Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-13
In THE HOLY LAND.
Interesting Narrative Of Travels
in Palestine.
THE SAMARITAN BROTHERHOOD
View Bethlehem, the Mount OF Olives
and Gethsemane.

from lana. faleStine, having aifiNcu
yesterday evening from FIVE days
horseback ride from Jerusalem to take
the steamer here for Beyrout and Cou-
stantiuopie. find she lost day by
getting aground at Port Said and so
have time TO catch up with my CORES
pondence You will remember how
we used to joke with T Buckley Tay-
Tor about getting the appointment Of
consul to Jerusalem. thought of it
when | was in that ancient city last
week Jerusalem is disappointment
70 anyone who is looking for beauti
full city. 1t is beautiful for situa-
ton but its population Of 10000 is
far from making it "a JOY to the whole
earth. OF more wretched. filthy.
degraded people it is hard 10 conceive.
However, the old City of David was
the type Of the spiritual city and we
are not to compare its lost estate
with the glories of Zion the city Of our
God.
We passed through the Via Doloro-
"a to the Church Of the Holy Sepul-
chre and were shown the reputcd graves
IF Christ. Nicodemus. and Joseph Of
Arimathea, the pillar where Christ
I was scourged. the place where the
cross stood. and the rock rent by the
earthquake Among the many other
places visited was the Mosque oil Omar
on the top OF Mount Moriah There
is too much of tradition about most of
the holy places hut there can be but
little about the hills and springs. The
Mosque occupies the site Of Solomon's
templs, the threshing floor ofArauuah
the Jebusite, the place where Abraham
offered Isaac, ete. and it is a beautiful
specimen of Mohammedau architec.
ture. As at the other mosques we
have visited, we were compelled to
put on gunnysack slippers or go in
stocking feet in order that we might
not defile the temples Of Islam
From this point we passed out St.
Stephens gate and took donkeys fora
ride of three miles TO Bethany. where
we visited the tomb Of Lazarus and
the home of Mary and Martha. We
came back directly over the summit Of
the Mount of Olives and spent some
time in the Garden of Gethsemane.
As Rev. DIR. Thompson read from from
the goth chapter Of st. Matthew, while
we were resting, he almost broke
down, so overpowering was the theme
and place.
In the afternoon we drove FIVE miles
to Bethlehem and visited the various
ehapels and sights of that place. The
next morning we encircled the walls
Of the city from the outside aud in the
afternoon started on our horseback
ride through Samaria TO Galilee. over
about the same route our Savior walk
ed. The mountain paths our horses
traversed would have hopelessly famed
any American horse in FIVE minutes
but the Syrian stock. 20 horses for the
tourists and about the same number OF
donkeys for the pack train. got through
the 100 miles without injury For
two days the boulders and bare NOUN
tains OF rock caused slow progress but
we made good time in the valleys Of
Samaria, and the plains Of Dothan.
Esdraelon, and Jezreel. Some Of the
interesting points we visited were
Perah. Bethel, Shiloh, Jacobs we'll.
Sychar, Josephs tomb, the mountains
Of Ebal and Geiizim, Shechem. City Of
Samaria, Tel Dothan, Jeniu, Mount
Gilboa, Shunem, Hermon, Mount Ia
Dor, Horns Of Haitian, liberals. and
6-mile sail on the Lake Of Geuesafet
to where itempties into the River Jor-
dan After visiting Cana Of Galilce
we passed on TO Nazareth where we
spent the night and visited points Of
interest yesterday morning. Six
hours cautering and walking brought
us to Gaia. will not be able to give
impressions Of trip in this short letter.
This morning we called on Or. G. S.
Shumaker. American vice consul here,
who treated us royalty lie has reia-
tives at Wheeling in VIM. Bieberson
and Mrs. Beaunster.
| Our excursion party left New York
Feb. 6 with 45o members aud has Wis
tied the Bermudas. Gibraltar, Malaga.
Granada. the Alhambra. Algiers. Alex
audria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Pal.
estine so far Martinsburg people are
acquainted with three OF our members
in Rev. J. S. Logic. Of Baltimore, for
merry OF Charles Town; Miss Edith
Symington, of Richmond. Va, for
merly of Charles Town: and Mrs.
Blackburn Hughes. Of Charleston, S.
c., formerly Of Martinsburg. arr
the only out and out West Vifginiau
in the party.
Tie Samaritan Brotherhood, as
the Samafia party Dubbed themselves
after leaving the main body at Jeru-
salem. is composed Of y ciergymen
and laymen, Presbyterians in the ma
jointly. Dragoman Awad was in charge
and had bedding, etc. at the monas-
taries at which we were to STOP sent
or ahead, and kept pack train with
us Of nine donkeys with provisions
and luggage. managed by as many
Arabs We presented quite an impos-
ing appearance. The stopping places
were RamaIIsh. Nablous. Jenin. Tibe-
Iias. and Nazareth. We are due back
in New York April "a and will prob
ably see good deal ia the intervening
time. The vessel is coming into the
harbor and must stop here
! SAMuEI JAcos.
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