Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — Most Famous City In History. [ARTICLE]

Most Famous City In History.

The one spot which more than any other has controlled the history of Europe lies, strangely enough, not in Europe itself, but in Asia. For the possession of the Bite where Christ “suffered, was buried and rose again,” more blood has been shed than for any other. An immense number of lives were laid down during the Crusades; and for 600 years before the Crusades, and even to the present time, a constant stream of pilgrims has poured into Jerusalem to worship at the spot made sacred by the crucifixion of Christ. From the fourth century after Christ until 50 ( years ago this site was generally conceded to be within, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Now two sites dispute the claim of being the actual Golgotha. This latter claimant is known as “Gordon’s Calvary,” though to an American, Dr. Harlan P. Beach, of Yale university, is due the actual discovery of it. General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, having first secured for it general recognition.— Christian Herald.