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12 Mission Monographs.miracle is not performed openly as Elijah's was, Romans, it must have contained upwards of abut secretly, within the sacred precincts of this million, since eleven hundred thousand lost thehholy shrine, and, when it is announced that the lives during the siege, and the space now oceuflrehas descended and is ready tor distribution, pied by the city would not contain so many menthe throng is so great that persons are often massed together in regular battle array.trampled upon, and it is said that on one About a year ago excavations were beingoccasion the rush was so impetuous that made forthe foundation of a hotel, and tbe remanywere cru.shed to death in their frantic mains of a wall were encountered, wbich wereefforts to obtain some of the fire creating cou thought by antiquarians to be a part of the insternationand panic, so that the Turkish sol- most wall, and were this wall followed it woulddiets had to be caUed to quell the distarbance, no doubt furnish mnch silent evidence toward aand ever since, on important occasions, a Turkish final settlement of the question. Christ sufferedgu'ard occupies the com't immediately outside of without the gate near to the city, on a spotthe church to prevent a recurrence of such a ca- called Golgotha, the place of a skull, and therelamity. Not that the Turks eare whether the is a little knoll a short distance north of Jerusawholerace of Christians trample one another to lem, resembling a human skull with the foreheaddeath or not, perhaps, indeed, they would rather facing the city, which seems to answer tbe Newthey should, but it might be considered a proof Testament description in almost every particuthatthe Turkish authorities are incapalile of lar. It is the place of a skull, without the gatemaintaining order, and wonld consequently neces- and near the city. And how it solemnizes one ssitate the entrance of ioreign troops. thoughts to traverse the same path that Jesus.A very interesting relic is preserved in this took, .staggering under the ponderous cross, tillchurch, the sword of Godfi-ey de Bouillon, the he was relieved of its crushing weight. Is it anysame with which he ruled Jerusalem during the wonder that the hearts ofthe women, whofoflowtimethat he was in authority there. It has ed, were wrung with grief at the sight ? And,every appearance of integrity and genuineness, although Christ was in anguish of soul, yet heand it is one of the few relics shown there that thought only of the great tribulation whieh theyare genuine, because it is far fi.-omcertain, that would soon be called npon to endure in tbe dethechurch of the Holy Sepulchre is bnilt on struction oi theh city, saving, " Daughters oi Je-Calvaryat all. Bibhcal scholars claim that the salem, weep not for me, but weep ior yourselvesplace is outside the wall of the present city. It and for your children."is well-known tbat there were three walls per- Moreover, tradition locates the grotto wheretaining to the city, bnilt at various stages of its Jeremiah is said to have composed his lamentagrowthand expansion, and it is claimed by East- tions, ou the southeru side of Golgotha. Heern Christians, and by Roman Catholics too, wept bitter tears when he thought of the poputhatthe place of the crucifixion is outside the in- lous city becoming solitary, lonely as a widow.most wall only, but the question as to the site of The mighty among the nations, the princessthe firstwall has not yet been settled, and it among the provinces had become tributary. Hermust have enclosed more space than the present friends are become her enemies. Her wayscity occupies, as it is so closely and compactly ^^^iT"- Her streets were deserted^ , S ' S n•! ^ ' •> , f, .-^ are desolate because none come to tbe solemnbuflt, and contains only twenty thousand iiihab- ^^^^^_ ^^^, ^^^ l^j.^j j^j^^j^ afflicted her for theItants, witb the chnrch near the centre of the multitude of her transgressions, and her childrencity, whereas, when Jerusalem was taken by the .-are gone into captivity. '^ *