The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-29

Jerusalem and to petition for the res toratlon of the Kingdom. One sees no more pathetic sight in a "trip around the world than this assembiage of men and women, some grAy-hnired, some in middle life and many mere children, chanting their laments and caressing the stones which the hand of Solomon laid when he was building the temple which marked the summit of Jewish political power.
 Bethlehem is also Identified and whether or not the Church of the Ma tivity erected by the mother of Com stantine, covers the spot whore Christ was born. one can look upon tho hills around about the city and recall that 1t was here that the measagef Peace on earth. good will to men" came to tho shepherds who kept their fiocks by night,
 Tn the garden of Gethsemane. by the Brook Kedron, one can tread the soil pressed by the Masters feet in the hours of His Loneliness and agony. The garden Is now walled in and care fully kept. and its old. gnaried and knotted olive trees shade tho pansies which grow there in profusion. Beth page still stands. and also Bethany, whero Mary and Martha and L.azarus lived, and, most conspicuous of all. the Mount of Olives. the place of the As- cension. From it's summit tho best view of Jerusalem Is sA obtained; from that point also the eye can sweep the hills of both Judea and Samaria. and to the east look upon the waters of the Dead Sea, s.5Oo feet below.
 Nowhere else can one walk amid scenes so familiar to the civilized world as are those of Judea. Surrounded by organism and idolatry, little band began here the establishment of mo- notheistic religion and, notwithstand- ing backslidlngs, shortcomings and wanderings from the faith the spiritu- al side of life was never entirely for- gotten; great prophets thundered their warnings from these htlls; great sing CTS poured forth their hymns of peni- tence, praise and thanksgiving; hero wonderful literature was develnpet ard a history written which was stranger
 than fiction. and here. in the fullness of time, came One who was commits stoned to substitute tho law of love
 for the law that required "an eye for an eye and tooth for tooth" Tn the city of Jerusalem there arc now some sO.ooO souls, and conpo-
 sits population it is. While about two thirds of the people, arc Jews and the l,remainder divided almost equally be- tween the Mohammedans and Christians one can count representatives of score or more of nations In an hours walk The streets of Jerusalem are narrow and crooked. and one is going up hill or down hill all the time. The houses the stores. the walls. the gates and the customs of the people seem more ori- ental than European. There are no no street cars, no modern bookstores and
 no newspapers, excepting one printed
 in Hebrew.
 The carriage road from Jerusalem
 to Jericho winds around the Mount oi Olives and down the eastern side of
 the Judsan hills past the Apostles foun-
 tain and through the wilderness of Ju' dea. This wilderness is not the waste that we expected to find. but merely a
 broken and mountainous country, toe stony to be cultivated and fit only
 for grazing. At this season of tho year
 the grass is green and the ground bright with flowers
 A little more than half way down the slope Is rest station called, ir
 honor of the parable. the Good Sama-
 ritaR Inn. (But for the mounted guards
 who now patrol this road the traveller