Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-07-04
wALHALLA SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY 4, 1850.

morning till night, but certainly this
was no ordinary voice. l stopped
my horse and listened intently and
tracing the voice to it's source, I
looked to the minaret Of the mosque
of .Aksa or Omar, and then I knew
what it meant. Five times every
day the Muezzin proclaims the hour
for prayer from the minarct of every
mosque throughout the Mohammedan
world, and that shrill, far.sounding
call, the faithful Mussulman, wher-
ever he may be, first bows his head
to the right and then to the left in
salutation to the invisible angels that
ever surround the faithful, then bows
to the ground with his face turned
toward the holy city of Mecca.
Such was the voice / heard from the
spot where onGc had stood the great
temple of Solomon, crying out in
Arabic tones: "Allah, Akbar, Asha-
du anna Ia ilaha i'll Allah," etc. The
, English reading of the call is given
as follows: "Allah is great; l testify
that there is no God bnt Allah and
Mohammed is the prophet of Allah;
come to prayer" But here l am 60
ing into revcrie of thought about
Jerusalem instead of bringing you
up with us TO the North.
BETHEL.
But can only picture to you
Bethel, where Jacob saw the vision
of the ladder and tho angels. A
cold, bleak place OH the summit of
stony hill; and by thc way, I think
Of all the old cities of Palestine,
saw but three or four that were not
set on a hill. Now ancient Shiloh,
where once was kept the ark of the
covenant; whore Eli dwelt and where
the youthful Samuel heard the voice
three times and then he knew that it
was the voice of the Lord-now only
a heap of ruins with not single
habitation. Now N, oulus, the an
cient Shechcm, thrifty town to-
day, nesting in between the noun
tains Ebal and Gerczim. There
dwell the handful of descendants of
the enemies of Israel, the Samari-
tans. Near here we visited the well
of Jacob, where the Lord taught the
woman one of the greatest truths
ever uttered by human lips.
Now the lovely little valley OF
Dothan, where Joscph's brethren
sold him to the Ismaelitish mcr-
chantmen, who carried him down to
Egypt, where he was destined to
have career of wonderful useful
ness and honor, and ut last, like Him
whose type he was, to save his bre-
thrcn who hated him.
Now Mount Tabor, where some
say the TRANSPORTATION took place, a
lovely mount rising on all sides from
the plain and commanding a view of
the surrounding country which COM
pcnsates thousand fold for the time
and task Of the ascent.
| NAZARETH.
Now Nazareth, the little mountain
town, where Jesus, the lad, grew to
be a man, the finest town 1 saw in
Syria, with the finest looking people
the finest looking homes, forcing the
conviction that if the ancient city
was in any way an approach to the mo-
dern, it was not the wickcdncss, but
the remoteness and obscurity that
justified Nathanacl's question,
"Can any good come out of Naza-
reth?"
Now Cana, of Galilec, where the
first miracle was wrought. Now
Main, where the widows dead son
was restored to life.
Now the mountain of Karn Hat.
ton, where they say, and it seems
with some reason, that one of the
miracles of the Loaves and Fishes
was wrought and the Sermon on the
Mount was preached. Now Tibc-
rjas, the filthy little town by the
beautiful little lake, on whose wa
ters Christ walked, and from whose
shores he called several Of his disci-
Piles to leave their nets and become
fishers of men. We spent day at
the lake, lunching beyond Jordan,
visiting the ruins of Capcrnaum at
both the places where it is agreed
the ruined city stood; and the abso-
lutte disappearance of Bcthsaida,
Chorazin and Capcrnaum, SO that to-
day men cannot tell where they
stood 1900 years ago, is n strong
comment upon tho prophetic words