The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-18

Then there was a little more
TALK ABOUT THE GREEK CHURCH
and second servant came in with another
tray more gorgeous than the one preceding.
Upon this were wine glasses filed with a
liquor the color of the dark moss rose. 1t
was favored with peppermint and it had
the rich, oily strength of age. Though
scarcely more than three thimbles full, it
brought a pleasing warmth to the whole
frame five minutes after it was drunken
and the doctrines of the Greek church fell
on my ear like the poetry of Moore. This
liquor was followed a few moments later
by third waiter who brought in Turkish
coffee, served in little cups of fine china,
each the size of the smallest egg cup. The
coffee was as thick as Vermont molasses.
1t was sweet and delicious and was served
without cream. Coffee in Jerusalem is the
same as champagne in China. After the
coffee is served the caller can politely
terminate his visit We slipped the aromatic
liquid and then telling the patriarch
that we doubted not but that he was
fatigued with his labors of holy week, we
arose to say goodbye. Before we did so
the Turkish generals babe the adieuX and
to each of these he handed an Easter
egg from a basket which sat on the table
beside his chair.
THE TURKS GRAsPED HIS HAND
before he could let go of the egg and bend
| ing low, imprinted kiss on his fist. They
then, with many crossings and salaamings,
bowed themselves out. We said goodbye
| in American style, shaking hands with "his
blessedness'' and receiving from him a
present of a Bethlehem egg. My egg lies
before me as 1 write. It's ground is the
same red as the colored eggs of the Amer
can Easter, but this red is covered with
etchings and on one side there is a rough
niptr1Tn Of (Nhrict ocpnrldiOor fO hpoJau with
the cross in the background and with the
Virgin Mary holding her hands in adora-
ton. On the other side in a wreath of
olive branches are the figures 1899, and
around the top are etched the letters:
B-O-C-K-P-E-C. X-P-H-C-T-O-C-Z.
l have made number OF excursions
through the different parts of Palestine, IN
the vicinity of Jerusalem, during the past
two weeks. The land is so barren that it
is wonder that city of the present size
can exist within it. The hills on every
side are covered with limestone rocks, and
standing
on THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
and looking towards the east, you see the
silvery Dead sea shining on the edge of
great desert. The land between Jerusalem
and the Jordan is made up of rough, sterile
hills. They are good for little but pasture
and there are no roads but bride paths, |
which are so rough that only sure footed
horsemen can travel on them.
Palestine is perhaps the best known |
country for its size on the face of the earth |
II is only fourteen miles from Jerusalem to |
the Jordan, and it is about thirty five miles |
from Jerusalem to the sea- Palestine, all |
told, is not bigger than Texas county, and |
if it had railroads you could cross it in an |
hour. 1t is not more than three times as
long as it is broad and the distances and |
numbers, which are so large in the scrip |
lures, are very small when viewed with the |
naked eye. Bethlehem is, in reality, about |
seven miles from Jerusalem, and it can not |
be more that two miles from the site of |
SOlomon's temple to the top of the Mount |
of Olives. The valley of Jehosaphat is |
little more than ravine and the valley of |
Khedron runs into it. The villages of |
Palestine are quite as curious as Jerusalem |
in their architectural structure There is |
one just above the pool of Sloan on the
edge Of the Mount of Olives, which is
AFFAIR TYPE OF THE WHOLE.
1t consists of houses of one and two storie.
built half of stone and half cut out of the
rocks against which they stand. There is
no chance of any man going around to the |
back of his house in Sloan and it is
village without back yards. 1t makes one
think more of the cave jewellers, or of the
Pueblo Indians, than of people whose his
tory is as old as time.
In riding about Palestine one is forcibly
reminded of the scriptures. You meet |
Bible characters everywhere and Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, with their patriarchal faces |
and their long, white boards, look out at you
from every hillside. You see the Bethle-
hem shepherd on the hills and on the plains,
and the ploWman with his crooked stick
of pillow in one hand and with his goad in
the other, drives his bullock or ass in the
furrow now as he did in
THE DAYS OF CHRIST.
I saw yesterday camel blowing on a plain
that once belonged to the Philestines, and | |
see women gathering the harvest as they |
did in the tine of Ruth. These Bedouins |
look not unlike Ishmael might have ap-
peared when his hand was against every
man and every mans hand was against him,
and you see If the gentle, refined, olive
hued faces of these rough Syrians the same
sweetness that painters love to put into
that of our Savior.
Palestine has more and more pilgrims
every year. During the present Easter the
first pilgrimage from Spain has come to
Jerusalem, and l am told that a thousand
Bulgarian Jews will be here within the
next few months. Our own American
pilgrims have celebrated holy week with
all the accessories and they have worked
harder at sightseeing and worshiping here
than they have ever done at home There
are a hundred of them in all and among
these are a number of ladies. During the
days before Easter they rose at four in the
morning, had mass and went through a
series of
DEvoTIoNs BEFORE BREAKFAST,
All day they were busy going from one holy
place to another and at many of these places
IL I |
them at the monastery the other night |
found them all, from the Bishop of Cen
nesee to the women, tired out and not a
few of them were longing for home Many
IF them will carry presents of rosaries to
their friends and many of the Catholic
pastors are buying enough rosaries to give
1ne to each member of his flock They buy
them by the pound and the bushel and they .
nave shipped great cases of them to
America.
These rosaries have, IN most cases, been
rubbed over the hottest of the holy spots of
Jerusalem. They have been taken to the
church of the holy sepuloher and placed on
he stone which covers thespot where Christ
vas anointed. They have been carried in
% the very sepulcher itself and placed upon
Christ's tomb, and they will bring happi- {
ness to many a devout Catholic heart
The rosary business is one of the great j.,
Industries of Jerusalem. There are hun
ireds of stores here which sell nothing else
md some of the keepers of these are as big ,
'ascals as you will find on the face of the !
Globe One of them will not soon forget
Jesuit friend of mine whom he tried to
heat. Some of the finest of the rosaries !
ire made of mother of pearl beads which are
round out at Bethlehem and which are SO
polished that :
THEY LOOK LIKE BEAUTIFUL PEARLS. $
The beads are of different sizes and there !