The herald., 1897-07-12
THE DREAM OF AGES"
A Fulfillment of the Prophesy of Jer
uSalem for the Jews

According to a recent London cable
gram, the dream of the ages" is about
to be fulfilled.
Mr.. Holman Hunt whose name is a
good one to conjure with, representing,
as he does, all that is progressive in the
realms OF literature, science, art, and
the cult human advancement, has start
led the world with an amazing an
nouncement.
Living as we do in an age when the
PRONUNCIATION Of the widest ideas-which
formerly would have been dismissed as
crazy conceptions--is. now followed up
with abundant proofs of their feasibl-
ity, we should as a matter of cold fact
be prepared for anything But even the
greatest familiarity with the dumb
founding possibilities of this decade mas
not yet developed in the race that suffi-
cient fund of personal elf-containment
which, though equal to almost any
emergency, is hardly receptiSa enough
for Holman Hunts latest proposition.
We have read, it is true, the para
graphs that have gone the rounds of the
press about the purchase of magnificent
gates, stained windows, frescoes, ,friezes,
and sublime "tessellations" for the new
temple at Jerusalem; we have also read
how the worlds workshops have been
ransacked by enthusiastic Hebrews for
the rarest specimens of the designers
skill, in order that Solomon's shining ex-
ample may be paralleled if not eclipsed
We have read a good deal of this sort
of thing lately, and with an interest not
unmiXed with awe. But the latest con-
tribution to the worlds album of revela-
tions is not that Mr.. Hunt is worrying
over the scarcity of cedar in Lebanon,
or where the brass is coming from to
furnish molten chapters, or the dross-
less gold for the altars-these are but
minor considerations; neither is, his
mind exercised just now as to the cloud
lessness of the title to the lot for the
temple, nor even over the question of the
purchase of the town site of Jerusalem
itself. Not at all; he is in treaty with the
sultan of Turkey for no less a gigantic
deal in realty than the acquisitions of the
whole of Palestine!
This scheme is not fairy tale, though
it reads like one. 1t is l-considered
enterprise, reverently and adroitly ex-
plotted For a long time past the He
brew colony in Jerusalem has been aug
mented by the daily arrival of bands of
Jewish pilgrims. Over 30, 900 are now
harbored within its historic walls-pro-
phetic forerunners of their race who if
Mr.. Hunts dream is to be realized, are
but the vanguard of the host who will
within the century invest the promised
land. The scheme of purchase embraces
the entire territory as defined in its wild
est extent by Moses the Lawgiver.
What does this territory consist of? In
view Of this manifest fulfillment of the
dream Of the ages, no one can afford to
remain in ignorance of the geographical
features of Palestine. Pages 1S4 and 135
of Rand McNally's new General Atlas
of the World show not only ON a large
scale-14x21 inches-the whole of Pales-
tine from Tarabulus in Lebanon to GAIA,
and south to the Egyptian border, but
they depict the 1ianking territory of
Syria to the east and the long line of
Holy LAND littoral washed by the blue
waters of the Mediterranean. Its per-
fection of detail must be seen to be ap-
preciated. One can almost see the fish
erman on Gennesaret. Even a deeper
insight into the midnight vigil on the
Mount of Olives can be obtained, for a
colored plan of modern Jerusalem and its
environs is embodied. Full particulars
of this great work appear in another
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