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B C C. 0 or the Temple of Herod which was an expansion of the latter I 1 A Long Cherished Dream t. t r Y one of or the first alms aims which U Li the Jews will try to accomplish will be be the rebuilding of or Solomons Solomon's Temple upon tho I J very site on which It stood There is complete completo agreement b by scholars that the Temple Templo of or Soloman Solomon Solo- Solo mon man as described In the Books Dooks of or Kings and Chronicles In the Bible DIble stood upon the vcr very spot now occupied b by the Mosque le of or Omar or Dome of ot the Rock Roel as It Is called because It covers coverson on en enormous rock 60 feet square which was fO for 1 merly merl the floor threshing of ot Araunah until purchased purchased pur pur- I chased b bj by David as tho the site of or the tho Temple Templo which 1 I his hla son non Solomon was to build after the tho formers former's death Readers of the tho Bible Dible will remember that David Vas as forbidden to build this Temple because his Lh v hands Were w-cre full lull of ot blood and therefore all that 3 David could do was to save Have a up p silver and gold for fort forthe 9 t thc the c building of ot the Holy House and aud acquire tho the he noon no which It was to stand aland x k This Tempie was built during four years yearn be be- tIlt dedicated b by Solomon In th the year ear B B. 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C 16 wor workmen en being employed Loon toon iu 1 co con con con- tt st David hat had made one O ot Of Q 00 OO talents of or gold and l ion IMO L' L talents of or sliver ae a ae to 14 cor ing Chronicles rt Ll a second oa ot of ti ta gold ot of Ia r td d tal- tal an e ot of Isra ot nod t d t 1 0 o s 's alent talen 0 6 pC lh ot of gold and 1 c wo we o may ma manJe G I ng to Chronicles s o w SS ti the tho th these value o 01 figures we a hay hav x 36 26 we le learn am that n a tJ lent In Exodus o e el s r C OU ounces ces and a an n OU t was I. 30 00 sick ounce 3 prod r tel Y 20 In t the h coin b old ent Is fa ot of the tho U n rold Is a ap- ap p. p TI Q a mounted 3 Davids David's vt d r a O nn and d t t States DO or to talents Q e e o ot f 3 4 O f not ot to b brass reckon ld ass and Iron Which the which lIn t was or ora much more or a total o of equal to V at lea least east X a 4 It la is Jha Probably So y J m more re than n to certain that th S o thIs au sum m and It would Solomonm Solomon added b 0 no the V luo lue of to t the he S I 0 Um time it ft n was completed at Temple Templo at the something like yr 1 M f il 1 t r t s M IMS' IMS Wf W- f w iJ v A t A if t aril S' S i S t t l J I r i i a j v. v ws y f A r i a l General View of the Famous Mosque of Omar Built on the Site of the Temple of Solomon The Much Pictured Wailing Place of the Jews Is Part of the Original Temple Wall Below the Level of the Present Mosque 1 on the Side Opposite That Shown in This Picture w In the coinage of th that l day Ilay When wo e consider consider con con- sl sider er that the purchasing value of or mone money was at least ten times what it is today we can see that If It the Jews of tho the century wish to reconstruct the the Temple in the magnificence of or the ancient structure it will cost something like There Thero are arc man many misconceptions clustered around the uses of or the Temple of ot Solomon as aswell aswell aswell well ns as its size and tho s size will help us to understand understand understand under under- stand its uses more or o less The building proper was only 60 CO cubits long from east to west 20 cubits wide wido an and 30 cubits high Inside the walls I 1 which were of oC great thickness built of stone lined with cedar wood from the Lebanon and heavily overlaid with sheet gold Archaeologists claim that the cubit here used was the tho royal cubit of ot Dab Babylonia measuring about 1 foot 9 and 16 6 Inches The Tho length of the Temple then was Wag only 6 G feet the width 36 35 18 5 18 feet and a little over oyer 52 62 feet high This interior was divided into two chambers the first the or Holy Place was 40 cubits long b by 20 wide wido It was as entered at t the eastern end b by a square door 10 cubits in iu breadth Atthe At Atthe Atthe the Interior end of or the Hol Holy Place was an opening six Lx cubits wide opening into the debit debar or Holy of Holies Holles which measured 20 O cubits square The Holy of Holies was also covered b by a veil or curtain of ot or linen In violet purple and scarlet embroidered with cherubim On the doors opening into tho the Holy Place and the Hol Holy of Holies Hollos Solomon had figures of ot cherubim palm trees and anel bloss blossoming ming flowers carved in relief relic and anti overlaid with gold Within the debar even oven the floor of f F fir wood was covered with plates of pure gold and the front was closed with gold chains The W Worship of the Priests I fIt f It I is stated in the Bible that only once a year and that was on the Sacred Da Day of or Atonement the high priest alone alorio entered the debar or Holy of Holies Holles and during the rest o of the year he and the priests worshipped in the hel al or larger largel chamber of ot the Tea Temple But It must be quite evident evident evi evi- dent on account of ot its size size that a comparatively small number of persons could enter at one time Being only 40 cubits long and 30 cubits wide it could have luno been utilized by the priests only and the ordinary Israelites were not allowed to go any further than the Court of or Sacrifice which was outside of ot the tho Temple proper According to the Bible Dible It was the duty dub of e Cry f adult male Israelite to visit the Templo Temple three times n a year ear On tho feasts of or Passover er i Pente t and Tabernacles and as there w were a as many as C grown men in the time me of ot Solomon Solomon Solo Solo- mon It wan wa received physically impossible for them t to b be e an hero save In the spacious courts courts- There e Was a hurt urt of th the prIests PrIeSt in Which StOOd the tho c altar of inc nc so the tho golden layers lavers av j In which hl h the they performed thUr r ablutions before Temple and the tho Mu entering ho tho s rca t altar or of rh ten Sea Here Her too was ho tho hoC on which the tho oblations P by the peo p le ti Ire re burned rat loiro ero were other ot Court uco of th the Women C courts such as ns the tho omen a II sot that h at the thor the UlC C Court Urt ot of f the tho lying structures rue coven and aud al all o f its out uta ut- ut a a com considerable i space X or It would have been Impossible to accommodate e the large number of or priests and people who came 1 from all over Palestine The problem of ot rebuilding the Temple is not however confined to questions of or labor and anc expenditure expenditure ex ex- of or mone money A very practical question will be what are the buil builders ers to do with the ma mag mah magnificent Mosque of Omar which now covers s the sacred acred stone or and is s acknowledged to tobe tobe tobe be one of the the finest types of or Moorish architecture In the world AVill vIll it be removed bodily bodny to some other oilier site or will it be utterly destroyed cd The Tho latter would be e most deplorable and would 1 hardly Y be countenanced by lovers of or the beautiful While this building was begun b by the Caliph Omar it was later rebuilt in III its present form b by Caliph Abdal- Abdal AbdalI I mallk and is a monument which should not bo be obliterated Would the Temple Temp tc Be Bc Larger LargeT There are other Important questions which will undoubtedly be raised if the Temple is to be rebuilt While tho the Ortho Orthodox ox Jews have in their ritual a prayer In which they pray for the restoration restoration restoration restora- restora restora restora- tion of or Palestine and the rebuilding of ot the Temple Temple Tem Tern pie It is hardly probable that at this stage in the worlds world's civilization l the Jews Jens would wish to return return re re- reo turn to that primitive primitivo stage o of worship marked by a cult of or animal sacrifices No modern man or woman believes that his sins will be forgiven If fC he brings brines a bullock a ram or 01 a lamb cuts Its Us throat and burns a part of It upon an altar It t ma may be presumed therefore that nn m much ch of or r the Temple would be different and In all probability proba proba- it would have to be built upon A far grander The Church of the Holy Sepulchre L I. I i j 1 c a aJi Ji 3 f 1 t V Y V ii z SAw SA J tOYSIe il 1 t t t. t M f yr h i it t cis t w piu pal cr cr 1 Feature Service 1018 J t J S f r I From an Old Print Showing a Restoration of Solomons Solomon's Temple i scale so as to accommodate tho the worshippers who would no longer permit themselves to be bo shut out outto outto 1 to a court b by a group of or priests who reserve the L building for their own worship j 1 I If a democracy result as a consequence of the resettlement of or the Hol Holy Land by a considerable number o of Jews which Jews which might in time reach the tho figure of and this would require at least J i ten years If lC the they are to be supporting self it would probably be mo modelled upon ulon the United States sy tern tOm of government and anu and as a result would be areal a areal a a- areal real democracy with only small privileges re reo reserved served for tor an any priesthood which might be SI j Nothing will be attempted we may be sure sur suri until peace has been declared for none non can is- is j I tic to the terms of settlement and there ut W-J W re neither the men melt nor the means for an any t work in Palestine in the immediate future I The Golden Gate Gato of Jerusalem I as It Is Today 14 1 s siL sr 4 li r I 1 i 1 t I Wl i. i It l b iL 16 1 t t f f fi tt iL 1 i 1 t t y r r r I I I F 4 r rJ J 1 r i 4 r f h tr S j c a r. r t P L ar tsi tArY r- r rJ J M J I I I l dl e 01 |