The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-05-01
No.. 5

land, to get flowers, take a slide
over a mountain, see the Won
derful half-naked divers dive
and capture a piece of money
thrown into the sea.
At Cadiz and Grenada the
sights were new and strange.
The grand old Alhambra is worth
a long journey to see. At Glib
raltar we saw the British lion,
Cauchant, with "men of war;
lying in the harbor, and tremen-
dous cannon bristling from the
sides and top of the tall lime
stone rocks,
At Algires we saw the places
where, at different times, more
than 100000 Christians were
held as slaves or cruelty put to
death They destroyed over 300
ships for England alone. At
Malta we saw the place where
Paul landed and where the brave
Knights of St John made such a
brave stand. At Athens we saw
the Porthenon, the Aexopolis,
and stood in the midst of Mars
HIP at or near the place where
Paul stood when he preached his
wonderful sermon. We saw the
ruins of more temples, more
marble, heard more about phil
osophers. orators, poets, artists,
race courses. gods and goddess
ses than any little city we ever
saw, or expect to see again. At
Smyrna we visited the tomb of
Polycops, passed Patmos and
Cyprus, reached upper Palestine
on time, landed at Caifa, took
carriages for Nazareth, went to
Tiberius, and greatly enjoyed
our ride from the Mediterranean
to and from the sea of Galilee.
Two days at Nazareth where .Je-
sus lived the lovely flowers by
the wayside, the magnificent
view of the lake as it slept be-
meath the starlit skies of Galilee,
the clearness and brightness of
the day, the restfulness and
calmness that came to our bodies
and souls only increased our
faith.
We returned to the ship at
Caifa, then came on to Joppa,
where we landed and took the
cars for Jerusalem. After a days
rest we proceeded to the Jordan
where Rev. Mr.. Duke, pastor Of
the First Baptist Church of Tam
pa, Fla, baptized two ladies from
Florida, and Rev. D. N. Mcleod
of Washington, D. c., pastor of
the Presbyterian church, bap-
tized, by sprinkling, one young
lady. All these exercises, by
the banks and in the river Jor
dan, were very solemn and i'm
pressive. The Jordan, the Dead
Sea, the valley of the Jordan,
the mountains beyond the sea,
all stand as everlasting witnesses
to things too deep for the pen to
describe, or the soul to fully re-
alize. We returned to Jerusa-
lem and had delightful quarters
with the American colony. We
cannot mention but a few places
we visited. The Mount of o.
ives, Gethsemane, Bethlehem,
the Church of the Holy Sepul-
chre, the Via Dolorosa, the wait
ing place of the Jews, Sloan,
Mount Calvary, the Mosque Of
Omar, the finest building in
Asia, which stands on the spot
on which the Temple of Solomon
once stood, and many other pla-
ces attract thousands.
We came back by railroad to
Joppa and thence by ship to
, Alexandria, and thence by rail-
road to Carlo, and thence up the
Nile to Luxon, Carnoh, Mem
phis and other places, then back
-. to Carlo, where we took a look
at the pyramids, the Sphinx, the
| great Mohammedan university,
(! the Museum and its royal num-
mics of kings and queens.
forgot to tell you that Con-
! stantinople gave us a splendid
opportunity of seeing the Turks
as they mingledwith all races, and
the first opportunity of seeing a
city of 80, 900 or 40, 900 dogs, the
scavengers of a city, and belong
ing to no one in particular, yet
the dogs are valued SO highly
that the punishment for killing
one is said to be more severe
| than that for killing a woman,
and neaaly as great as for kill
ing a man.