The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-10

! down past one of the sites OF Calvary
stoning Of Stephen, over Mt. Oliyet, and
leaving the mud hut made village OF
Bethany, climbed on down over the rocks
to the site of old Gilgal n ancient
Ny exit from Jerusalem was made in
| great STYLE, as 1 was given an ARAB barp
! for a mount which pranced and danced
and reared and plunged down, past the
Damascus gate, Galgatha and Aerod's
Gate In a mad way that almost robbed me
of my reason, but my boyhood's ex-
| perence ON pillow horses stood. me in such
good stead that was able to Keep my
seat and enabled me after my first terrors
| were over to enjoy the proceedings i'm
| immensely.
You ali have seen pictures Of Gethse,
good idea Of what the repufed place of
our Lords agony and betrayal looks like
"a little bit Of a garden enclosed with
four stone walls, containing some ten or
twelve old olive trees, a few edars and
some ten or a dozen very small chapels
or praying PLACES. But 1t did not i'm
man about il. and it reminded me i
great deal more of a child's play garden
that 1t did of the place marked by my
deed, this is one of the disappeintments
one meets wit everywhere. The whole
thing is ornamented and ,gilded and ven
are all too much of the gingerbread
order. In fact, the. only place in all
Jerusalem where l feE that l stood on
Protestant scholars claim is Golgotha,
aud evidently IS the identical spot some
body had in mind when zen he wrote;-
Without a city wall,
Where the dear Lord was crucified,
Who died to save us all.
1t is q gentle rise of rolling ground
just a little ways outside the .Domarcus
sGate-the MohamHedans AVE been using
ri as a ceneterN-.but there is an entire
II - - ~ 49, -. r,o ~ ~ tton 49,
'igspacranexery" characteristic of the So
aissasteful. t Hes there very much as
It very good; and ash walked over it
/ felt that If there was anywhere a holy
Place In Ice this Hsrv %cer wai1 gs was .: i. and IF Fiat tnJ !
shoes from off thy feet, for the place
where thou standest is holy ground"
BUT We have started for Jericho. and
on down the way the Lord evidently had
in mind when he said, IA certain mar
went down from Jerusalem to Jericho
along I took out my Bible and read the
tenth chapter Of Luke, at least that por.
ton of which related t~heexperience of
that unfortunate fellow who got stripped
of his raiment and relieved of his pocket
book, and as / did so I could nCshelp
tninking that it was just the place for
road winds down a deep ravine here, up
over a rocky hill there, and is skirted
every here and there by deep rocky clos
ures which certainly afford fine hiding
places for those n live by .preying on
their fellow men. The people We saw
along. the way were for the most part
armed, and with our calvacade rode a
Bedouin armed with a sword and pistol,
and. evincing a determination to make
daylight shine through any one who
melested ms.
/ was inclined to think at first that
show and to give a tinge of romance to
fha gh1rfinn httf frnrn tho nnnO11nfc rf
outrage and robbery which I heard,
concluded that his presence was neces-
sary as a precautionary measure.
/. But we are dragging near the site of
old Jericho, and right at u feet to the
left lies the awful chasum in which the
Brook Chereth dashes down toward the
tried to fathom its wild depths 1 con-
clllded that Elijah did not find it a very
sdifficult matter to hide himself from
that he was content with what the raw
ems brought him, for it is very evident
from the nature of his surroundings that
he could not get any supplies from any
other quarter.
Reaching the site of old Gilgal we took
our dinners and lay down to sleep in a
little hotel called the Jordan House.
might, and in the morning, leaving old
Jericho, Elisha sfourtain and the Mount
of Temptation on our left. and behind
Of Sidon, with the Dead Sea before our
faces, and on our right the Jordan,
cpossing place 'of the Israelitess and
where It is thought that John baptized
suiien stream :n'fR is Waters HMe Which are
always. muddy, go swirling along the tor
tuous channel in a way which seems to
say, Don't bother me: I a to be let
lDn And the man who wrote
BY Jordan's stormy banks l stand,
And cast q wtstful eye
On Canaan'S fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie
must lave been a good deal of an idealist.
as the country round about is about the
most desolate and forbidding possible.
made to blossom like a garden If properly
irrigated by using the water of the river
dSub bfe IT. As TERPe only ua things 1gs It N'l seen na' to
yeilow4sh color, mice, ushes on which
seseo aRgSs e s2dog s S5oMs; d bash q pmsil
which the, crown Of thcrns was woven.
were washing themselves and being bap.
peg an n IT, t az MUDDY VI, waters Ie;as, OF ,t tns river;
small vial Of its water, but Scudder
plunged boldly in n swan to the other
side, and came out of h current with
more mud on his person than he'd get
out Of the Passaic in a month, but it was
M A1A y 6A1a E0 Al oA4 &O LC1RkG.
him one bit. and there is no indication
at present that it will ever figure in a
From the Jordan we rode back again
IN as.course garalleled to the river to the
Dead Sea. which we found to be a very
ling, but when we put our tongues to it,
we very quickly found that there is a
deal of truth in the adage, Things are
not always what thew seem, It was Sc
bitterly salt that 1t stung. Some of the
men Q bath in 1T and came. out look
q brine Barrel, and went about during the
rest of the day with an incrustation of
salt on ears. and hair and beard.
Leaving the Dead Sea, VT its sandy,
barren shores behind us, we rode up
Through and oyer the mountains Of
country the widest, bleakest, lones-
omest 4 had ever seen. I got thoroughly
sick of it before we reawthed the. top of
we had to clir~.b, and / realized as ]
never had before the terrible force of
the Temptation to which our Lord was
days, Satan tried to tempt Him to make
bread out Of the stones which lay about
After a "a mile ride, we at last reached
jerusalem, not so worn out, however,
but b I got q man and took in a
ing for a. while on THE top of the wall,
visiting the wailing place of the Jews
ard a few other points of interest, after
which I went to lay down. to rest and
ne Church Of The Holy sepulehre, under
t1e roof of which. by the wav, are to be
found 50 many lying legends and im-
possible Things that I was altogether
dfsgufted with The whole institution.
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