. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. ns show mercy to the fallencity. One recalls the savage conquest by the firstCrusaders in 1099, when Godfrey and Tancred rodethrough streets choked with the dead and dying,when defenceless Moslems were tortured, burnt, andshot down in cold blood on the towers and roof ofthe Temple, when the blood of wanton massacredefiled the honour of Christendom and stained thescene where once the gospel of love and mercy hadbeen preached. Blessed are the merciful, for they * Ernoul, 229-30. 234 Saladin. [1187 shall obtain mercy was a forgotten beatitudewhe
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. ns show mercy to the fallencity. One recalls the savage conquest by the firstCrusaders in 1099, when Godfrey and Tancred rodethrough streets choked with the dead and dying,when defenceless Moslems were tortured, burnt, andshot down in cold blood on the towers and roof ofthe Temple, when the blood of wanton massacredefiled the honour of Christendom and stained thescene where once the gospel of love and mercy hadbeen preached. Blessed are the merciful, for they * Ernoul, 229-30. 234 Saladin. [1187 shall obtain mercy was a forgotten beatitudewhen the Christians made shambles of the HolyCity. Fortunate were the merciless, for they ob-tained mercy at the hands of the Moslem Sultan. The greatest attribute of heaven is Mercy ;And t is the crown of justice, and the glory,Where it may kill with right, to save with pity. If the taking of Jerusalem were the only fact knownabout Saladin, it were enough to prove him themost chivalrous and great-hearted conqueror of hisown, and perhaps of any, SEAL OF RAYMOND II. OF TRIPOLIS. FROM ARCHERS 6TORY OF THE CRUSADES. mm m CHAPTER XV. THE RALLY AT TYRE. 1187-1188. WHEN all the Franks had departed, and onlythe slaves and rescued Moslem captivesremained, with the native Christians, whobegged to stay and pay tribute, Saladin orderedthe holy places to be purified and restored for theworship of Islam. The golden cross had been torndown from the Dome of the Rock, and all tracesof the Templars additions were removed from theHaram where stood the ancient Mosque of and divines and pilgrims hastened from allparts to share in the great consecration. Deputa-tions thronged the Sultans tent outside the city,chanting the Koran, reciting poems, declaimingpanegyrics in his honour. The secretaries labouredto spread the good news to the ends of the king-doms of Islam: Imad-ed-din himself wrote seventydispatches on the day of the recapture of Friday the 9th of October an im
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