THE DANISH HORN. A Remarkable Relic Sad to be a Genuine Trumpet of Zion.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 5

THE DANISH HORN. A Remarkable Relic Sad to be a Genuine Trumpet of Zion.

In the renal museum of Copenhagen there us and has been for more than two hundred and .*e\cnty-fivo \eai>, a golden trumpet, know n tinoughout Denmark as the " Danish Horn," with engraved emblems, comprising the ounbol of purity the triple lily. Its weight h 102 ounces and it meabures two feet nine inches in length. This horn is said to be a genuine tiumpct of Zion. The sur rounding circumstances stiongly sustain the position, and up to the present time there lias not been the .-lightest doubt as to the genuineness of the relic. The lily, as a «^ mbol of purity, was pencrally carried in the riclit hand by the vestal virgins of the temple : it afco forms the emblem on the " shekel." the Jewish coin There are also di^coi liable the much-effaced remains of what, has the appearance of pomegranates, and traces of an inscription which, a? far as it can be made out, is cng'ra\ed in that kind of Hebicw character known as theSamarian text. The emblems and in^ci ipfcion may be easily accounted for and accepted for the meaning of the word '■ Jcho\ah." The trumpet was discovered by a farm daughter, parllv concealed in the grou in 1630, in the diocc-c of Rypeny, Jutlan As to how it found its way from Palestine to Denmark can only be conjectured at. It is accepted as a fact that the relic at one time was one of the instruments anciently used in Solomon's Temple. Certain ornaments, and especially the beautiful engraving near the opening of the large end of the instrument, forming a turreted border aiound its edge, are the most convincing proofs for this position. When Titus Vespasianus, the youthful Roman General, subjugaled Indavi and destroyed its temple, he took the renowned tables, the sevenbranch candle stick, the " Sacred Books" and the trumpets to Rome, where th»y were, "« Mi other trophies' of victory, cariied in procession through the city in honour of the conqueror. Upon the arch of Titus those things wore sculptured and may be been in Rome in a fair state of preservation to-day. The "Sacred. Books" the victor presented to Josephus Flavius, the Jewish historian. Afterward, when Titus became Emperor of Rome, the instruments and "tables of schew bread," by decree of the Senate and Council ol Rome, were placed in the great temple of Jupiter. Between the tourth and six centuries Rome was overrun by hordes of northern barbarians 1 . The city was taken, religion for the time dethroned, and temples, regardless of their sanctity, sacred or historical, were saciilegiously plundered. After their retreat, from Rome the Vandals carried off with them the spoils they had seized in thetemples. This trumpi'toi gold, which corresponds in every particular with the trumpets sculptuicd upon the "Arch of Titus," was doubtless earned to the North with the other plunder, and in turn lost by the conquerors of the Jews. Another illustration of the old adagej that '' history repeats itself."