stop here and see a startling proof of the truth of prophet In Jeremiah =xi., 40, it is said that Jerusalem shall be built through the ashes. What ashes, people have been asking? where those ashes just put into the prophecy to fill up ? No ! the meaning has been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now being built out in a certain direc- tion whore the h round has been submitted to chemical analysis, and it has been found to be the ashes cast from the sacri- fices of the aneient temple, ashes of the wood and ashes of bones and animals. There are great mounds of ashes, ac- cumulation of centuries of sacrifices. Yonder is a curve of stone which is part of a bridge that once reached from Mount Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it David walked or rode to prayers in the temple. Here is the walking -place of the Jews, where for centuries almost perpetually during the daytime, whole generations of Jews have stood putting their head or lips against the wall of what was once Solomon's temple. It was one of the sad- dest and most solemn and impressive scenes I have ever witnessed to see scores of the descendants of Abraham with tears rolling down their cheeks, and lips trembling with emotion, a bookof psalms open before them, bewailing the ruin of the ancient temple and the captivity of their race, and crying to God for the restoration of the temple in all its origi- nal splendor. Most affecting scene ! And such a prayer as that, century after cen- tury, I am sure God will answer, and in some way the grandeur will return, or something better. I looked over the shoulders of some of them and saw that they were reading from the mournful psalms of David, while I have been told that this is the litany which some chant : Blt001{LYN, Nov. 4.—Dr. '1'alinage has •se:ected his sermon for to -day from the text "If I forg,t thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." Psalm exxxvii., 5. Paralysis of his best hand, the wither- ing of its muscles and nerves, is liar° in- voked if the author allows to pass out of !his mind the grandeurs of the holy pity where ono he dwelt Jeremiah, seated 'by the river Eaphrahes, wrote the psalm, and not David. Afraid I am of any- thing that approaches imprecation, and .,yet I can understand how anyone who has been at Jerasalern should, in enthus- ism of soul,ery whether he be sitting by 'the Euphrates, or the Hudson, or the Thames, '`If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem,: may my right hand forget her eunni,'gn' You see, it is a city uulike all others for. topography, history, for significance, for cstyle of population, for waterworks, for •ruins, for towers, tragedies, for memos= able birth -places, for sepulchers, for con- flagrations and famines, for victories and ,defeats. I am here at last in this very Jaru- salem, and on a housetop just after the •dawn of the morning of Dec. 8, with an old inhabitant to point out the salient features of the scenery. , `Now," I said, -"where is Mount Zion ?" "Here, at your right." "Where is Mount Olivet?" ""In front of where you stand." "Whore is the garden of Gethsemane?" "In ,yonder vallev." "Where is Mount Calvary?" :Befaare he answered I saw it. No unprejudiced mind can have a mo- ment's doubt as to where it is. Yonder I see a hill in she shape of alcuinan skull, and the Bible says that Calvary was the '' `place of a skull." "Not only is itskall- •shapon. but just beneath the brow of the hill is a cavern that looks like ey.aese 'sockets. Within the grotto under it, is the shape of the inside of a skull. Then the Bible says that. Christ was crucified outside the gate, and this is outside the gate, while the site formerly selected was inside the gate. Besides that, the skull hill was for ages the place where male- factors were put to death, and Christ was •slain as a malefactor. The Saviour's assassination took place beside a thoroughfare along which people went "swagging their heads," and there is the ancient thoroughfare. I saw at Cairo, Egypt, a clay mould of that skull hill, made by the late General •Gordon, the arbiter of nations. While Empress Helena, eighty years of age and imposed upon, by having three crosses exhumed before her dim eyes, as though they were the three crosses of. Bible story, -selected another site as Calvary, all re- cent travellers agree that the one I point out to you was, without doubt, the scene of the most terrific and overwhelming 'tragedy this planet ever witnessed. There were a thousand things we wanted to see that third day of December and our dragoman proposed this, and that and the journey, butt said : "First of all show us Calvary. Something might hap- pen if we went elsewhere and sickness or accident might hinder our seeing the sac- red mount. If wo see nothing else we must see that and see it this morning. 'Some of us in carriage and some on mule back, we were soon on the way to the most sacred spot that the world has ever seen or ever will see. It was called Jere- miah's grotto, for there the prophet wrote his book of lamentations. The grotto is thirty-five feet high, and its top and side are malachite, green, brown, black, white, red and gray. Coming forth from those pictured sub- terraneous passages we begin to climb the steep sides of Calvary. As we go up we see cracks and crevices in the rocks which .I think were made by the convul- sions of nature when Jesus died. On the hill lay a limestone rock, white but tinged with crimson, the white so sug gestive of purity and the crimson of sae orifice, that I said, "That stone would bo beautifully appropriate for a memorial wall in my church now building in America; and the stone now being brought on camel's backs from Sinai across the desert, when put under it, how significant of law and the gospel! And those lips of stone will continue to speak of justice and mercy long after our living lips have uttered their last message." So I rolled it down the hill and transported it. When that day comes for which many of you have prayed -the dedication °of the Brooklyn tabernacle, the fourth immense struetare we have reared in this city, and that makes it somewhat difficult eing the fourth structure, a work sash as no other church was ever called upon to undertake—we invite you in the main entrance of that building to look upon a memorial wall containing the most suggestive, and solemn, and tremendous antiquities ever brought to- gether ; this, rent with the earthquake at the giving of the law at Sinai, the other rent at the crucifixion on Calvary. It is impossible for you to realize what our emotions wore as • we gathered, a group of men and women, all saved by 'the blood of the Lamb on a bluff of Cal- vary, just wide enough to contain three crosses. I said to my fancily and friends : "I think here is where stood the cross of the impenitent burglar, and here the cross of the merchant, and here between, I thins stood the cross on which all our 4 ''hopes depend." As I opened the nine- teenth chapter of John to read, a chill blast struck the hill and a cloud hovered, the natural solemnity impressing the spiritual solemnity. I read a little, but broke down, I defy any emotional Chris- tian man sitting upon Golgotha to road aloud with unbroken voice at all the whole of that account in Luke or John, of which these sentences are a fragment : "They took Jesus and led him away, and he bearing his cross went forth into a tlace called the.v lace of a skull, where he y crucified Him and two othes with Hien, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst ;�" " Behold thy mother ; " "1 thirst. This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise;" "` Father forgiveive then, they known0t what they dor'"If it be I . 7 'possible, lot this cup pass from me.j. 'What sighs, what sobs, what tears, what tempests of sorrow, what surging oceans of agony in those utterances! While we sat there the whale scene came before us. All around the top and the sides and the foot of the hill,• a mob rages. They gnash their teeth, and shake their clonehed,fists at Him. Here -the cavalry horses champ their bite, and ;paw the earth, and snort at the smell of " For the temple that lies desolate ; We sit in solitude and mourn; For the palace that is destroyed, We sit in solitude and mourn; For the walls that are overthrown, We sit in solitude and mourn For our majesty that is departed, We sit in solitude and mourn; For our great men that lie dead, We sit in solitude and mourn ; For priests who have stumbled, We sit in solitude and mourn." I think at that prayer Jerusalem will come again to more than its ancient magnificence ; it may not be precious stones and architectural majesty, but in moral splendor that shall eclipse forever all that David and Solomon saw. But I must go back to the housetop where I stood early this morning, and be- fore the sun sets, that I may catch a wider vision of what the city now is and once was. As I stood there on the housetop in the midst of the city I said. "Oh Lord reveal to me this metropolis of the world that I may see it as it once appeared.;' No one was with me, for there are some things you can see more vividly with no one but God and your- self present. Immediately the Mosque of Omar, which has stood for years on Mount Moria, the site of the ancient temple, disappeared and the most honor- ed structure of all the ages lifted itself n the light and 1 saw it—the temple, the ancient temple ! Not Solomon's temple, but something grander than that. Not Zerabbabel's temple, but something more gorgeous than that. It was Herotl's temple built forthe one pur- pose of eclipsing all its architectural re- eeessors. There it stood, covering nine- een acres, and 10,000 workmen had been orty-six years in building it. Blaze' of magnificence ! The temple . The temple Doxology in stone ! Anthems soaring in rafters of Lebanon cedar ! From side to ide and from foundation to guilded pin- mole, the frozen prayer of all ages ! From this house -top on the December fternoon we look out in another direr: �i ion,ti a .I see the king's spalace cover - ng , „ a hundred and sixty thousand square feet, three rows of windows illuminat- ng the inside brilliance, the hall way ainscotod with all styles of colored marbles surmounted by arabesque, ver-. million and gold, looking down on mosaics, music of waterfalls in the arching outside answering the music of ho harps thrummed by deft Angers in- ide banisters over which princes and rincesses leaned _ and talked to king an d queens ascending the stairway. 0 r d t f 5 a i i w g t s p Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! Mountain city ! City of clod! Joy of the whole earth ! Stronger than Gibraltar or Sebastopol, surely it never could have been cap- tured. But while standing there on the house- top that December afternoon, 1 hoard the crash of the twenty -throe mighty sieges which have come against Jerusalem in the ages past. Yonder is the pool of Hezekiah and Siloam, but again and again were those waters reddened by human blood. Yonder are the towers, but again and again they fell. Yonder are the high walls, but again and again they were leveled. To rob the treasures from her temple and palace, and to de- throne this queen pity of the earth, all nations plotted. David taking the throne at Hebron decides that he must have Jerusalem for his capital and, coming up from theouth at the head of o hun- dreds c w and eighty, thousand troops, he captures it. Look, here comes another siege 'of Jerusalem ! The Assyrians under Sennacherib, enslaved nations at his chariot wheel, having taken two hundred thousand captives in hisone campaign, Phoenician cities kneeling at his feet, Egypt trembling at the flash of his sword, Domes upon Jerusalem. Look, another siege ! The armies of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come down and take a plunder from Jerusalem suck ae no other city had to yield, and ten thou- sand of her citizens trudge off into Baby- lonian bondage. Look, another siege ! and Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts by night go through a breaoh of the Jerusa- lem wall, and the morningfinds some of them seated triumphantly in the temple, and what they could not take away be- cause too heavy, they break up -the brazen sea, and the two wreathed pillars Jachin and Boaz. Another siege of Jerusalem! and Pompey with the battering-rams which 100 men would roll back, and then a full run forward would bang against the wall of the city, and catapults hurling the rocks upon the people, left twelve thousand dead, and the city in the clutch of the Roman war -eagle. Look, a more desperate siege of Jerusalem ! Titus with his ten legions on Mount of Olives, and ballistas arranged on the principal of the pendelum to swing great boulders against walls and towers, and miners digging under the city making galleries of beams underground, which, set on fire, tumbled great maeses of houses and hu- man beings into destruction and death. All is taken now but the temple and Ti- tus, the conquerer, wants that unharmed; but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls a torch into the temple and it is consumed, Many strangers were in the city at the time and 67,000 captives were taken, and Josephus says 1,100,000 lay dead. But looking from the housetop, the siege that most absorbs us is that of the Crusaders, England and France, and all Christendom, wanted to capture the holy sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in posses- sion of the .Mohammedans under the command of one of the loveliest, bravest and mightiest men that ever lived, for justice must be done him though he was Mohammedan—glorious Saladin! Against him come the armies of Europe, under Richard, Closer de Lion, King of England; Philip Augustus, King of Prance ; Tac - ren, Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant men, marching on through fevers and plagues and battle charges, had suffer- ings, as intense as the world ever saw, Saladin in Jerusalem, hearing of the sickness of King Richard, his chief ene- my, sends him his own physician, and from the walls of Jerusalem seeing King Richard afoot sends him a horse. With all the world looking on, the armies of Europe come within sight of Jerusalem, At first glimpse of the city they fall on their faces in reverance, and then lift anthems of praise. Feuds and hatreds among, themselves were given up, and Raymond, and Tancred, the bitterest ri- vals, embraced while the armies looked on. But Saladin retook the city, and for the last four hundred years it has been in possession of cruel and polluted Moham- medanism ! Another crusade is needed to start for Jerusalem, a crusade in this nineteenth century greater than all those of the past centuries put together. A crusade in which you and I will march. A crusade without weapons of death, but only the Sword of the Spirit, A crusade that will make not a single wound, nor start one tear of distress, nor incendiarize one homestead. A crusade of gospel peace! And the cross again be lifted on Calvary not as once, an instrument of pain, but a signal of invitation, and the mosque of Omar shall give place to a church of Christ, and Mount Zion becomes the dwelling place not of David but of Da- vid's Lord, and Jerusalem, purified of all its idolatries, and taking back the Christ she once cast out, shall be made a worthy type of that heavenly city which Paul styled "the mother of us all " and which St. John saw, "the holy Jerusalem de- scending out of heaven from God" Some of us before we reach the heavenly Jeru- salem may be as tired as that, but an- gels of mercy will help us in, and one glimpse of the temple of God and the Lamb, and one good look at the "King in His Beauty" will more than compen- sate for all the toils and tears and heart- breaks of the pilgrimage. Hallelujah Amen ! Some Points About Pins. Thorns were originally used in fasten- ing garments together. Pins did not immediately succeed thorns as fasteners, but different appliances were used, such as hook's, buckles and laces. It was the latterhalf of the fifteenth century before pins were used in Great Britain. When first manufactured in England the iron wire, of the proper length, was filed to a point, and the other extremity twisted into a head. This was a slow process, and four or five hundred pins was a good day's work for an expert hand. The United States has the credit of inventing the first machine for making pins. This was in 1824. The inventor was one Lemuel Wellman Wright. Many re- markable improvements have followed, and the machines of the present day send off, asif by magic, whole streams of pins, and these fall so nicely adjusted for the papers pricked for them that two small girls can put up several thousand papers in aday. He—Why doalways you have your dog you when I call ? She (demurely)—For protection, of course. He—Ih what way? She-We111 if mamma heard anything she might think I was kissing Fido. Scientific cleanliness is to be promoted in Frond], schoolrooms py boiled drink- ing water, damp cloths Instead of dry clusters and brooms and an antiseptic cleaning once a week, TWO PROMINENT PHYSICIANS CURED OF TWO ALLEGED INCURABLE DISEASES BY Dodd's Ki Can a Higher Tribute be Paid to a Remedy ? Medical Men Not Only Prescribe• Dodd's Kidney Pills, but use them as a last resort, AND ARE CURED. The Doctors' Letters Over Their Own Signatures: A. G. McCOR1VIICR, 1VI.D. CURED OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE. RICHMOND, QUE., Oct. 5th, 1894. To the Medical Profession and to the Public : I believe it is my duty, not only as a member of the medical profession, but as a citizen, to use every means that lie within my reach to restore health, and with it happiness, to my fellow beings. Actu- ated by these sentiments, I do not hesitate to give my experience with Dodd's Kidney Pills. About two years ago I was taken ill with what I supposed to be a bilious attack, and following this came La Grippe. I recovered, however, par- tially, but being far from well, I examined my case thoroughly and found. that I was a victim of that dread destroyer, Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. I consulted other medical men, and used all means at my disposal to restore my health, but was doom- ed to disappointment. I kept gradually growing worse until I was compelled to keep my bed. In March my attention was called to the many re- markable cures made by Dodd's Kidney Pills. That of Dr. Rose particularly interested me. I at once decided to give them a trial. My improvement was marked from the first. I continued their use, fol- lowing directions as closely as possible, until I had taken about a dozen boxes, which resulted in a complete, and, I am satisfied, permanent cure. Be- fore commencing the use of the pills I had been confined to my room for four months. At the pres- ent time am well and able to attend to my prac- tice as in the past. Another peculiar circumstance in connection with my case was that I had been a victim of dys- pepsia for 21 years. Since taking Dodd's Kidney Pills I have had no return of this disease. 1, there- fore, do not hesitate, as a medical man, to say that they will give prompt relief in cases of dyspepsia, as well as being a positive cure for kidney com- plaints. For the benefit of the large number of people sufferin; ir..,ca these complaints, I desire to give this communication wide publicity. E. A.ROS 7 M.D. CURED OF DIABETES. Portland, Ont., Oct. 30th, 1893. Dr. L. A. Smith & Co., Toronto, Ont. Dear Sirs :— Some time ago I wrote to you that I was taking your Dodd's Kidney Pills for diabetes. It is my pleasant duty now to state that they cured me. This is rather a strange confession for a medical man to make, but as I have prescribed them largely in my practice, and having been saved myself from suffering and a premature grave by their use, I would not be doing my duty to your- selves, the medical profession, and the public at large, did I not make it known. I consider your remedy a wonderful discovery, and as a large majority of the population of Ontario are subjects of kidney disease, Dodd's Kidney Pills should be appreciated and are well deserving of the large sale which they now enjoy. Dodd's Kidney. Pills absolutely and positively cure all diseases of the kidneys and. urinary organs. Are sold by all dealers. A NAUTICAL KNOT. Ilow it Differs From a Nautical Mile— Origin of the Word. A nautical knot is frequently confound- ed with a nautical mile. The length of a nautical knot is 50 feet 8 inches, no more nor less ; that of a nautical mile some- times as long as 6,107 feet 10 inches, and at other times as short as 6,046 feet; for a nautical mile has to conform to a line measuring one minute of aro of the earth's surface at sea level, and as the earth is not a perfect sphere the radii differ so:must the arc. But the length of a standard nautical mile, according to the United States coast and goedetie sur- vey is 6,080 feet Si inches, that being the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of a true sphere whose p surface area is equal to that of the earth. In the earlier days of navigation the method of determining the distance a vessel sailed at sea was by what was called "heaving the log." A three -cor- nered board with a lead attached so as to float on its edge that it might not drag through the water was attached to a long line and about 100 feet from the log or three -cornered board a knot was made in the :line, and when the log was thrown into the water as the vessel sailed away from it, the line was drawn out of the vessel by the log, which remained sta- onary in the water. As soon as the knot passed out over the rail or stern of the vessel a half -minute sandglass was turned to denote et the ti mean d the sand carefully watched until the last grain dropped into the lower bulb, and the log - line was then instantly stopped at the rail, the distance was measured on the line as it was hauled in from where it was stopped at the rail to the knot before mentioned, and as a half -minute glass denoted the 120th part of an Hour, so the distance on the logline was the 120th part of the distance the vessel would sail in an. hour. To rnn?ee the computation more easy knots were place on the log - line every 120th part of a mild of 6,080 feet, which placed the knots 50 feet 8 in- ches apart, and the number of those knots which the vessel sailed in half a minute were, therefore, equal to the number of miles that the vessel would sail in an hour if she continued at the same rate. The knot received its name from a simple knot tied in the logline, and isnot equal to a nautical mile, but is the 120th part of it. Forms of Religious Music. Besides the opera there is only ono de- partment of music in which Schubert has not in some of his efforts reached the highest summit of musical achievement. His sacred compositions, although very beautiful from a purely musical point of view, usually lack the true ecclesiastic atmosphere—a remark which may be ap- plied, ,in a general way, to Haydn and Mozart, too. To my mind, the three composers who have been most successful in revealing the inmost spirit of religious music are Palestrina in whom Roman Catholic music attains its climax Bach, who embodies the Protestant spirit, and 'Wagner, who has struck the true ecclesi- astic, chord in the Pilgrims' Ohorus of "Tannhaeuser," and especially in the first and third acts of "Parsifal," Cora- pared ompared with these three masters, other composers appear to homemade too many concessions to worldly and purely magi- cal factors—of course, not without ex- cetions. Oneof n those ex pce tions is s Mozart's "Requiem," especially . "Dies Tree," which moves us as few composi- tions do and attunes the soul to rever- ence and worship. Such exceptions may also be found among Schuberts sacred compositions. ' `i' Ciriam's Song of Vic- tory" is a wonderful work, as are some of his masse . In the Psalms, too, lie has achieved great things, especially the. one for ,female voices in A flat major, which is celestial without worldly admixtures, It mist not bo forgotten, too, that the notions as to what is' truly sacred in mus sic, may differ somewhat among nations and individuals, like the sense of humor, He Solved the Problem. `Marian," he said, gloomily, as he took his seat at the dinner table. "I have been doing a little figuring to -day and I have made up my mind that we must economize. Our household expenses are altogether too heavy," "Yes, dear," she replied doubtfully. "We try to pile on too much luxury and we must stop it," he went on. "I think we should begin by discharging the girl. I'm sorry,ebut it is a pure mat- ter of economy. 1 want to get ahead in the world." "Of course, John," she said slowly, "if it is really neeessary I can do the house- work." "No doubt about it," he returned briskly. "We must put up with some inconvenience for a while. We must learn to help ourselves." "But the girl has been in the habit of looking after the furnace, John, and I'm not strong enough for that." "No -o, that's so," he admitted. "But then that tau bo easily arranged. You leave that to mo." "Of course," she exclaimed, brighten ing up, " can sort of divide the work until we are a little more prosperous. I'll do the ordinary housework and "I'll hire a man to look after the fur. .dace an keep tee the pan. Yon P u needn't worry about that." SVhon Baby was Sisk, to•e ggYs her C*storis. When she wase Child, elle cried. for Castoris.. `When she becw,c Miss, she clung to Castor's, When chi had Chiidfiu, 8110 gave %Obi Csstoria.