The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-01

community has a store down town wher:
tourists find the best photographs, tbs
best curios, costumes, coins and othel
souvenirs of the Holy Land and they
are entirely reliable. No misrepresen-
tations are made. and there is only one
price. In the ordinary shops of Jerusa-
lem and other places in the Holy Land
the statements of the native merchants
can never be relied upon. and they al
ways ask three or four times what ar
article is worth. because they expect
to be beaten down 1t is a custom of the
country, but the American store is con-
Quoted on the American plan and is
therefore satisfactory place TO trade
Members Of the community, both men
and women, are engaged in manufacture
/ ing articles for sale. They have a large
Photographic establishment TO develop
and make prints from negatives they
have taken at all the points Of interest
in Palestine; they manufacture all kinds
of musical instruments. weave linen and
wool. they have a shoeshop and bakery
which is as neat as wax, an art-room
at which young girls are taught draw
/ ing and painting, to decorate china and
other articles, and put up pressed flowers
! gathered at the holy places. They are
altogether very industrious little com
munity of 40 people of whom twenty
are from Chicago and the remainder rep
resent seven different nations, being
mostly Germans and Swedes
The community gets its name: 'Over-
corners from the passage in Revelation
which says; He that oyercometh, to him
viii 7 give to eat OF the Tree of Life -
and although their ideas of the marriage
relation are a little confusing, they are
given great credit by their neighbors for
doing good. for nursing the sick, feeding
the hungry. clothing the naked and
teaching the ignorant. without money,
without price and without making any
fuss about it. AS I understand it. the
marriage relation IS recognized as it ex-
lists, but the younger members of the
community are not encouraged to marry
at least Mrs. Spafford, the leader, tells
me so-and if that principle prevails. of
course the institution will sooner or later
die out.
The Turkish authorities evidently APP
prove of the "Overcomers," for some Of
the most prominent government officials
home. which offers a smiling contrast
to the filthy streets and gloomy monas-
teries. I called there one Sunday after
noon and found the whole colony. gath
cred in groups. drinking tea, eating cakes
and singing songs and enjoying instru-
mental music. They seem to be happy
and contented and to be enjoying their
share OF prosperity
In 1865. a French princess. Latour d'Au-
vergne, cousin Of the late Emperor Louis
Napoleon. elected a chapel upon the
Mount Of Olives and surrounded it with
a beautiful cloister. in the walls of which
are imbedded forty-five marble tablets
having the Lords prayer engraved upon
them in as many different languages.
This graceful and novel monument is
supposed TO stand upon the spot where
Jesus sat when He taught the Lords
prayer to his disciples and upon the site
of another chapel built in 100, during
the crusade. which was afterward de-
stroyed by the Moslems. In the center
of the court is a life-size marble statue
representing the princess. and it was in
tended that she should. be buried beneath
it. but she died in France and for some
reason or another her body was never
removed here.
Adjoining the chapel is a small nun
merry, also erected by the Princess Latour.
who endowed it handsomely and provided
a sufficient income to support the sisters
in comfort perpetually, but somehow or
another the funds have been misappro-
priated or misplaced. and the sisters are
in great financial distress.
At the foot Of Bethesda. where the mir
acle f.healing the impoteRt man occurred
is a similar series Of tablets inscribed in
forty-five languages with an account Of
the miracle as related in the fifth chap
ter of John. with which I hope every
body is familiar The pool is now called
Birket Israel. and it is an immense res
ervoir. 500 by 100 feet in size. and it is
nearly 20 feet from the top to the rubbish
that has accumulated at the bottom.
No doubt this IS the same pool that /
stood by the sheep market in the days
of Jesus. where a great number of i'm /
potent folk. blind, halt and withered. I
waited for the angel that went down /
at certain time daily and troubled the (
water. We can see how difficult it must
have been for the impotent man to get I
into the pool first when everybody would /
naturally rush down before him.
The gate through which Jesus made .
his triumphal entry into Jerusalem is /
now walled UP. Il has been closed ever
since the time of the crusaders. but at /
one period. when there was liberal +
minded Moslem governor Of Jerusalem. I
it used to be opened once year on Pain I
Sunday, TO permit a procession to pass
through, but now It is sealed forever. 4
or as long as Moslem rule continues in I
Palestine There is superstition among 4
the Noslems that Jesus viii again come
through that gate at the end Of the .
age" as He did before. and viii take +
possession Of not only Jerusalem but of I
the whole world. said Isa, our learned
guide:
''Mohammed he wall him up: wall him
up solid. He say If he open gate he
lose his mosque and everything else and (
he believes that so. so he wall him Up"
The gate is rich in names. In the days
of the apostles it was known as The
Beautiful Gate" where the lame man
whom Peter healed was placed daily to
ask aims. The crusaders called it Perta
Aurea-''The Golden tsater-and that is
commonly used today. The Arabic name
is The Eternal Gate" but others cal il +
the Gate Of Mercy" and stiu more the
Gate OF Repentance.
WILLIAM e CURTIS.
SHE WAS NURSE. He DOCTOR
Miss Scott SAYS she Met the Mayor Of