The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-14
No. l9.

One leave@ Jerusalem wth rv~et
- aece13 Via: 9e&y mates Ehe ae-
pn--o~s q keeaer regret After s~e8
THE PRINCIPAL phases - interest -
end AROUND lie Dr. old cG. as &T-
rADgS1 - 60 through %ar*aet1 rAfws-
tae o. hcrTea2rE FIR ae1ty~tar~e
miles a fairly good carriage rosa Ass
been grade bat the worS has pe~a
suspended ant may zof 10 r~sGre1
for l. generation. We sent 8ar aorss
ahead the day before ar1 .@e
,erly n The morning " carriage
When we reached Scoq4s a 4a&l and
farewell i3ok at ne Ho1y ctr was
takes Along the same rea6 n tie
long ago passed Abrsha<1. J4cao D.
@ph. Joshua, David. Peter. PEul ard
Christ some sour miles oat @~
passed . the right - c~cac-sAape1 h3lg
upon which Glbeah q Benjamin.
stood. Here saul was born. r tfam
here he went cut 20 dn6 tAe straye1
asses AMI fount a kingdom on thai
hi! he reigned as EIng tgoD . Ms
went 70 bagt&. and there the sweet
tones % Da.ld's harp soothed h.s
troubled spirit On the same hill MI-
chal married David. and there her "a
ther acted the part OF "a mean fatheE
ln-law n arr. xvil). or and bear
that SPOT much traglcal history vaa
enacted.
over % tbs left a little further ~
IS ancient M.roah. where samuel re-
sided and held court. lie was = ctr-
cuit rider ana also held courts At GIL
gal and Bethel, HIS circuit was very
small, for Gtlgal - only s short I1s-
tancc further north on The right o.
the road ~ one time Bethel r.
vailed Jerusalem in Importance. had .
school for the prophets. aad rov some
time was the center OF the worship -
Jehovah IN tbs Northern kingdom
Today 4 IS nothing
Near the end Of the carriage toad
are the uin or Shiloh. where thv
Tabernacle was arst set permanently
in Canaan. Here. too.f the ark STAYED
from the a v ~ Joshua TIL almost
tho end OF the life or Eli. ana here the
land was divided By lot into tribal pos
sessions. Just TO the cast 81 tn town.
IN a glen, occurred that feast ii
which tho daughters Of shiloh were
tripping the light fantastic when the
BenJamitc men came upon them sud
denly from tho nearby VINEYARDS and
carried them away for wives. 1GlrIe
who dance should always BE on the
lOok-out)
There arc many places OF minor TN
portance along the wav. but the next
spot OF special interest il jacobs veil,
which is one md q half miles east or
Nablous (ancient Shechcm}. The wcu
IS IN the western edga Of the parcel
Of g field purchased by Jacob Or Ha-
Ilo IOI lQt pieces OF money (t4pn
KxNll:l9). The idcnty OF this wei Is
unquestioaed The Jews, the Samari-
tans, the Moslem. thu Christians al
agree that this is the we'll at which oc-
CURED the conversation or oar Sa-
Ylour with the woman or Sararia who
nad too many husbands CJohn v.5-30)
The Well belongs to the Greeks and is
surrounded by a wall II lies In the
crypt Of d chapel erected BY the Cru
saders upon the ruins Of an old
church OF the fourth century. The we'll
was e~Xcavated in the solid rock. II
round, about nine feet in diameter and
about s~eventy-fye feet deep. OF course
a traveller must paw "bachshecsh" 10
see it. but no one minds that. IA the
summer time the well is dry. Eat the
sllving water" offered to the siaiul
woman is perennial.
About one half mile north Of his
fathers well is the tomb Of Joseph
before he died Joseph had the Chill
dfen OF israel promise to carry no hi&
bones from Egypt. After ~Ieeping %
the Nile for mora than three hundred
years, the mummy Of Joseph was car-
RED in the wilderness for forty years
and finally deposited in the same par
eel of land bought BY Jacob % ia
mor's children CJosh. xxiv.32l. TIN
tomb is enclosed. and the Zones If Js-
cob's favorite son lie III the territory
assigned to Ephraim, tile offspring
mountains of rha, NJ roriat
their Silent ,-iail1 e-,or 49, 49,
of Pharaob,s nrin,a r,fa3etar 80 .d-
Of whose life Is fho -nasf baaItif.,1 ~
apv in all history NM, fns1nb
came from Hebron ~ fn9 bfe 49,.
rem. and failjnr "a and then, ..fr 80
field" rs went On "a Dotban-a 49,.
which We PASSED tha rcvt dsv ana
which is about seventy miles from
Hebron. It has aIways Leon . SrT-
prise to me why J0Sanh who ca4Ia
make 1ba+ +rtn oj7no ,yhGn : ,,or. laa
did nor vben 10 Iras rlIar IL 49,,
LIST his old ratbar ~ ra,,-, ~ !,
with him in some Nav. sine. Hebron
is not very far f~om Ery3t. Jacob ala
not know where Josa9h was. b.If the
latter i.neW WHERE bis father vac and
seems IL have made no effort Is ever.
hear from him.
IT.
Nablous he n,oderp nama ~ cra-
chem Il ahou+ ! r-jIn u-est ~ 4osanb.s
tomh ana lies III !. heanGr,T IL ,iav.
With rhe1 on no Gortb a,I - .ri1fa5
IN tha south TIE iatto, nae tba
noun ~ nIessfnr ana fbe fa4rsar tbs
mount 81 cursing GDeur. rx~v#f.I1-26I
Tho ola citv il ricl1 M bsssori. a.4a-