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Land of Promise
(Continued from pngp 2.)
genealogy, Joseph appears as the
son of Hell, who was really Mary’s
father.’ According to this view
all difficulties dissolve and disap
pear. Both Joseph and Mary be
longed to the same tribe. Mary
inherited property in her own
name, and when Joseph married
her his name had by law to be sub
stituted for hers in the genealogy
of her family. This explains the
necessity of Mary’s personal ap
pearance at Bethlehem.’’
One other thing we need to call
special attention to, and that is,
on their arrival at the Inn of
Bethlehem, by reason of the un
usual crowd of strangers brought
thither by the Roman decree for
taxation, it is not strange they
found “there was no room for
them in the inn” (Lk, 2:7). They
were not given accommodations in
the upper story of the caravansary
J. T.
tian Powers were terminating such
possibilities both revolting and
scandalous to Christendom There
is the chapel of the Praesepiutn,
or Manager, in the angle between
the south flight of stairs and the
grotto side, the place of the man
ger on the west side being now
represented by a marble trough,
the real Praesepium having been
carried to Rome and placed in the
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore,
where we saw it on our way later
across Europe. Turning to the
other side of the Grotto we see
the Station of the Wise Men. We
visit the various other points of in
terest in the building and its vici
nity, especially the altar and tomb '
of St. Eusebius (not the historian, I
however); the tombs of St. Paula the estimate by the agent,
and her daughter (St. Eustachia),
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
mimmiioN
, Supt.
RAILWAY
Dim
I, fib, April 25, 1005.
Mr. W. A. Malone, Agent,
Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:—Policy 184,00,4 was written for the undersigned by
1800, under the 20 pay, 5 year plan. Distribution first and second
your Company in
dividends exceeded
I have just received notice of the third dividend amounting
devoted followers of St. Jerome, to $722,50, which is left optional to be either withdrawn or allowed to remain with the
the tomb of whom is just opposite;
to the study of Jer-j Company. I was informed when the policy was first written that if the dividends ne-
then ascend
ome of so much interest to lovers
and students of the Bible, now us
ed as a chapel with altar on the
eruing on this policy were left over with the Company that thet
•e would
pro!
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h me itii a viiiiacii y . , , | | .
simply because others preceeded east s,,le over wh,ch 18 an old P'oeilOUgli surplus to the credit of this policy to issue a paid-up policy at the end of the 14t!
ture of the saint writing with a
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Crane’s Family Liniment.
Crane's Eczema Cure.
Crane’s Liver Powders.
Crane’s Pile Salvo.
Crane’s Liver Pills.
Crane's Female Relief.
These arc Standard Prepara
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them, taking up all the room avail
able, and not at all because they
were too poor to pay for such ac
commodation. The necessary re
sult was, that Joseph, having tried
to no avail to get better charters,
was obliged with bis wife to occu
py the lower floor, or grotto-like
quarters, beneath the caravansary,
and make themselves comfortable
as best they could, with the beasts
of burden in the same place as
before dessribeu. It is no wonder
therefore tint when Jesus the
Messiah was born of Mary he was
cradled in the manger in which
his mother had made her bed.
That the present grotto or cav
cm under the Church of the Na
tivity in Bethlehem is identical
with that connected with the Inn
of Chimham seems beyond doubt.
So convinced of this fact was the
venerable church father Jerome
that he made his abode in a near
by cave while translating the Holy
Bible into the Vulgate, assigning
as his reason his desire that the
Written Word should go forth to
the world from a cave close to the
one in which the Eternal Word
had become manifest in the fl.*sh.
“Alter all that has been said, or
can be said against it, there re
mains the remarkable fact that the
spot was reverenced by Christians
as the birthplace of Christ, two
centuries before the conversion ot
the Roman empire—before that
burst of local religion, which is
commonly ascribed to the visit of
Helena.” (Dean Stanley). “This
is indeed the ancient and constant
tradition of both the Eastern and
the Western churches, and it is
one of the few to which we may
attach a reasonable probability.”
(Canon Farrar.) “It may be—
nay, it seems likely—that this, to
which the most venerable tradition
points, was the sacred spot of the
world’s greatest event.” iDr. Ai
fred Edersheim ) We do not think
it is saying too much that in the
Church of tire Nativity, erected
over this sacred spot, we have “the
oldest and the most venerable
church on the whole earth!”
As one approaches this great
building, it looks well-nigh like an
immense fortress. Before us
stands the Greek Church of St.
Mary backed by the Latin Church
of St. Catharine, while underneath
the former is the Grotto of the
Nativity (lit up with gold and sil
ver lamps) but connected with the
latter also. In this pile of build
ings the Greeks, the Latins and
the Armenians have their several
monasteries and chapels and
schools and altars. In the Chapel
of the Nativity at the east end we
see a semi-circular apse, the “holy
place” indeed with a marble slab
An Idle Je»t. f ...
Pa, what Is un idle jest?’ ” m the pavement bearing in its cen-
One that the newspapers haven’t tre a l ar g e gold star and the Latin
words—“Hie de Virgine Maria
year,
lion at his feet. Here also is shown
the Altar of the Innocents with a
picture over it representing their
slaughter, and said to mark the
spot where 20,000 children who
were murdered on Herod's order,
were buried; also the Chapel of
Joseph, where he is said to have
retired at the moment of the birth 1 now ( ] 0 j n g business,
of Jesus. We were exceedingly
interested in the ancient frescoes | boon entirely
and friezes and columns in the
Church of the Nativity, but much
disgusted at the ecclesiastical per
formances o’er this sacred area. I
One will not soon forget the old
ChurCh of St. Helena with its 44
columns of vari colored marble
(red and dark), crusader font, and
where Baldwin was crowned King
of Jerusalem, the mixture of
priests and people of all classes,the
clouds of incense and chanting and
obeisance to the Greek High
l’riest.
Hence we took a good iook into
the best of the bazaars, where are
manufactured and sold antiques
and fancy articles made of mother-
of-pearl, coral, stinkstone (lime
mild g(>t
of 1 lie I lib year that I
do not hesitate* m*>
The Company notified mo promptly at the end
a paid-up policy and discontinue payments if 1 desired to do so. I
ommeiiding the .Etna Company to any person who may desire this kind of insurance, as
1 have always, and still believe it to he one o( the most economic,al Insurance Companies
1 he results of several policies which I hold in your Company have
atisfactory.
Hoping you success in your new undertaking,
Ymm
I beg to remain,
truly,
| Signed | .). T.
IOIINNON.
F. M. BRYANT, District Manager,
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Newnan, Georgia.
mixed with bitumen) from the
Dead Sea, and olive-wood. Here
and perhaps that vary night, at all
events early the next day, Mary ami iho
^ailey’s Barber Shop
and you’ll continue to get shaved
there. The same is true of hair-cuts,
shampoos, etc., Throe white bar
bers are employed, and the service
is first-class. Drop into Railoy’s
White Barber Shop
Opera House Building,
Newnan, - - - Georgia.
Brooks
as the
Just What Everyone Should Do.
Mr. .1. T. Barber, of Irwinville, Ga.,
always keeps a bottle of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
at hand ready for instant use. Attacks
of colic, cholera morbus and diarrhoea
come on so suddenly that there is no
time to hunt a doctor or go to the store
for medicine. Mr. Barber says: “I
have tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy which is one of
the best medicines I ever saw. I keep a
bottle of it in my room as I have had
several attacks of colic and it has proved
to be the best medicine I ever used.”
Sold by Holt & Cates, druggists, New
nan, Ga.
we lay by a store of things to take 1 child were removed to a oomfortahlo
home with 11s. The pearl orna
ments are exceedingly pretty, but
quite goodly-priced, and made into
many ingenious designs, even to
rosaries, crosses, stars, paper cut
ters, etc.
Here may be seen peasants and
Bedouins, many of whom come
from the vicinity of the Dead Sea
to this as a market-place. Christ
mas is the great festival season in
Bethlehem, the Latins beginning
their festival on Dec. 25th, while
the Greaks commence theirs 12
days later, following the old Julian
calendar. Thus while in America
and Great Britain Christmas comes
but once a year, in Bethlehem it
comes twice.
We were also given an opportunity to
see the so-called Field of the Shepherds
in the midst of which is the Grotto of
the same name: and had pointed out to
11 h the Milk.Grotto, in which it is said a
drop of Mary’s milk once dropped on
the floor, and ever after that any moth
er or even animal might have their milk
increased by going thereinto. The so-
called Field of Bouz also had a place 10
the view. Who cannot bestirred with
in his soul os he looks out o’er the re
gion in which the shepherds keeping
watch by night o’er their flocks had the
angel of the Lord to come upon them
and tiie glory of the Lord to shine round
about them, as they were brought glad
tidings of great joy to be to all people
through the birth in the,city of David a
Saviour which is Christ the Lord, and
hade them go to the young child in the
manger, as they did, and went out to
make Him known to others und glorify
and praiHe the Lord for what they hud
heard and seen.
“Were Mary and the babe with Jo
seph left in the cave-stable where the
Saviour had been born? We would love
to think of the mother and the babe re
maining in the cave for a few days, hut
i Jesus Christus Natus Est”. (“Here it does not seem that such was the case.
"No fool was ever so foolish but Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin . For when the Wise Men came from the
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Candor.
"Good gracious!” exclaimed the mint
sauce. “1 should think you’d he asham
ed to masquerade as ‘spring lamb.’ ”
"Well,” replied the roast, "it does
make me feel rather sheepish."—Cath
olic Standard and Times.
home where every want was supplied
until the forty days of her purification
were passed.” (Otis).
Again we take our carriages mid are
whirled away to camp outside the walls |
of Jerusalem, passing from the City of j
fhe Nativity to the City of the Crucifix- j
ion, Resurrection, and Ascension of
Jesus the Christ.
More the words of Phillips
have a new significance to us
night draws on apace:
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we soo thee lie!
Ahovo thy deep and dreamless sloop
The silent stars go by ;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The Everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight!
For Christ is born of Mary;
And gathered nil above,
While, mortals sleep the angels keep
Their watch of wond’ring love.
O morning stars! Together
| Proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the King,
And pence to men on earth I
Ifow silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is giv’n!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of Ills lieav’n.
No ear may hear his coming;
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him
still,
The dear Christ enters in
yet got hold of and worked to death.
—Cleveland Leader.
some oue thought him clever.
Sprained Ankle, Stiff Neck, Lame
Shoulder.
Mary”). But, strange to say, in
this Grotto of the Nativity a Turk
ish soldier always stands guard to
keep these various sects and their
These are three common ailments for
which Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is leaders from flying at each Other’s
especially valuable. I promptly applied j Croats in deadly animosity. In
it will save you time, money aud suffer- lg such a gcene q{ b j oodshed
ing when troubled with any one of .. .
these ailments.
East, of whom Matthew tells, bringing
their gifts of gold and frankincense and
myrrh, to l>ay their hornuge to the ‘De
sire of all nations’, they did not find the
mother and the child in the stable, but
in the house. What house? It was a
particular house iu Bethlehem. It seems
that as soon as it was known in the city
that this wonderful babe had beeu born
O Holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to ns, we pray;
Cast out our sin and enter in,—
Be born in us today!
We hear the Christinas angels
The great glad tidings fell,—
Oh, come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord, Emmanuel I
(To be continued.)
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writes: "My kidneys were so far gone,
I could not sit on a chair without, a
cushion; and suffered from dreadful
1 backache, headache, and depression. In
Electric Bitters,however,I found a cure,
and by them was restored to perfect
health. I recommend this great tonic
medicine to all witli weak kidneys, liver
or stomach. Guaranteed by J. T.
Summer Excursion
Rates via Central of Georgia Railway
Summer excursion tickets at, greatly reduced
rales are now on sale at all coupon ticket offices,
to Mountain and seashore roHorls in tin North,
East and South, via all-rail routes and via Sa
vannah and steamship lines.
For rates, schedules, routes, descriptive matter
etc., apply to your nearest ticket, agent.
J. C. HAILE
Cencral Passenger Agent.
Ilffif lllill—I —H—fI
Savannah, Cfi.
That Job of Printing==
For sale by Holt & j did occur * and ma V a g ain in a mo * in a stable in the inn, a hospitable home “ d Dr ' Paul Fe,liHtou - dru KK i « , «-
Have it done at this shop, and—if
the quality of the stock and the work
is not satisfactory, or if the price is
not as reasonable as first-class print
ers anywhere charge for first-class
work—the job will not cost you a
cent. That’s a fair and reasonable
proposition—a proposition we could
not afford to make if we didn’t have
1I1 facilities, the workmen and the
will to “make good.” If it’s any
th) g in printing, you should try The
N ws shop before giving an order.
Cates, druggists, Newnan, Ga.
i ment. It is high time the Chris* i was opened to receive tlio holy family;
Price 50c.
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