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so like Protestant Christianity, a great
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this wonderful "Land of the Book" and
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gers seeking holy places, have led to buildiug. But while wo understood
much lviug by ecclesiastics and much
delusion of the simple-minded and
credulous, and unseemly strife unto
deatti on the pnrt of Roman and Greek
Catholics and other so-called Christian
and honored their spirit, we could but
think lnuoli of their confidence iu priest- | Jerusalem.
the hearing of a multitude of witnesses | sects to the point of necessitating the
W ‘ are constrained to believe that the presence of Turkish soldiers all the
Protestant type of Christianity with its , while in the buildiug to keep the ele-
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ARTICLE XXXIV
TURKEY [Continued]
(19)
. PALESTINE: El Kuds
(‘•The Holy”—Jerusalem).
effort to give a pure Gospel to the low
est and highest of the people fills an ap
palling want in this country, and is
aloue capacitated for the task of evan
gelizing the Syrians and Palestinians
whose spiritual interests are as they
have long been greaily ignored or abus
ed by the densely formalistic and highly
superstititious and well-nigh unevnngel-
izing exponents of the Roman and Greek
OaMiolic parties. Before those sects can
help these people they need to got right
themselves, they must give less of at
tention to form and more heed to the
spirit of religion, less time to ritual-re
citation and more to God’s work arnoug
men; without the spirit of Christ they
are none of His, and therefore cannot do
his work of sinner-winning and saint-
upbuilding, of ingathering and of edify
ing the hosts of the Lord whose King
dom is ever nigh at hand. The great.
Protestant bodies of Christendom owe it
to their Lord to send more, very many
more, missionaries to ‘‘the Homelaud of
the Bible” whioh is in such present dire
need not only of the teachings of the
Book of God but of teachers given to
God for the subservience of His holy
purposes. The land that gave us the
Book is the laud of all that needs it now.
Never lias there been suoh an opportu
nity open to the true Church of God in
its different brunches. Shall it not be
embraced by them more largely? The
door is open thither. Who will say to
file home ohurch, "Here am I. Send
me.” Where the need is greatest there’s
my call. Where nobody else will go
there’s my field. Of all lauds dm earth
the land in which our Lord lived and
labored should be the last to be neglected
by those who have derived most benefit
therefrom. There are many represen
tatives of Protestant denominations in
the City and tlm Land of the Great
King, but what are they among so many
j people without Christ and therefore
without hope in the world? Even grant
ed there are very many really devout
aud earnest Christians and laborers for
the good of souls in the various non-
Protestant communions iu tho land, its
we are perfectly willing ami ready to do,
who that has seen what has been done
and what has not been done for the
spiii ual upliftjof the people in the land
of Israel can for a moment feel satisfied,
or suppose that the Churches of Chris
tendom of all classes have done what
they could for the Lord’s Land? Let all
who read these lines, especially the
leaders in the missionary activities of
tho different churches, ponder them a
while aud then seek to start a stream cf
workers for Christ that way, if not al
ready begun. The Mother Land needs
the support of its children now. The
need is urgent. Will her children sny,
tier “Nay,” or "Yea, right speedily!”
Going westward from the Church of
the Redeemer it is but a little distance
to a kind of open courtyard, filled with
peddlers of crosses and trinkets of all
sorts, leading up to the uoted Ohurch of
the Holy Sepulchre, the modern repre
sentattve of the churches ereoted 320
335 A. D. by the Emperor Coustautiut
in honor of places which were believed
to have been tfie scenes of the Crucilix-
lon and Resurrection of Christ, it lias
been burned or destroyed time and again
since Constantine’s day. Aud as we
come to speak of it, wo are reminded
that thither the pious and vulorous
Crusader leader Godfrey de Bouillon,
after tho tuking of the Holy City (July
10, 1009), bareheaded and barefooted,
walked in procession to the Holy Sepul
chre, there offering up prayer with
thanksgiving tor the successful issue of
their sacred undertakings ;aud, on being
proclaimed King of Jerusalem, refused
the crown uiul title of king, saying lie
would "never wear a crown of gold on
the spot wfiere his Saviour had worn a
crown of thorns,” and determined to
content himself with the title "Defender
and Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre!”
This church is a perfect lubynntii of
passages and chapels, and we would
emphasize tiie statement that "what
ever doubt there may lie as to the actual
sites of Calvary and the Tomb of Christ,
there can,however, be no doubt but that
many of the assertions as to precise
spots within the area of the church,
wfiere events recorded in New Testa
ment history are said to have taken
place, are without any. foundation in
fact.” In this place of all we have ever
been in, the love of money lias proved
the root of all forms of. evil. The desire
forefoot crooked up to carry a cross. It jof pilgrims and tourists to see sacred
is a fine building, and about 50 feet ’ places, coupled with the desire of resi-
above tiie average level of the city, and dents to gratify the gw-d of gain and. to
“The centuries of its history passed iu
review, from the time when to Mount
Moriah Abraham first linked imperish
able human interest, to tho days of the
stronghold of the Jebusites, and the City
of David, in the era of Solomon and his
glory, ana the Captivity and Restora
tion, the gallant victories of the Macca
bees, the Pharisaic bonduge, aud Roman
subjections, the days of Christ and the
Apostles, the destruction of the city, the
pitiful attempt at national revival, the
Moslem domination, the flaming period
of the Crusades, and the steady decline
under the Turk. * * * Forget it, who
can? It may be a different looking
city,” as Dr Maltbie H. Babcock ot
sainted memory bus said, "but yet it is
the same, Jerusalem, ‘the beautiful for
g tuation, the joy of the whole earth,’
self-centred and self-righteous, yet
more than Rome,—morn than Greece,—
the centre of light for the whole earth,
the scene of its own deep shame, and
the worLd’s sure hope and salvation.
Back from its present degradation, the
outward sight of the city, still how
beautiful, carries our thought to her
ancient glory, and onward to ‘the New
Jerusalem coming do.>n from God out
of heaven, prepared as a bride adonnd
for her husband.’ ”
At last "Our feet are standing within
thy gates, O Jerusalem!”'(Psa. 122:2).
Without at this time attempting to ea
ter into a detailed description of the
places visited in Jerusalem, we wish to
give some clear idea of the chief points
of interest coming under our observation.
Passing through the great Damascus
Gate and along the Street ot the Gate of
the Column for quite a way we first
visited the German Lutheran Church of
the Redeemer, the Erloeserkirche (with
its lovely restored mediaeval i>oi'tal of
the Church of Maria Minor), situated in
the northeast corner of the enclosure
known as El Muristan (a word of Per
sian source denoting “hospital”) about
430 by 440 feet in size and the site of the
Hospice of the Knights Hospitallers, or
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. This
corner was presented by the Sultan in
1869 to tire Prussian Crown Prince, af
terward Emperor Frederick I; the
church’s erection was begun iu 1893 on
the exact plan of the ancient church
there, and carried through witfi all the
skill and expense of German architects,
aud under the immediate patrouage of
tiie German Emperor, who in 1898 went
to its opening iu the Holy City. A no 4
table emblem to be seen here is that of a
lamb’s body witlia human head and one
places (?) from flyiug at one another’s
throats and tearing out one another's
hearts! Truly it is a blessed providence
of God that the exact spots whereou
took place the events most sacred to
mankind are not positively kuowu to
auy man or sect. For here as elsewhere
iu the Holy Land thero is st rife without
end for possession of wliatever may have
a seuiblanoe to a holy place; ami, wher
ever such has been secured, the place
more than the Lord of the earth has re
ceiVed attention aud homage. Jerusa
lem is the Holy City and Palestine the
Holy Laud indeed, but only so because
of the Living aud Holy Christ aud His
searvauts in days gone by aud to oome.
He would have men revereuce Him and
heed His teachings aud do His com
mands, and not make an idol of earth or
stone auy more than of silver or gold, or
iron or wood, or any other thing. We
are fearful that idolatry is at its height
in the Land of Israel today. At least
this may he said of Mohammedanism
whatever else may be adverse, it is a
decided and unmistakable protest
againstall forms of idolatry, and in so
far forthiH better than Romanism in
Western or Eastern division.
Some pilgrims aud writers on visiting
these and other like “holy places" have
declared they were extraordinarily
moved. For our own part we have felt
no otherwise than ill other places, save
for tlm hallowed memories the general
location of evonts have necessarily
brought to us. We didn’t rise into somi
ugh i o lacy over our p ox mity to a lo
cality made soared only by priestcraft
and evidently for commercial benefit to
he derived from its ownership. We felt
more ashamed than edified by the Horn
ish and Greek Shows, for that would lit
a truer designation of many locations
We got what wo went for, however, to
wit: that the Bible might become men
real to us as not only a Book of Heaven
but also a book of Earth; but false
shrines and mendaoions priests contrib
utod nothing to this great resultant. It
rather astonished ns that auy eoolcsins
rietil authority should give its sanction
to suoh bare-faced frauds and unholy
bosh, as one sees practiced throughout
this land far and nigh. The oharacte
of the mountains and hills and river
and valleys and plains and plateaus and
the manners of the natives of the Holy
Land, as much so as its ruins frou
ancient tinieH, carry conviction of the
truth of the Holy Soriptures home to
tho mind and conscience of the most
casual observer, be he sinner or saint
Wh knew a gentleman quite advance
in years, and not a member of any
church, who visited the Holy Land some
years ago; and on his return home
marked to the writer, "To see the Holy
Land is to bring the Holy Bible to
earth. The Bible never seemed so real
to mo and so true as it did upon my visit
to the Land in whioh it sprang from
God and from which it spread out over
the world. It means more to me now
than it ever did before, as it will to any
body who goes there knowing aught
about the Bible.”
In tiie Church of tho Holy Sepulchre
you are shown the Stone of Unction (on
which Christ's body was washed and
anointed for burial), the Sepulchre of
Jesus (or so-called tomb of Nicodemus
and Joseph of Arimathea), the Centre
of the Earth, the spot where Adam was
created and buried, the tomb of Melchi-
sedek, the spot where Abraham is said
ro have found a ram when about to offer
up Isaac on Mount Moriah, Golgotha
and its cleft rocks, the footprints of
Christ and the stocks in which He was
placed and His prison, a part of the col
umn of scourging, a fragment of the
column of derison, the spot where
Christ was nailed to the cross and where
tiie cross was up-raised, where the pen
itent thief died, the place of the patting
of Christ’s raiment, where tiie true cross
was found, aud many other spots called
sacred. Wonderful place that, sure; it
took more than one genius to gather to-
gather that collection. In fact, after
much that they tell you there they put
a good-sized question mark. Take it
tentatively. For besides a great deal
that is beyond the power of man to thus
collocate, there is too much hereabouts
having the apjiearauce of being made
up-to-order.
If you have wearied of tiie tale, dear
reader, what tedium of seeing each in
turn! We were struck with the devout
mien and unquestionable devotions of
many a pilgrim and minister within
these walls, both at the stone of unction
and ou approach to the Sepulchre and
Jerusalem.
L. May the kingdom soon return to
Zion' R. Comfort those who mourn over
raft identifications was misplaced and
that they were too gullible Oh how w >
longed for each one to have an o|h*u aud
unadulterated Bible to see whether the
tliiugs that were told them were the
truth of God or no! May their day of
emancipation from the power of dark
ness be not far distant! We grow tired
of the monotony aud gloom and taudri-
uess of the place, and of its uumelodi-
ons aud lifeless chantlugs with nil the
finery thereabouts, aud of its loug aud
dark gowned men. Here are Latins and
Greeks, Kopts and Abyssinians aud
Americans, with plaoes divided off from
each other or open to all, aud with
special sancturaries for their own use.
We need not pause for a minute discrip-
tiob of this immense buildiug whioh
seems so mediaeval, Suftioe it to say
with a oomrade iu travel, “The great
ohuroh itself was a wearisome place aud
a wonderful place” all in one. We
could not but feel that this was not the
p’acs of Golgotha or the holy Sepulchre;
or if events finally prove it to be such,
then it lias been sadly defamed and in
excusably desecrated by the hands of a
new type of the Pliarisaio sort. Not
the least of this npitears in “the Holy
Fire" performance of Greeks aud Ar
meuiaus at Easier, a disgraceful sham
ou an unenlightened populace.
This being Friday afternoon we had
an opportunity to visit the Wailing
Place of the Jews just beyond the mis
ernble low dwellings of the Moglirebins
(Moors) and the west wall of the Har
am esh-Sherif, that part bearing the
name of “tho wailing-plnoo" being 52
yards long by 00 foot high, tho nine
lowest courses consisting of huge blocks
some of which are drafted. One in the
south part is 18 feet loug and one in the
north part III feet. The custom of ro
sorting hither by the dews to bewail tin
downfall of Jerusalem p obably ' dates
to the middle ages. “Here a strung
and touching speotaole is presented. Tin
mighty stones of tlm Bnnotuary will risi
up to the domes anil cypresses without
door or window, as though to shut the
worshippers off effectually from the
sacred area over which they lament
Jews of all ages, both sexes, and from
every quarter of tho earth—Ashkenazim
Pharisees from Russia, Poland, Houm
anm, and Germany; Sephardim Hi
brews from Spain; Mugh&ribeh Jew
from Africa; Karaites; rabbis, aged
men with flowing white locks, young
dandies with lung curls, little red-haired
children, old women and maidens, all
clad in the characteristic garments
—raise their voices of wailing over the
desolated anil dishonored sanctuary, as
they have dono continuously every
week, century after century. Many of
them appear to go through the cereuio
ny as a mere idle matter of form, but
die genuine emotions of a few is patliet
ic and soul-moving in the extreme
“The-lamentations are taken from thr
79th Psalm: '() God, the heathen are
come into Thine inheritance; Thy holy
temple have they defiled; they have
laid Jerusalem on heap*. . We are be
come a reproioh to our neighbors, a
scorn and derision to them that are
round about us. How long Lord? Wilt
Thou bo angry for ever? Shall Thy
walousy burn like fire?"
Who obu look oil these Israelite fig
ures leaning against the weather-worn
rocks and kissing them and moaning
and weeping, or those sitting for tiours
on nearby benches reading and medi
tating o'er their thumb marked Hebrew
prayer-books, without being touched,
not with curiosity or scorn, but witli
commiseration and sympathy? We
would to God that tho land of Israel
were in the hands of the Jewish peo
ple again, but changed and dominated
by their true Messiah and King, Jesus
Lord. Here verily “a voice of the wail
ing is heard out of Zion! ’’
Tho following litany is chanted to
wa'its evening on Friday s-Loader: For
the palace that lies desolate. Respoiice:
We sit in solitude, and mourn.
L. For the place that is destroyed: R.
We sit, etc.
L. For tiie walls that are overthrown:
R. We sit, etc.
L. For our majesty that is departed:
R. We sit, etc.
L. For our great men who are dead:
R. We sit, etc.
L. For the precious stones that ar, ‘
buried: R. Wo sit, etc.
L. For the priests who have stum
bled: R. We sit, etc.
L. For our kings who have despised
Him: R. We sit, eto.
The following is another antiphony:
Leader: We pray Thee, have mercy
on Zion 1—Response: Gather the ehil
dren of Jerusalem.
L. Haste, Redeemer of Ziont-R
speak to the heart of Jerusalem.
L. May beauty and majesty surround
Zion! R. All! turn thyself mercifully to ]
L. May peace and joy abide with Zi
on' R and the Branch (of Jesus)
spring up at Jerusalem.
We shall never forget the Higlit aud the
sound at the wailing-place of the Jews
in the City of Jerusalem!
We passed thence to the point over
looking the Tyropoeon Valley^and wlmt
is known as Robinson's Arch (formerly
bridging the valley between Ziou and
Moriah) and got a good view of “tlm
Dung Gate” or “the Gate of the Moors".
We went ont at tho Jaffa Gala to
Clark’s Tourist office on tho west and
thonco arouud to camp on the North,
dining at tho usual evening hour and
closing the night with reading Matthew
first aud second chapters, followed by
ooimnuuiou with God, aud a walk in
the olive-grove under starlit heavens,
fulljof holy thought 1
[To be coutinned.)
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H. Wolf, of Bear Grove, Iowa, cheated
death. He says: "Two years ago Iliad
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Tlte grand jury of Newton coun
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of that county for gambling, and
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That they have gone out of busi
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