Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-04
THE NEWIN DlSe0vEREp 'cHAMbEp
or THE LIANT SUPPER
BY Laura Farlow
Csmoer of the Egyptian and Palestine
Exploration F'unds).
Photographs by the author.

Photographs by the author.
- HE medieval chivairy OF the
world, kings and knights with de-
yout and devoted hosts, poured
out blood and treasure TO wrest
the holy places from the Moslelni
vet to-day we find Turkish troops
keeping order on Easter morn IN
,bs Holy SepulchreI As to excavation OF
,,oloration, not spade can be put IN
,,aund N. clty's site without mystic iTades
md drnfans from the Sublime Forte aha
r.rnnts from mutesarrifs, kaimakans s'iiu
Ibo whole hierarchy OF Turkish otlcIaiooh
10 Palestlne. -.
know no more curious fact in all his
torv II ls a pity. Reading the Bible on
Paies,na's face has been done In the TEEN
OF opposltion For nifty years Islam mas
tred the work with suspicion--eVer sihoe
archaeology became n science and torsot-
len peoples lived for US again In ten1pies
and tOmbs. scraps of pottery. weapons,
ornaments and Inscriptions on papyrus
and stone.
type apart is the Biblical archaeologist.
He is explorer and hunter; theologian ana
foreman OF works: geologist and botanlst
and scholar: cameleer and diplomat-es-
pecially diplomat, since tribal chiefs must
be humored and picks and shovels put In
the hands of chiidllko Arabs VINO never
worked before.
Having resolved to read the stones OF
Syria and Egypt for Bible testimony. The
harmed Of all nations agreed this must be
done on scientific lines. that each new hnd
might be welcomed with the Same enthu-
siastc acceptance given to Work from
physical laboratory.
And so military engineers were borrowed
from the war offices and Oriental scholars
from the museums. Sir Charles Warren,
IN. tN.lkx md
Captain Gender represented England; M.
Clermont Canneau and the Comte de
Vogue. France; Herr Conrad Schick and
his colleagues. Germany, and DR. Clay
TTmbull, America, At first $4,000 was
ralsed and Christians of all scots, with
Hebrews the world over, grow keeniy IN
terested.
Hopes were high. Sir Austin 1.ayard,
fresh from marvellous Babylonian discoV-
erles, spoke OF the light to be thrown on
the ancient history. arts and architecture
Of the Jewish nation by excavations OF
mounds and sites, rubbish heaps and ruins
such as dot the stony face OF Palestine
Sir Rodcriok Murchison, great geog-
rnpher, counselled "A geological survey. lie
wanted 10 know whether any volcanic
changes had occurred about the Dead Sea
within historic times, This. he said, might
throw new light on the story of Sodom and
Gomorrah.
The Germans were as keen as any TO
turn loose the hosts of science in the Holy
Land, where the documents of our ralth
were wTittnn ana the momentous events
they describe enacted. who mowsF
they argued "All may be made clear
through some little inscription, like the
far famed Rosetta stone. which gave us
the key to all Egypt's hieroglyphics and
threw back mans history 10000 years be-
You'd all nrAViOua records"
MIRACLES OF THE DAY.
And money they pointed out, had been
svlshcd on Ilalicarnassus, Nlneveh and
carthage. Then why not on the land OF
Moses and Christ? Such n little country,
AFTER all; iis extreme length might BIO traV-
trsad IN FIVE hours by rail and It's breadth
IN less than two. Distance seemed so great
n tho Bible, When David fled furthett
,som Saul he was not yet forty miles from
bethlehem, nor more than fifty from Gil
0Fah, where Saul abode.
And remains were intact here which
would have wholly persisted in less favored
,ilmes. The country should be mapped,
Gsnutod points of topography settled. the
ancient towns OF Holy Writ Identified with
ihe modern villages. built high on rubbish
isaps above their walls and temples. An
cent roads were 10 be traced. coins. in
Srpilons and other relies systematically
collected and eollated for our greater
knowledge of the successive Inhabitants OF
SyIa-C Anaanlte. Israellte, Roman,
lAe torHbs OF the kings on Mount Zion
gre awaiting excavation; so was Herod' q
lisee, the pool of Bethesda and tho spring
%Hezeklah. Every foot was 10 Yield some
Wasure Of mighty past
ana beyond the Holy city wero many
sea~ Mount Gerizim, thought 10 be the
sFah OF Abrnhams sacrifice. and GER
lny he Holy Place OF the Samaritans.
Gnlalnlng stones which, they say, Israel
sought up from Jordan's bed and Sauna
~ With John the Baptlst's tomb, the
M remains OF Herod's castles. and the
ytnlld Roman cItes along the coast
eeelee the mounds OF Jericho, and Jaz-
w lhe capital OF Ahab and Jezebel.
ana me level OF the Sea Of Galllee was
w uncertain. although upon this de-
rnaah our knowledge OF the Iordan's true
III IL seemed strange 10 the pick and
,,'ei enthusiasts that men risked health
~ nie In South American forests or
,lu'an iunglea and never thought OF dc.
wing some share OF their ability to the