The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-04

i walks homeward he sees the Jews houses connected by a wire strung on poles that look like telephone. and Ia told that it Is unlawful for Jew to carry any article from one house to another on the Sabbath, so they connect their houses by wire, making them theoretically one house, and then they are free to carry anything from one to another. No people should expect to prosper while their re- ligion Is thus fundamentally the dishon- est eye-service of nen-pleasers.
 l omit the thoughts that crowd upon one on the Mount of Olives, in Geth- semane. and on Calvary without the walls.
 There are three churches chiefly recog- nized in Jerusalem, the Roman Catho- lic the Greek Orthodox and the Gre gorian Armenian. Another short walk brings one to the Armenian quarters on Mount Zion. with their church. school. monastery and patriarchate Hauetuna Bhendi, the Patriarch, seems. like his people. disspirited, apprehensive. and. withal callous to hard fate One won ders that with the great governments and the vast numbers behind the Catho- lie and the Orthodox, the Armenians can keep their place as third on fairly equal terms but sufferance is the badge of all their tribe, and they can endure more and yield less than almost any other people
 The most interesting personality here is Ismirlian, Patriarch at Constantinople at 4h4
 and now in exile because he refused to sign a statement for the Porte to pub fish, that the faults or the Armenians are wholly responsible for those mas sacres.
 Again Jerusalem street and again a church. this time of the Holy Sepulchre, where vesper services are now in pro- gross. The Greeks are done, having been got out of the way lest they should come to blows with the other sects, and a Latin congregation of about sixty per- sons, mostly Franciscan monks arg making the round of the places within the church where the passion, burial and resurrection of our Lord are alleged to have taken place.
 As we enter they are at the spot marked by stars in the pavement where it is said Christ appeared to Mary Mag dalene. We follow them to the supposed prison where our Lord was confined, down to the crypt where 300 years after the cruciffxion Helena is said to have found the true cross, and up to Cal vary, where the rock-hewn socket of the cross and even the rock rent caused by the earthquake are still pointed out
 The Armenian procession follows the Latin, with all the form and pomp of an- other lifeless ceremony, up to Calvary and down to the gaudy cenotaph under the spacious dome. where it is asserted that Christ was buried and rose again for us men and for our salvation. Such scenes are oppressive. and it is a relief to be in the open air agaIn.
 
 One of the most marked features of modern Jerusalem is the intense ani- mostly between the different religious sects. A Jew dare not show himself in the street near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, lest he be torn limb from limb by the professed disciples of the Prince of Peace
 Fifty years ago it was death to a Christian to enter the Mosque of Omar. and now he can enter only on permit secured by his consul and accompanied by the consul's- cavass and a Turkish soldier Turkish soldiers are always on guard in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem to keep the Latins. Greeks and Armenians from flying at one an- others throats, and the keys of the Church of the Holy Sepuchre are al- ways kept by Turks for the same reason. It is said to be difficulties that arose in connection with the repair of this build ing that precipitated the Crimean war.