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“WATCH THE WHITE STAR BUGGY Muggy, try W HEN n**t jo _ - .. —» _ nmnlng vantHe made in thi I'nitad HtnUn. After Jnr« Ut. WHYTE STAK BUGGY. none but th* fli.Mt •• \ OHADt Whe«)i, Junt !Ue .... ■ in Hip White, on rtb»bitiun hr every o«c gf our Dealers. >Ve will pay $&MH) in any WHITK S’l’AK Wheel, haring our private mark, is not Just like the sample shown LOOK FOB OUR PK1YATK ** A-GRADK " M ARK building the iple h if ATLANTA BUGGY COMPANY, Atlanta, Georgia Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) 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 , (Continued on page 7.) FOR SALE The National Collection,Agency of Washington, wjll. dispose of the following judgments : D. 0., GEORGIA U 1, Lewis W T Cockrell Mil ten Mnlelia 02.0:1 58.90 Will .Tamos Adrian *34.78 Gullownv Bros Monroe a 1.48 L D Whifsott Atlanta Warren At Huff Rochelle 40.00 (filbert A- Hewitt. Atlanta in.(hi 0 H Levan Savannah 28.03 .1 11 Hod urns How is it. 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