Evening journal., 1905-03-31
COLEMAN
IN JERUSALEM
Fulhlls a Lifelong Desire to
Walk Around the Holy
City
IN EGYPT FOR OVER A MONTH

Bishop Coleman sends an interesting
letter to the current issue of the Dela-
ware Churchman from Jerusalem. 1T
is dated February 81 and reads:
1t would be difficult to express the
feelings with which l realize the full
hlmeht of a lifelong desire as 1 actually
walk around the Holy City, the city
of our God, where we arrived yester-
day.
L do not propose now to write about
1t. but viii defer doing so until my
next and thus enable myself to say
something of the land of Egypt.
through which we joWneyed for more
than a month. "a land so very closely
connected in much of its history with
Palestine.
And yet l find myself embarrassed
with the richness of recollections Of a
trip that has proved wonderfully in
teresting and instructive. Shall l tell
of SphinXes, Pyramids. TOmbs, and
Temples? To do so I'm anthing like
detail, were to swell my letter into the
proportions of a book. Suffice it 10
say, that they more than fulfilled my
anticipations. Indeed, much as I had
read of them, 1 was not prepared for
their magnitude and magnihcence.
One is simply lost i'm amazement at the
amOunt of labOur and material inOlved
i'm their construction, and at the skill
hulness and life-lilSe carvings upon their
massive walls. In some instances.
these are as perfect as in the beginning
and i'm some instances again these
|are reckoned by experts to be nearly
six thousand years old. Coming from
our own young country / found 1t at
first by no means easy 20 adjust myself
to such chronology.
JOURNEY ALONG THE NILE.
The journey along the Nile-which
we traversed, going and coming, for
nearly twelve hundred presented
a great variety of pictures. These had
to do with the beautiful vendure along
it's banks. the dwellings of the inhabi-
tants, and their occupations and man
ners of life. During our frequent stops
and running slowly close 70 shore, we
had ample opportunities for indulging
i'm these studies; and how little, after
all, have these people been affected by
modern ideas and evoluUOns. In the
rude plow drawn by buffalOes. camels,
and other animals, i'm the mud one
stony huts. in the carrying of water
jugs by the women on their heads-sO
nicely and gracefully polsed--in the
simple and quaint man-worSed methods
Of irrigation, i'm their rather pictur-
esque-oftentimes, sOiled and tattered
-gaments, and in other respect they
would appear to be just what their an
lcestors were thousands of years ago.
One hardly escapes from the un-
changeaibleness except as one sees the
modern dams which In various sections
OF the Nile have been constructed for
lirrigating purposes and which have
been so effective In reclaiming a vast
area of hitherto unproductive hand.
The greatest Of these is near Assuan,
and is a splendid specimen of engineer
ing and mechanism. Great as II is
being one mile and a quarter in width,
and having $50 flood gates-it is pro-
prosed to add another story to it. that
still more barren land may be brought
under cultivation.
ENGLAND'S OCCUPATION.
I might here fnterject a word or two
concerning the English occupation of
Egypt There is hardly an intelligent
or reasonable man that does not recog-
nize the enormous advantages that
have accrued to the country from this
occupation. In the great increase of
arable land, and the consequent means
Of living to the poor peasants, and of
Income also to the Government, in the
improved sanitary conditions OF the
larger towns, in better police arrange
ments, IN an honest administration OF
the public founds and in many other
particulars the effect of English meth
obs and English officials has been so
beneficial in every way uhat-despite
some humbling of national pride and
some grumbling on the part of incOm-
petent and discharged native Office
holders-the contentment with the
present state OF affairs is well nigh
unanimous. 1 asked a prominent offi-
ciai. not an Enslishman. whether Il
was likely that England would ever
Withdraw from its control OF Egypts