Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-27
TrnveIin. in Palestine.

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There is no land where visitors are 80
enthusiastic as in Palestine none
where there are such disappointmeuts.
Some shed tears Of joy in beholding Je-
rusalem, while others turn away in dis
gust from its crumbling walls, its heaps
Of rubbish, its filthy streets. A friend
informs me that while riding from Jafa
to Jerusalem he met an American from
Chicago fastening down to Jaffa to en-
bark on the steamer. He had been one
day in Jerusalem.
i'Lct me advise you," said he, "to
turn your horses head toward Jaffa.
I have been up to Jerusalem and there
is nothing there worth seeing. It is a
miserable old town - dirty, narrow
streets, peopled by a set Of lazy wretch
es, Arabs, Turks and monks, doing
nothing. 1t is the dullest, deadest
place in all the world. 1t is one grand
humbug."
His head was full of Lake street,
Wabash avenue and the Great Central
Depot, and so be turned his back in dis
gust upon the City Of the Great King.
/ know o Bostonian who, after spend
ing three days in the city aud two at
the Jordan and Dead Sea, fastened
back TO Jaffa, declaring that the whole
country was not worth two cents.
This past winter, 10 q Of the parties
travelling through the country, was a
carpenter and HOUSEHOLDER from
the State Of New York, who had accu
INFLATED money and was out seeing the
world. Ho came to Palestine because
others came, but his heart was on joiner
work.
~ never saw such joiner work in all
my born days" said he. "Such doors
and window sashes. I couldn't have
believed It possible for men to have put
together such buugling work as have
seen here in Jerusalem"
At the hotel table iu Beyroot my right
hand reighbor was connecticut judge.
81 don't see," said he, show any one
can visit Jerusalem without giving up
pretty much all their beliefin tue Bible
That is the place where Christianity
was given ; naturally we should expect
10 6ud il pure, and what do we seeY A
set of lazy monks fighting like cats and
dogs over q place which they call the
Holy Sepulchre. They point out the
| place where Mary stood, where Jesus
stood, where the three crosses stood
and a dozen other places, all absurdities
I don't see how any n can 60 here
without coming to the conclusion tina
a good deal Of what we have supposed
was truth in the Bible is not to be be-
lieved."
The reply which he heard was this
son the contrary, having been through
the country, my convictionsof the truth
of the Bible have been %deepened. There
are wonderful points Of contact between
prophecy and history, exact fulfill.
ments Of prophetic words. have seer
places just as the Bible describe them
and doing just what the old proph'
cts said they would do - c~ultivatina
grapes on the hill Of Samaria and spread
ing their nets On the foundations o.
Tyre"
Tourists visit Egypt to gaze upon it
mighty ruins, to connect themselye:
with the past by behUlding with the eye,
| but Palestine is a land Of associations
There are 10 mighty ruins except those
in and around Jerusalem. It is only
by forgetting the present-the monks
aud their mummsries, the Arabs ant
their degradstion-and thinking Of The
past, accepting the history Of tho Bible,
and proving its trnth, that the tourist
can find pleasure in Palestine.
To those who accept the Bible as the
word Of God, there is no such pleasure
in any other land as there Is in store
for them 10 the pastures Of Bethlehem,
where the great choir Of Heaven sang
their song divine, "Peace on earth.
good will to men )" or In the peaceful
vale Of Nazareth !; or by the sea Of Cali
lee, where Jesus walked upon the wa.
tiers, and stilled the storm.tossed waves
by Bethany, Gethsemane, and on the
brow of Olivet, where he pissed into
Heaven, triumphant over sinnnd death,
his work done, the gates Of Paradise
evermore open to all who call upon bis
name, CARLETON.