Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1889 — Chicago’s Greatest Panorama! JERUSALEM [ARTICLE]

Chicago’s Greatest Panorama! JERUSALEM

ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST. 0 hicago has many great panoramas but nothini? that approaches this great reli is us speetaele in beauty of conception and masterly detail. The tragic events which Iran soiled in the erueiflxion of our Lord, aitho’ preached in sermon and sorg by the mon eminent divines for nearly nine* teeu centuries, with all the eloquenee the most gifted orator could command yet it fails to affect its hearers in the manner that one vie w of this sublimely grand and imposing spectacle does. The scenic effect is wonderful and thrilling beyond description. There you behold that Oriental Ci: y around which cluster so many tender and pathetic memories; the magnificent Temple with its glittering domes, historic for its imposing rites and ceremonies: Mount Zien; the Palace ct Pilate; the Mount of Olives; and the Garden of Gethsemane, where Christ in tones of asonv, His manhood shuddering at the thought of dis o'u ion, ex«laimed, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

In the dista ce is the lofty peak of Mount Mizpah; the roadways leading from Emmaus and Bethany winds in serpentine bendings from the b se of the mountain, while over the erest of the hills can be seen an innumerable multitude in caravans and cavalcades of pilgrims, all devoutly wind ing their way to Jerusalem to attend the feast of the Passover. In the distance and outlined againt tho sky, are the Mountains of Moab. There is Mount Galvary with its Golgotha; right before ycu aro the crosses with their victims, a’d the world is draped with ebon felds of darkening cloud, while the Redeemer dies, and we seem to listen us though expect iag to hear that plaintiff wail welling up from the Gross, “Eloi.Eloi, Lama, Babacthami.” Then, again, hL voie« resounds in tones of male ty “It is Finished.* Every one should visit this wonderful work of irt, so realistic. All who visit this panorama love to linger near this sacred, h ? storie scene, and fee! like adopting the words of that dispie upon the Mount of Transfiguration, Lord, it is good for us to I e hero. Language is too weak to fittingly portray the effects of this wonderful work. The hices’e Times.