Show JERUSALEM 0 jerusalem jerusalem thou that gillest the prophet prop hetal sl this exclamation burst from the lips of christ as he came in sigh of this great city and although things have marvelously changed who can think of jerusalem jerusal t today without having its mighty past roll over on him and ordinary utterance must give place for the exclamatory as we cry 0 jerusalem jerusalem ll the procession of kings cinq legors poets and immortal men and women pass before me as I 1 write these lines among the throng are solomon david and christ yes through these streets and amid these surroundings rode solomon that wonder of splendor sp leador and wretchedness it seemed as if the world exhausted itself on that man it wove its brightest flowers into his garland it set its richest gems in his coronet it pressed the rarest wine to his lips I 1 robed him in the purest purple and embroidery it cheered him with the sweetest music in that land of harps it greeted him with the gladdest laughter that ever leaped from births lip it sprinkled his cheek with spray from the brightest fountains royalty had no dominion wealth no luxury gold no glitter flowers no sweetness song no melody light no radiance upholstery hols tery no gorgeousness waters no gleam birds no plumage architecture no grandeur but it was all his across the thick grass of the laws lawn fragrant with tufts of camphire from euzede fell the long shadows of trees brought from distant forests fish pools fed by artificial channels that brought the streams fro n hills far away were perpetually ruffled with fins and golden scales shat from water cave to water cave with en iless live dive and swirl attracting the gaze of foreign potentates tates birds that had been Eten bought 0 5 bt fr from in foreign av airles fluttered buttered re among the foliage and called to their mates far beyond the sea from froin the royal stables there came up the weighing neighing neigh ing of horses standing in blankets of tyrian purple chewing their bits over troug troughs he of gold waiting for the kings order to be brought out in front of the palace when the official dignitaries would leap into the saddle saddie for some grand parade or harnessed to some of the 1400 chariots of the king the fiery chargers with flaunting mane and throbbing nostril would make the earth jar with tramp of hoofs and the thu thunder ader of wheels while within and without the palace you could not think of a single luxury that could be added ora or a single splendor that could be kindled down on the banks of the sea the dry docks of zion geber rang with the hammers of the ship wrights who were constructing larger vessels for a still wider commerce for all lands and climes were to be robbed to make up solomons glory no rest till his keels shall cut every sea his a axman how hew every forest his archers strike every rare wing his fishermen whip every stream his merchants trade in every bazar his II 11 ime ame be honored by every tribe and royalty shall have no dominion wealth no luxury gold no glitter song no melody light no radiance craters no gleam birds no pi plumage u mage upholstery no gorgeousness architecture no grandeur but it was all his well you say if there is any man happy he be ought to be but I 1 hear h him I 1 m coming out butof of the palace and see his robes actually encrusted encrusted with jewels as he be stands in the front anti and looks out upon the vast domain what does he say king solomon great is your dominion dominio n great is your honor great is your joy no while standing here amidst all the splendor the tears start and his heart breaks and he exclaims vanity of vanities all is vanity what solomon not happy yet yet no not happy the honors and emoluments of this world bring so many cares with them that they bring also torture and disquietude pharoah sits site on one of the highest earthly eminences yet lae he is miser able because there are some people in his realm that do not want any longer to make bricks the head of edward I 1 aches under his crown because the people will not pay the taxes and llewellyn liewellyn prince of wales will not do him homage and wallace wui be a hero frederick william HE of prussia to is miserable because france wants to take the prussian provinces the world is not large enough for louis XI XIV V and william III the ghastliest ghast liest suffering the most shriveling fear the roost most rending jealousies the most gigantic disquietude have amidst obsequious courtiers and been clothed in royal apparel and set on jud judgment seats of power if if wealth and wisdom could have satisfied a man solomon would have been satisfied fled to say that solomon was a millionaire gives but a very imperfect idea of the property he be inherited from david his bis father he had at his command gold to the value of six hundred and eighty million pounds and he be had silver to the value of one billion twenty nine million three hundred and seventy seven pounds hll the queen of sheba made him a nice little present of seven hundred and twenty thousand pounds and hiram made him a present of the same amount if he had lost the value of a whole r realm ealm out of his pocket it would hardly have been worth his while to stoop down and pick it up he wrote one thousand and five songs he wrote three thousand proverbs he wrote about almost everything the bible says distinctly h ha wrote about plants from the cedar of lebanon to the hyssop that groseth out of the wall and about birds and beasts and fishes no doubt he be put off his royal robes and put on en hunters trapping and went out with his arrows to bring town down the mareet specimens of birds and then he became came back to his study and wrote about zoology the science of animals and thou then with his fishing I 1 ng apparatus he went down to the stream to bring up the denizens of the deep prid end afterwards wro wrote about ogie the science of fishes and then plunged into the forest and found the rarest specimens of flowers and then wrote about botany the science of plants yet notwithstanding all his wisdom and wealth behold his atch duess and let him pass on did any other city ever behold so wonderful a man mail 0 jerusalem jerusalem but here passes through these streets street as I 1 in u imagination I 1 see him quite as wonderful and a far better trian man david the conqueror the king the poet david great for power and great for grief he was wrapped up in his boy bey A absalom baalom he was ft a splendid boy judged from the rules of worldly criticism from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet there was not a single blemish the bible says that he had such a luxuriant shock of hair that when once a year it was short what was w as cutoff cut off w weighed eight over three pout ids but notwithstanding allo all his brilliancy of appearance pe arance he be was a bad buy boy and broke his fathers father Is heart helas he was plotting to get the throne of israel we he had an army to overthrow his fat fathers herPs government the day of battle had come the conflict inflict was begun david the father eat at between the gates of the palace waiting for the th tidings of the conflict oh how rapidly his heart beat with w ith emotion two great ques gions 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 tot top of the house looks off and sees someone running he is traveling at great speed and the man on the top of the house announces the coming of the messenger the fhe fattier father watches and waits and as soon as the messenger from the field of hattle is within hailing dist distance anee the father cries out Is it a question in regard to the establishment of his throne does he say have the armies of israel been victorious am I 1 to continue in my imperial authority have I 1 overthrown my enemies ob no there is one question that springs from his heart to the lip liband and springs from the lip into the ear of the be sweated and be dusted messenger flying from the battlefield the question Is absalom my son safe when it was told to D david a vid the king that though his bis armies had been victorious his son had been slain the fattier father turned his back upon the congratulations of the nation ni tion and went up the stairs of his palace his heart brea breaking klug as he went wringing his hands and pressing them against his temples as though he would press them in crying ah absalom my son my son would god I 1 had bad died for thee my son my soul son stupendous dous grief of david resounding rag through all succeeding ages this was the city that heard the woe 0 O jerusalem jerusalem I 1 am also thrilled and overpowered with the remembrance e that yonder where now stands a mohammedan mosque stood the temple the very one that hr hrit lt visited solomons temple had stood there but ezar thundered it dowl temple had stood there but that had been prostrated tra teti aben herod bu built I 1 it a temple because lie he was rond food of great architecture tec ture and he wanted the preceding temples to seeni seem insignificant put eight or I 1 ten modern cathedrals together and they would not equal that structure it covered ninety acres there were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar and silver tables on which stood golden cups and there were carvings exquisite and inscriptions resplendent glittering balustrades and ornamental gateways the alie building of this temple kept ten thousand workmen busy for forty six years stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence but the material and architectural grandeur of the building were very tame compared with the spiritual meaning of its altars and holy of holies and the overwhelming significance of its ceremonies speaking of this old city all other facts are eclipsed when we think that thai near liere here our blessed lord was born that up and down the streets of this city he walked and that in the outskirts of it he died here was his only lay day of triumph and his assassination one lay day this thia old jerusalem is at the tiptop of excitement christ has been doing some remar remarkable kahle works and asserting very high authority the police court has issued papers for his arrest for this tiling thing must be stopped as the very government is imperiled news comes that last night this stranger arrived at a suburban village and that he is stop ping at the house of a man whom eng lie e ha I 1 resuscitated after four days sepulture re well the people rush into the streets some with the idea of helping in the arrest of this stranger when he arrives and others expecting that on thi th morrow he will come into the town and by some supernatural force cast the municipal and royal authorities and aad take everything in his own hands the they pour out of the city gates until the procession icess on deac reaches es to the he vi villaire vil laige age they hey come all round about the house ouse where the stranger Is stopping anti anil peer into the doors and windows that they may get one glimpse of if him or hear the hum of his voice the police dare not make the arrest because he lips bs somehow won the affections of the people oh it is a lively night in yonder Bethi barthany Br thany the heretofore quiet village is filled with uproar and outcry and loud about the strange acting Count countrymen tymen I 1 do not noi think there was any sleep that night i n that house houp where the stranger was stopping although he came in weary he finds no rest though for once in his lifetime he had a pillow the morning dawns the olive gardens wave in the light and all along yonder road reaching over the top of olivet toward this city there is a vast swaying crowd of wondering people the excite excitement meni around the the door of the cottage is wild as the stranger steps out beside an unbroken colt that had never been mounted and after his friends had strewn their garments on the bent beast for a saddle the savior mounts it and the populace excited and shouting I 1 ng and feverish push on back towards the city of jerusalem let none jeer now or scoff at this rider or the populace will trample him under foot in an instant there to is one long shout for two miles and as far as the eye can reach are seen been dav ings of demonstrations and approval thereto there is something in the riders visage something in his majestic brow something indis in his princely behavior that stirs up the enthusiasm of the people they run up lip against the beast and try to pull the rider off into their arms and carry on their shoulders the illustrious stranger the populace are so excited that thai they hardly know what to do with themselves some rush up roa roadside dolde trees and wrench off branches and throw them in his way others doff their garments though they be new and costly and spread them for a carpet for the conqueror to ride ovar hosannah Hos annal elzry the people at the foot of the hill hosanna answer the people all up and down the mountain the procession has now reached the border of yon olivet A magnificent prospect reaches out in every direction vi vineyards olive ve groves jutting rock verly siloam and above all rising on its throne of hills this most honored city of all the earth jerusalem christ there in the midst of the procession looks off and sees her fortresses for gates yonder the circling wall and here the towers blazing bl izing in the sun clus aclus and mariamne Mar iamme lamme yonder is Hip the kings s castle looking along in the range of the larger branch of that olive tree you see aee the mansions of the merchant princes through this cleft in the limestone rock you see the palace of the richest trafficker in all the earth he has made his money by selling hyrian purple behold now the temple clouds of smoke lifting from the shimmering roof while the rises up beautiful grand majestic the architectural skill and ana glory of the earth lifting themselves therein one triumphant doxology the frozen prayer of all nations the crowd looked around to see exhilaration and transport in the face of christ oh nol no out from amid the gates the domes and the palaces there arose a vision of this cites BID and of this city cites Is doom which obliterated the landscape from horizon to horizon and into tears crying 0 O jerusalem je jerusalem rusa leml but that was the only day of pomp that jesus saw in and around this city yet he walked its streets the loveliest and most majestic being the world ever paw or ever will see publius sen in a letter to the roman senate describes him as a man of stature somewhat tall his hair the color of a chestnut fully ailcy ripe plain lain to the ears w whence hence dow nw ard it is 18 more orient circling cir ett fling and waving about the shoulders in the midst of his forehead is a seam or parti partition tiou of his hair forab forehead ad plain lain and very delicate his face without spot or wrinkle a lively red his nose and mouth so forked that nothing can be represented his beard thick in color like his hair not very long his eyes gray quick and clear he must mug diel die the french army in italy found a brass plate on which was a copy of his death warrant signed by john Zerub babel raphael bobani daniel grobani and capet sometimes men on the way to the scaffold have been rescued by the mob no such attempt was made in this case for the mob were against him from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon jesus hung dying in the outskirts of this city it was a scene of blood we are so constituted that nothing is so exciting Inga as blood it is not the childs child a cry in the streets that so arouses you as the crimson dripping from ilia his lips in the dark darc hall seeing the mager finger marks of blood ou on the plaster ing you cry what terrible deed has been done here 11 looking upon this suspended victim of the cross we thrill with the sight of blood blood dripping from thorn and nail blood rushing |