The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-04
ANCIENT JERUSALEM
 RAPIDLY RECKONING People by Thousands Are Blocking Back to the
 Old City. HUNDREDS OF HOUSES Services Now Held in the Synagogue in Seven Diff
 ferent Languages.
HUNDREDS OF HOUSES

lures for the accommodation of pill grims. Immense hotels-for they dif- fer very little from them-are go- ing up, and are in the season filled with the influx oftravelers from all arts of the world. Elegant struc- lures of cut stone are being built, and the flags of France, Germany, and especially Russia, wave over cara vansaries that will house tens of thousands of people.
 The Jerusalem without the walls is the great grower. On every side, both far and near from the walls new structures are seen. Notably one marks the rapid increase of the Jews in the city and suburbs. The founda- .tions of Montefore and the Roths- .childs have brought thousansd here, and whole suburbs of dwellings have sprung up to tell of the increasing in- terest of the Jew in the country of his history. It looks as if Providence were moving in the bringing of the Jews back to their own Who knows when will dawn that day of prophetic vision when the eyes now holden shall see the glory of God and acknowledge the Messiah as we follow him, to be their Lord and their God.
 It is Holy week. The throng Is aug mented, for the yearly increase of travel continues from year to year. The hotels, boarding houses, lospices, convents, monasteries and even hospi- tals are thronged Nazareth, Bethle- | hem, Jerusalem are alive with pill grims. Russia must have 10000 here the emperor and others of the im- perial family send thousands here at their own charges. The poor, and even cripples, are enjoying at royal lexpense the boon of a trip to the Holy Land. And these Russians are the most populous of the pilgrims-coa booted, coarse clothed, rough looking, staff in hand, they plod everywhere. They can walk, men and women alike, making long journeys on foot to the Jordan, the Dead Sea. Hebron, Beth lehem, Nazareth. They kiss every thing in sight. Their credulity is equaled by their devotion. Every crowd is dominated by them,
 Americans seem to come next in point of numbers, if not in devotion. The churches and temples and con- vents and holy places are in great request by them. The tomb of Adam, the Jews wailing place, the temple area, the bazars and hotels all feel the reviving effect of the showers of gold the American scatters. Helen Gould is here now, on her way to Damascus. Seven fine tents, flying the American flag, await the coming of next Tues day, when the start is to be made for Damascus. A private dragoman has charge of this caravan, much to the disappointment of Thomas Cook & Sons. The American flag proudly flies from the tents, and the outfit Is a Isumptuous one, with plenty and peace let us hope for the Journey. Helen Gould has left her mark, if not her footprint, in her eastern tour, as sev- eral mission schools of Egypt can tes- tify in the gift of thousands for their aid. That is worthy way to make the desert blossom as the rose.
 A great lesson is to be learned here at Easter, in the bringing together of so many widely-separated ceremonies In the church of the Holy Sepulchre lamps are burning in the same chap- els and in the sepulcher itself, repre- lsenting churches as widely apart as the Greek and the Latin and the Ar lmenian churches. All take their turn in the privileges of worship, and though hatred may not be removed, il is subdued, and the worship goes or without the intrusion of the Turk tc keep order, though thousand of them are at hand for that purpose. This year the Easter of the Latins was five weeks in advance of that of the iGreeks. This much erowding and danl Iger are avoided. The processions of the Christians seem to be the thing most obnoxious to the Turk. So he Hays plans to interrupt and to break up the religious processions. On Good Friday, this year, while the Roman lCatholics were making the Stations oi 1.-the Cross, holding a short service oi lpreaching at each station, concerted effort and a successful one was made
 to break up the procession of severa
 hundred priests and devotees. The lattempt was viciously carried out lcrowding and intruding were the gen.
 eral effort so that hundreds were cut
 off from following in the service.
 Seven sermons in seven languages
 This was the order in the church ot IO1, Gnyt,1oha- I
 took more than three and one-hali
 hours to complete the program, dur.
 ing which there were no seats to bt
 had, and there was standing room
 only.' A sort of Pentecost was it tc
 hear the gospel in Slav, Spanish iGrcek, Arabian, French, German anC English. It must have been the Coco
 Friday penance for many of them who
 commonly understand in one language
 to and through the six others.
 Every interesting spot is being in.
 closed more and more. Gordon's cal
 vary is now, along with the Grotto O.
 Jeremiah, inclosed, so as to be con
 cealed from view. The money lens k
 the only one, with a backshish setting which will enable you to see the placei
 of interest,
 It would be curiosity to have {
 Bible with all the places marked whicl can be located here, according to tra dition." The fly in the ointment i that they all call for backshish. Patri archs, kings, prophets, priests, rulers apostles, holy women-and so many 0 them are commemorated in stone Il
 one afternoon under worthy guidance
 I was taken to Dayid's tower prett,