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% t Land of Promise (TO AND FROM.) one eminently adapted to tho unique historical position which it ha« been called upon to hold." (Brodnck.) This wan the lay of things as we drew The water supply is frequently very bad. That in the Haram esh-Sherif (the place of the Noble Sanotuary) is far the best The Pool in Gihon is a liy Rev. C. O N. Maktindale. ARTICLE XXXIII. TURKKV [Continued] <18;. PALESTINE: Kl-Kuds Esh-Sherif ("The Holy, The Noble’’)—Jetuhalcm "The Place of the Noble Sanctuary." As we reached the brow of Mount tioopuinnd “thi! Holy City" burst upon otir view, even in its modern construc tion it impressed us as “builded as u city that is (-om|>act together” (Psa. J22:fl); and there orowded into our minds innumerable glad memories of its former glories, its great festival season, its "stately rites, its solemn processions, Its elaborate ceremonials, its oostly saorilices, its choral and instrumental aeconipuiiimcnta to the saorilioiul ser vices, its solemn prayers, and, to crown all, the visible attestation of the Dfvinu presence and favor";—accompanied hy the sad mental recall of its many hulli- notiH "defections, idolatries, blasphem ies, murders and hypuurisies, which so dishonored and defiled this holy place,” and with winch "cuine awful denuncia tions of him, and judgments more ter rible than have ever been indicted upon any other plane or people. Words would he inadequate, and time would fall, to describe the revelations, rebellious, wall be oomes to Zion Gate, called Bab on Nebv Daud, “the Gate of the Prophet David," betwetm the so-called Tomb of David and the Armenian cbnvent. rein on Mount Scopus and took in the ( Turning the southwest corner, and go- dangerous greeu-lookking and unsavory city two miles away. We faced the j ing along for about 1250 feet, we find smelling place. Much of the impurity north wall pierced by the gr*-at Damas- ; tho Jaffa or Valley Gate, in Arabic oalt- of the water iu Jerusalem is cus Gate near the middle, to tho right ed Bab el-Khalil, or ‘ the Gate of He- due to the want of sewerage and proper within were the dome of the Church of ' broil,” more than all others the chief ! ventilation, the oistern-water being often the Holy Hepulcher and tho German gate of travel of the city, to which all 1 foul and staguant. The water a person Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, in j roads from the country to the south and drinks needs not only straining, but the center of our view was the beanti- west converge. Finally at the north- boilingaud filtering to make it at all ful Mosque of Omar on “the Plaoe of i west angle may be found the New Gate, drinkable. Amid such unsanitary con- the Noble Sanctuary," to the left sank ; only lately reopened. In the northeast ditions, prevailing here no less than in the Vale of the Kedron (Jehoshaphat) is the Moslem Quarter, in the southeast other cities of Syria and Palestine, it is rising oil tho other side to Gethsemane i the Jewish, in the southwest no wonder there are frequent epedemics and the Mount of Olives with the shin-1 the Armenian, and in the j of typhoid fever, small-pox, aud other ing domes of the Russian Church aud northwest the Christian. Damas- ; grave diseases, and consequent dangers, high tower aud Ijatin Church on its cus Street or Zion Street extends from • With unpleasantly cold winters, and snnunit and side. Between us and the Damascus Gate lay “the Hill of a Skull" (Gordon’s Calvary> aud the Grotto of Jeremiah, the face toward Jerusalem, and with ancient “Garden Tomb" in the faoe of the cliff in a gar den Just below. Off a little to the north of Gordon’s Calvary was pitched the tent of meeting of the greatest conven tion of modern times iu the old world. While on the other side in frout of and to the north-west of the Damascus Gate were the Jewish Colony mid Foreign Consulates aud Russian Hospices for PilgriniH and other church and mission buildings. Soon after leaving Damascus wo hod fallen so iu loie with "Tenting in Pal estine" that through our dragoman we had telegraphed abend to Mr. Herbert Chirk to arrange for us to dwell in our tents rather than in the hotels of Jerusa lem. And our request had been acceded to, for, as wo rode down Scopus toward the citv we beheld our tents ill a large .-leges, famines, desolations, restorations, olive-grove to the northwest of Gordon's mid wholesale (lustmotions which have hem occurred . and the mention of them would include a Iragiiiulit ol the history of ulmost every nation and rune upon i ho Inoonl the earth.“ As we thought on these things we onuld begin to apprehend Jesus' great Culvnry and nigh to the Damascus Gate way; and many times afterwards were we glad it was so. Our tents scorned almost like a “homo" to us iu a strange laud. We took photographic snap-shots of our horses ere they wore led away on the return journey. But our faithful lamentation : "(> Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ] and noble and careful dragoman, Shu- kre.v Hishmeh, remained our guide in aud about Jerusalem, aud to Bethlehem and Jericho utltl tho Dead Sea, nnd never left us until we hade him good- that killetli the prophets, and stouetli them that are sent utilo her! How of ten would I liavu galliiiied thy children logetlier, even as a lien gatliereth her 41*11 Inood under her wings, and ye would null Beheld, jour house is lott until you desolate; and I say unto you, Ye shall liot see Me, until ye shall say, Blessed Is he that eometli III the name el Hie Lord I” ( Lk. 111:114 111).) “C'rowiiud hi tho olden time with the Munetuiiiy of Jehovah; illuminated with Hie brightness id His glory; trodden hv the trot of Putnuroim, Prophets, and Kings; and, more limn all, hallowed hv Hie presence of tlm ICioruul Son of Gud, Him Desire of all nations,' Who com bined in His person ami work all that temple ami t> |hi aud priest and sacrifice lupiusoutod,—this place stands unohiil longed among the holy places iis the most interesting and memorable on earth." (Stewart). “The Uity of the Great King" and “the Joy of all the eurtli," Jerusalem, is built upon live hills or mounts, lung ing in height and importation and size thus—Mount 'Ziou, Mounts Moriah ami Opliul, Mount Akru, and Mount Bozo- tIns. The highest point within the city is north of the Haram osli-Sherif (the Noble Sanctuary i, 2528 feet; while just auruss the Kedron Valley, Uethsemune is 2272 tool, and tho Mount of Olives atMU tool high above the sea. The city is situated iuiiJo4d' north latitude, and lino 18’ east longitude, a line nearly east ol t'avuuuali, Georgia, and is “iu Hie midst ot a mountain district, extend ing hem tho Plain of Ksdraelou on the nor III to the desert et ifeoisholm on the south, aud dividing the valley of the Jordan from the Plains of Sharon and Plnlistiii. It is dll miles distant from the Mediterranean as the crow tiles, and la miles trout the Dead Soil, to which there is a descent ol >1870 tuot. Jerusa lem stands on a ridge, between two deep valleys, taut ol Jehoslmpluit or the Kedrou (3 sum. 15:Jj) oil the east, and that el liiiinom (Josn. 16:8) on the west aud soutii. ’Ihe ridge itself is di vined by another valley, called the Tytopoeon, wldeli runs tilth a slight | curve irum tlm northwest to the south east, and fails into the Kedron a little above it- .urn-don with Huitioiu. Of Hie two r,Lus ituo win. h the ridge is ilius diviuovi, (hat on die west is tho larger and loftier, and comprises Ziou and Akrajthat on iheeast (Hozotha and) Moriah (and Ophoi). All around the site ol the Holy t'uy art* other hills, overtopping Ziou and Moriah from 50 to 200 tool, and luitilling the description given hy the 1 salmist, ‘the lulls stand about Jerusalem’( Psa. 125:2). On the oast is the Mount of Olives;on the south the so-called Hill of Evil Counsel: on the west the brow of the Watty Beit Ilniuna; and on the north the Hill of isc< pus. Thus, the situation of Jerusa lem. isolated by its deep ravines, ami yet sheltered by us surrounding hills, i- the Damascus Gate on the north to: the wind in summer often like “the slightly east of Zion Gate ou the south, breath of a furnace”, and all sorts of David Street runs aoross Jerusalem from . animal aud vegetable imatter in pro file Jaffa Gate on the west t-o the Temple cess of decay here and there about its Area on the east. Christiau Street | rook streets, you can imagine the rest, passes fr *m David Street through the But Jerusalem with all its wants of sau- Christian quarter directly between the itatiou has much to arrest attention and Ohnroh of the Holy Sepulcher] and the , hold one’s thought withal, especially Greek Convent. There are also the i from the end of Maroh to the beginning Palmer Street, and the moot—named | of June, as we hope to show you. “Via Dolorosa" oalled by natives “the ( “Some writers have spoken of it as Street of the Palace;" the former Iw-' ‘the sleepy little city of the .Tebusites’ ginning iu a narrow lane in front of the ‘the little capital of a pretty Highland Ohuroh of the Holy Sepulcher and lead- chief," whileothersjhave denied itsexist- ing to the Muristan; the latter starting euce prior to the Exodas.or have refused at the Latin Convent and going over to to admit that it was identical with the the Tyropoeon Volley bed across Da- Salem of Genesis or the Book of Psalms, inuscus Street under Ecce Homo arch- : We now know from the long buried wav toSt. Stephen's uate on theeust. It j tablets, whioh were found at Tell Ainar- doesn't take one a great while to master na in 1888, that the oldest name of the these lines of travel,hut they are all quite ; city was not ‘Jehus', as was general- narrow and principally traversed on foot. | ly supposed, but Salem or Uru-Salom— Of pools and fountains in or about the the City of Salem—as the Biblicnl rec city the more notable are those to the j ord asserts (Geu. 14: 18; Psa. <0: 2; west. Without the city is the Josh. 18:28; lCliron. 11: 4). h ive or six upper Pool of Gihon (Birket el-Mn- of the Tell A mania tablets were written milla), with which was once connected by the king of Jerusalem to the reign the interment Virgin’s Fountain (in the ing Pharaoh more than a oentury before center of Ophel Hill to the cast the Exodus; and they witness not only Nerve Fag. If You Waste Your Nerve Energy, After Awhile You Will Suffer For It. 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The lower Pool of Gihon ( Birkcte-s Sultan) lies be yond the southwest corner. The Pool of Siloam is directly south of the south east corner where tho Tyropoeon Valley to the antiquity of the city, but to its importance us a royal and priestly city, tho ruler of which sJind a recognized plaoe of influence and power, at that time, in the land. It is worthy of note in this connection that Prof. Sayco has found tho same name, Salem, iu a slightly different form,among filename— lists iu the Egyptian records of tho \ftern brief respite from our ride, wo j village of Siloam (Silwan). The Pool set out afoot for tho modern Jerusalem, j Bethosda is most likely tho suhterrnin-an a city of about 113,550 iieoplo (of whom | cisterns approached hy dieftiult stejis liyo to go aboard ship at Jaffa (Joppa). | nnd Ophel run out to each other ill the conquest- of Canaan.” So that the hy percritical questionings here lire very much akin to the declaration of an illit erate Christum worker in the mountains ou hearing of the return of a lady iu his vicinity from a visit to Jerusalem: “I would surely love to see somebody who has seen that far-off oouutry. Some folks say there is such a plnce, and othorasay there ain’t any such place, and I ain’t rightly ever known whether there is or uot. ’ ’ [To be eontiuued. 1 12.000 represent the Jewish faith, HI,- 850 tin- t Miristiiui.iuid 7,700 the Moslem). The great World’s Fourth Sunday School Convention was rapidly drawing nigh, and much ground must needs he covered yet by us. Hence for the time being wo “made hay while the sun shone," we did "work while it was yet day, for the night eometli wherein no man can work." Passing out of the cultivated ground iu which our olive-grove stood, we agaiu got on the niuoli-troqueuted Natilus- Gulilee-Dnmnsous road landing to tho Dhiuusciis Gate, called iu Arabic Bab ol-Amud, or “tin* Gate of the Column," picturesque, imposing, turreted and with battlements and machicolations, the most ornamental of all tho gates. By the way, perhaps one of the best methods of giving you an idea of the city is to point out its gateways nnd con nections, ns we saw them on a ride about its walls later. Following the north wall and midwny betweeu the Damascus Gate and the northeast augle of Jerusalem we find wliat is known as Herod's Gate, or Babex-Zaheri. “the Unto of Flowers,” now walled up. Turning tins angle and going along the ■ list wall about 1000 feet we have St. Stephen’s Gate, designated by the un live Christians Bab Sitti Miriam (“the Gate of my Lady Mary") and by the ot her Arabs Bab el-Asbat, or “the Gate >f the Tribes,” a plain gate with lions under heavy arches in the grounds be longing to the Church of St. Anne. The Pool of Hezekiah is the long and wide but shallow Hnmiunn el-Batrak or ‘‘Pat riarch's Bath," in the midst of buildings to the west of Christian Street, and sup plied with water hy small nqueduot from Birket el-Mamllln. The well of Enrogel is very likely tho Virgin’s Fountain. Besides these there are cisterns and res ervoirs under tho houses and the Temple area, and Aqueducts. ‘‘Between the Dome of the Rook and the Mosque of El-Aksa, as Dr. Stewart observes, “the underlying rock is literally honeycombed with cisterns and reservoirs of much more than ordinary capacity. These rock-hewn tanks, numbering more than thirty in the survey chart, wero con nected together by channels and condu its and it is estimated that the total storage capacity of the series was about 12,000,(MX) gallons. One of these reser voirs, known ns ‘the Great Sea’, has a capacity of 2,(MX),000 gallons. The prin cipal source of the water supply for the Temple and its courts was the Pool of Siloam fed by the clear, sparkling water which for centuries has flowed constant ly from ‘the Sealed Fountain’, a few rods from the upper pool. This never failing spring is nine miles south of Je rusalem, but the course followed by the aqueduct was about fourteen miles. The high level aqueduct tapped a sourco of supply farther to tho south. The main About Rheumatism. There are few diseases that inflict more torture than rheumatism aud there is probably no disease for which such a varied and useless lot of remedies have been suggested. 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About 7(H) feet j a noteworthy fact in this connection I for children ot hve ana under further along the east side we have the I that the Turkish government hns re- twelve years of age. Tickets will well-known Golden Gate, called in Am-; centlv constructed a pipe-line, connect- s0 |d April 5^h, 6th and 7th; b;c Bab el-Taubeli “the Gate of Repen-1 ing with the low-level aqueduct at Beth- i jj mil ^pnl g ( ^05, from tivuce," or Bah el-Daharieh, “(lie Gate leliem, whioh now brings water from; . ’ / f of Eternity," with double portal and | ‘the Sea od Fountain’ above Solomon’s j points in o • semicircular arches profusely adorned, 1 Fool to the Temple area. To the extent information apply to your nearest a reconstruction on the nncient fouuda-1 of its capacity. (a four-inch diameter j ticket agent, tions of a gateway, but now walled up > pipe,I which is limited Jin comparison ————— on the east. “Tho Moslems believe that with the ancient aqueduct,—Jerusalem they will retain possession ef Jerusalem j is onoe more supplied with pure watir The man who feels like doing something foolish generally has his excuse all framed up in ad vance. until the obstruction is removed, when their conqueror will ride through and their power will be destroyed. Hence they jealously guard this gate, and it is difficult for visitors to obtain an en trance into the interior.” Turuiug the corner, one passes the ancient single triple, nnd double gates walled up and, proceeding around the south side a short way. we find the Dung Gate, called Bah el-Muglmribeh, “the Moor* (or West Africans from the mountains as in the days of Solomon and Herod. 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