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By Rev. C. O’N. Maktindalk
ARTICLE XLVII.
TURKEY i Continued.
32.
PALESTINE :
Land and the People.
The
; and oats and barley and lentiles
and Hocks of sheep and goats and
1 cattle abound. Alter seeing it we
i can verily and far more easily be-
1 lieve it was once and may yet be
a land of fatness and abundance,
Mowing with milk and honey in pro- 1
% fusion.
“A groundwork of historical and
geographical fact, with a wide ap
'pl cability extending beyond the
limits of any age or country; a re-:
ligion rising in the East, yet find- 1
ing its highest development and
fulfillment in the West; a charat- j
ter and teaching human, Hebrew, j
Syrian, in its outward form and
color, but in its inward spirit and
characteristics universal and clh
“ , vine—such are the general conclu
Yet it is an air-line measure- sions, discernible, doubtless, from
ment only about as large as New any careful study of the Gospels,.
Hampshire, varying from 25 to 70 hut impressed with peculiar forge 1
j miles long; and has been different- on the observant traveller by the :
ly designated Canaan, before the sight of the Holy Land. * * *
conquest under Joshua; Israki., af- On the one hand it is useless to
ter the conquest and settlement; deny that there is a shock to the
Judaea, after the Babylonish cap- religious sentiment in finding our-
tivity; and Palestine, since the selves on the actual ground of
time of Christ. In a word, how- events which we have been accus-
ever seemingly paradoxical, this is tomed to regard as transacted in
“The Negiected Land," vet the heaven, rather than on earth—
I pie.”
‘Land of Opportunity," and as
I. There is but one land en- truly, ‘•’I he Land of I romise.
titled to the name, “The Land,"! One’s judgment of what they
and that is “The Holy Land”-1 see on this sacred ground depends
which we have been led by pic
tures ai)d preaching ami poetry to
1 invest with an atmosphere too
ideal to be brought into contact
“because here, as nowhere else, I largely upon what they go there to with anything so prosaic as the ac-
the Almighty has manifested His see. To some it may mean disil- tual stocks and stones of Syria.;
glory and unfolded H.s purpose of , lu»»on or disappointment, to others i ‘Is not this the son of the carpen-
. ,. . I — g •• •% *-» f. I,ll M<V r\f f iva ('ll. 1 I. T • nnr U I II Wl (l V
redeeming grace. Its hills
Its hills and
valleys have been transfigured by-
meanings and mysteries mightier
than physical influences; and over
it all there shines a light that fades
not, but grows richer and more
radiant with the ages.” The land
ot Israel and Judah, the land of pa
triarch and prophet, of poet and
psalmist, of historian and lawgiv
er, of kings and priests, of disciple
anji apostle, of saints and servants
ot the Most High, is without com
pare on the globe. We think of
Palestine as we do of no other
ground, because made holy by the
tread of the M aster, the presence
of the Master, the revelation of the
..faster.
The Land extends from the
' snowy heights of the Lebanon and
the Anti-Lebanon ranges on the
north to the insufferable desert ot
• Jeshimon and the depths by the
Dead Sea on the South, and from
the Jordan River east to the Med
iterranean west. It is a land of the
greatest differences. In it are the
most fertile of districts and the
most barren of wastes. The Plains
of Genuesar and Eidraelon and Do
than and Sharon cannot be excelled
for fertility and lovliness. while
one could scarcely find greater
ruination than at Samaria ora more
a revelation or hnfolditig of the di-! ter? Is not his mother called
vine. To some Palestine is the j Mary? And his brethren James
land of a fickle and ignorant, dark'! and John and Simon and Judas?
and feeble folk, with. a record of And his sisters, are they not all
•sin and shame and ruin; to others 1 with us? A prophet has no honor;
it is more —"the Land of Jeho- i n his own country.’ But, on the
vah," the land of God’s elect peo- i other hand, this very feeling gives
pie, of God’s oracles, of God’s in
carnations. etc.
Dr. J. Munro very justly
serves: “It is certain that if any
us a sense ot solidity and sub-
, stance in the character thus pre-
ob-! seated to us, which it is our own
fault if we do not turn to account
intelligent person were to visit I So completely one of the sons of
Palestine in the hope of finding in men. a career so circumscribed by
the land itself, its soil, climate, the roads and valleys and hills of
people and surroundings, a suffici- an ordinary home and country; and
ent explanation of the wonders yet (to go no higher than the mere
that have come out of it, he would outward contemplation ot the his-
be greviously disappointed.
When we visit the Holy Land and
find it no better than other lands,
and in many important respects
tar inferior to the more favored
lands ot the West. * * * The
country itself—how disappointing
to many who do not know what
they have come to see. No great
river like the mighty Nile. No
great mountains, like the mighty
Alps Not even matchless seen
ery, like the west of Scotland, or
the sylvan beauty of many an
English shire. Small and poor,
and therefore disappointing to
those who forget th«.t it is a holy
land, and not the happy land, or
desolate-region than the Wilder- 1 the great and mighty land, they go
nesH Country of Judaea The veg- j to see. A happy land it was once
etation of almost every climate on ] to many, and might have been to
earth can be produced here, from j all. A goodly land and large it
the frigid :o the sub-tropical. Pas-1 was for a little time, and might
sing from west to east we find it have been always if the people had
easily describable: Eirst comes j been faithful to the covenant. But
the Maritime Plain to the north I all the course of its actual histofy
and south of Mt. Carmel; the Plain I is in the main the history of a
of Esdraelon, practically bisecting
the land as a whole; then the Shep-
helah, or low hill-country; next,
the Mountain Region of Galilee
and Ephraim and Benjamin and
Judah; then the great Valley and
Cleft of the River Jordan, descend-
ing rapidly frpm Hermon, through
Lakes Huleh and Tiberias on down
tory takes us,) so universal in the
fame, the effects, the spirit of his
teaching and life. ‘From whence
has this man these things? and
what wisdom is this which is given
unto him that even such mighty
works are wrought by his hands?’
--(Mitt. 13:54; Mk. 6:3.)” (Dean
A. P. Stanley in “Sinai and Pales
tine.") j
■ “It seems curious enough to us :
to be standing on ground that was |
once actually pressed by the feet j
of the Savior. The situation is
suggestive of a reality and a tangi
bility that seems at variance with
the vagueness and mystery and
ghosthness that one naturally at
taches to the character of a god. I
cannot comprehend yet. that I am
sitting where a god has stood, and
looking upjp’n the brook and the
mountains .which that god looked
upon, and am surrounded by dusky
men and women whose ancestors
saw Him and even talked with
Him face to face, and carelessly,
just as they would have done with
any other stranger. I cannot com
prehend this; the gods of my un
derstanding, have been always hid
den in clouds and very far away.”
—(Mark Ttfain in “The Innocents
Abroad, or ,.the New . Pilgg.m’s
Progress.” pp. 472 4 5.)
“I have traversed irt all direc
tions the country of the Gospels.
I have visited. Jerusalem, Hebron,
and Samaria; scarcely any impor
tant locality of the history of Jesus
has escaped me. All this history,
which at a distance seems to float-
in the clouds of an unreal wqrld,
small and poor country, and of an
inconsiderable people. What does
this mean? It means that just as
plainly as it is written in the his
tory of great Egypt that God
brought His people out of it, so
plainly is it written in the histqty
of little Palestine that God was
with His''people in it. ‘Not t>y
to the Great Halt Sea; with the 1 might, nor by power, but by My
high tablelands of Bashan and Gi- ! Spirit saith the Lord of hosts.’’
lead and M'oab beyond Jordan. As i The unspeakable gifts to men
a whole it is marvellous how readi-ithe Living Word as truly as the
ly it becomes a land of exclusion 1 Written Word and Israel’s great-
frorri the world or of intercommn- ness—did not come out of the
nication with the nations; a segre-1 land, nor from the people, .but, lu ^ Ulll ^
o-ated country at one time; at j from heaven, yea^from God Hyn thus took a form, a solidity which
another, a highway of the nations; 1 self. (astonished me. The striking
in one a sanctuary and an observa- ‘While the destruction of the! agreement of the texts with the
tory At the present there is much j forests and,the breaking down, of places, the marvelous harmony of
that is “suggestive ot change, des-j terraces and aqueducts have in the gospel ideal with the country
olation and decay, a land of ruins,” ; many places turned the fruitful which served it as a framework,
and on the other hand no less not- field into a wilderness, the country were like a revelation to me. I had
able are the signs of restoration of as a whole still subject to the con- before my eyes a -Fifth Gospel,
■its terraces, cultivation of its ditions which governed its climatic torn, but still legible.”—(Ernest
mountain-sides and fields and val- i changes in the period of the sacred Renati in “The Life of Jesus,” pp.
leys and vineyards and oliveyards ! writers. Now as in the past, the 30-31.)
and mulberry trees; railroads going early and latter rains come in their II. Dominated respectively by
north and east and south and west-1 appointed seasons: the heavy deWs j Canaanites, Hebrews;- Assyrians
ward, and the expansion and im-1 give moisture to field and hillside; 1 and Babylonians, Persians, Egypt-
provement of its cities. In more j wonderful transformations follow ians, Greeks, Romans, Crusaders,
senses than one is <this little land'the dear shining after the rain, and Turks, the people of the
“the Centre of the World;” yea, ‘ana the corn and wine and oil have land ^ have been in a constant
“the Heart of the Earth,” ethe not ceased from the land.’”—(Dr. state of change. As Sir Wm. E.
Land of the Lord’s Chosen Peo-!r.. L, Stewart.) Plains of <y&eat Gladstone notably remarks: “It
has changed owners 18 times since
Christ, and anybody can have it
but the Jew,” apparently. Once
there were as many as 6,000,000 in
Palestine altogether; but now it is
doubtful if there is much more
than one tenth of that number.
Once Judaea was the center of the
Jewish aristocracy, pure blood and
holy temple; Galilee, the abode of
mixed Jews and Gentiles, a kind of
Wiki West in its disregard of Jew
ish opinions; Samaria, a mongrel
Jewish-Assynan population, with
its own temple and looked upon
with hatred ami contempt by the
other provinces, while Perea, the
land beyond Jordan, was a country
of farmers and shepherds, both no
madic and warlike tribes. Today
the valleys and plains are infested
with nomadic Bedouins, the towns
with poor people living in square
stone houses or round mud huts;
the cities by the better class of
Moslems and Jews and other na-■
tionalities mixed with a lot of the
rip-raff of nations, the inroads of
Westernism being marked, especi
ally at Jerusalem, Joppa, Naza
reth, etc. Ami,‘as Major Condor
says, “The true curses ot the coun
try are injustice and ignorance;the
decay of population has led to the
shrinking of agriculture and to the
spread of briars, thorns, and rough
brushwood where once were wine
presses and vineyard-towers." In
deed it seems proverbially true
that “where the Turk sets his foot
the grass never grows," so far as
real advance is concerned. In j
this land the Moslem predomi
nates, the Russian (((reek Church )
and Romanist ( Latin Curch)
superstitious and degenerate to an
extreme, while Piotestant Chris-1
tianity (especially in its Presby-j
terian and Anglican atui (Quaker!
phases) is here and there bestir-1
ring itself with vigor to the up
lift of the people, and yet Chris- 1
tendom has hardly more than be- j
gun to covet the destitution. The
West has too long neglected the
East, especially the Land of the
Bible, from whence under God all
its blessings have come. More
workers and more means where
with to work for the salvation of
the many lost ones in the Home
land of the Bible are imperative.
Of Palestine that most scientific
observer, Karl Ritter, has said:
“Nature and the course of history
shows that here, from the begin
ning onwards, there cannot be
talk of any chance.’’ This the
noted scholar, Dr. George Adam
Smith, emphasizes when he says
(Hist. Geog. pp. 114-116):
“Besides helping us to realize
the long preparation of history,
Jewish,and Gentile, for the com-
ingiof the Son of God, a, vision of
the soil and climate in which He
grew up and labored is the only
means of enforcing the reality of
His manhood. It delivers us, on
the one hand, from those abstract
views of His humanity which have
so often been the error and curse
of Christianity; and, on the other
hand, from what is today a more
present danger—the interpreta
tion of Christ (prevalent with
many of our preachers to the
times) as if He were a son of our
own generation.
The course of Divine Provi
dence in Syria has not been one of
mere development and cultivation,
of building and planting. It has
been full also of rebuke and frus
tration, of iVioting up and tearing
down. Judgment has all along
mingled with mercy. Christ Him
self did hot look forward to the
course of the history of the king
dom which He founded as an un
checked advance to universal
dominion. He took anything but
an optimistic view of the fu.ture of,)
His Church. He pictured Him
self not only as her King and
Leafier to successive victories, but
as her Judge, revisiting her sud
denly, and finding her asleep;
separating within her the wise
from the foolish, the true from the
false, the pure from the corrupt,
and punishing her. with sore and
awful calamities. Ought we to
look for these visitations only at
the end of the world? Have we
not seen them already fulfilled in
the centuries? Has not the new
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