Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-11-12
PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM.
A Thousand American sunday School
workers to Journey to Palestine.

Jerusalem, the Holy City, chief city of
that land which furnishes every sunday
school in the world continual subject for
study. will witness a scene next April
like to none that has ever occurred in the
historic little city, and one which will
make ever memorable the early years of
the 10Th century
A thousand Sunday school superintcn-
dents teachers. scholars, and workers.
have their eyes turned toward Jerusalem.
and pilgrimage is planned that is
unusual even in these days OF personally
conducted parties to all corners of the
earth.
This 10Th century pilgrimage so far as
America is concerned will begin March
:, 1891, when the North German Lloyd
steamship Crosser Kurfurst uio0 tons
| will sail from New York with about SO
| pilgrims from Canada and the United
| States. Already almost 500 berths have
been engaged. and applications for the
remainder are being daily received by
the three energetic men who have made
this cruise possible.-E. Il. Warren.
Three Oaks, Mich, chairman; w. n.
Hartshorn, Boston treasurer; A. B.Mc-
| Grillis, Providence.
At Jerusalem the American party will
be joined by several hundred from Eng
| land and Europe who will have a special
steamer of their own, and individuals and
small parties will also assemble from
practically every country whore Their,
are Sunday shoots This host OF workers
will gather on April IS, ~ and % in a
great tent just outside the walls of Jeru-
salem. close by Calvary and amid impress
siVe surroundings, will be held the fourth
worlds Sunday school convention
BESIDES the sessions at Jerusalem. there
will be constant conferences, inforna
discussions and brilliant lectures through
out the voyage, making, in fact, a con
IaNF in n inF md a.
miles long
Originally this cruise was intended only
for active Sunday shool workers repre-
senting organized Sunday school associ
ations; but so great has been the deman'
for accommodation by others VINO loni
for trip to the Holy Land that The
committee has offered to the public som'
200 berths, including some of the best o.
! the ship.
In addition ia the convention feature
of the cruise the travel itself is mos
cntertainingly arranged. On the Outwar
( voyage, there will be stops at Madeira
Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Athens, Con
stantinoplc. Smyrna. Beyrout and Caifa
After II days in Palestine, Alexandra
- cairo. Naples, Rome and the Riviera wi
lie visited, and those who wish to sta
longer in Europe will land n Naples u
i Villcfranchc. The regular party viii reac
| New York May IS. Side trips are plannc
! 10 EpneSuS, BddlDet, l'dHldS'u' 'dlil''
- Samaria, Luxor 1hebes, First CataraC
of the Nile Two Sundays will be spent q
, the Atlantic, three on the Medterranea'
~ one TT Athens, two at Jerusalem, on
= IN Egypt. ore In Rome. Four continent
- will be visited.
,, The peculiar privilege Will he onero
" these modern pilgrimes of visiting undo
- most appropriate conditions and IN nal
pest company, the place where Go
+" revealed Himself as He has never dor
. elsewhere; to stand in the place whe
- Jesus walked, talked, suffered ard die
- was buried and rose again; to see intin
- ately the land where Joshua, Samuel, 81
- David, and Solomon wrought their nigh
;, works where Elijah, Elisha, and lsaia
propho sled: where Peter. James, job
, ana PAU preached; to stand on the htl
20 Of Bethlehem where the angel Choir
, hailed the birth of Christ; to look
-, Calvary and the garden where the lin
~ scenes Of the greatest of lives we
- enacted.
81 With 50 much of sentiment involved
this journey, with 50 earnest a band
travellers looking eagerly forward to Il
next Faster season in Palestine, III
u great undertaking possesses a signifcan
and universal interest among Christii
" people never before associated with al
journey to The Holy Land.