Hew Morrison Collection > Reminiscence of the war in South Africa

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second and proclaimed him King in Jerusalem,
in the vain hope that he would be a lion like
his father, and that he would avenge his death.
Alas, in the space of three months they witnessed
their young king bound in fetters, led away to
Riblah, in the land of Hamath, where the king
of Egypt warred at the time ; and he was carried
to Egypt, where he died. This filled the cup of
their woes. This was the first scion of the House
of David led captive ; they would have preferred
to have seen him perish by the sword, like his
brave father. The crown fell despairingly from
their head when they saw the Anointed of the
Lord chained in fetters. The prophet could no
longer restrain himself. The kings of the earth
and the inhabitants of the world would not have
believed that the adversary and the enemy should
have entered the gates of Jerusalem. The young
lion of the House of David dragged in fetters !
his voice no more to be heard upon the mountains
of Israel !
The Lord had enlarged their grief — He had
despised king and priest — when He permitted the
Anointed of the Lord to be seized and dragged
into the stronghold of the enemy. " Weep ye
not for the dead, neither bemoan him : but weep
sore for him that goeth away ; for he shall return
no more, nor see his native country." The King
they had chosen, anointed, surnamed " the Helped
of God," dragged from Mount Zion ! — the abode
of the Most High, the burying-place of his
fathers ! — separated from God and from God's