The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND
REV. DIR. WRIGHT FINDS MANY
CHANGES IN TWENTY
YEARS
INCIDENTS OF JERUSALEM
Jews Taxed and Abused-SuItan i'm
Fear of His Life-Fafnted
Mt Some German
Fears.

'Outrageously taxed, despised and
abused are the Jews in Jerusalem and
the Holy Land today. They cannot
testify in court for or against a Mohana-
medan or Christian. They are the
wealthiest class in Jerusalem, but they
have. no voice in the making of the laws
nor can they obtain any protection from
those laws"
DR.. John Wright, of st. PauFs Episco-
pal church, who returned recently frem
a three months visit in the Holy Land
thus sums up the condition of the Jews
there DR.. Wright visited Palestine
twenty years ago, when he made himself
familiar with every part of the country
His last visit was for the purpose of
studying the old Hebraic inscriptions on
stones recently unearthed and for OBJ
serving the differences between the Sa-
marian and the Jewish characters.
DR.. Wright found that many changes
had taken place in the Holy Land since
his last visit there. Two railroads have
been built, one from Jaffa to Jerusalem
takes the tuorist past where 1t is said the
spot Sampson tied the tails of the two
foxes together and sent them through
the field of corn. This same railroad
passes the great Gothic tower built by
the Crusaders during one of the earlier
crusades.
This touch of modern life in what
seems almost a dead world impresscs
one in a somewhat startling manner"
said DR.. Wright. There is such
SENSE OF UNHEALTHY
about it all The life of the Bible and
the life of today jog shoulders as it were
and something is always cropping up
to carry one back to the time when
Jerusalem was in her glory. For instance,
you remember in the Bible it states how
in the Temple of Jerusalem there were
stones warning the Gentiles al the penal
ty of death not to enter the holy of
holes of the temple? Recently one OF
those stones was unearthed just on the
spot where it was supposed the entrance
to the inner temple was and the in
scrption was with some difficulty de-
clphered. The stone was placed in the
museum at Constantinople, for no mu-
scum is allowed in Jerusalem for sucn
relics. The wall that once inclosed the
court of the temple is still standing, al
though of course, of the temple itself
not one stone is left upon another.
Some authorities doubt that the wall of
the court is the ancient wall, but the fact
that a peculiar beYeled stone was used
in the construction of the temple and
that this stone is used in the wall now
standing bears out the assertion.
''WAILdNG PLACE"
zone corner of this wall is known
as the ''wailing place." and here every
Friday all the Jews in Jerusalem gather
to lament the fall of Jerusalem and the
destruction of the temple. The place is
literally bathed with their tears 70
give an instance of how sacredly they re-
gard this wall, when 1 was in Jerusalem
young German stnudent made up his
mind to get "a piece of the beveled stone
to add to a selection of souvenirs. He
was warned not to attempt such a thing,
but refused to heed the warning One
Friday, when the Jews were gathered
about the wall, the young man pulled cut
stone and struck it in hopes of chip
ping off a piece. Instantly the Jews
were upon him, and it was only with the
greatest difficulty that the few Americans
and Bnglishmen gathered about were
able to prevent his being torn to pieces.
The Jews occupy one quarter of Jeru-
Ialem, the Mohammendans another and