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Suffering Will Not Help Your Disease, but Will Weaken Your Nerves. Folks who think It la bettor to bear pain than soothe It—are wrong. Old-fashioned doctors used to say It jWas better, because they had nothing with which to ease pain but dangerous, heart-paralyzing drugs. But now, that a safe remedy haa been found. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, it Is wrong to suffer, for nothing can be gained but weakened nerves. A safe rule to remember is: Whan in pain, take an Anti-Pain Pill. This will soothe your quivering nerves. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills relieve pain by restoring the natural secretions, in which they differ from opium and sim ilar narcotic drugs, which relieve pain by ohecklnfc the action of the glands. They are sure and harmless, and ara the latest medical treatment for the cure of Headache. Neuralgia. Backache. Rheumatism. Dizziness, Toothache. Stomachache, Menstrual (Monthly) Pains. Also nerve irritations like Sea- Sickness, Car-Sickness, Sleeplessness, Indigestion, etc. Pleasant to take, quick In results. “I have used Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills for sick, nervous headache, and have received the best results. I hear tily recommend their curative proper ties, for they are successful."—REV. RAT A. WATROS, D. D.. iowa City. Ia. Bold by druggists, at 25c. Money back if tlrst box does not help. Never sold in bulk. from its tower a splendid view may be obtained riRht in the heart of Jerusa lem. In this building everything seems so like Protestant Christianity, a great home-like feeling takes possession of a p 'rson. And after a thorough survey of this wonderful "Land of the Book" and satisfy the inordinate curiosity of stran-1 elsewhere in the somber yet remarkable 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- simplicity of forms and earnestness of 1 mouts warring over possession of sacred Trial Package of Dr. Milos’ Anti Pain Pills, the Now Scientltlc Remedy for Pain. Also Symptom Blank. Our Specialist will diagnose your case, tell you what Is wrong, and how to right it, Fr»o. DR. MILES MEDICAL CO„ < LABORATORIES, ELKHART. LND. Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) By Rev. C. O’N. Martindale. 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.) Cheated Death. Kidney trouble often ends fatally, but by (.housing the right medicine, E. H. Wolf, of Bear Grove, Iowa, cheated death. 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