The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-10
JERUSALEM BYR ALL
The Rev. Robert Wick Tells
His People Of His Ad.
ventures in Palestine. ]
DAsHINGssssBY sRACHAEL'S TOMB
The Land Was a Disappointment
to the Ministers--Did Not See
T11ICnBv gEwEDIaa has Is
Sew In Bethlehem.

The Rev. Ralph Wick of the Mercer
EtreetaDntchz Reformed Church, who Is
one of h ,Frfesland pilgrims TO the
Holy Land Ehas written this letter to
his peorae:-sa1 sr9 NesgeA
NEAR BEIRoT, Syria, March u. 1885. !
my Dear People,-lt was wet the other
a letter dated at Joppa, in which / gave
you a brief account of my trip into
Egypt and of the experiences have en-
joyed, in the land of the PharoahS.s
If I remember correctly. | left you at
Joppa, anxious to land and put foot on
the soil of Palestine; at least. we were
If I remember correctly I left you Ct
Jpppa, anxious to land, and put foot on
the sell of Palestine-at least as anxious
20 do so-but Joppa, as you know mas
p SIS Fs ~ MRish to- pf Tand.. xess befoTs
last athirty-hve people whc
10 go ashore were all drowned and ship
spot. The roadwoy is altogether UNI
projected from the storms which sweep
in from the West acre. the Medsterra.
blowing from that quarter the waves
break with great fury on the ledge OF
rocks which jut " from the wafer some
town is built. The landing is effected IN
small boats holding say twenty people
each, and mennetd by some tour or nye
boats round the point Of rocks and In
behind them to the landing place. The
morning We proae Jcpga E Pr
and though we blew whistles fpr the
bcatmen, and hung out signals for
sats an : she ess a=f aer come Gvs fs afts ss sass
the Soatmen. reckless as they are. re.
sSssa t on PMS she s aeot FOR ts ns; IS IS ,t Ms e'e q IS
who make no pretenstons to being rs
meek as Moses, n found fault with
people became a burden to the rest Of
Of US srs are 'a lssf s 8 a' to e e'e eantens VIII
boats sasssrs a under eur bows and the
ana passengers witch battles my powers
nightmare. Tue hand, however. MSS
we climbed aboard the rail train waitins
the m~euntains OF JsJaah toward 5erusa-
% not mean thas we dropped tmns;
rate OF .spesd. as We ddn'ts.de any such
thing. The o Is quite t~ortueps. Meap-
s ssEtax asoaf, winding rs way up ne rs
mountain st~orreTts.. climbing ale1g. nEnl
at last, at about eleven o'clock aE-n!Eht.
,xs drew e up asens side de, the .,; JssSsal fSs,
which se were driver at tie same mad
ssss "a sssa wA ss. q y., hsys Il aa assss. s ssa. g
The az Driver sr' Pulled up saa,se - = walls III
ss ths sIsy quite ef n psy,a va Tsaf Z M kse' "
rived q aud sound is due rather to
rha goodness OF the Lord than to the
S Is ps e sas 'e eRsr w our p asassnle sin gai
at the Jspra gate we were set down all
Q: K..SesVte the recklessness and lack
taken f1tn tie franciscan monastery
NAMED the "Carsa Nova"-when .herce-
eyed Turks. who looked as though thsy
who figure In the Arabiap Nights. show
IS to otf. gstcne-doored. m-any-cOtted
g1oms. and we lay daMn e
fation these hostelrles have for nameless
guests and sanglltnary hosts. The TACT
about Sassn ready for a1'n my ride 70 Beth
leheln, swhtch lies over the hills some
s Issi, miles sss from the ancient town Of Tbs
hsysspoken q the rsokisssasss Fl
ness. AS we dashed by the tomb Of
}eoing toward Jerusalem-of course the
way was not to be given up altogether
10 the beast. the natural result being that
fhat1the wagon colladed with the pack
kilarions sWay un1noved, but we had "a
Htop for Repairs. the drivers seat being
born out at n end and the break bar
0h(U.4 OAB1lOzt1dy 0Q NY S0CAs o. tlAlAA
hccident our Jehus pressed on and In his
ftternpt to keep up with the procession,
ran into the corner of a house round
which he tried ITO rush on the run.
But a word or two to the roAd and the
sown. Who built the road ! do not know,
put it is a very good one, starting from
the Jaffa Gate. going down by the Val
Into which the former merges. up past
tie tree ON whlch Judas is said to have
where David and Gohath fought. the
lpot where Rachel died, the rock On
be fed from Ahab's wife to the mountain
Of Horeb (the hole in the rock which he
neTn, " whom I saw lie ihimssE down in
It, says he's of the same build as the
prcphet, as the hole in the rock y just
seen, however. Just how the Ananiases
who give you the tale about the hole
ponent saith not, as they did not attempt
10 give him any wild goose story about
When the tomb Of Rachel was built i