The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-09

jump OF his mule, unload and unstrap
all his packs 10 look Tor book
Won NAV express the desire for, or 70 ct
YOU a cracker should you feel faint on the
road. 1 found him. moreover. perfectly
honest and Trustworthy without an excep-
ZION. Carving multitude Of things more
or less valuable. IN our trunks and vslses,
not one f g party ever missed solitary
article and t1Ings accidentally II slald or
70 gotten were brought % Us By or faith
ful attendants.
Having returned to Je-usalem after our
first expe-ie C OF camp life. We visited the
I tower Il David. which reaches high among
I neighborinz buildings OF HOLY City.
An omen space stands bef re the great
| structure. which is entered through an
arcnwsy orns neIted with pinnac-es. Most
! Il what was oncs the arched space has been
built ~. AMI one 60 through a compare
/ tivelY small gateway into the building,
/ walking on a ca seway slightly higher THAI
! the ST. Y street. Of the space outside. There
/ are stairs on the outside IF the great tower,
which lead up half way To the top. Inc
! remaining stairs are inside. Having gained
/ the top cone finds a parapat for safety,
and looks out upon Jerusalem from point
/ of decided vantage. The history Of the
| structure is not perfectly known. What Of
| carpe terry work there is in II is modern.
/ Evidences Of work by crusaders are re-
yealed IN the masonry, but II may be that
| the massive foundation actually represents
IN part the period Of the great XII g. Here,
| SAYS tradition. il was that he received the
news Of AbSslom's death. Taxing out his
Bible DR.. Talmage read aloud the story of
| how the handsome prince stole the hearts OF
| the men Of Israel. of MS rebellion and terri
| bic fate. A squad Of Turkish soldiers,
the tower being used as an arsenal, sur
rounded the reader as the beautiful narra-
tive flowed from his lips. We next visited
-. 8 - +f,awa
found about forty Of the faithful walllng,
m a ing and mourning because Of the
destruction Of the temple and imploring
Jehovah with impRssioned earnestuess for
its restoration. A number OF men, women
a children were engaged in chanting the
goth psalm. So sincere and earnest were
they in their lugubrio-s devotions, the tears
c1ursing down their pale cheeks, that DR.
Ialmage said ne himself felt like weeping
with them.
At p. m. the same day we left Jeru-
salem, in all probability never TO SEES it
again. Taking the old road that Christ
and his parents must have taken nearly
two thousand years before, we passed Ia a
a short time g extensive workshops of the
London Society for the Conversion of the
jews, which Is the most successful, be-
cause the most practical, christian agency
ever a. work in Palestine. Gibsah where
the prophet Samuel lived and died, and
Ramah, where he was born, were soon
passed, and we came to Beero h. This is
the place # which it is said that there
the child Jesus was missed by his parents
on the occasio of their return trip
from jerusalem where they had taken b i'm
at u years old, to assume after the custom
OF boys of his age, the responsibilities of
active mem ershp in the Jewish church.
Hence they returned to Jerusalem seeking
him sorrowing, to fad him sitting a. tbs
feet Of the feArned men who were accus-
toned to instruct Hebrew boys on the coca
sion which had taken him to the
sacred city. Continuing our journey
from this point we Travelled four
hours longer and then encamped for the
night. We rested on the ide teal spot
where Jacob, lying with stones for his
pillow, saw in his dreams ladder set up on
the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven,
and on which angels of God assembled and
descended. l pass without d scription the
bill o. which Abraham and Lot are sa d to
have divided their camps, when the younger
man made choice of the plain Of Jordan as
pasture ground for his cattle. Ophrah is
interesting as the birthplace of the heroic
Gideon. At Shiloh one reflects upon its
having been. in the days of the judges, the
Jerusalem Of the religious world. The rui s
occupy nil beside poor village A No
hammedan mosque, half in ruins, is the
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known antiquity show where once we're
chambers Possibly good old Eli lived in
building of which portions Of these ruinous
walls were once part; and it may rave
been SO that TIE tabernacle itself rested
upon them. Mounts Ebal aud Gerizim were
were next visited. Jacobs well, which is
near Gerzim, this mountain" as our Lord
called that large hill, has great stone over
its mouth. The masonry on which
Jesus sat as he talked to the woman
of Samaria, no longer exists, but
the well is still in use at such times as the
supply of water is not cut off by lack of
rain. 1t is more of els ern than a we'll
For this reason our Lord compared its
water with Giving water" springing up. A
hole has been cut through the middle of the
covering stone large enough for skin
buckets to be put down into the well
through 1t. The well, which is now seventy
| five feet deep, was much deeper before
visitors formed the habit of throwing stones
| into it to hear the echo caused by their
striking the bottom. Some learned
| people suppose that when jacob dug the
well 1T was double the depth it is now, and
as it is more than seven feet across one can
form some idea of what were the gifts as
| an engineer that characterized the astute
| Jacob, and how rich were the resources
which enabled him to carry out his great
plan. Nablous, the ne city, was Shechem
| in very ancient times, and Samaria in our
Lords time. Il is situated in fertile, we'll
Satered valley. Woody growths cover the
sides of surrounding hills, aud olive
| trees ad )rn the scene in the center
| OF which it stands in con-
siderable beauty, as seen from a
distance. 1t is quite manufacturing town,
that is for the Orient, containing soap and
olive oil works. Inside it is dirty and ar
chitecturally disappointing. Some Of the
streets are darkened by arches TIE chief
building in the town is a mosque, which
was once christian church 1t was built
by the crusaders, but now the crescent
triumphs over the cross. DR.. Talmage was
interested to inspect an ancient manuscript
of the Pentateuch, and at Nablous we en-
camped for the night. LOUIS KLoPSCH.