Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . or joy. Andfinally, Herods Temple, larger and more magnificentthan the others, which had been forty-six years inprogress when Jesus spake in it of its final destruc-tion, which came with Titus and the Eomans; and ofall its precious and beautiful furniture and sacredvessels, there remains only a time-worn sculpture ofthe Candlestick
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . or joy. Andfinally, Herods Temple, larger and more magnificentthan the others, which had been forty-six years inprogress when Jesus spake in it of its final destruc-tion, which came with Titus and the Eomans; and ofall its precious and beautiful furniture and sacredvessels, there remains only a time-worn sculpture ofthe Candlestick and the crumbling Triumphal Archof Titus at Rome. Besides these material things there is a long proces-sion of good men and women, kings, prophets, andpriests, who frequented this place to worship, andheld the same faith with us; whose lives are ourexample, and whose songs are our psalms and hymngof praise. The dark side of the picture is stainedwith frightful idolatries, de\alish wickedness, false-hoods, blasphemies, hypocrisies, and murders, even i^» J ^^0l \^s^4 \^& US ^|y m S^j 1 XV^^ -^-^^^v^ 1^^^ 1 p,^^^ ^^^yj l^m \JM^ 1 iffi 1 ;^p j;M -%C^- ^^^ ! ;^^M ^S \^i^k ^^^1 i y^ ij^^^ 1 i ^^0 I^M \I^M 1 \m 1 • mP^ if P iWI 1 ^^/r m\ lf^/\\i \liU . ^f ,. m \ Uk^ in the midst of the most awful denmiciations againstsin in every form. The view is also darkened by accounts of sieges,famines, destructions, captivities and dispersions, des-olations and wars unnumbered, with but a few raysof blessings in restorations. Uncounted millions fornearly two thousand years have directed towards thisshrine their hopes and prayers. This eventful his-tory and its present condition lead to the inquiiy,will the Temple ever be rebuilt ? Will Jerusalemever be restored ? Will the twelve tribes ever be re-gathered ?—questions that can only be answered bythe Great Director of human events. From Abraham to the present time a knowledgeof the one true God has been the chief source of in-spiration, and t
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