The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-31


and-a- half stored, but extremely high
priced hotel, and attempted to negoti-
ate for the purchase of horses to make
my expeditions to Metropolis and the
surrounding country. Unsuccessful in
this, | visited the ruins only a mile or
so from the hotel returning to eat
supper, prepared after the custom of
the country, and literally swimming In
olive oil. Between 10 and IL O'Clock
that night / was awakened by an
earthquake rocking the house to It's
foundations. Laodicea is in the middle
of the biggest earthquake region in the
world. People scurried through the
passages, but, rejecting that I could
not at my best outrun an earthquake
and that bed was the softest place to be
mashed in; l lay where 1 was until
morning. The hotel built to look like
stone proved, upon investigation next
morning, to be constructed of heavy
timbers, securely dove-tailed together
and well capable of resisting any ordi-
nary tremor.
after an olive oil breakfast I start
ed for the sites of the ruins OF the
seven churches, and sitting down I'M
der an arch belonging to The portico
of the Governors palace 40 through
the message of the sevec churches, as
written in Revelations il. from the
fourteenth verse to the end Of the
chapter. Then I went To the theaters
There was one whose seats, hewn out
of whitest marble, rested GA carven
lions paws. Twelve thousand people
could be seated here, where. before a
critical audience, the compositions
We're read previous to their being deliv-
cred before the public. a second thea
ter was capable of seating q, 600 a
h rI Of xxhi ta aStn
phitheater had room for 100000 In
these theaters four-fifths of the entire
population could be seated with COM
fort, and at a pinch, all could obtain
admittance.
How hard must it have been for
the church of Christ to work among
Aese surroundings, when these tens
u2Nn tens of thousands of the popula-
! tioS went sweeping through the streets
! dav .fter day to the theaters. But
! C,brict did not preach monkism to the
| cburcbsat Laodicea, but accused them
of heinz neither hot nor cold.
at is sasy to understand the luke
warm attitude of the Laodicean
Christians One has only to look at the
tbeaters Eight miles away lay Colos-
81 six miles in the other direction
! Hieropolis. all situated between noun
tains in the yery center of the amuse-
ments of the Ronan-Asiatic provinces,
in an overplus of woridliness.
High up on the mountain sides the
eve is caught nv tbea flash Of mighty
natural reservoir. whence in circular
pipes cut out of blocks two to three
feet long. and so finely joined that
could not place the blade .. my pen
knife between the jointsS ai.nousn no
cement was used; the water supply OF
h. ..it x,rae h,,<, III
ervoir situated on one of tpe seven
hills. While the Romans were pullding
expensive aqueducts, the Laopice.sIn
had already applied the principle ina.
water will reach it's own 1eVelS anu
We're syphoning their water supply IN
scientific fashion all those years ego
So great was the force OF the wafer
in its fall from it's lofty source that an
device had to be constructed to pre-
vent the mains from bursting. Thir-
teen huge pipes, elbowed at tops and
bottoms were erected up and down
which the water coursed before enter
ing the terra Gotta mains Of the city,
many of which are today in good con-
dltion. This is the local application OF
the phrase cold in the message to the
churches. Six miles across the valley
are the hot springs once connected
with an elaborate system of baths,
while in another direction are the mud
dy, lukewarm springs, sickening to the
palate. that exemplify the condition OF
the seven churches. Christ showed in
his instructions how well he knew the
local geographical situation of those
to whom he was sending, when he
said, Because thou art lukewarm and
neither cold nor hot, l will spew thee
out of my mouth
Laodicea was rich community. 1t
was the head of rich caravan route
ana. thirty years after the death of
John, prince of Laodicea left a for !
tune of se0,000.00 to be distributed for
purposes
How terse and wonderfully descrip- /
tive are the little sentences of two !
words in relation to Christs attitude.
I love, / rebuke. | chasten, l stand at |
the door and knock Then the human
viii must come into play. The knock
must be answered by the man."
In closing. Mr.. Giel described his in
terview in Jerusalem with the chief
faoDl OF the Jews of all the world. A
long narrow corridor furnished with
bench upholstered in red that ran its
Whole length, led to the reception
chamber In bay window whose
1oor was raised nine inches above the
general level, sat the aged rabbi. On
Inc iclt WAS bureau with a SlODe VI
gold hsh upon it, and a Yankee clock
made in New Haven, Connecticut, next
TO it.
The rabbi descended from the plat
-orm and, with a cordial shake of the
lano, invited Mr.. Giel to step up and
Ut with him, almost in the exact words
u the promise contained in the end OF
ne chapter just considered in connec-
ion with the story of Laodicea. The
ace OF the rabbi was beautiful, as one
night imagine the face of Moses to
laVe been. The windows of the room :
overlooked the park-like grounds of ,
ne Baron Rothschild. adjoining the
of the chief rabbi The con-
lerSation was of the old prophecies a
Ven now being fulfilled. and the pa s
Tlarch told how. where now the
1rand Hotel stanu cattle roamed
Vhen he was boy. The rabbits dress J.
vas the typical ancient gabardine and
ne turban Of the eastern tribes, while
us white beard fell to his belt. Red
emonade was served, and sweets. the
after consisting of a sticky substance
handled by spoon, and requiring
opious draughts of water to wash 1t 5
own Cigarettes were preferred as a I
I'm. though neithS @uest nor host =
& Sllged. The meettro cableE =
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