The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-18
DIR. GEORGE B. EAGER DELIVERS
 INTERESTING LECTURE
Former Pastor of First Baptist Church Greeted ny Large Audience st
 Ills Lecture on Palestine.

IaCultY or the COutucTns IueDlDHtEdt Seminary of Louisville, Ky, but for many years pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city. was given a corr dial welcome and the compliment of intense interest upon his lecture last night on Palestine.
 pr. Eager recently toured the Holy Land. visiting Jerusalem Bethlehem. Jericho. the River Jordan and other scenes of the most sacred and the greatest history ever written. pr. Eager is one of the foremost authori- ties in the country on Bible and sacred history. He has delved deep In this subject. His mind is a rich store- house of many years of research and study.
 To the majority of the large audi ence which heard his interesting lec- iure of the Holy Land last night he was less the lecturer than their be- loved pastor of other years The large | auditorium of the church was we'll fill- ed when Dr. Eager arose to describe Palestine as 1t is today. to give to his audience an idea of the impressions | that the Bible scenes made upon htm. In the audience were not only those who had known Dr. Eager as their pastor, but members of other congre- cations who had learned to admire and esteem him when he preached from the pulpit of the First Baptst Church. They were there in the confidence of securing q valuable and instructive les- I son on Palestine and sacred history and no one went away disappointed. Dr. Eagers lecture was accompanied 1 by stereoptican views of the many scenes of immortal association visited | by him and his party. A great num- Der of views were thrown upon the | screen. views which were taken at the time Dr. Eager's party was making the | tour of the Holy Land. These views were selected by a trained discrimina- tion passing upon their value and their interest If there was any embarrass- ment whatever in reference to the lec- ture and there certainly appeared to be none 1t was the great mass of inter esting matter within reach of the 1ec- I turer from which was to be taken the material for one lecture. That the subject matter for the lecture and the splendid views accompanying 1t were wisely chosen there was no occasion for doubt
 Dr. Eager attempted no oratoricai flights. He made no effort to play up- on the emotions or fancy of his hear CTS. He had message to deliver and the message was strong and effective in It's very simplicity.
 He described the emotions he expe. rienced when his vessel in the night approached the port of Joppa and the restless night he spent when he knew that only the darkness of the night shut from view the Judean hills and how before the dawn had appeared hc was on deck to watch the sacred scen- cry come into gradual view with the gradual approach of the dawn. He told of his Journey from Joppa to Jeru- | salem. There was, he explained u railroad between the two places but he Ignored its existence, there being something incongruous in the idea of n railroad in the Holy Land. Upon the screen were thrown views of the road between Joppa and Jerusalem, showing the country as it appears today. the peasants blowing with pointed wood on blow as they did many years ago. Dr. Eager remarked upon two things that attracted his special attention. the great mass of flowers of Palestine and the fertility of some of the soil. the general impression being that Pal estine was a sterile and rocky country.
 He described the mountains about Jerusalem. the great walls that shut in the city and their gates where the | people were accustomed to gather to buy or sell or in social intercourse. A picture of one of these gates wall ed up was shown with an allusion to the tradition among the Moslems that | when the Messiah come again he would enter the Holy City through that par ticuIar gate. They had, therefore. walled up that gate to prevent his en- trance.
 1 He described the Mount of Olives as 1t appears today and the valleys and hills about 1t. The Valley of Hebron was shown and described and upon the screen were thrown while Dr. Eager described them. street scenes in Jeru- salem. the imposing Mosque of Omar the wailing place of the Jews the Val ley of Jehosophat, Calvary. the Garden of Gethsemane and the city of Damas- GUS. The audience was given an Idea of the road to Bethlehem and a splen- did view of the tomb of Rachael was shown The ancient site of Jericho was portrayed and described and the pools of Solomon, used many years ago to water the town and irrlgate the val ley were shown The old Roman aaueducts, some of them in an excel- lent state of preservation. were thrown l upon the screen. The audience saw the modern inn of the Good Samaritan of the parable built. 1t is said. upon the site of the old inn and similar in many ways. Several views of the riv- CT Jordan and the Dead Sea were put upon the canvas and the aspect of Mount Nebo was described.
 The lecture from beginning to end was filled with interest and instruc- tion. It was delivered for the benefit of the building fund of the First Bap- tist Church.
 
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