Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1860-02-05

Ing life, living always in tents. After THREE
and a half hours travel from Joppa, ne came
to the village Of Ramieh, which j. The 1rim-
afkea Of scripture, where Joseph lived, who
begged the body Of our savior from PLATE.
Here We went to the monastery, kept By The
Roman Catholic priesthood, and received a
smiling welcome. We rested an hour and took
supper, which our dragoman bad prepared Tor
us. We were waited upon by The monks, who
gave as an excellent cap Of coffee; they keep
open house for all travellers, charging nothing;
but Of course those who ran afford Il always
give something; after Speeding an hour Tor
rest and supper we started again. and rode On
toward ths mountains Of Aba Goesh, pass
ing the village which was the home Of The
peniisnt thief who was erueihed at The same
time that our Savior was; also passed the vii
LACE where was kept for three months the
q Ark Of the Covenant" At two o'clock a.
night we reached a deep gorge Of the noun
tains, and here made a halt and struck a FIRE
to boil some coffee. Our d~ragoman spread
down a fine Turkish carpet for usto sit upon,
and soon made us a pot Of good coffee, which
refreshed Us very much; soon mounted orr
horses and rode on through a scene Of wild
solitude and dssolalion, the mountains SEEM
Inc a misshapen mass Of rocky and i~naeses-
sible nights, broken and riftei BY the convul-
sions Of nature. But ! find I an spinning out
ny letters too long; 7 will merely write down
The places I saw, and YOU car mske --
read up and find out an about them. Ihsve
10 time now for reading anything but the
Bible, but I read that with ten fold more inter
est than I did before I visited the Holy Land.
About daylight in the morning We crossed the
brook where David gathered the FIVE smooth
pebbles, with one OF which he slew Gnlisi4. I
picked up several pebbles from it-i7h chap
ter OF Samuel
I will here say that no roads IN the world
are half 30 bad as IN this chilly country OF
Judsah,' frightful prscipices, huge rolling
stones In the road, horses p~iunging IN a wav 20
fatigue themselves and their riders; however.
We were riding hard TO see the sun risa over
The Holy CITY; troops % PILGRIMS, laden cam
els, AMI donkeys passed US in the narrow path.
As the sun got fairly up, We zane in sight o.
Jerusalem. / took refuge from the burning
sun uRier a ne tree, and waited for ny com
nantons to come up, when we all rode in
through the walls Of the city. at the Jafa gate,
and stood upon Mount Zion. street OF David,
Jerusalem We dismounted andled our horses,
az the streets are verY slippery and narrow,
6iied with Turks smoking their long chebnnIIs,
cameis, donke $, dogs and boys. We turned
into the street Of the Christians. where we
found our hotel a. seven o'clock. an tired and
worn out, after fourteen hours hand travel.
TIE church OF the Holy Sepulchre IS only
open at certain hours for strangers and he
public generally. The keys Of the church are
in the hands % the Turks, because the differ
cot sects Of Christians have ouarr,ied so
about Il that the vile Turks have 10 ST nj be-
tween them. The church is open from five IN
seven, morning and evening. As soon as T.
was open after our arrival we went there.
7 aseended Mount Calvarv-he very snot
where our Savior was crucifsd. I saw where
the cross Stood: I saw where the rock was
rent knelt AZ and kissed the Holy Sapul-
chre. The hallowed associations Of he nlace.
The sanctitv Of the spot, the power Of God. The
goodness n Christ, ny own ~mnwouhiuess. az
rushed unon ne with a degree ot Intense feel
inc that ] never experienced before. snl which
REQUIRED 10 me in great force every tine I re-
tuned to his deeply Interesting spa.. aBd
offered prayers to God for pardon. ard grace.
7 made # a point 20 visit .the HOLY Sen-Ich-e
every DIV during nv STAY in Jerusalem. and
he last day here I knolt and prayed for ~
child, ny wife, nv dear neither, and each one
OF my brothers and sisters separately.
Il would be impossible. dear mother, for ne
% give Won a description Of even the Church
of the Holy Sspulehrs in a letter, but T viii
quote a few lines from HChSteaubrfaud's
Travels IN Greece and Palestine. -
"The Church Of the Holy Sepulchre. rom
posed OF several churches, erected unon an
unequal surface, Hlumined bv a multitu5e Of
ANan - NN[NAaNNH MN-NHANHN~ . N0HmNFe
tight pervades IT, favorahle to pieiv AID pro-
found devotion ChFstian priests, OF various
ssc's, inhabit different parts Of the edffce.
From the arches above, where they nestle like
pigeons, from the cha psls below, and suhter-
raneous vaults, their songs are heard at on
hours n both he daV aud night The organ
n the Lstin monks, the cvmbols Of the Abvs-
sinian priest, the voice Of the Greek ealover.
the prayer Of The solitary Armenian. the
piaintive accents Or the C0ptie friar, aIf-r-
nstelY, OF an at once asssfi voar ear. You
know pot whenes these concerts proceed; Won
inhale the perfame Of incense. without uar-
ceiving the hard that burns e.. Tou merely
perceive the pontif, who Is going 70 celebrate
he most awful Of mysteries on the YER, spot
where they were accomplished. pazs auicklv
hv, glide behind the columns md vanish in TIE
gloom % the temple.1 ,
Joseph Of Arimethea Il buried very near the
Holy Sepulehre. 80 that his grave is lust under
the edge Of the dom4 OF the church.
Jerusalem was founded BY MsIchesidee.
which was shsm, the son OF Noah, shortly
after the hooa