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Second Acts. .,
! The Arabs think more OF David than SOL
ONION; but they hold both in such esteem
that they desire monopoly Of their bodies.
As we pass out of the court of this mosque,
tomb, or temple. four camels crowd us
closely. They are bringing IN charcoal;
and Of such is the glory Of Solomon!
Returning then to lions gate, we find a
/ colored brother and brown Arab boy
playing cards. There is quite throng at
this gate. We are stopped, and have time
| to note that it is tricked out in places with
ga,ldy paint. It's pillars are dobbed red
and green. One donkey boy gets into q
melee with crowd of laggard donkeys and
horses and their drivers. He let his stick
have full play on other people. what
| does the young Arab say?" inquire of the
guide. ut is an expression here. Why
don't you go on like people!" Sure enough,
my young turban. why not?
Then we go to the door were Peter
knocked, when the little maiden, Rhoda.
came, and, running back, announced to the
friends his enlargement from prison. The
Syrian Christians keep it. 1t has curious
green gates and crosses. We go through
the Jewish quarter, into the old Syrian
church, with its sounding boards and bells
also, and pass down David's street. am
attracted by a sign. photographs by Mic
odemus." What an anchorism! What gaps
of centuries between Nicodemus and this
new art, never dreamed of by Hebrew or
Greek. 1t being Sunday, we meet many
Germans coming from the Lutheran church;
fer let it be known that there are some Pro-
testants in Jerusalem. The cherry, cherry
faces and bright blue eyes of this race are
in radiant contrast with the sallow and
bronze feature one meets here at every step.
How well dressed they are.lnen. women,
and children! They are of the German
colony. The German consul, who lives at
our hotel, tells nae that there are over 1900
Germans in Judea. They worship
here in the old site of the Tenn
pie of the knights of st. John.
The grounds and ruins are adja-
cent on the south to the Church of the
Sepulchre. They were made present to
Prussia in 1869 by the sultan. The old
church is being excavated, as for fifty feet
| the rubbish covered it's arches and walls
There has been much work done, but one
third only of the excavations nre completed.
The walls are already dressed in vines.
Going up amid the antique cloisters of the
famous knights, we see upon what "heaps"
Jerusalem, as now known, reposes. We
look into hole fifty feet deep. Down in
it's darkness we see the old street ways of
Jerusalem in the crusader days! Enough
stone has been taken out and piled up to
build the new church which is being erect
ed. Some of the old arches are elegant in
shape, and keyed with skill that defies de-
struction. In the courts up the stairs
whittier we are guided by a tall Nubian in
white burnous-there is much taste in the
growth and arrangement of flowers, for the
sun shines in upon the cool balconies. We
enter the vaulted chapel, once occupied by
the knights. 1t Las its lace alter.
embroidered chaneel, polished wooden
pews, Maltese crosses, bap6smcl font,
and plain pulpit, recalling the
anomaly of I1utheranism, in the
grand old Catholic cathedrals of Scandina-
via. We look for the blackboards for chap
Ter and verse and number of the psalm for