The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-18
THE KAIsER's PILGRIMAGE.

The party which is to accompany the
 Emperor to Palestine will, including the
 Empress count ladies, household off,
 cials, and his Majesty's military en-
 tourage and personal attendants, num-
 Der altogether about hundred persons.
 The clergy who have been invited to
 take part in the conservation festivi-
 ties at Jerusalem are not included in
 this number. They travel at their own
 expense, and must fend for themselves,
 and only in the Holy City will they be
 the Emperor's guests. For the rest,
 the widespread supposition that the inn
 perial journey from Berlin to Jerusa
 lem is being managed throughout by
 a tourist agency is incorrect. The tour will be managed, until Europe is left,
 by the Court Marchal's Office, and the
 agency in question only takes charge
 when Asia is reached. The outward journey is, as is known, via Constan- tinople, where there will be a grand re- ception by the Sultan. From here the journey will be continued by the sea of Marmora, the Dardanelles, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean, along the coast of Palestine, past Beyrout, Tyre, and Sidon, to Hapha, which will be reached on the 26th of October. Jaffa will be the next point, and thence direct route will be taken to Jerusalem On their arrival in Palestine the inn perial couple will be received by young
 German ladies all dressed alike, and the frockS they will wear on the occasion
 are being made at Magdeburg. They are of white muslin with cream moire
 sashes. The simple and youthful cos tunes are made smarter by being tri- mmed with Marechal Mel roses and lilies of the valley, the Empress's fav- orite flowers. On the 31st of October the solemn consecration of the church will take place, the foundation stone erick when Crown Prince. Several ex-
 cursions will be made from Jerusalem and places of interest visited includ- ing Jericho and of course Bethlehem. The return journey from Jerusalem will be taken advantage of to explore the Holy Land. First, in a northern dires- | tion, Nazareth, Tiberias, and Caper- naum will be visited, and then Helpha, where the imperial couple first landed. Thence they will go by sea to Beyrout, and again land for a longer tour by coach and rail to Damascus and the Lebanon, and then back again to Bey- | rout, where the party will embark on | the 18th of November for Europe Be- T ,~a+ ,;,,l l travellers will most likely be back on l the Spree without having touched Con- stantinople again The task of the agency above referred to is by no means an easy one, for which the eX-
 ception of Jaffa and Damascus, the l only place where hotels will be made use of, tents will be the order of the day, and one can easily imagine that | it will be by no means so simple to | furnish meals as it would be from the l hotel kitchen. One need scarcely say that the tents are not simply field tents, but are pretty solidly built and luxuri- 1 ously fitted up, which is, of course, l necessary, there being so many ladies | of the party. Special attention will most | likely be madS to the transport of the l jewels and very valuable orders, and | although they are being conveyed un- | der special Turkish escort, special l officials of the Court Marshars office | and others appointed by the agency | will be told off for their surveillance l At the consecration of the Saviours s l Church in Jerusalem, all the dignitaries | of the Christian religion communities | in the Holy City, especially the Greek, | Armenian, and the Roman Catholic,
 will be present. The German Evan gelical community will appear for the l first time as an official corporation. ! While for centuries the above-named l churches have been a power in Pales- l tine Professionalism was scarcely I thought of till the beginning of this century. The Americans were the first to bring about a change, and later on the English, and, under Frederick
 William the Fourth, the Prussian Protestants also gained some rights. But even as late as after the restora- tion of the German empire at the be-
 ginning of the seventies, the German Protestants were only allowed to use
 a chapel every second Sunday after I mission to the Jews. According to the
 agreement then arrived at, an evan gelical bishop was appointed by Eng land and Prussia alternately. Only in
 the eighties were these relations broken
 off, and the German Evangelical con-
 munity in Jerusalem was made inde-
 pendent It has now received in the
 Church of the Saviour which, with
 magnificent spire, towers above all the
 surrounding domes- it's own fitting
 place of worship. The forthcoming
 events are of the greatest importance
 to the authority of the German name in Palistine.-Berlin Correspondence
 London Daily News.