Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-22 | Page 17 | Where Was the Saivor Crucified and Buried

7 v 7 7 V Where V S the S ivor Cruc Crucified r el nd Buried Recent Which Convinced 11 n That the tho Situ Stis is Not Tho True C lv ry of 01 the New Testament hd Another Spot Is Occurred the tho Tr 01 o M M M M M M M MI I DISPUTED SITES REGARDING LOCATION OF CHRISTS TOMB f fI I I The Tho III Ito tho a above oo cut lit thu tho lie tho lIew Its hero the bod of oC tim the SavIor i I Ii saul to 1110 lii III the tomb litter Ills Prior to Ills II III II Ill 0 of II Iro ro laken u 1 uh h C B l the ell cli Suit Salt Lake Oil all hili trill nh to Ito Iho tn years curl rite rout this halters foreign III for lor lit III Iho Elm Jh t rho II a Hll subject which Is 18 Ju just l nos rl II a a uit l of attentIon nil eli or OHr world y i Oil one in III 1 hick of the tho News arc oro much 1 x a rite Iii II lie tho right corner I front lie tho north nil ot of looking t towards the tho tomb IWon ii its III Gordons Calvary nil large building Iii Is II a h III t charge or of Canoll 1 0 illig It Il I ii h beautiful altar IIII and lo artIcles 1 b I Victoria The Thu of otto OliO or of till lie ot of caves In l Hen nt at thu tho rl right ht Got Gor i 1 Calvary I is till further r to the tho rIght is III nol lot fully hown In the tho hOIl o in III the lie foreground Note the tho door to the roof rollf picture On nn the tho left is III Iho ho Tomb or of 1 tue tho III the lie ot of lie tho lids church was us built b by Queen in III Ito Iho thIrd ecu tury mor what Iho to bo be the tho tomb ot of Joseph of Tini Tho casket ket through lie tho hour 1 1 II a ii of ll to o be II a of oC the ito original door ot of tono that hat II it II 01 a II uty I Is III getting the tho fret 1110 flout PeOPle as It III i t with II fly special to lIno th priests IS lucid line back the tho for 15 J uil ob this his 9 Special Correspondence ONDO Dec long and LONDON L patient investigation ant and no lit It Is believed by Arthur M MA Y YA A an exp expert rt who hits devoted special attention to the tho subJect for tor several years that lie tho real site of oC Calvary Calmly hat been pretty well Identified Also AIo that I 5 tomb has been discovered which as the only one that In all respects sails flus the requirements ot of the tho gospel ospel ear nar I Is entitled to take pr precedence of all others an aH the tho probable In which the tho Savior was laid after the tho In III these opinIons lie he Is supported by the of Canter Canterbury Canterbury bury anti many other folk The nel new Calvary as It II Is sometimes to It from the Calvary hu has long been boen used nil as nilI I cemetery anti and its 1111 ac Is ther therefore tore impossible Hut after atter trouble with the Turkish I authorities the tho tomb with the tho garden surroundIng ln It was WAil purchased for 10 the tho purchasers agreeing to 10 buIld a 11 awall wall to separate It from the cemetery It II is held by a I trust to ha bp kept sacred as 48 a quiet spot and preserved on the auto hand from and on the theother other from superstitious uses Among those who approved the Ihl scheme chema and helped riisa the iCons mone wore were the tho present and late archbishop of the bishops of RiPen Cashel antI Durham the Marquis ot of Lomb Lorne Iho ho Marquis ot of Northampton the J larl arl of oC Aberdeen and inarY other distinguished ecclesiastIcs anti laymen Now the trust Is about to Appeal to Christians the world over to subscribe nn an additIonal to 10 provide u a fund for tor the lie proper main ot of a spot whIch has such II a unique claim to veneration OF 01 Co Arthur Arlhur Is lie tho lion Iron entry secretary ot of lie Iho which has the tho In III charge and ho Is In trusted the tho management of oC tho ha property lie has just returned from vIsit to Jerusalem and has given mu me much InformatIon about the New Calvary und and the ness tomb which must tic lIe or of great Int Interest rest to alt all Chris Chrls tl ns at this season Reason of oC the year es whatever their lews with re regard C gard to the Iho site hallowed hallowell by centuries of tradition which I Is commonly nc ac accepted all as the scene of oC the tho great dy full crowning trIumph or of the found founder er ot of Christianity This spot Is III of course that where stands the Church tiC of the Iho italy HolY Se Sc Sepulchre For Joor moro more than fifteen cen tunes It has been regarded as the un undoubted doubted within which lire are contaIned the scenes ceneA ot of tim tho SavIors deaths burial and resurrection Visitors there thore are shown hown the ot of lYric on which It II is said Christs lioti bod was laid when lie He was anointed after II lie a WOlf was taken down frou froll the cross Pilgrims them elve before IMore It and kl kiss s It with aU alt the tho demonstrations of the deepest feeling In Iii the Iho center ot at the rotunda rotund Is Ihl he of at Christ the shrine or of 11 the 0 Church ot of the Italy The scene or of the crucifixion II is placed In nn an upper chamber called the Chapel ot of the Ol 1 It H stands nd upon a crypt 1 It I Is cull Huhl that the tho earth arth which once formed the foundation Was I by the helena und and conveyed to home lome AI everybody familiar with lie history of the lie holy lund land knows It cur earl In the tho fourth century thaI the tho PIOUS lious Helena Halona mother ot of Constan Constantine tine by br It Is said ot of It a ous vie vIsion Ion which led to the unearthing I ot of the tho three located the tho Ira tra Calvary and total TOMB OMD OF Over the tom torah Constantine erected IL a I which was wall cutter Iii the year ear A D It was wall de by II In A D Iwu years later 1 a group ot of buildings erected by the monk I Was Willi afterward PatrIarch of at Jerusalem occupied tho sauna spot They de destroyed destroyed b by the tho Hakim In the year 1010 When the Crusaders canoe to Palestine they found n a collee lout ot small chapels on this site Bite which bail 1111 heen built some forty years later latet These rhese chapels were Incorporated by In a grund cathedral to whIch several now new shrines In 1808 1803 thIs cathedral was partly destroyed by fire Int and the roof of the rotunda fell teU itt III the sepulchre The Tho church as asIt It now stands Is the tie result ot of the res restoration antI reconstruction chich took place In 1810 lt It the Now New Calvary and tomb are rue ac I as authentic It follows Ihl that t lila much venerated Church hurch or of the tho Holy Sepulchre I is founded on 1 a myth and that the ot of thousands ot of pit 1111 y n H n n 4 r I t l j r cA 4 I j L Tt i iI ic t I tr r c Lr I If f 1 J 1111 Ie oN V N grims who have bavo themselves before Its Ita relics were CAUTIOUS ANt AND JUDICIAL Mr II is a cautious Illan Ith i a t Judicial naiad mind lie Is eon con that lie claims on ot or the Church ot of the tho HolY Sepulchre are mythical Ito I Is d that Skull has hilI vastly better hetter claIms tu to ha re regarded all us the tho actual site of lie tho Cru according to Scriptural evl deni lie of explorers 1101 ers topographical exhorts The claims Oil behalf of oC the Identification cation of what wo we haiti the aur den tomb all as lie tho actual or of ChrIst rests lie ho said Hald on art Il a different footing I urn ono one ot of those who what has been lIlen concealed by DIvIno for Cor 15 centuries is III not lIke lIkely ly Iy over Ver to Lo be revealed and proved In th the sense e that l Is In thil twentieth century LIke the lie tomb ot of otIose Moses Iose that butt of our Lord is b beyond the roach reach of human knowledge hut this Garden torah tomb Is the only tomb tonit yet yot ills covered whIch alt all the condl condi of DC the tho Scriptural records Still while this lila bo be easIly demonstrated It does docs not constitute conclusIve proof nut But It does dous limply justify takIng the greatest yams ant care car for Cor Its ns as the high highly probable of at the lie Savior The now new sites are lit little II 0 likely y to com coin p with tie tho old as Popular shrInes nor la Is there thero any desire out the tho part of oC judicious supporters to rush too hastIly to conclusions baseil on m merit rl specula speculation speculation tion AS AI TO SITES Dot not all 1111 the supporters support rs of tine tho are so o In expressIng their opinions late len nen the tho n hugh Price hues arid the tho Smith openly proc their belief belleC hut Skull Is Ih the vet vor where ChRIst was cruel croci ned fled and tile tho Clarion tomb the actual sepulchre In which Ills body wall waa laid before lie rose rOHe troll from the dead aile knows that according to 10 Scripture Christ cruel crucified lied outside the Iho gate goto Heb xIII 12 nigh to the tho city St John 20 The New Cal Calvary Calvary vary I is sItuated just outside the Damascus late on II a low hillock Item nants of at tho hu old gate gute stIll exist It I II is I contended h by those who favor this site that the site of at the Church of at the 1101 Holy Sepulchre now about In III the center ot of modern Jerusalem was wall withIn tim tho walls at the tho tIme of at the tho death ot of Christ ChristI I arid therefore could coul l not have been the tho of oC Ills crucIfIxIon situ burin burial I There arc aro other features In which tM thO New Calvary fits In with the gospel no counts ot of the tho crucifixion Christ wu was wasI 1 I crucified according to 10 St Si Luke 33 at the place which Is rolled coiled the Skull The place itself says Iy the he Hv Hugh Irice hughes I was called tho lie Skull undoubtedly be because cause caUS It bore boro comae resemblance to It IL ItI ILI I human skull kull It Is an extraordinary tact fact to which my own eyes can ty fy that to this day the rocky knoll by Grotto as seen from tron the tho high road which passes the Damas Dama C Cult Gate Oate looks like a t human skull There are uro In iii the tho face of It two large natural caves which look Ilk like the Ihl ernp emp empty ty sockets lockets ot of human eyes eye ned between and below these the rocky surface look like a and mouth len Oen Got Jon tolu traced II a strong I he be between tween the contour or of the lie lull hilt anti II a tin marl skull and was ot of the thIn for tor the Ihl caine bestowed u It To quote the tho hugh Price Hughes This Thill hill hili lo the city wei I is at the junction ot of two tir from froni to north IW antI front Wart wot to east JaM There would woul l ho hm tautly b by byant ant they that ed by out Him th theIr lr I t 39 St Mark xv 1 W Ve ore told that t the place Iaco of oC croci CIon Was wall visIble I front afar RI Mark r rk xv 40 O Rill 11 all III Ills and the womEn followed with Him toni rom stood afar atar ott on onI I tt HIt lIkE xII 49 9 WI was equally true of Ills cn ens lilies Th The spot could h he seen een tram from the willi of oC th lie city It from fromn the op ot of th Ii temple temp fro from time roofs of M from us well eil os as tile the high c which meet it this Point O 01 rIm nOSH on other striking In St HI 3 32 no 6 road read that at they he ani nut by what we call tie Gate the Iho found foun n a anian nian ot of Imol b by name Imme Oil OUI of oC II the country as St HI Mark and St add enit this was the tho h by which iii hI come out of the tho country him tilt Ihl to assist lit III bearing the cross And wh why 7 on page eighteen JIo j j r I It t 1 j WHERE HERE W WA S TILE THE THES S IO from page seventeen Willi such Ruth needed nt nl title point outside the DI tale and how jU just I there theN the road Bu rl rises es and becomes sleep Our OU Lord reeled under the weight ot of tho cross where the road rend be beo r reame ramo steep and ea 80 Simon had the lm mortal glory or of helping It If the new Calvary ho as alto tho true Irue the aeo for tor tilt late Oar dun tomb Is be greatly It ItI I be recorded In St Ht John Juhn 11 12 2 that Ito In mho place whore Ito was waa crud there was a tt a garden and 1111 In time tho a II new W loft tomb Wherein wits never nun men yet et laid There then of at the Ihl JeWs for tor bin Ihn tomb was wall nigh nl h at t hand this the laid Jesus rite rho torah meets ments R II Im 11 nt nl hand bring to tl t I of the tho ot of Skull hili 1111 and HOlI In Ih the garden Tm TH GORDON TOMB Thua Ihl tomb was first discovered III but t 67 For many centuries It has bean completely from view hw b by bythe the secretions ot of earth and aud soli which hlll hail oV overlain It Jl It hula rut nt until Gen O n It II old declared hl hie conviction that R II bald after thE crucifixion titan It ha has been known h by many as time tho It is I hewn out oUI ot of the rock nod has lIu never be been n then hEn it 11 wn was first uncovered tt It was to t to hI 1040 u ot of and bon d up UI with atoll to In about within two tt feet or of the tho cellinI But nul nil 1111 those a was It a of earth about twin Poet oy 01 more in III thickness which was fire front lon nil all bunee II e The Tho remains were Ivl d I those that belonged to I several eral graves ilme Xe o well found rn In lire O occupying the Iho loculi ot of the tomb It wu wRe that the tomb hal bell mused ages after tilt the fluid 1 had 11 It minim place From Flom It hall been that nn an arched bubbling once existed In front ot of the tomb This It le h believed leas IaM about the tine lit of the tho crusades crusade that le about aboUl the t twelfth century It 11 would scout that In cutting the foun for or title this building not only was till the rockcut tomb but bUI II soy oral rul 1 were r disturbed and their contents tJ together wern welo der Ie p posited In the tho empty 1 tomb lomb n Dr th the most t of lell hll hits pro plO l the Iamb to te ho n a h lump lull but and con vetted to Christian uses uso It lit of n I out lul In th solid rock 7 toot R a Inches high It is test G 6 Inches long III and 11 test 2 Inches w while to l low Into partition divides the torah into t Uro parts The entrance is III n ii the late wt west stile alile or of thin Iho partition On the Ihl eMI east eido ot of th tine partition is 11 a lit III lie lle opening FUn y l 10 tha of nt this opening great importance is III h by who bellese It to In hI he Ih the tomb III hi which time Aln Ma 1111 in wIs I lie He louse It II marks mrk 1 It u as tilt the only tooth whIch flu all nt cut the 1 Incident hl nt related in III I it I IJohn John 33 When h Mary I ry I II III I leno no Simon Peter and John Johll the n nest 1 that the tune 01 empty Peter went nt forth and th the theother other IA and they th went the tomb th ran both holh rr n and tb the other outrun outran Pe Peler Peter ter ler and stooping and looking In he seeth the linen clothes tying lying yet ell en entered lie hll net In InIn InIn In no nn ordinary would It haw have been possible to III JOt see from to the If t Il a in this b by 1 lemming forward and peering through rho Iho the bottom bollom or of the tho con lit e seen Ion Butt lut th the which time the head could coull I not nol ho bo seen eon to In this way woy JI It tens 1111 Simon Ieter according tu to the tho Scriptural narrative who nW after r cn er tog ng tM the tomb lomb first the tho nap kill that was upon hl Ills head the tho tomb lonte la I a 0 or I groove hewn out of oC tho rock lown which It le Is alleged steno was rolled timid clo closed lcd the open In rag iris gardon hUH has been boen cleared and planted The Tho only yet et for tor the caretaker Is n a wooden I hut hul A dwelling It 11 is hoped will be when ro ros s 1 s to the lh appeal tor or the Garden maintenance fund conies In rite fhe ot of who sup lUP support port lOt the Iho movement lOa may be bc thus sum lIum the II 0 nil I hOly sepulchre situated within tho walls ot of the an dent city cannot be the true truo hila e Ito ot of tin tho tomb ot of or of lit III which time bOI Lady ot of the Savior was 1111 laid That lucre Is no site In around the holy city that so O exactly answers to III tin elu t nu va ot at th the No cis u as the little little hlll hili Just JUKI out outside outside side the Iha Gate Oale