St. Bernard then congratulates Jerusalem on the advent of the soldiers of Christ, “Be joyful, O Jerusalem,” says he, in the words of the prophet Isaiah, “and know that the time of thy visitation hath arrived. Arise now, shake thyself from the dust, &c., &c. HAIL, O holy city, hallowed by the tabernacle of the Most High! HAIL, city of the great King, wherein so many wonderful and welcome miracles have been perpetually displayed. HAIL, mistress of the nations, princess of provinces, possession of patriarchs, mother of the prophets and apostles, initiatress of the faith, glory of the christian people, whom God hath on that account always from the beginning permitted to be visited with affliction, that thou mightest thus be the occasion of virtue as well as of salvation to brave men. HAIL, land of promise, which, formerly flowing only with milk and honey for thy possessors, now stretchest forth the food of life, and the means of salvation to the entire world. Most excellent and happy land, I say, which, receiving the celestial grain from the recess of the paternal heart, in that most fruitful bosom of thine, has produced such rich harvests of martyrs from the heavenly seed, and whose fertile soil has no less manifoldly engendered fruit a thirtieth, sixtieth, and a hundredfold in the remaining race of all the faithful throughout the entire world. Whence most agreeably satiated, and most abundantly crammed with the great store of thy pleasantness, those who have seen thee diffuse around them in every place the remembrance of thy abundant sweetness, and tell of the magnificence of thy glory to the very end of the earth to those who have not seen thee, and relate the wonderful things that are done in thee. “Glorious things are spoken concerning thee, CITY OF GOD!” CHAPTER II. Hugh de Payens returns to Palestine--His death--Robert de Craon made Master--The second Crusade--The Templars assume the Red Cross--Lands, manors, and churches granted them in England--Bernard de Tremelay made Master--He is slain by the Infidels--Bertrand de Blanquefort made Master--He is taken prisoner, and sent in chains to Aleppo--the Pope confers vast privileges upon the Templars--The knights, priests, and serving brethren of the order--Their religious and military enthusiasm--Their war banner called _Beauseant_--Rise of the rival religio-military order of the Hospital of St. John--Contests between Saladin and the Templars--Imprisonment and death of the Grand Master--The new Master and the Patriarch go to England for succour--Consecration of the Temple church at London. “We heard the _tecbir_, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge _heaven_, as if commanding conquest.”