Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-02
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the hem of the ephod and the chapiters on the brass pillars of the temple, if they had faithful representations of these blossoms upon them.
 The history of Jaffa is one of violence and bloodshed Few towns have been sacked, pillaged and burned SO many times as Josephus, Jerome. Ensebires and oth- CT historians record. Even the apocryphal books of the Maccabees, if they are to be accredited, rehearSe the details of some of these disasters. In latter years the city has enjoyed the unenviable notoriety of having it's name associated with Bonaparte,
 pestilence and the poisoning of sick soI- diers. The present city is about one hun" dr0d and fifty years old. century and 8 half ago this coast was so infested with pi- rates that the inhabitants all withdrew to Ramleh and Lydda. just as the inhabitants of Tyre, further up the coast, deserted that city for the same reason. A little garrison of soldiers waa alone stationed here to notify the merchants at Ram1eh of the arrival of 8 ship.
 The principal attraction to tourists in Jat- ia is the house of Simon the Tanner.
 Through nasty lanes and steep, slippery causeways picked my way to the house, which is very old though of course no one
 claims more than that 1t occupies the site of Simon's house. As Dean Stanley and the principal travelled scholars agree, everything favors the claim that this is the identical spot. To the west, only two or three rods distant is the blue Mediterranean, tapping it's shelly shore with 8 perpetual murmur
 To the south along the shore are tsnnerles to this day It is pleasant to suppose that Sl- mon lived inside of the wall. instead of right close by the tsnneries (which were, of course, outside Otherwise his life would have been burden by reason of the offensive odors, and his health would have been imperilled. Of course the wall has been torn down now, so that there appears to be no line of de. markation for the city limits. Believing that this was Sensible Simon, and not Simple Sl- mon, I prefer to think that his home was re- tired.
 Entering through an arcade of coarse plaster, the frat thing that greeted my gaze was well, seemingly as old as the pyra- mids The top was covered with single circular stone of very hard material, which was worn four oY Ave inches deep in several places by the friction of ropes employed in pulling up the water, the obvious antiq quity of this well would seem to justify the belief that it existed in Simon's time unchanged. Above it was one of the common wheel arrange ments for drawing the water, and in front was a stone sarcophagus into which the water might be poured l pumped" a bucketful by revolving this time-worn wheel, and after time, up came clumsy leather bag filled with water. I tasted of the liquid, but it was warm and very bractish on &C., couhs Of the proximity of the sea, and my FOO- Simon ard his guests, compelled to ouaff such stuff Near by the well stood a fig tree from which I picked leaf as souvenir.
 Ascending 8 parrew external staircase made of plaster I mounted to the roof, which is approximately where Peter lay, and had his wonderful vision while waiting for the women to prepare his noondsJ Tepast below The account says that he ''Wens ap upoAl the housetop to pray about the sixth hour" hat is just the way the Jews and Mohss0med ans do to day. All the natives use the anclI nt divisions of dime, whereby the slxtn hour would be either noon or midnight, and tA twelfth hour what we designate as 6 o$aoeA in the morning or o'clock in the evening. Then came the trance in which Peter saw the descending shee9 filled with unclean beasts, fowls and reptiles, and heard the voice, ''Rlse, Peter, klil ana eat" His spiritual insight had been sharp ened by several bitter experiences sHd he promptly accepted the import of the divine
 message that the Gentiles were chosen as
 well as the Jews. Descending, he found the delegation of three men from Cornelius, the centurion of the Italian band at Cesarea,
 knocking at the gate lie had HOW learned to obey, and on the morrow he started for
 Cesarea with the escort thus provided.
 In this connection I want to tell Of 8 Hood of light which have had thrown upon the second chapter of Acts by very common place incident. You RnOW tue uhE1dGIFe of the Pentacostal baptism tells how, when the bystanders mockingly suggested that the disciples were full of new wine, Peter lifted up his voice and said ''* these are not drunken as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day, lie, nine o'clock in the morning. This, can now see, was to all intents and purposes an unanswerable argument The incident which proved this to my mind was one which occurred during | the visit of high toned native dragoman 10 the house where I am stopping. It was about ten o'clock in the morning. The pro- prietor of the establishment brought out some Jerusalem wine, and offered it to the guest according to a custom which Is from clad, and which, doubt not, existed in New Testament days. But the dragoman, with characteristic formality, refused persist ently to taste of the liquid, protesting that | it was only the fourth hour of the day, and I he could not think of drinking until the | sixth hour" I am assured that this is a I widespread and almost universal custom. 1 Here, on this Jaffa rooftop, Peter slept and l praye6 and doubtless ate, during his sojourn l with Simon the Tanner. As he gazed off at I the fishermen, casting their nets on the sea- shore but few rods distant, did not the I sight sometimes remind him of his former II life on the shorrs of ''blue Galilee," and l perhaps make him just wee bit homesick for the dear, familiar scenes? EMILE.