The Newnan weekly news. (Newnan, Ga.) 189?-1906, July 14, 1905, Image 3

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I, (Moments Bril, kton 138.04 *’ | p Hnrsti (tlavton 83.08 : j B P Lnrnli s' Florence 201.95 1 ' 00 1 a 11 i 'nr a,, t iiiii'l water 113.50 ' 1 M .) II Klngry Uimlou 857 08' ■' 1 ' j 11 ail W. W.irr.-n (liuti Springs 188 70 S ' ' j i3hrr & tin . Hnnliiway 110.25 I H T I'lftitiol Huntsville 13.50 ' W 3' Harrison & Son Killon 38.16 W .1 H"ii<lt>rsoii l.iil iyntto 220.00 I M I’.oiii'V hindun 350.00 .1 W Ili.nl Motile 02.35 rs 85 A' 40 ;a .so Send Bids to THE NATIONAL COLLECTION AGENCY, Washington, D. C. Interior View Auditorium, where the Newnan Chautauqua Assembles, Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) 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 Georgia State Fair ATLANTA, OCT. 9th to 21 sL (ImiU'sf ever held One lure for the round t rip. 'JO Comity exhibits Mammoth Agricultural displays. Great variety agricultural implements, machinery, ve hides, etc. Finest, live stock and poultry show ever seen in the South. Prizes for woman's work and for boys and girls. Sensational attractions. Racing every day. ♦22,500 in premiums. D. M. HUGHES, President Georgia State Agricultural Society. W. R. JOYNER, President Atlanta Pair Association. For information and premium lists writ** to Frank Weldon, GENERAL MANAGER, ATLANTA, SA. To Publishers and Printers. Wc have an ent irely new process, on which patents are pend- lg, whereby we can reface old Brass Column and Head Rules, 4 pt. and thicker and make them unsightly knobs or feet on f fully as good as bottom. and without any sight of B.:it Dejin (ancient Beth- government only grants the privi-q Dagon)i and ere i on£ r, as the after- 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- pari Ui U1C vvav, aavv. 111 owmv. > ■*-* j . 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 PRICES. facing Go “ L. 9. limn ami “ and lb-ad A sample of refaced Rul fully sent on application. lull's, regular lengths, JOets each. os, lengt hs Jin. and over lOets. per lb. • with full particulars, will be cheer- /herewith to slay Goliath, the! m i| es foy rai | i and requires four 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 ’ ' J ’ . .. . . - - k *- r Bethshemesh begged j above Jaffa on the sea-level). We ** 1 Philadelphia Printers’ Supply Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Type and High Grade Printing Material, 39 N. NINTH 8T- PHILADELPHIA, PA. 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 ‘ - .... , X- ^ _ 1 .7 * if- mao lafar I i i . _ • 1 . 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. 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