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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. 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