Show I JERUSALEM I I As I Was in the DaIs of Solomon i i David and Christ AlIhKICAX FoiUC lau ti IfcOO I Special Correspondence of the DfeEKET NEsvsO Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that liillitt tile prophets This exclamation burt from tile lips of Christ as Ho came in sight of Uiis great city and although al-though things have marvelously changed who can think of Jerusalem Jerusa-lem today without having mighty lost roll over on him and ordinary utterance must gives place for the exclamatory a we cry O Jerusalem Jerusa-lem Jerusalem The procession of kiugg conquerors poets and immortal im-mortal men and women pass before me as I write these lines Among the Uirong are Solomon David and Chrift YU through thc streets and amid these surroundings surround-ings rode Solomon that wonder of I splendor and wrctchednes It seemed a if the world exhausted Itself on that man I an its brightest llowers into his garland It set it richest gerus in Ills coronet It pressed the rarest wine t His Up 1 robed Jilm in Uiu purest purple anc embroidery I cheered him wIt tile snxttcst music lu that land of harps I greeted liim with the gladdest laughter that ever leaped I from mirths Up I sprinkled his cheek with spray from the brightest fouutalnv Royally1 had iTo dominion do-minion wealth no luxury gold no glitter lowers no sweetness song no melody light no radiance np holstery no gorgeousness waters no gleam birds no plumage architecture archi-tecture no grandeur but i was all his Across the thick grass of Ole lawn fragrant with tufts of cam phlro from Enzedi fell tho long shadows of trees brought from dis taut forests Fisbpools fed by artificial channels that brought the streams from hills far away were perpetually ruflled with fins and golden scales shot from water cave to water cave wIUi endlC dle and I swirl attracting the gam of foreign I potentates Uirds that had been bought from foreign avalries fluttered I tn flut-tered tlr among n the t foliage and called u s From the royal stables there came up the nelglilng of 12000 I horses standing in blankets of Tyrian purple chewing their bits over troughs of gold waiting for the kings order to b brought out in front of the palace when the efJicial dignitaries wuuhi leap into otc dIe for some grand parade or harnessed har-nessed to some of the J100 chariots of the king the fiery chargers with flaunting mane and throbbing nos tril would make the earth jn whit r tramp of hoots an the thunder of wheels While within and without the palace you could not think of a j I single luxury that could added ora single splendor that could b kindled down on tile hanks of the sea iso dry docks Ziongebcr rang wills the hammers of the ship Bhlp wrights who weroconstructimj larg er vessels for a still wider commerce for all lands and climes were to be lobbed make Solomons robbo mko up Slomons glory No rest till his keels shall cut every seahisaxmen hew axinen every forest his archers strike every rare wing Tils fishermen whip every stream his f merchants Irada in every bazar his name be honored by every tribe and royalty shall have no dominion wealth no luxury gold nu glitter song no melody light no radiance crater no gleam birds plumage upholstery no gorgeousness archi tecture In grandeur but it was nl his hisWell you say If there I an > man happy he ought to be Bii t I hear him coming out of the palace and see his nolan actually eucru tel WWI Jewels as ho itanus in the front and looks out upon the vast I domain Wliat does lie say King Solomon great Is your dominion great is I jour boners ret I frour JoY Xo wiiile S standing here midst l the S splendor the tears start ansi his heart breaks an J exclaim VanIty V Van-Ity vanitiesTHn l I vauIyWhtt1 Solomon not happy yet yet > o hllPY not happy Tho honors niiJemoIu V menlo of title world bring r many cares with them that they bring aLso torture and fli quirtude 1ha rustic siU i on one of the highest earthly eminence yit lie I miserable miser-able tnreaue there are some people In his realm that do not want any longer to make bricks The Iicail of Edward I aches under his crown because the people will not pay the taxes and Llewel lyn Prince of Wales will I not Uo hIm i homage I and Wallace r Nft ben hero Frederick William III of Prussia h I miserable because France wants to take the Prussian wntts 1 tke provinces vinces The world I not large enough for Louis XIV and WIlliam III The ghastliest sufficing the most shrivelinyfear the most rending rend-ing jealousies the most gIgantic disquietude have flaIled amidst obsequlou CMirtlers nOt beet clothed In royal apjarel and set or judgment seats of power I I wealth and wisdom could liavt S I satisfied a map Solomon would I S have been satisfied To say S that Solomon was a millionaire S gives but a very imperfect idea ol t the property erfe inherited from I David Ida father He had at his d corsniand gold to this value ot six i gM hnndredaud eighty million I pounds 3i ru nod httbaJMlvertoUic value of one billion twentynine million three S hundred and huadr seventyseven pounds The Queen of Shkba made him a nice little present of seven hundred I and twenty thousand pounds and I Hiram made him a present of the hi lh eameamouut If he had lost the value of a whole realm out of Ins pocket it would hardly have been I worth his while to stoop dawn and I pick It up He wrote one thousand thou-sand and five songs He wrote 5 three thousand nroverlis lie wrote about almost everything The Bible says dittincrjy II wrote about plantis from the cedar cf Lebanon to the hyssop I I that groweth cut of the wall and I about birds and beasts and fishes No doubt lie put elf his royal robes i land put lel hunters trapping and II I 1 went out with his arrows t bring down the rarest specimens of birds and then became back t his studs V and wrote about zoology the science of animals and thru with his fishing fish-Ing apparatus he went Ubn t In1 S stream to bring up tile denizens of the difp fiitl afterwards wrote about ichthyologie the science of r fisher ddc then plunged into the 3 1 forest and found the rarest specimens speci-mens of flowers and then wrote S about botany tho science of plant Vet t notwithstanding nCI his wisdom wis-dom and wraith behold his wretch cducss Incitj lu him pass on Did I I any other city ever behoU so won derful a lan 0 Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru-salem V But here josses through these stretts as in imagination 1 ree him quite as wonderful and a far better SS S mau DavId the conqueror the S king the poet Daviu great for gt per and great for grief He was wrappedupinhisboyAbsaloni He was a splendid boy Judged from the rule of worldly judg From I the crown of his head to the soles of his feet there was not a singe blemish The Bible says that ho had such a luxuriant shock of r hair that when once a year I I was short it hint was cut oil weighed IV I over three unds But notwithstanding V notwith-standing all hit brilliancy of ap V pearauce he was a b boy np broke his fathers heart He was t plotting to get the throne of Israel V He had marshalled an army to over Uirow his fathers government The S uay or battle ham come the conlet I was begun David tLe taller sat between the gates of the palace waiting for the tidings of the con ilict Oh how rapidly his heart beat with emotion Two great questions tions were to be decided the safety of his boy and the continuance of the throne of Israel After a while a servant standing on the top of list house looks off and sees someone running He is traveling at great speed and the mm on the top of the house announces V an-nounces the coming of the messenger I messen-ger The father watches and wait and a soon ns the messenger from lime field of battle 1 > within hailing distance the father cries out Is it a question In regard to the establish meut of his throne Does he say Have the armies of Israel been victorious Am I to continue in my imperial authority Have I overthrown my enemies Oh no There is one question that springs from his heart to the lipand springs Upand prn from the lip into tho ear of the t besweated and beJustcd tV bu messenger V mes-senger flying from the battle V field the question Is Absalom my son safe When I was told to David the King that though his armies hal been victorious his son had been slain the father turned his back upon the congratulations of the nation and won up the stairs of his palace his heart breaking as Uo went wringing his hands and press lug them against his temples as though he would press them Inn in-n Oh Al alom my son my son would God inarY died for the Z sou my son Stu tendous l grief of David resound ing through all succeeding ages This was the city that heard thu te woe 0 Jerusalem Jerusalem I I n also thrilled and overpowered over-powered with tile remembrance that yonder where now stands Mohammedan Moham-medan mcsjue stood the Tcmlle tile err ole that Christ visited feolomons temple had stood there but Nebuchadnezzar thundered I down Xerrubabels temple had stood there but that had been pros trated Then Her bulk temple pr Tiecausohewas fond of great archi tecture and he wanted the preced lug temples t seem inignificaut loiglclt Put eizht or ten modern cathedrals together and they would not equal J ua u av a covered EilFlure nluetv acres There were marble pillars supporting roots 6f cedar and sliver tables on which stood golden Et goIen cups and there were carvings exquisite exqui-site and inscriptions resplen V InsrilUon fIen dent glittering baltttrades and ornamental gateways The build V tewlJ bid Jns 0 this temple kept ten thousand workmen busy for forty V six years Stupendous pile of V pomp and magnilieeuci 1s hut the material mid architectural grandeur of the building were very tame compared with the spiritual mean ing of its altars and holy of holies ra and overwhelming significance of its Ceremonies Speaking of this old city all oUter facts ore eclipsed when we Uiink that near here our blessed Lord was born that up and down the streets nr th It H Il tt J = 10 the outskirts of i He died Here was His only day of triumph and His assassination One day this old Jerusalem is at da tiptop o excitement Christ has tpop 1M been doing some remarkable works wr and asserting very high authority Thus policecourt has issued for His arrest Utr this thing must papers be stopped as the very government is imperiled News comes Uiat last night this stranger arrived at a eu burban Tillage and that He Is stop ping at the house of a man whom He had resuscitated after four Jays sepulture Well thme people rush iux streets some with the idea of helping in the arrest of this stranger when He arrives and others expecting that on the morrow He will come Into the town and by some supernatural sprlural force cast the municipal and royal authorities and take every thing in His ow hands They jxmroutof the city gates null the procession reaches to the village They come all round b lltt house where thestrangerls stopping and peer into thedoorsaud windows 1 that they may get one glimpse of Him or hear the hum of His voice The police dare not make the arrest c pc te nrrt becauso Ho has eomehowTron ibe affections of the people Ob i I iz I a lively night in yonder ltny i The heretofore 1 quiet village I d fuel 1 with uproar and outcry amid e discussion about the strange acUng countrymen dlson I do not think there rntrymen wasany Bleep that night In tbathouN waneltp nigh her the stranger was ttoppiwr Although He came In weary He fiuds no rest though Cle for once In au lifetime rt had a pillow The inorHiiiS danui lht > tiiYe cardan wave In the light and all along yonder road reaching over the top of Olivet toward tbl city there I I vast swaying crowd of wondering around people Tho excitement Die door of the collage It wild as the granger steps omit beside att till broken 1elbuttI never been mounted nnd after HI friend hod strewn theIr gamxcnUon the JOt for a lddlb lllii l hivior nioUiiLs it and the populace excited shoutIng shout-Ing nnd feverish push on back towards to-wards the city of Jerusalem Let none Jeer now V or WtT l nt Ink Hdbr ol ulgrt lOfu t lace will trample him uudtr foot in n instant There is one long hout for two mile and n far I as the pyo can reach are seen wnv tngs of demonstrations anJ np V proval There is something in np risers visage something In Ills majestic brow something In lilt Lt W princely l behavior that stirs up the enthusiasm of the people They run up njralnst tIme beast and to t pull IhunJeroirInto thelrarmsand carry on their shoulders the illustrious V illustri-ous stranger The pultcearo 5 excited that they hardly know whnt to do with themselves Some rush up tothe roadside trees and wrench oil branches ansi throw them in his way other doll their garments though they Vice V-ice new and costly and spread them for a carpet for Uie conqueror to ride ovtr Hosttilm1 cry Uiii people at Uie foot of tile hill Hosauna answer time iivople I all up and mipwi I III h the mountain The procession has now reached the border of yon V Olivet A magnificent prospect reaches out in every direton vlneyardsolivc groves jutting rock silverly Siloam and above all rising V ris-ing on Its throne of hills this most honored city of all the earth Jerusalem Jerusa-lem Christ there In tile midst of S fi1 proceiloii i I 4 i looks oil I and sees her fortreteed piles older the circling V cir-cling wall and here the towers blazing in the lun phasa clus and Mdriammc Yonder Is I Hlppicuc the kings castle Looking along in the range of the larger branch of that olive tree you see the mansions of the merchant princes Through this cleft In the limestone rock you see the lolice of Urn richest tmflcker lq all the earth Ho has made his money by felling Tyrian purple > BehoM now the I templet Clouds of smoke lifting rrm theblnmerJu roof wiIU > Uie I building I rises up beautiful grand majestic till architectural klF and glory of the caftlt lifting themselves there In one ttlullplJDt doxology the frozen prayer of all nations V Tho crowd looked around to see cxliilcratfon rtnU transport in the face of ChrieL Ob uo Out from amid the gates time ddmd and the palaces there I arose a vision tIec rlI i1 of thig city V sin and of this citys doom which obliterated the landscape land-scape from horizon to horizon and be burst into tears crying O Jerusalem Jerusa-lem Jerusalem But that was the only tiny of pomp that Jesus saw in and around pmp city Yet lie walked Its streets the loveliest and most ni3Je llc Being the world I ever saw or ever will sec 1ubllus ° en thins In a letter to the Iloinan Senate Sen-ate describes him as a man of stature somewhat tall his Mir the rolor of a chestnut fully ripe plain to the ears whence Jl is more orient curling find Tnv ndln lug ajout the shoulder in the 1 midst of His forehead Ila a seam or > partition I of His hair forehead plain and very delicate His face without spot or wrinkle a lively red Ills nose and mouth s forked that nothing ClU b represented His beard thick in color like Hb hair not very long His eyes gray quick and clear He murt die I The French army lu Italy found a brass plate I on which was n copy of His ucatu warrant signed by John Zerubbabel JtobaniDaniel ZerbLeI Raphael HobnlDnnle Ilobani and Capet Sometimes men on the way to the frciflnld have been rescued by the mol JCosuch attempt was madeln this care for the moh were against him From nine in the morning till three In the afternoon Jesus hung dying in the outskIrts of this cily It was a scene of blood Vfc are so constituted that nothing is sotxcit ingasblood I j not the childs cry in the directs that saroUe you as the crimson dripping from his lips In the dark hall seeing thee the-e marks of blood on the plasterIng plaster-Ing you crj What terrible deed has been dOle here Looklngupon this suspended victim ot the cross J hhl we thrill 1 with tIme sight of blood blood dripping from thor and nail blood rushing from his checks blood saturating lih garments blood gathering in n pool beneath It is called an honor to have in ones veins the blood of the house of Stuart or of the houte of Haj burg Is i nothing when I point you to tho outpouring blood of the King of the universe In England the name of Henry was s great that Its honors were divided among dilferent reigns I was Henry the First and Henry the Second and Henry the Third and Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth In France the name of Louum i was to favorably regarded that it was Louis time First Louis the Second Louis the Third and so on Hut the King who walked 11J these V streets was ChrM the First Christ rnstlt b 1y J the Last and Christ the Only He t reigned before the Czar mounted the throne of hlusis I or the throne of Germany was lifted King eternal eter-nal King Immortal lnl eer Tell it now to all Ihe earth nud to all the heaveni Jesus our King I sick with His last sickness Let couriers carry lime swift dispatch His pains are worseHe Is breathing a last groan through His l Irn tbrlh Il body quivers time last angulh the King is dying the King is dead 1Vtl Is royal blood I Is said that some religionists make to much of tho orbu humanity of Christ I respond that we make too little I tome tha surgeon standing under the cross had caught one crop of blood on his hand ants analyzed it i would have been found to r have the I same plasma u u me same V the same albumen I Sme was unms takably human blood I is a man I V Uiat hangs Uiere His I bones are mn ot r the same material as cure his nerves S are sensitive like ours If it nerC nITc lke OUI I i were an angel being despoiled 1would I defle Jot feel I F much for i belongs to a dl lirent order blong itV of dlrrent o being But my saviour Is n man and whole my I sympathy Jn aroused I caairaasinu I how the spikes felt how hot the S temples burned what deaUily wht dCtllly sickness seized his hearthow mountain and city and mob swam away from Ill dying visionsomething of the meaning of that cry iifi help that mLke the blood at all the ages curdle VilJs horror My GOd my God why hast thou forsaken me Go Forever with all these scenes of a ne a Saviors suffering will this dty bS associated Here Is I an unjust 0 and here ls < leath tril 0 Jerusalem Jerusalem DR ED ISAACSOJT 1 |