Show s r v 1 Y Ma F M h 0 J J m the the 11 0 oly J. J f- f TRAGIC JERUSALEM a city ol of Chlde Chaldea Cap Capital tai ol of Abraham Captured b by Egypt 1400 B. B C. C captured C. b by 1058 B. B C. C Capital CaP Capita of 01 David B. B C. C C. Frequently Frequently destroyed to In toI I warfare tartars and rebuilt B. B C. C C. C Taken C.-Taken Taken by Alexander the th Great erat B. B C. C C. Stormed Stormed by the tho Romans Roman who killed kd Jew Jews 54 84 B B. B C C. C. Looting of el the tho Temple A. A D. D Destroyed 70 70 Destroyed b by the lb Romans Roman Razed by the tha Romans Roman A. A D. D Razed US-Razed agile A. A D Restored Restored to old dignity A. A D. D Captured Captured and DeI churches churchea destroyed lr ly Caliph Omar a Saracen 1099 loss Captured Captured b by tb the Crusaders Crusader 11 1117 Retaken 1187 Retaken by Saladin 1229 Recaptured Recaptured b by Crusaders Crusader 1244 Ruled 1244 Ruled b by Egyptian Sultans Sultan 1291 1291 1291 Christian e expelled q from U a U Itol Holy Led UnA 1517 Seized b by the th Turk Tw 1917 1917 Recaptured Recaptured b by British under C. C Con Cm I Allenby rr-MIE rr thoughts of the Christian ChristianI TilE TIfE I world at the approach of Easter Inevitably turn to the Holy City sad and the scenes of the last hours of the Savior Jerusalem Is built on a rocky hill hillI I rising 2500 feet above the 4 4 SS t 9 s sa a Th Ih The Church of the Holy Sepulchre I Jerusalem Sean nean It Is fourteen miles mile distant from the Dead sea the waters of which In clear weather are visible from It with behind them the somber mountains mountains moun moun- thins of Moab Its name observes a arter Writer ter in the Montreal Herald Derald occurs lint first In history on one ose of the tablets found at Tel Tel-el Tel el In Egypt the date we of which Is about 1400 B. B O C. con con- taming a letter written by a prince ruling Jerus Jerusalem lem under Egyptian On the tablet the name Is spelled which Is believed to mean city ty of or security or 01 of peace The Biblical history of the city Is Laminar familiar to all who blessed Abraham appears In Genesis le IS King King of Salem The second verse of the the Seventy second psalm Identifies Salem and Jerusalem or Slon but the theory ator story ory nf or Is so IJO o obscure that no one can say lIay when the Holy IM City had bad J it Its beginning Egypt held It for tor a time me but about 1400 1900 B B. C C C. the Jehu- Jehu sites Bites a tribe of or Canaan captured and h held i w 1 1 It for many years David captured It from the about 1000 B. B G C and made e It the capital ot or W his kingdom rand and K 9 there mere Solomon built the temple Where here now w stands the exquisite Mosque of at rf the we Hock Rock Since David's Davids time the thed I city has hns d h. h changed hands 24 times being destroyed and rebuilt again almost as often often N h But Dut It ll seems Indestructible k Ole We- may deP deport r Its pea Titus It may my plow Its site and sow lOW With lIh snIt salt Hadrian may efface Its name by y planting on aD Its foundations the Homan colony of or Aella but Its mem memory ry Is restored Its ancient sanctuaries ar are adorned by new temples tern tem pIes ples and still It stands The ancient city Is a n little more than thana a square mile In area It Is surrounded surround surround- ed by a low wall Inside which things are much as they have been for hundreds hundreds hun bun of or years All AU around the great new city modern and 11 lively V ply dotted dotted dotted dot dot- ted here and there by the big religious and charitable foundations built during the half century before the war by the various Christian churches They provide provide provide pro pro- vide some of the most conspicuous features features fea fea- tures In the landscape such as the Russian cathedral with Its onion onion- shaped dome the convent coment on the Mount of or Olives and the like barrack hospice of or Notre Dame de France The great Interest In Jerusalem at this holy season Is la not however howe In Its modern modem aspect striking as It Is Unique among all cities of or the world Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusa Jerusa- lem Is a holy city to three great faiths Judaism Christianity and Monuments to the great beginnings beginnings begin begin- of all aU three are there and now after many centuries of or bitterness all aU three may worship unhindered at Its shrines To Christians the most poignant of ol the many tragedies of or Jerusalem Is the Crucifixion of Jesus which many believe believe believe be be- lieve took place nineteen hundred years yean ago Reverent research has ascertained with fair fall certainty the scenes of or the thelast thelast thelast last fateful days In the wall wail of Jerusalem there Is till still to be seen the famous Golden Gate Oate through which Jesus Is said to have entered on Palm Sunday when the people people peo pee pie shouted Hosanna I 1 and flung palms In h hie hI path vath r It Is also nho thought to have hae r the rho Gate Oate Beautiful mentioned In a ir- ir Acts The masonry Is Byzantine but It Is II believed to hide older work It Is kept walled up perhaps by rea tea At the Cross rm I m 4 t 1 Ti s son on of a s tradition that on a certain Friday a Christian conqueror would ener enter en en- ter er by It ending Turkish rule forever The first Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built after a careful search for or the true site by J Empress Helena mother of or Constantine the first ChrisIan Chris Chris- tiara Ian emperor and dedicated In It was later destroyed by tire Ore as ns were several successors the present build build- lug Ing ng dating from Cram The dome was wal completed In 1809 The present building buildings t Is s not large and Is constructed of a red and yellow stone something like mar marS ble lie Inside opposite the entrance Is a small mall door through which one by stoop stoop- lag ng may enter the Holy Sepulchre It ItIs Itis Its Is s n a small room sIx sis feet Ceet by seven and seven and a half feet Ceet high It Is lighted by three forty lamps tamps kept burning by the Homan o Greek reek Armenian and Copt churches Floors walls and ceiling are covered with marble marble marble mar mar- ble to protect the rock from Cram pilgrims who might chip It The Garden of Gethsemane was a beautiful spot on the side of the Mount of or Olives across Brook Kedron to which Jesus and his disciples frequently frequent frequent- ly repaired for tor rest and refreshment Formerly no doubt much larger It Is Isnow Isnow isnow now a plot about one hundred and nine nine- five ty-five feet square There are In It seven olive trees the largest being about twenty six feet Ceet In circumference If It they ale nio not the original trees that witnessed the Agony of Jesus In the Garden den they are certainly shoots off of them There Is definite knowledge knO that the trees had been In existence for a along along along long time In the Seventh Se century To the east tast of the garden Is a rocky mass where the apostles are aro said to have waited while Jesus prayed The chief Moslem sanctuary of or Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru salem the es Haram built on the site of the temple can only be visIted visited vis vis- by Christians with special sp ILe IL- e t s. s 0 at L Sealed Golden Gate Where Christ Entered Entered En En- Jerusalem slon sian and on certain days they are not permitted to enter It Under the Mosque of the Rock nock which stands In the Haram lIar Har- am enclosure Is shown the sacred rock where Abraham Is said to have made Isaac ready for sacrifice and there too Is the cavern In which David DavidIs Is said to have prayed There la is also a round hole bole In the rock which Is traditionally reported to have been made by Mohammed's head as he ascended ascended ascended as as- to heaven The temple which was wal begun by Herod the Great father of the Herod who beheaded John the Baptist was still In process of building during the life of Jesus Jesue Its beauty and the splendor splendor dor dot of or history and religious religions us Idealism It symbolized and enshrined affected the heart of Jesus as It did every other other other oth oth- er Jew No other city In the history of or the world has gained the passionate affection of or a people as has Jerusalem Brooding over It In the last days daYI Jesus uttered that most moving apostrophe O 0 Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that the prophets ant and them that are sent unto thee how hov often would I 1 have gathered thy children together even as a n hen her chicken chickens under her wings and ye would not P I Lonely John dreaming on rocky sea sea- of new UI heaven and a anew anew swept Patmos a u new new ta earth 11 II Instinctively I thought of nf the h holy ly city new Jerusalem mm- mm Ing down dawn from n l one ill of I. 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