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Show otal robes went out to meet him and did obeisance to him, he and his army turned away. i Of course every child knows that it was in the city of Jerusalem Jeru-salem that the mock trial of Jesus was held, and just outside its walls he gave his life for humanity. In the year 70, Titus the Roman general, took the city of Jerusalem and destroyed it and it laid waste for centuries. Jerusalem was the object of the most stupendous movement of the Middle Ages when the Crusaders, the flower of chivalry of the time, the most expert warriors, took it from the Mohammedans Mohammed-ans and for a short time gave a Christian rule. ; This only touches the high points of its checkered history. It would take an immense library to tell it all. It is one of the most beautiful situations for a city there is on the earth. Compared with Babylon, Ninevah, and Rome in the ancient world, and London, Lon-don, New York, Paris or Chicago in the modern world, this city at the time of its greatest prominince was nothing more than a village, as its natural population was never supposed to be over sixty thousand. It has many names, but the one of course that has been universally uni-versally recognized is that of the Holy City. The British flag floating over Jerusalem is a very quaint statement. From the Jacksonville, Florida, Metropolis. HISTORIC JERUSALEM. The capture of the city of Jerusalem by the British forces naturally brings into prominence this celebrated city with its wonderfully tragic history. It was on the site of the city of Jerusalem that Abraham offered of-fered up Isaac and it was in the same vicinity that Melchizedek met Abraham when he returned from the slaughter of the kings. It was the one point in Palestine proper that withstood for t enturies the effort of the Hebrew people to dislodge the Jebu-' Jebu-' .Vites. Its ancient name was Jebus. It was David, the warrior king, who took the city and established estab-lished the seat of his kingdom there. It was there that Solomon built, perhaps, the costliest and the most magnificent building that the world has ever known. It was made of polished marble, floored with fir, ceiled with cedar, the floors and walls overlaid with gold and fretted with every kind of previous stone that was 'known to that day and time. Nebuchadnezzar, the Golden King of Babylon, burnt the city v)f Jerusalem with fire, and after seventy years it was rebuilt by Nehemiah, under the authority of Cyrus and Darius, the rulers of the Medro-Persian Empire, the temple being rebuilt with a jreat deal less magnificent by Zcrubbabel. It is a significant fact that Alexander the Great never set foot in the city of Jerusalem. When the priests in their sacred- |