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ST. JOHN OH JERUSALEM.

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everywhere revered as a saint, and followed withenthusiasm by a great crowd, showing him areverence not dissimilar to what Mahometans ofour own day have shown a Hciggi just returned fromMecca, or beyond, where their prophet sleeps inMedina.

Nor that poorly-dressed envoy of Christianity,preaching alike in churches, fields, market-places,found a scanty or unwilling auditory when hedescanted on the dangers, insults, afflictions, he hadundergone, and far worse, those he had been a tearfuleye-witness of, where so many of their fellow-Christians were doomed to suffer all kinds of ill-treatment and bitter scoffs, and horrid tortures fortheir religion; and he called upon them by all theyheld dear, or deserving tenderness or veneration,and in the name of Him whom they feared andworshipped, and His Divine, immaculate, and farabove all the rest of creation, most blessed mother,and the God-head of her uncreated Son, that thrice-sacred Redeemer, that dearest Lord Jesus; whenin His sempiternal unearthly cause, he summonedevery professor of this heavenly creed, to join handin hand, without any distinction of country, sex,condition, rank, as the best preparation for thatmighty day of judgment that was surely very near,in one immense crusade to expel those infidel dogs