Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-10
PALESTINE CIIY Is BEAUTIFUL
 ID TOURIST
Rev. Young Sails the Sea of Gallilee and Visits the River Jordan = Capernaum Heap of Ruins.
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none have so much thrilled our part,
 as the towns and villages and rura
 scenes in Palestine. We nave sailr,r
 on the sea of Gallilee and sang tn,
 songs of christianity in the glow of sucl
 sun sets as only are seen here. W,
 saw where the Jordan enters the sc;
 on the north end and followed tn,
 length and also saw where this historI,
 river escapes from 1t and pushes fiji
 way through the mountains to tnt
 Dead sea, where the fresh waters are
 swallowed up in sea of salt. The ses
 of Gallilee offers to the student of geo
 graphy almost an impossibility. It is
 6S2 feet below the sea level of the
 Mediterranean, 13 miles long and 6 and
 one-half wide. Thus situated its waters
 would never reach the Mediterranean
 but the difficulty is easy when one re.
 members that 1t flows through the
 the Jordan into the Dead sea which
 Is 1900 feet below the Mediterranean, Around the sea of Gallilee, where there
 once lived many thousands of people in
 six or seven ancient cities, only about
 eight now live; and most of them now live in Tiberias, city of 1000 pop uation. Capernanm is a heap of ruins. only a few people living there. Now there is an excayatfng party here and l saw the uncovered ruins of a once large building which must have been an ancient Jewish Synagogue. Beth- saida also has only few people in it, and near here I saw the tomb of Omar Kayyam who is credited to have written that immortal verse called Ru- i bayat.
 Today we had a horsback ride from Tfberias to Nazareth. The mount of Boatitudes was on the way, and here it was that our Lord spoke his re- nowned sermon found in Matthew. Here also the Crusaders made their last stand in Palestine, and were de feated in 11S7 by Saladin, the great Mohammedan general and conquero-. The mount Is not so high as college peak near Douglas, but more gently sloped; and the fall in the plain to the south and the mountain pass here make the place a natural battle ground It is now one large wheat field, which is better than even the sacred use to which middle-age Crusaders put it. Looking on the scene I saw the flowers so abundant, the lilies of the field, and could easily see where the Lord got many of his figures of speech from natures great book All along the way I saw the proyerbiaI fig tree, and true to the signs of spring the buds were just coming out to make leaves and fruit The Almond which abounds in this country by rush. ing the season, like some folks do with their Easter hats, gets caught with frost, but fig tree never does. Thus 1t carries a certain sign from which our Lord secured his figure of speech.
 I rcde over land today which will nroduce as much wheat per acre as any land in the world It is black, sticky land, the like of the black belt that runs from the plains of Kansas to San Antonio, Texas. No doubt if one spws here nearly a busneI of wheat he will reap nearly a hundred, and here is where our Lord got his figure in the parable of the sower, a dred fold" I have never seen flowers with so rich color any where. \ green carpet on the earth and this filled with white and red lilies, and the color scheme is perfect. thought at once of hats. Why would not green hat be made pretty by putting white and red flowers on it?
 Thus all day long over hill and into valley We went, and with each new scene delighted; and revelled in the scene delighted; and people reveIled in the sight. It was not religious revel or nature whose glory Is unsurpassed. By noon we came to Cana which is in the province of Gallilee. Many of you in studying the Sunday school lessons may have supposed Cana is on the sea of Gallilee, but it is 12 miles away. Here we had lunch in the Latin con vent which is supposed to mark the spot where the miracle of changing water into wine occurred. The water Is still here as in all the towns, spring ing out of the earth and making a foun- tain, or shallow well The wine is still made here by the Arabian in nabitants and few Greeks and Jews. They gave us some for dinner, it was a white variety, and looked pretty in a glass. l tasted it but it was too sour for me to drink. and there was not spoonful of sugar in the village. Strange to say, there are no people living in this country here. Seeing people in the fields blowing, I asked | my dragoman where they lived, and he said in the villages. This was the | ancient way, and there is a good reas- on for it. Only in a few favored places do these bubbling springs come to the | surface. and wherever this happens the people have to live. The people go from the villages several miles to work In their fields. Wells are few because at places the water is deep, and the the rocks are too hard for digging. All through the grain fields I saw Peasant women picking out the weeds or tares. and thus saw again where our Lord got his parable of the tares, the leaving of them until harvest time.
 The camel is a siccess in this coun- try. He is the freight train of Pales- line. Today saw hundreds of them taking grain and wool to market The