The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-14
COMING FROM JERUSALEM.
Interesting Feature of the Religious
Exhibit at the st. Louis Fair.

Exhibit at the st. Louis Fair.
st. Louis April 1S.-Mr. Walter Will
liams, editor of the Columbia (Mo.)
Herald. member of the Board of Cura-
tors of the State University of Mis-
souri,, superintendent of one of the
largest Sunday schools in the country.
and former president of the National
Press Association of America, now
travelling in the Old World as the rep
resentative of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, writes from Jerusalem UNI
der date of Feb. "a, as follows:
II have secured from DIR. L,
Schoenecke of Jerusalem, the promise
to exhibit at the Worlds Fair in st.
Louis the world-famous models of the
Temple of the Jews, models prepared
by his father-in-law. the great
scholar, DR.. Schick, and perfected by
himself. Efforts have been made to
secure those models for use at other
EXpositions, but so far entirely with
out success.
Some thirty-odd years ago there
came to Jerusalem a German arch
aeologist, DR.. Schick, who thenceforth
made the Temple area his life-study.
Last December he died and the fruits
VI HIS lllc~W OIh are W bC CECll III ttlC
fine models, made of thousands of
pieces of wood and showing the va
rious temples as this learned scholar
believed them to be. For three thou
sand years the Temple area has been
sacred. Jews, Christians, Moslems
alike never cross the spot. Eight great
temples have been builded upon it,
three Jewish, one Pagan, two
Christian and two Mohammedan.
n folN he
Temple of Solomon, the Temple of
Herod. the Church of Justinien and
the Mosque of Omar, the present
Haren-e s- Cherif.
beginning at the southeast corner
we see part of the Temple Hill or
Mount Moriah, in Solomon's Temple,
rising in rock steps up to the city wall,
the valley of Kedron to the right and
to the left the Tyropoean valley, and
inside the wall of the mills bastion and
the House Mills" Following up we
see two streets leading up to the
double and triple gates of the Kings
House" On a higher terrace is the
Palace of the King, Solomon. Here to
the left is the House of the Forest of
Lebanon and, crossing above the
double passage, we reach the Judgment
Hall in which was the throne of the
King and further, after crossing the
triple passage, the Kings private lodg
ing. Above this terrace of palaces and
on a higher level are the outer Temple
Walls and porches forming a great
square. Inside the porches extends the
outer court, or Court of the Gentiles,
behind none but Jews could go. A rise
of twelve steps brings us to another
platform or terrace called Chel or the
Rampant on which stands a large
building with three wings and three
stories high. Fifteen steps on which
the psalm was chanted, led up to this
inner court and thence up five steps to
the court of the Priests and there on
the Holy Rock of Sakhra, stood the al
tar of burnt offerings and the brazen
sea. Up twelve steps more on the high
est platform, stood the House of the
Lord, where the Ark of the Covenant
reposed, beneath the outspread wings of
the cherubim in the Holy of Holes.
The houses faces to the east. On the
north outside the temple enclosure, we
see the fortress with the towers Mea
and Hananeel, mentioned by Vehemieh.
when Herod pulled down and re-
built the Temple of Zerubbabel he en-
larged the temple area, taking into the
enclosure the ground space formerly
coverd by the palaces of the King and
extending the wall to the west. A
was put where the line of palaces had
been, but the Inner Temple and the
Chel and it's buildings were arranged
much as in Solomon's time. The altar
is large and of stone. Marble pillars
in the courts have taken the place of
pillars of brass. The upper room has a
greater room and the middle tower on
the front is left unfinished. Herod's
fortress of Antonio has taken the place
of the old stronghold on the northwest
1.-THE great Christian church of st.
Mary, built in the reign Of the EN-
peror Justinlan, and called Justinians'
Church was erected on the foundation
of the Temple of Jupiter built in the
second century by Hadrian. At this
time the platform upon which the
church stood was constructed, Had
rian's monument was made into a
chapel of St. James and the Golden
Gate in the East wall was restored.
Between the great Byzantine Church
and the earlier one came the acqueduct
from SoIomon's pools beyond Bethle-
hem, to the outlet among the cypress
trees. On the northeast corner a large