Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-04-09
IN PALESTINE.
Visit 10 Ramallab, Seat Of Friends
Mission Other Interesting
Points visited-Let-
ter Number 80.
e Richmond Palladium.

Il2eO To DO FOR SIX Gays III success
sion must trust my horse to carry
me safely over slippery places. When
| knew him better | trusted him bet
ter, for learned that he knew how
to walk surefooted in dangerous
paths. Over rocks slick, but never
slips. Sometimes the mount
ain brook is his pathway, and
in its waters over the wet rocks, up
or down be goes and never stumbles.
But by and by we come to place so
rocky, so precipitouS, the order is
given to dismount and lead our horses
down. This we do in perfect safety,
though it looked dangerous. In
about three hours we reach Ramal-
lab.
At this place a Friends Mission has
been established several years. Tim
othy H. Hussey, member of our
party, has spent much time and en-
ergy here, and all were glad to wei
come him back Twelve of US had
gone in advance, on purpose to spend
an hour here. But how brief that
hour seemed The girls of the school
| (only girls attend) met US in the yard
as we entered, and sang a beautiful
soug of welcome. Then we went
through the buildings. At least
twenty thousand dollars have been
expended here, under the difficulties
peculiar to Turkish government. But
It has made a bright spot. 1t is the
cheeriest we have seen. Four other
schools are now in the city, and four
other surrounding towns have them.
The people of the place never had
used windows to their houses.
They preferred darkness.
| Now they have windows
and other blessings of civilization.
We saw the girls dressed in neat
American costume-a rare sight. We
were introduced to the teachers
neat accomplished ladies who only
eleven years ago entered this school
as little native girls of Palestine.
MAY this leaven work rapidly, for it
produces marvellous changes. Wilfred
d. Rowntree and his excellent wife
Della, formerly of Kansas, are SUI
perintendent and matron and are in
their proper places. May the Ramal
lab mission increase. We received a
great treat here We were feasted
on cake and cookies and tea just like
we have at home. How deliciousl
HOW nOmellhe! LII Is tue OASIS III IHc
desert.
Only a little farther on we met the
rest of the party at Beeroth, the
place where it is thought Joseph and
Mary and their company stopped for
the night, when they found Jesus
was missing. Here we took noon
lunch. Our stopping places were al
ways near fountains that we might
have water At this fountain as at
others the women were seen with
their large water jars carried on their
heads, being such loads as few men
in America could lift to their
heads Also, the women were wash
ing their clothes by placing them
upon rocks under the flowing waters
and beating them with clubs. These
scenes we saw repeatedly.
Resuming our journey, we passed
Bethel, village noted as the place
Of Jacobs vision, also Gideon and
Ophrah, and Robber S Pool and Rob
oer's Fountain, SO called because ip-
Iested by robbers. Of to our rlgnt
was All. Our journey was protracted
into the darkness and the end OF 1t
lay Oh ledge so narrow and with a
slope beneath so steep that many of
the horses slipped, but in every case
recovered themselves and none were
injured Our first encampment was
on the level ground just by the mud
village of Sinjil, whose inhabitants
fiocked around to watch US. A
splendid supper was served.
Next morning we were in our sad
dies at Z o clock and rode till p. m,
travelling nineteen and one-h half miles
to Jacobs Well, where we lunched.
On the way we saw Shiloh, the Plain
of Mukhua and the Tombs of Phinehas
and Eleazar jacobs Well is now in
the possession of the Greek church, ;
having been bought recently OF its
former owner, whom we saw. a
church was built over it in the fourth
and torn down in the eighth,
and its ruins have prevented tourists
from seeing the real well. Now the
ruins have been cleared away, the
well has been cleaned out, and we
drank from it pure, clear water and i
obtained bottle of it to carry home.
We saw the very stone upon which |
Christ sat as He talked to the woman i
and the words this mountain, now l
comes with new meaning. AS to the
relative position of Mounts Ebal and I
Gerizim they are a little different I
from what | expected but far more !
striking and suited to Scriptural mar ,
ratives than Ihad supposed. Joseph s I
Tomb is about twenty rods north of :
Jacobs Well and is covered by a I
small dome structure. jacob 5 Well
is now enclosed by stone wall with I
about three acres in the enclosure.
Mt. Gerizim is still the place of
sacrifice for the Samaritans, who
lumber about 200 and reside in i,
Shechem, at its foot. Every year !
hey sacrifice the Passover, and are :
20 Jealous that no Gentiles touch their i,
sacrifice that they would kill any one ;
lot Samaritan who would dare
ouch wool or bone or flesh of the :
,acriticial lambs They assemble in :
'ents two weeks in advance. They
marry only among themselves and
here ere not enough women for the
men. When a girl baby is born there :
5 great rush to secure her for wife.
We went only one and half miles ,
n the afternoon and encamped just i
outside Nablous (Shecheml a city of
a, 600 inhabitants. \ Turkish gar ?
'iSon is located here and Turkish {
oldlers guarded US not only here, :
'ut at all other encampments in our .
The people here are fanati
al and we were cautioned to be very
areful not to appeal to their fanati I
ism in any way. Il
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