The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-24
TO THE HOLY LAND
Kansas Delegation Leaving for
Foreign Trip.
Going to Jerusalem Worlds Sun
day School Convention.
AN EXTENDED TOUR.
American Delegation Will Num-
ber Eight Hundred.
VIII Sail from New York on
Ship March s.

Wichita, Kas., Feb. 24.-Wichita
members of the Kansas delegation to
the fourth worlds Sunday school con-
vention at Jerusalem, April 1920, will
leave this week and the first of next
week for New York. The majority of
the Wichita party will leave next
Tuesday, in fact all except E. Higgin-
son, who leaves today, but will visit
on the way to New York.
The Wichita party Will include Mr..
and Mrs. James Allison, DR.. and Mrs.
S. A. Bass. Rev. F. N Lynch and E.
6igg1nSon, most of whom will go by
way Of Washington and Baltimore, ar
irving at New York just in time for
the sailing of their vessel on March 8.
The trip is to be most delightful one,
with side trips at interesting points.
The cruise both going and coming will
not be hurried, as the party will reach
Joppa, the port Of Jerusalem just the
day before the convention. The Amer
lean delegates now number about SEQ.
all OF whom will go on the chartered
liner Grosser Kurfurst, of the North
German Lloyd line, which the execu-
tive committee of the convention has
chartered for the entire trip Of 70 days
The itinerary announced by the tour
ist agent, F. c. Clark. will be carried
out in full and includes some fine stops
and side trips.
Sailing from New York on March 8,
the first stop is at the Madeiras, thence
to Gibraltar where a day will be spent
Then the vessel will touch at Algiers.
| thence to Athens, where stop of three
days Will be made, just about Easter
and on that day a service will g held on
! Mars Hill. There will be several side
trips from Athens to points of interest.
From Greece the party will visit Con-
stantinople, thence back to Smyrna and
Ephesus and to Beirut.
| This is the home of DR.. and Mrs.
Henry Jessup, noted missionary, who
will return home on this trip after hav-
] ing been IN the United States since last
year. At Beirut, a trip is taken over
| land to Damascus. The next stop will
! be at Caifa, at Mt. Carmel, where near
ly every one will go to the Sea of
| Galilee by way of Nazareth A sail on
that sea from Tiberius to the site of
| Capernaeum is one of the features of
the trip. The final stop will be at Jop-
pa, the seaport of Jerusalem The con-
vention lasts three days, April 49, 10.
| 20th but the American delegates will
! stay about a week. having arranged
| trips to Jericho and Hebron.
| On the return, the Kurfurst will go to
Alexandria and Cairo, where two trips
are offered, one short Nile trip and
the other a long one to the First Cat
aract. From Egypt the next stop is at
Naples and Vesuvius, and then to
Rome. From here, two return journeys
are offered-the regular trip on the
Kurfurst by way of Villa Franco, Glib
raltar, and the Azores, landing in New
York May 18th. The other is by the
way of a European trip of three weeks.
visiting Switzerland, Cologne end a trip
up the Rhine, Paris, London, Edin-
burgh Glasgow and Ireland, sailing
from Queenstown on June 8th and ar
irving in this country June 14th.
According to present plans Mr. Higgin-
son is the only one of the Wichita par
ty who will take the latter trip, all of
the Others remaining with the Kur-
furst.
| At the time of the recent issue of a list
| Of delegates almost the full number of
| those who could be accommodated was
enrolled and by this time the number, $50,
| is completed. The Kansas delegates are
the following:
| DIR and Mrs S. A. Bass, Wichita: w c.
Blattler,. Belpre; Miss Meme BrqckWaay. e
Wellsville; 7 H 5ngie. @AoIIen9j @ e. - Iafaig a1g
Miss O. Edna Peterson, Jamestown; H c.
Rash, Salina; Rev. d. B. Shuey, Enporia;
! Isora E. Squire, Beloit; DR.. F. n. Lynch,
| Wichita