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Land of Promise.
(TO AND FROM.)
By Rev. C. O N. Maktimjale.
AKTICLK XXIV.
TURKEY' [Continued]
[g|. Syria and Palestine: To Ban
ias (Caesarea Philippi).the Sour
ces of the Jordan, the Mountains
of Dan and Naphtali, Ain el-
Bclatch, and ’Ain el-Mellahah,by
I.ake JJuleh (Waters of Mcrom).
After lunching near the Druse
village of Mejdel esh-Shcms, in
the vicinity of the scene of the
Transfiguration of Christ before
his disciples, and following an en
joyable noon-hour rest, we mount
ed our horses, leaving the myrtles
behind us, and wended our way up
and down very steep and rough
ridges, that were tilled and dower
ed however on this side and that
wherever growth was possible.
Many places were steep and ac
companied by no little risk to
horse as well as rider. After
traveling thus quite a while we
came upon the brow of a high
eminence, and a grand panorama
was presented to our view in an
instant, one of the most beautiful
in all the word; thu fertile and ex
tensive valley of the .Iordan River,
which has its rise in this region.
It was several hours ere the set of
sun, and the effect was grand and
lovely. It scorned as though we
would soon be in the valley, and
yet it was miles below um in its
emerald and golden setting, with
the massive Castle of Subeibeh,
one of the finest and best preserv
ed ruins in Syria, crowning the
heights above Banias—ancient
Caesarea Philippi, or Paneas, off
to our right, and a large village was
in view away off to the left. We
minded not the toil of getting to
Banias, near which our cam]) was
pitched the second night out from
Damascus, for the vicinity was a
perfect paradise of waters and
large terebinth and other trees and
shrubs and green grass and ferns,
and our camp ground a splendid
elevated plateau not far from
Muhammadan cemetery and just
across the headwaters of the Jor
dan, a fit place for poesy and wor
ship and rest, like a beautiful park
goes under the stone bridge at the
village cf Banias, it is a perfect
foaming cascade, and at once cuts
its way through the soil and rocks
| of the region beyond with a thun
derous roar, well earning its name
Iron, the Arabs—El Ghor, “The
Descender,” from the very start of
not have absorbed the disciples'
attention, where so many pagan
sanctuaries broke the native beauty
of the scene with their insolent
challenge, to all that was best in
Palestine, and one of whose anci
ent titles was derived from this
circumstance, and not to be struck
with its appropriateness to the
scene. The fact of its rising high
the Jewish heart. That a mere above all the other hills of Pales-
man, however exalted, should have tine, and of its setting the last
a tempie built to him, and espe-. limit to the wanderings of Him
its descending career through the cially by a Jewish prince,had filled who was sent only to the lost sheep
i entire length of the Land of Prom- j Jewry with indignation. The lit- j of the house of Israel, falls in with
j j sc | tie company of wayfarers must the supposition which the
As that great scholar and stu
dent of Holy Land, Dr. George
Adam Smith, remarks: “In the
cliff is a cavern. Part of the up
per rock has fallen, and from the
debris of boulders and shingle be
low there bursts and bubbles along
a line of thirty feet a full-born
river. The place is a very sanctu
ary of waters, and from time im
memorial men have drawn near it
to worship. As you stand within
the charm of it—and this is a
charrrt not uncommon in the Leba
nous—you understand why the
early Semites adored the Baalim
of the subterranean waters even
before ttyey raised their gods to
heaven and thanked them for the
rain. This must have been one of
the chief dwellings of the Baalim
perhaps Baal—gad of the Book
of Joshua (11:17, 12:7; 13:5; cf.
Jud. 3:3). When the Greeks came
in later times they also felt the
presence of deity,and dedicated the
grotto, as an inscription still testi
fies, ‘To Pan and the Nymphs.’
[•Pani te kai Numphais’ is the
first line of an inscription on the
rock of the grotto]. Hill, cavern,
and fountain weie called the Pane-
ion, and the town and district
Paneas. In 20 B. C. Herod the
Great received the whole district
from Augustus, and built to him a
temple of white marble, setting
the bust of Caesar hard by the
shrine of Pan. Philip, the tetrarch
of this region, embellished the
town and called it Caesarea, and it
came to be known as his Caesarea
—Caesarea Philippi—to distinguish
it from his father’s on the sea
coast. The official designation
was altered by Agrippa II to
Neronias, which was used along
with the name Caesarea even un
der Marcus Aurelius, but then
died out. Caesarea lasted a little
longer in conjunction with Paneas,
till Paneas survived alone, and has
survived to tne present day, only
that Arabs, with no r upon their
lips,spell it Banias. [The tradi
tion of its Greek origin was strong
surely have talked of this obtru
sive sanctuary. It is, therefore,
very striking that just there and
then they emphasized their own
Master’s claims upon the faith of
mankind, and that the first clear
confession of Christ’s Divine Son-
ship was made near the shrine in
which men already worshipped a
fellow-man as God. He in the
temple was only an official, the
temporary symbol of a great pow
er, today’s dispenser of its largess,
who tomorrow would be succeeded
by another. But the little band of
fugitives clung to their Leader for
His own eternal sake. He was
th-' Religion, everything lay for
ever in His character and His
love. It was because they counted
all things but loss for His sake
that the disciples turned there and
then tQ Christ, with a love and al
legiance that could never be trans
ferred to another, any more than
God Himself might be imagined
to yield to a successor in the faith
of His creatures. And again,
while the emperor compelled al-
legience by his rank,his splendour,
his power, Christ turned that very
day from the symbol of all this to
seek His kingdom by the way of
sacrifice and death. 'Ye know
that the rulers of the Gentiles lord
it over them, and the great impose
their authority upon them. The
Son of Man came not \o be minis
tered unto, but to minister, and to
give His life a ransom for many.’
This was a contrast on which
Christ often dwelt; nowhere can
we better value the alternative
which it presented to that genera
tion, than here at Caesarea by the
sources of the Jordan, where we
teeming with luxuriant vegetation among the Arabs, only they took
and with abundant water in every
direction from mountain to plain.
As we descend toward Banias,
(located beautifully in a nook of
the Hermon Mountains 1150 feet
above s<>a-level) we see a village of
about 50 houses of the Syrian type,
mostly enclosed within the old
castle-wall, an ancient Roman and
Arab gateway, the Muhammadan
tomb of St. George (or the veil of
Sheikh Khtulr), the massive ruins
of an ancient castle, remains of
columns and carved cornices here
and there, also a stone bridge part
ly ancient. But the principal ob
jects of interest here are “a Source
of the Jordan” and “the Castle of
Subeibeh (Kal’ at es-Subebah). w
A traveller may by degress ride
or walk to the huge castle at the
top of the great precipice o’erlook-
ing the headwaters of the Jordan,
or proceed through tangle of trees
and brush and fern to the base of
the south side of the west end of
the ridge, a perpendicular cliff of
limestone reddened by the iron
saturated soil of no less that 100
feet height. From the base of this,
out from under the rocks, within a
semi-circie of about 160 feet width,
gush no less than seven springs
whose waters flow together, nar
row and cut their way through the
wood, until within several hundred
yards of the fountain-head, it has
words
inevitably force upon us. The
sacredness of Hermon in the eyes
of the surrounding tribes may well
have fitted it for the purpose, even
if it did not give it the name, of
‘the Holy Mountain.’ [2 Pet.l:l8.]
High up on its southern slopes
there must be many a point where
the disciples could be taken ‘apart-
by themselves.’ Even the transi
ent comparison of the celestial
splendour with the snow, where
alone it could be seen in Palestine,
should not, perhaps, be wholly
overlooked. At any rate, the re
mote heights above the sources of
the Jordan witnessed the moment
when, his work in His own pecu
liar sphere being ended, He set
His face for the last time ‘to go up
to Jerusalem.’ [Mk. 9:2, 3; Lk.
To visit the grand old Castle or
Subeibeh, one must climb to a
tocky crest about 1500 feet above
the town and pass over sharp and
jagged rocks. But from the top at
all points the view is only to be
described by the terms, “very
magnificent.” Here we find the
Old Crusader Castle of Banias, for
position as a commanding fortifica-
ion almost unsurpassed anywhere,
its titanic enclosure of towers and
walls and bulwarks measuring
1450 feet from east to west and
averaging 360 feet from north to
south, and rock-hewn ditch separat
ing the citadel from the fortress.
It impresses a beholder with its
massiveness and extensiveness of
construction, its splendid finish,
and in many places its compara
tively rich ornamentation. It
looks at once like an aspirant for
outlook and the dictator of a wide
Legal Advertisements.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
Ettu O. Bingham i Coweta Superior Court,
vs \ March Term.
Jake R. Bingham ' 1905.
To Jake R. Bingham, the defendant in the
alxive atated ease:
You are hereby commanded to be and ap
pear at the next term of said Superior Court,
to be held in and for said County of Coweta,
on the first ^Monday in Marsh, 1003, then and
there to answer the' plaintiff in a libel for total
divorce, as in default of such appearance the
Court will proceed thereon as to justice may
appertain. Witness the Honorable R. W.
Freeman Judge of said Court, this Dee. 81,
1904. L TURNER, Clerk.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
Patizoe Hunter Drake i In Coweta Superior
vs [ Court. Maron
Charles S. Drake ) Term, 1005.
To Charles S. Drake, the defendant in the
above Stated case:
You are hereby commanded to be and ap
pear at the next term of said Superior Court,
to be held in and for said County of Coweta,
on the first Monday in March. 1005, then and
there to answer the plaintiff in a libel for
total divorce, as in default of such appearance
the Court will proceed thereon as to justice
may appertain. Witness the Honorable R. W.
Freeman, Judge of said Court, this Dec. 31,
1004. L. TURNER. Clerk.
COMPLAINT FOR LAND.
Super
. Terr
, Court. Sept
William B.Swearingfr ) 1905.
To William B. Swearinger, defendant in the
above stated case —Yon are hereby command
ed to be and appear at the next term of the said
Superior Court, to lie held in and for said
County, on the first Monday in March, 1IK36,
then anil there to answer the plaintiff's com
plaint. In default the Court will pro
ceed thereon as to justice may appertain.
Witness the Hon. R. W. Freeman, Judge of
said Court, this 4tli day of Jany. 1005,
L. TURNER. Clerk.
its founder to have been Balnias,
i. e., Pliny.] Two systems of reli
gion were carried on together,Pan
was worshipped in the grotto,
whose niches still bear his name,
while divine honours were paid to
Caesar in the white temple that
stood perhaps on the cliff above,
the site of the present Muhamma
dan shrine of Sheikh Khudr, or
St. George. While both these
sanctuaries were open, and n.en
thus worshipped side by side, the
forces of nature and the incarna
tion of political power, Jesus came
with His disciples to the coasts of
Caesarea Philippi. Never did the
place better earn its title of Asy-
los, or shelter nobler fugitives.
The journey of our Lord and His
disciples was, in the first instance,
a retreat from Jewish hostility to
the neutrality of Gentile ground.
But it became also the occasion of
His resolution to return to meet
the Jews, and the death which lay
ready for Him in their hate. From
the farthest corner of the land
Jesus set His face steadfastly to
Jerusalem. The scenery had al
ready been consecrated by the
'crisis and turning of a soul, by the
hope which another exile had seen
break through his drenching sor
row,like as the sun breaks through
the mists and saturated woods of
the hills around. [Psa. xlii-xliiij.
seethe apotheosis ol the Gentile , domain, an impregnable stronghold
spirit in the temple raised to Au-. inc ] eec ] ; but it has changed hands,
gustus by the flattery of a Herod, j now being held by Moslems and
and Christ with His few disciples I (Continued on 7th Page.)
turning from it to His Cross and
Sacrifice.”
The learned Dean Stanley, in
speaking of Caesarea Philippi or
Banias, goes on to say: “As it is
the northernmost frontier of Pal
estine, so it is the northernmost
limit of the journeys of our Lord.
In the turning-point of Plis his
tory,when ‘from that time many of
his His disciples went back and
walked no more with Him,” when
eyen the Twelve seemed likely ‘to
go away;’ and He could no more
walk in Judaea because the Jews
sought to kill Him; then He left
His familiar haunts on thfc Sea of
Galilee, to return to them, as tar
as we know, only once more. He
crossed to the north-eastern cor-
DISMISSION.
Georgia, Coweta County.
Lilia H. Hridgeti, administratrix of ostntc of
K. W. Bridges, deceased, having applied to the
Court of Ordinary of HHid County for letters of
dismission from her said trust, ail persons con
cerned are required to show cause In said
Court by the first Monday in February next, if
anv they can, why said application should not
be granted. This Jan. 11th, 1995.
L. A. Purdue,
Ordinary.
DISMIsiaoN.
Georgia, Coweta County.
Mrs. Sarah A. Crimes, administratrix of
estate of Fred Grimes, deceased, having ap
plied to the Court of Ordinary of said County
for letters of dismission from her said trust
all persons concerned are required to show,
cause in said Court by the first Monday in Feb
ruary next, if any they can, why saal applica
tion should not he granted. This Jan. 5th, 1905.
r L. A. Perdue,
Ordinary.
CITATION.
Georgia,Coweta County.
The estate of E. C. Rucker, late of said Coun
ty, deceased, being unrepresented and not
likely to be represented; all persons concerned
are required to show cause in tho Court, of
Ordinary of said County, on the first Monday
in Feb., 1003, next, wi.y such administration
should not. lie vested in the County Adrainis
tyator. This Jan. 9th, 1905.
L. A. Perdue,
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
Florence F. Simpson 1 Libel for Divorce,
vs. In Coweta Superior
Luscombe Simpson. ) Court, Sept, term,1904
ToLuscombe Simpson, in the above stated
case:
You arc hereby commanded to be and appear
at the next term of said Superior Court, to be
held in and for the county of Coweta, on the
first, Monday in March. 1905, then and there to
answer the plaintiff’s libel for total divorce, as
in default of such appearance the court will
proceed therein as to justice may appertain.
Witness the Honorable 11. W. Freeman
Judge of Huid Court, this Dee. 7. 1004.
S.L. FAVER. Clurk.
Application for Charter.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Coweta County.
To the Superior Court of said County :
The petition of A. W. Stubbs, of said county,
amlT. P. Zollnrs, of Campbell County, all in
said State, respectfully shows;
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stock, to such sum as they may see proper, not
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iird. The full amount of said capital stock of
four thousand dollars has already boon actual
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4th. The object of th«' proposer! corporation
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5th. The particular business that said cor
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9:30], and came into ‘the parts,’
into ‘the villages’ of Caesarea
Philippi. It is possible that He
never reached the city itself ; but
it must at least have been in its
neighborhood that the confession
of Peter was made; the rock on
which the Temple of Augustus
stood, and from which the streams
of the Jordan issue, may possibly
have suggested the words which
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Peter’s. (See Matt, 16:13-20]. And
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days from that time, whilst still in
this region, ‘He was transfigured’
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