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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1917-04-05, Page 7sits t°age "I wt►. THE CLINTON N'EW ER&. TJlUrsil£iy, Agri! 5t11, 1917. Jerusale With the British forces a scant forty ufles from Jerusalem,. at, last reports,• and with that city a natural strong - sold,. it will not be in the least sur- prising that still another siege of the ioly. City should be recorded in his - Y From or . n the time of David until )'se Mohammedans of Syria ha i hadgained g is possession, it fell to couquerors'of many nationalities—Syrians, Assyrians, Egyptians, isarelites,' Romans, Turks, Crusaders—all have at limes been in possession. HISTORY The natural sit'utetion of the city of Jerusalenn, not only conveniently, central, but protected by.the surround- ., ravines, above which it rises like a mountain .fortress, doubtless led to its pre-eminence over the other cities of Palestine• from the earliest times. We first perhaps, (sear of it as Salem (Gen. xiv, 18), .the city of Melchizedek; then as Jebusi, the stronghold of Jebusites (Joshua xviii, 28). I1 is probable that the Amorites and Hittites, whose terri- tories Joined that of the Jebusites, where the city stood, shared its posses - ion with them. It is mentioned by name on tablets still existing, written by its Amorite king in the fifteenth century 13. C. After ineffectual attempts to disposs- es this people, the Benjaniites were ob- liged to leave the stronghold of Mount Zion in their hands until King, David and his warriors—all their energies a- ivhich thenceforth took the name of the Jebusites—captured the citadel, of the "City of Dat id" and Jerusalem became the civil and religious centre of rx" "<" as 4i} ee.. ' the united kingdom of Israel and Judah. �i Solomon adorned and fortified it with buildings and ;ironA: walls and towers, r4 and ere:teal the Temple on ;Mount :Mot - lab, where tradition laid the scene of of Abraham's sacrifice. hither the ark , was transferred from Mount Zion, where David had placed it. In l nhoboam's reign, after the ten tribe' had revolted, Jerusalem was beeleged and plundered by Shishak, Kin , ,f Egypt. This was the beginn- ing of a long series of kisses and suff- e:lees in which the city was involved, booth through its constent struggles with she revolted tribes constituting the kingdom of Israel, and repeated a- ttach by tate el•eat nations whose te:•i- tories almost surrounded Palestine— Svriitas. Assyrians and Egyptians. These sufferings the sacred Inst. tions attri- bute to the erg's,: idolatry which, an- tler many , , the Icings, had usurped Canada's Third War Loan has flee the p la e of the worship of the orae —News Item ill '1'uestlav's paper:. 1 0 A City of Sieges—Prom theTime it Was Captured by David from the Jebusites Until the ?resent Day, It Has Had Many Masters -,•-Its Sieges are famous, That of A, D. 70 by Titus the Most Deadly. Crassus again plundered the Temple.' and it also suffered from a Partlii;in army which Anfigonus, the rightful heir to Use priesthood,. had called is I to help hint against tieeod, sou of 1. Antipater, whom the Roman hie fluence ce 1 Ad raised to a position 011 aufttor't le authority. Herod obtained a decree of the Senate appointing hint King, and by the aid of a Roman army took tate city (37 B. C.), put itis enemies to death, built a new palace and his splendid Temple, and otherwise road out of Jerusalem, Constantine transformed Jerusalem Into a Christian city Julian gave per- niision to the Jews to rebuild the Te/n, pie, but they could not accomplish it. in the year 614 they came in great numbers with the armies of the Per- sian King r 'ho P C iron IS, destroyed the chanties and snasscared the Clirlstians, The Entperor'lleraclius afterwards occ- upied it; but in the year 637 it surrend- ed to Callp Oniar, and became a Moh- ammaden sacred city, the Mosque of Loosened ;¢;rt n € v rsubscribed by $100,000,000. God win had p:c:nised tc, defend the city white it was true to him. Atter adorned the ally a -tea -., a • ( great part of it had been pillaged by the Philis- tines and Arabians in the reign of v:hich had been destroyed, together Joh„rasa; by the Kin; of Israel in with severe] thousand persons, by that of Ansaziah; and file temple des - and ear•thquakts. in the year B.C. 31), pulled of its treasures at other :ori enlarged the Barbs, calling it An- timer to avert impending disaster, ton':a. Shortly before his death, the saviour was born. the city was tIn•eatened with . utter ruin icy the Assyrian army under 11 t id's son, Archelaus was da Senin herih; and before the s'ege, posed before he had reigned long,, Uezekiah fortified It once more, and :std Judaea now became a Roman • drew the water of Gilson into it. province within the prefecture of His son, Manasseh, was overcome by Syria, notarised by a procurator. who the Assyrians, and Carried captive to resided at Ceesarea, and left Jerusa- Babylon. On his return, however, be len to be governed ordinarily by its also repaired the city, and added to own Iligh-priest and Sanhedrin its defenses. Josiah hiring been Coponius was the first procurator, slain while . warring against Pharaoh and Pontius Pilate was the titth. The Necho,Kine of Egypt, while the late latter built the aqueduct crossing the ter was on his way to besiege the valley of Hinnom. Shortly after, the Syrian city of Carchemish. Necho crucifixion of our Lord, Pilate was visited Jerusalem on Isis return, took banished from office, on account of the King of Jehoahaz, to Egypt, and his tyrannical misgovernment, and exacted a tribute from the city, Soon Herod Agrippa governed Judea and afterwards Nebuchadnezzar, King of Samaria, over which his grand- Babylon, in his turn, took and pili- father, Herod the Great, had ruled, aged Jerusalem. On this occasion Upon Isis death, however, his son tee- the Temple and palaces were burnt ing too young to reign; a procurator down, the walls levelled to the was again appointed, and seven in ground, and King Zedekinh and all succession (of whom Antonius Felix the people yet left there (for many and Porcius Festus were the fourth and had been already taken) carried ,cap- fifth), aggravated and enraged the Jews live to Babylon. This was in the year by their oppressions. At length the 13. C. 586. After the return of the Jews from their 70 years' espativity, tite city and Tempie were slowly rebuilt—not without gneat opposition from the rulers of the now mixed races in Samaria and the surrounding regions; they were jealous of the re- viving prosperity of the Jews; and it was only by dauntless energy on the part of Ezra, Nehemiah, and others that the work was at length accomplish- ed. In the year 332 B. C. the city passed without a siege, into the hands of Alexander the Great, who respected its sacred character . Ptolemy I. (Sotar), King of Egypt '(in 314 13. C.), besieged it on the Sabbath, when the people, in their reverence for the clay, would not re- sist, and a large number were carried away into captivity. - Agaiti it was wrested from Egypt by the Seieua ids>. of Sydia, and one of them, An- tiochus Epiphanes, desecrated and oppressed it with such unetidurable tyranny that the insurrection of the Maccabees broke forth, in 168 13. C., leading to a national revolution and the restoration of the Jews to inde- standard of revolt was raised. A suc- cess gained over the Governor of Syria encouraged the Jews in their resistance, and compelled Titus to bring his le- gions from Egypt. In the year A. D. 70 occurred the siege and utter des- truction of the hely City, accompan- ied by scenes of unparalleled horror and suffering; the Jews themselves, dis- tracted by internal dissensions, yet united in a desperately heroic effort of self-defense up to the last. The slaughter was frightful, and the Temple and the whole city were burnt down, tvitit the exception of part of 11ippicus, Phas;efus, and Marianne. .A Uippicus, Phasaetus, and Mariamne, A Roman garison occupied these towers, and the Jews soon began to return to inhabit the ruins, For the next 65 years very little of the history of Jerusalem has been perserved, Considerable free- dom was allowed the Jews, which they used to strengthen tltentseives, so that what is known as the 'Second Revolt” was far more desperate than the First had been, and it was at a terrible cost` that it was crushed by Rome, This de- vastating war, under Hadrian on the one side told the famous Barchochetsas "Scan of a Star,' on the other lasted for pendence under tate sway of the As- two years (134.136 A.D.), After the annneen princes The Tower of An- (war was over the Emperor began the re - Junta, at, first called Boris, was built building of Jerusalem, which he called by Stenon, brother of Judas, its the (lobelia /Elia Capitrstitte, and at that early part of tete contest, and after- time he ended a statue of Jupiter on wards enlarged by Herod the Great ;ire site of the Jewish 'Temple, It is In tiss.yeau' B. C. 63 Jerusalem loos 'reported that in this Second revolt half a taken by the Romans under Pompey; trillion lives were lost, the last brave made tributary to Route, a"d part _ sand of the Jews being made at Bather, of its fortifications destroyed. now I3itttr, the first station on the rail-, `tn.u' taking the place of the Jewish and pagan temples. on Mount 't3nri.dl Mohammedan rule, being taken by the Sultan of Diunascus; but 'three years later his successor yielded it to the Christiane ' ,ittt oilier cities, to pyrcbase their assistance in a war which he was rieditating ai:'ti:ts1 the Sultan of fgyi.': The walls were then rebuilt, and extend e south d on hi,to include the Gcr.na- culuns, or present Mosque of David. Its the year 1244, a Tartar horde, the Kharermian5, took the city and heated the inhabitants with great cruelty. Shortly afterwards they were dispersed by the Mohammedans of Syria, and it has been a Moslem city ever since that time. In the year 1517 the place was taken with tite rest of Syria and Egypt, by the Ottoman Sultan Selinn 1,, and in 1542 its present walls were built by Soli man the Magnificent. Napoleon planed Ilse siege of the city in the year 1799, tut gave up the idea. Its consequence of a revolt, induced by over -taxation, it was bombarded by the Turks hs 1825. 10 1831 it submitted to the Pasha of Egypt, Mohammed 'Ali but by European i sterference he was deprived of his possessions in Syria, and in 1840 Jerusalem again owned the Turkish sway, under the Sultan Abd-el-Mejid. In •1862 it was visited by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales (later King Ed- ward VII.) in 1869 by the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and the Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, afterwards tate Emperor Frederick; and ie 1898 by the Emperor William 11., his son. In 1881 the population teas suddenly increased by several thuus:uids of Jewish fugitives from Rus- sia. TI3E FALL OF JERUSALEM. The story of the Fail ort Jerusalem, in the graphic words of a former Archbishop of Catstrbury, reads;=- - "11 was new the 13th Abih (March - April, A. D. Yo), and the city, even at this time of mortal conflict, was crowd- ed with worshippers who had conte fr„m Jist:rnt arras:tries to adore The Goa o1 their fathers in His holy and beautt1.! Ilinase. to which the heart of every Jew turned with hinging as his home. . . . .4 Titus drew near. he stat nned ;he tenth le';inn at the tarot of the it'unt of Olives The third or outer •:watt, erected by Agrippa, and t the suburb, sees fell into his Is u, Js. Fut more that ono t me neon.; sally of the iiifariated defenders soon taught him the danger of n .suit upon the more, iotcienb precinct.: ut the town. Taking' up his swoon about a quarter .,f a milt from the wall, ha cat a trench about the city, and nil uses it ',mod and kept it in on ccc. side. And so,.ns fair. ir,e beg.la to d;, its work more cil'eet- i n OS;‘, A.D. this mosque tva6 rep laced u a the t - lu11ful Dane of the Rock, built t by .1 h.1 el !delete Caliph of Damascus, 1n 469 8.13, Jerusalem fell into the t, ally than the sword of the romans. All his t:r,e the »tad party -spirit 01 the le- tnders made them war .s ith r n,. a..- t6ar ai rvcry rs: anent th.'v cnnhl stare lands of the iisypfi:uss, and in 1077 01 f. she "c'ur's v;ho practised such otttr:tg- N ons bsrbrrties upon the Christians a that the i out. nation of all Citrfstiuid' m v:s rosuusJ The first Crusade was or- 0 <,ani:.ed, and in 1098 the Christian host, p commended by Godfrey de Bouillon, 11 entered Syria. Next year Jerusalem it- t self 5' as besieged and captured, the Karr r ison and inhabitants massacred, and the S Crusaders aitaineJ the end of their .»t laborious warfare in the possession of h the Iluly Sepulchre. Godfrey was o elected King of Jerusalem, usd was succeded by his relations until the year 118-, when the reigning king, Guy de Lusignan, was taken prisoner in a des- perate battle with Saladin, and the city fell again into the power of the Mos- lems, Richard 1 of England and Philips Auguste of France who headed the third Crusade, were unable to retake the city though they appointed nominal kings over it, the last of then,, John of Bsie- nae, obtained the aid of .ids son-ia-law, Frederick I1. of Germany, against the Moslems. The city was yielded to the Emperor, through a• treaty with the Sultan Melek-ed-din of Egypt in the year 1229, on the condition that the ruined walls should not be rebuilt. In 1240 Jerusalem again fell under ton; (:heir a.afsre with tate _ec;ai:::. „tv. It ..lark;. '. 5 p.ttties ,'d' tubba..• f u- t node:. ..•er and of iisc,tlr were in the. Temple, while an- ther,ander tun n, o ccnpted the to u t art of the star. Assassins provided trough the sireeis, and in every house stere ';s; a death, :Meanwhile -famine .ages, anti the well-known story of i,trr of Gethero,r fulfilled the most nset- nch+dy page 1 Old Testament prop- ecy—'aha tender and delicate w•otnan' f Dent. sixviii. 56 (cf. Lam. iv, to); the 11111111111111111111111101111111111111011101111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111! I l u q 111 eee MEN and EVENTS I 111111111111111111111111111IIIIlIII IIII111111111111111111111111111111111m11111111i111111m1 tight kion. David Lloyd George, pre- mier of Great Britain, who, in an- nouncing himself as ip favor of granting votes for worsen in tate British )fosse of Commons declared that the assistance of the women of. Great Britain in the prosectitiot of the war lied been indispensable parallel to which, In 2 Kings vi. 28, is mentioned as the lowest misery in the siege of Samaria. Between the 14th of Abih, when the siege began, and 1st of T:unntue, it is said that s'i5,0oo bodies had been buried in the city at the pub- lic expense; and the Roman general wept as ire saw the misery, calling heaven to witness that not itis enmity, but the madness of the Jews themselves, was the cause of these unheard of suf- ferings. At length, by the latter Weeks of July, tate Antonia was stormed. The daily sacrifice had ceased, no (tope seemed left, and the defenders of the Temple were exposed to an irresistible assault from the fortress, which come mended its courts. But their furious zeal made them defend the Isoly pre- cincts inch by inch, 'Titus himself watched the assault, and urged on his soldiers, but to little purpose. It was not till August (90 of Ab), the day, it was remarked on which the King of Babylon had destroyed the first Temple, that all was lost. Titus, it was will known, was anxious to save the mag- nificent building, hallowed by the re- ligious associations of so many centur- ies; and this may account, in part, for the slowprogress of his victory. But on the fatal evening, a soldier, against his orders, cast a brand into a small, gilded doorway on the north side, and iso a few moments the whole Temple was iu a blaze. A loud shriek of terror from the defenders announced the ca- tastrophe'to Tittts, who had retired to rest, intending to begin the assault next morning. Wildly rose the uproar; blaz- ing rafters lighted up the darkness, while all around the crackling of the flames and the crashing of the failing roots mingled with the shouts of the victors and tete death -cry of the Jews. Titus rushed forth, and in vain gave orders to stay the conflagration. His radallea, ,fere in the Holy of Holies; they seized upon the treasures, which were scattered all .,a end; not even Roman discipline •',,r e,hain then, and "the abotttittca' et seso!:lion' took poss- essian of the hely place. When the flames sal Teti, notating was left of the Temple but„ elite” portion of the outer • cloister, "Even iso this Jtnur of horror the wild fanaticism of the Jew, was scarcely quelled,' The Messiah had been looked fol' as a deliverer by many eves in this last extremity, The srn;tll remnant of the cloister was now burned bythe Romt111 soldiers, and 6,000 unarmed people, ts'ith women and children, were destroyed in it, who had been led' up to the Temple shortly before by a false prophet, confidesit that a great deliver- er was at hand, ,But the actual des- truction of the Temple—not one stone telt upon another—wits a death -blow; the spirit of the wildest was now ef- fectually broken; The upper city (tile stronghold of Ziois) still, indeed, re- sisted. There Simon had been Joined by his rival John, Some tinse was nec- essarily' lost before the Romans could ralse ttseir Works against the steep bank of the valley of the Tyropceou, When they did commence the assault they found that the defenders had lost their wonted courage; when, on the 8th of Elul, the Romans burst, with shouts of triumph, into the last stronghold of their enemies, they found little but the silent streets and houses full of dead bodies; while John and Simon tong baffled all search, being concealed amidst tate ruins and in the subterran- ean passages, "Thus Jerusalem was utterly cast down. A portion of the western wall and three great towers were left stand- ing, to shelter.the Rouen soldiers; but all the city, Zion, Akre, and tate Temple was left in a mass of scarcely disting- uishable ruins. The fearful catalogue which Josep- hus has preserved of those who lost their lives in the siege and the massa- cre which had proceeded it in this tear, 5 tells us that they exceeded 1,300,000. And even if this be supposed to be an exaggeration, no. one can read the ac- count of the horrors of the war, and especially of its last struggle, without seems ; taint it well called for that ter riti�: imagery with which its approach 11.icl f•,rem announced in our Lord's pro- p k e:.,. MODERN JERUSALEM. ?Jost traved,lers have a feeling of ii sepointment on tirst geeing Jerusa- -rm r5. magnitude is so much less than the a,.,i,aurn had pictured. Assort - t : ; it is • iib 11': grandest and nest erJ event: :,f hisloty, it is ehrlicalt !eel that :his little town, around t, huge wails you may •.coli: in an hour, is. the roll trite. And indeed, it is not; .r the city wL•,tse street Jesus trod adgiiit ; third larger; Then Iirge ariof which i s 5' aplowed tt a cd ,with p.tl: ce s, and on ,i t. on,•rr now the husbandman i•uh n,.•s his toil, or desolation reiens, e ere se:net:dee ( etrurtures beettien a ceehei. '1,50 surprised also to tiiid how 1'uI I. -n. ins .d the anti: nt city. The • all,: were built in the six- th 5eneur—,nnit a fete courses ..5 st>,ne in them belonged b, the Its h, t e ail new, here and true a foundation 5, indicate:; an ancient period. The crop;; out in the Temple area, at the t`hurait of the ll'Iv Sepulchre, and "n the avow of ;daunt Zion. But the City of Solomon lies buried under the debris of many sieges and captures of Jerusalem, You must dig front 30 to a too feet to lied it. Jerusalem that was is "on heaps", "wasted and without inhabitant." Excavations have shown that the foundations of the ancient walls are, in some places, i30 feet below the surface. In digging for the founda- tions of new buildings, the workmen sonnetinnes dig through a Serie s of buildings, one above another showing that one city has literally been built upon the ruins of another; and the pre- a M111111111111111i111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111811111111NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII MEN and EVENTS W VO i,1 F F3 CIIu110111111111111111111811101111811111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111!118100801Be Col, Theodore Roosevelt, ex -president of the United Stites atnd coatnatdee of the famous American RotigIs Riders in the Spanish-American War, wiso, it i$ aatliotntatively announced i5 short- ly to leave for France to command an American army of 100,000 Hien a- t i t , sent city is standing upon the aoeultttl.'stse 01alae wail camJnalids a view °f 44' lilted ruins of several preeedtng ones, alae exterior ouieets of interests, Alf this throws great doubt on many( of the present sacred places o1 Jerusa-' lean; the real localities he buried far be- 1 ne;tll) the surface of the present city, But the natural features of the country retilaia ,substantially unchanged, 'The mountains , , round -about Jer- usalem" (Psa. cxxv. 2), which were of old her/bulwarks, are still there, Here are Olivet and the brook 'adroit; Zion and Morlalt Kings and Prophets and holy men looked ns nese scenes, and the feet of the Son of God ' trodthe ground on which we Mete walk. Some- where in the buried city ,ander our feet Ile did 'c bear .tx I t' .s cross; .ulc 1 nl thant. + hi ns s we to t ,end trenrabled by the earthquake's powe:' when Ile e:rlred, 11, is only gradually that the explorer limbs out how much that Is ancienl— Jewisls, Cltrlistian, and Aran remains-- can ets) ins --can still be seen within and around alae city. Jerusalem stands on four hills, once separated by deep valleys, which are now partially filled by the debris of successive destructions of the city. The traditional, and probably, the actual, Zion of our Lord's time, the most cele- brated of these is on the south-west, rising 'm its southern decli'+ty :300 feet above toe val.ey of Hienotn, and on the south•t'ast 500 feet a:o,'e the Kidron, The Tyropceon sweeps around its north ern and eastern bases, separating it from Akra and Moriah. Zion was the old citadel of the Jebusites, and "The City of David." Mount Modish is On the east , separated from Zion by the Tyro - prim!), and from Olivet by the deep gor- ge of the Kidron. This is ntucls lower than Zion. It was the site of the ancient Temple, and is now crowned by the Jvlosgpe. On the north-east is Mount Bezetha, ;t hill higher than Mortals, which was enclosed within the walls, after the time of Christ, by Herod Agri- ppa. Mount Akre is on the north-west. It is separated from Zion by the Tyro- pason, and from Bezetha by a broad valley running southward into the Tyr- °preon,as it sweeps around the foot ,sl Zion. It will be seen, therefore, that the city siupes down from the north- west to the south-east; and standing on the north- tohe wa, u ere at the higasthest poangleint0f, andts::e Mllodyoals far 1',l • an the south-east, with the Tyrnpreon on the west of it, running down bet'vaetJ it and Zion to the junc- . tion of the Kidrnt with Ifinnont, The spur of ()nisei stretching snnthward ;Semi the Temple area to the P: ,,1 of S1-1 „.nt. aril !ting between tato Galley of .Iehnsitaphat on the east and the Tyro - p,,)11 on the wesi,has of arses late ata I p:eau on the west, has of late years come to he consittered.b,• •.cun: writers ,,s the site of the city of David and the Lion of (11d •t.stantent tronas. This, 1, ns :wryer, is a theory which has ret. yet :n roe:eft, and must be regarded as al. alai. 'Lite wall of the city is irrete• nt tr, conformed to the hills over wlticlt it p.iss.e, but substantially 'the city 11e - h l..otsquare.' 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