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Land of Promise
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By Rev. C. O'N. Maktindai.k.
ARTICLE XLVI.
TURKEY' [Continued]
felt the very sun conspiring with | ther over the beautiful Plain of
them to achieve the unexampled Sharon, passing the conspicuous
length of battle. Within sight of j village of Ludd ( Lydda, and Lod),
every Egyptian and every Assy-! where Peter cured Aeneas the
rian invasion of the land Gezer paralytic (Acts 9:32-35), and by
has also seen Alexander pass by, the Romans called Diospolis (City
(31). PALESTINE: From El-
Kuds [Jerusalem] by Carriage-
Road to Kuryet et Enab [Kir-
jath] through Wadi Ali by
’Amwas and Yalo [Aijalon and
the Vale of Aijalon], to Tell
Jezer [Gexer], on the Plain of
Sharon to Er Ramleh, by Ludd
[Lydda, Lod], Surafend, Beit-
Dejan [Beth Dagon] to Yafa
[Japha or Jaffa or Joppa] on the
Mediterranean.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of
Wednesday, April 20th, we were
awaked, in a half hour had break
fasted, and bade a last farewell to
El-Kuds, “the Holy,” Jerusalem,
as we took carriages and drove
away to Yafa, or Joppa, about 41
miles distant. Some of our parly
preferred going this way rather
than by the Jerusalem-Joppa Rail
way, in order that we might have
opportunity to visit the site and
excavations of Gezer [or Gazar],
a royal city of the Cananites [Josh.
10:33].
Over n fine road for the most
part of the way, save in some very
stranger from Jerusalem to Jaffa.; chase your countrymen down \ hour and a half.
Here our party was met by that j Ajalon—that day when the victors j From hence we continued fur-
accomplished archaeologist and
scholar who has done such good
service in unearthing and describ
ing the ruins of this ancient “city
set on an hill,” R. A. Stewart
Macalister, M. A., F. S. A., who
took us from point to point in the
excavations,giving us a lucid state
ment in historical resume of the
seven cities, the ruins of which lie
here buried one on the other ac
cording to the anciet custom; the
(so-called) prehistoric inhabitants
being cave-dwellers, short and
thick-set, non-Semitic, unversed
in metals, and practising crema
tion. It is first mentioned in the
Egyptian Tel el-Amarna tablets
(which we saw in the Gizeh Muse
um at Cairo later), a dependency
on Egypt; was captured by Joshua
and its people made slaves of by
the Israelites; was held by the
Philistines during David’s time;
was burnt by Solornon’s*Egyptian
Pharaonic tather-in-law, and pre
sented to his daughter, and re
built by Solomon; passed through
various vicissitudes until captured
and fortified by Simon Maccaba-
eus; again ceased to exist about
too B. C.; was rebuilt in Crusading
limes and designated Merit Gisart,
whore the Mohammedan chiettain
Salad in was defeated in a desperate
battle by Baldwin IV, and later
and the legions of Rome in unus
ual flight, and the armies of the
Cross struggle, waver and give
way, and Napoleon come and go.
If all could rise who have fallen
around its base—Ethiopians, He
brews, Assyrians, Arabs, Turco
mans, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Sax
ons, Mongols—what a rehearsal of
the Judgment Day it would be!
Few of the travellers who now
rush across the plain realize that
the first conspicuous hill they pass
in Palestine is also one of the most
thickly haunted—even in that nar
row land into which history has so
crowded itself. But upon the
ridge of Gezer no sign of all this
now remains, except in the name
Tell Jezer, and in a sweet hollow
to the north, beside a fountain,
where lie the scattered Christian
stones of Deir Warda, the Con
vent of the Rose.’’
We learned that the Turkish
of Jupiter), ft was first mention
ed after the captivity as Lod was
of some importance in the Macca-
beean period, and the capital of a
district of Judaea under the Ro
mans; but is now worth visiting
only to see the old church and
tomb of St. George.
The Plain of Sharon is a great
level or rather rolling plain, on
which we see acres and acres of
lentiles, wheat (with tares mixed
in and hard to distinguish), Indian
corn, and tomatoes, etc., with vil
lages dotted about on its little up
risings. Here we recall “the Rose
of Sharon” as connected with “the
lily of the valley," of which we saw
no little. On the plain the wild
flowers are both brilliant and pro
liric, while the ground is more or
less largely cultivated, fields alter
nating with meadows.
We proceed by Surafend and in
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lt'g e ot excavation tor a period °I; noon sun is perceptibly beginning
two years, and at the expiration of j ts descent, we strike the luxuriant
that time work in any one
cular place must cease.
parti
Why
the same Moslem commander Turkey is like the Sphynx some
negotiated with Richard Coeur dr*
Lion; in 1495 coming into notice
1 through a conflict between the
I Governor of Jerusalem and bandit; the vicinity
ot
far as reason is concern-
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rocky and steep sections wh ere 1 ^ouin, since which time it pass-! David g
laborers were regrading it, we ed out of view until recent years j wherewit
times, so
ed.
The early morning found us in
of the place whence
his smooth
plantations of olives and oranges
and lemons and pomegranates,
many cacti and palm-trees, and
good houses, that open up into
Yafa, called indifferently Jaffa or
Joppa or Japho, meaning “beauti
ful,” the nearest port of entry to
stones I Jerusalem, from which it is 52
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passed rapidly by Kulonieh and ! when the spade of the excavator j philistine, of Gath, and not a great j hours’time to reach (on account
Mczab 1 0 125 feet],Kuryet et Enab j upturned it. way were we from Kirjath-Jearim. 1 of the steep grade—Jerusalem be-
[Kirjath], and Saris, through the Its remains seem very crude to remembered by the fact that to it: j n g, a s you remember, 2500 miles
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Wadi Aii, by Deir Eyub, ’Amwas other than archaeologists, an an- the men of Beth
| I2'6 feet |, Yalo (Aijalon), to the cient “high place,” several rude j the removal of the ark of the cov-1 passed by a house iri Jaffa
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south of the Valley of Aijalon, monoliths, a 16 feet thick old city
made memorable in Josh. 10:12-14: wall.a holy wooden post or “grove”
“Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in ! socket, granaries of burnt corn
the day when Jehovah delivered
up the Amorites betore the chil
dren ot Israel; and thou, Moon, in
the valley of Aijalon. And the
sun stood still, and the moon stay
ed, until the nation had avenged
themselves of their enemies. Is
peas, wheat and beans, cisterns,
burial caves and human bones,
Maccabeean bath-room, numerous
bits of broken crockery. Here
are evidences of the practise of
human sacrifice, in idolatrous wor
ship by its people, a custom which
written in the book of! the prophets of God’s people se-
with
enant, and from there it was later i W ell, stairway, and parapet desig-
on taken to Jerusalem (1 Sam. I nated as that of “Simon the tan-
7:1, 2; 2 Sam. G: 1 -12), Uzzah suf j ner," (being in that section of
fering death by the way for daring i town where tanneries have been
to touch that which was sacred to
God (cf. Num. 4:15, 19, 20). The.
noon hour found us lunching un
der the shadow of the wall of the
city of Er-Ramleh, a place of
about 6500 peoplp, about 2,000 of
whom are Christians and mainly
of the Greek Church. Here the
chief object of interest is the so-
called Tower of Ramleh (Jami’ el-
not this
Jashar? And the sun stayed inlverely denounced in Old Testa-
the midst of heaven, and hasted j ment times. From here we look
not to *0 down about a whole day. 1 out upon the great Plain of Shar-
And there was no day like that. on below, and on the Tell,see num-! Abyad, the white mosque), five
before or after it, that Jehovah , bers of natives at work with pick j stories high, with pointed doorway
hearkened unto the voice of a ; and shovel and basket and barrow J and elegant little windows, and
man; for Jehovah fought for Is- seeking to bring to light buried slender buttresses at the four cor-
greatness and littleness as well.
Says the distinguished George
Adam Smith ot Gezer: “Shade of
King Hiram, what hosts of men
have fallen round that citadel of
yours! On what camps and col
umns has it looked down through
from the mountains ot Judah and ithe centuries, since first you saw j time was short on us and we did
Benjamin and forming the most ; the strange Hebrews burst with not tarry long after lunch, but
notable point in the view of the 1 the sunrise across the hills, and' pressed on. Here we spent an
rael.
By the Vale of Aijalon we pro
ceed a short way to Tell Jezer, an
cient Gezer (or Gazar, 500 feet),
a striking bastion flung out to the
west from the Shephelah, or low
hills, to whicn we had descended
ners, the tapering top reached by
no steps and having a sort of
gallery. From its summit may be
had a splendid view, that should
not be missed by the traveller.
Ramleh was once the headquar
ters of the great Napoieon, But
from time immemorial), and
whereon Peter is said to have had
his vision from God showing him
that the Gospel is for Gentiles as
well as Jews. Here also was rais
ed up the girl Tabitha. (Acts 9:36-
10:48.) It is one of the oldest
known cities in the word, antedat
ing the flood (according to Pliny),
originating with the Phoenicians
(says Josephus), marking the bor
der of the tribe of Dan, and being
the port by which timbers from
the Lebanons were carried up to
cutcheon of the great general,
has always occupied an im
portant place in the history of the
Holy Land.
It has churches, mosques,
schools, hospitals, monasteries,
bazaar, market-place, its oranges
celebrated, its trade being on the
increase, and its chief exports
wine, oranges, soap, sesame, and
cereals. It numbers about 24,000
inhabitants, has houses with flat
rooves, and streets narrow and
dirty and well-nigh impassable
from slippery mud after a rainy
shower. And yet as one comes in
or goes out of port the general im
pression made by Joppa is a pleas
ing one.
It isn’t long ere we are down at
the quay, and looking out to sea,
Jerusalem for the construction ot behold our ocean home- The
the first and second temples, as
well as the point whence Jonah
sailed when trying “to flee from
the presence of the Lord.” CJosh.
19:46; 2 Chron. 2:16; Ezra 37;
Jonah 1:3 ) And here the massa
cre of its garrison by Napoleon af
ter its capitulation to him has left
an indelible stain upon the es-
Grosser Kurfuerst,” waiting to
bear us o’er the mighty bosom of
the deep to other lands of interest!
Here we get into row-boats to be
carried through and over the
breakers, for there’s no harbor
here, and at times even in boats it
is not safe to attempt landing or
shipping. The boat in which the
author finds himself contains 20
persons, 4 oarsmen and a helms
man, and out over the rocking
waves slowly but steadily and cau
tiously we move to the waiting
vessel at 3:30 p. m ; and in an
hour after we are sailing away
from “the Land of the Bible” car
rying with us imperishable memor
ies, and our eyes lingeringly rest
from the Maritime Plain,the Shep
helah and Judean mountains to
Snowy Herman in the northeast.
We are glad and yet sad at the
parting, for this land means some
thing to us and has grown dear to
our hearts; and we would fain re
main, yet duty’s call bids us
heave anchor and away to tell oth
ers ot what we have seen and
heard in the land where the Sav
iour of sinners lived and labored,
spake and ministered, suffered and
bled and died, rose from the grave
and ascended back up into heaven
for us! God help us to do it well,
that the world may profit by our
experience! Mayhap at some dis
tant date we may speak further of
this Land of Promise.
(Continued on page 7).