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Title: T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Louis Albert, 1855-1933 Talmage, Frank De Witt
Subjects: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902 Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902 Presbyterian Church Clergy
Publisher: (London : O.W. Binkerd)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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tting upon Golgotha, to read with firm voice and consecutive utterancethe description given by Luke and John of the mightiest scene of all the ageswhich was enacted here. Our group lying down on the places where the threecrosses stood, I read to them, and I think the prayer of the penitent malefactorbecame the prayer of each one of us. Lord, remember me. It was about thishour that the sun was darkened and midnight fell on midnoon. There can be nodoubt that this hill above the place heretofore called Jeremiahs Grotto is thehill on which Christ was put to death. The late General Gordon has made amold of this hill, and the opinion being adopted by nearly all who visit Jerusalemin these days is that the hill on which we now sit was the place of the GreatTragedy. The New Testament calls the locality of execution, Golgotha, or the Place of a skull T care not from what direction von look at this hill, you rec-ognize the shape of a human skull—you have but to feel of your own cranium to i37
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138 A MODERN PALESTINE PATRIARCH IN THE HOLY LAND 139 realize the contour of Calvary. The caverns a little way beneath the top suggesteyeless sockets. The grotto underneath is also the shape of the inside of a skull.This hill is the only hill anywhere near Jerusalem that corresponds with the Bibledescription of being skull-shaped. We have inspired authority for saying thatChrist was crucified outside the gate. This hill is just outside the Damascus Gate.Moreover, all traditions agree that this hill I speak of was the place where male-factors in olden time were put to death, and Christ was executed as a malefactor.

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