Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-04

lilies and cedars. lions, eagles and foxes
immortalized In the classic Book.
And 1t was strange 10 see from what UNI
expected quarters light was cast ON SEEM
| iugly hopeless problems. Gender discov-
cred the long lost city kadesh, OF the
Hittites through information read IN
Ihieroglyphics on an Egyptian monument
1900 years old. Gender was the born
archaeologist. Picture the man on camel
back in the awful burning desert about the
Dead Sea, or in rags grovelling IN Wehs
and holes. with his notebook in one hana
and the book of Joshua in the other-that
book which Is the central focus of Biblical
| topography.
| Gender never laid down newly found
name or ruin ON his map without inquir-
! Ing what connection 1t had with the Sa-
! cred Narrative. His marvellous intuition
and wide knowledge told him that some
old ruin, made up of nothing but Few
scattered and mournful broken clsterns,
faint shadows of foundations and scraps
of broken pottery. was in reality the site
OF Biblical city, long wanted to fit into
its place for the determination OF tribe
boundary, It was such men as Condor
that encouraged civilization to spend
nearly million dollars In this fascinating
work.
The very first expedition that under
Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, r. e.. was a
whole year at work. Observations were
made at forty-nine different points pc
tween Beirut and Hebron, and series OF
detailed maps resulted, one mile TO the
inch, covering the whole backbone OF
the country from north to south including
the Lake of Genesereth. Inscriptions were
copied, plans OF churches, tomos, temples
and synagogues drawn, "saueezes taken
of tho tablets of Sennacherib and Assyrlhn
and all Hebrew and samaritan lnscrip-
| tons. systematically the Bible episodes
were fastened upon and verified win
amazing realism. Thus the ruins OF hhcrea
! ON the Lake OF rIberias were fixed upon as
| Tho scene OF tho des truction of the nero OF
swine possessed by devils. just mere was
! the necessary "6teep place" and no other
point OF the lake was suitable.
| Warren did great work In ana around
Jerusalem. Before he came the questions
disputed were the site OF the Temple ana
the walls OF the present enclosure, known
as the Haram cs Sheriff, and the site or
Constantine's Church, which IN turn IN
yolved the site, both true and traditional,
of the Holy Sepulchre.
| For generations scholars had wa1Ted over
Jerusalem's sites: no hess than sixteen DIT
| forent roconstruotlons OF the ancient city
were proposed One school contended that
the Moelen Tomb of the Rock within the
Temple enclosure Ia in reality Constan-
tines Basilioa and that the cave beneath
| II Is In truth the Holy Sapulchre, so that
| the present additional site must nave been
fnaudulcntly assumed TO keep up the now
OF pilgrims from AL parts OF the Christian
world.
| our dlspassonate archaeologists merely
consulted typographical references In the
Bible, the glowing descriptions OF Josephun,
tho Rabbinieal writings notices OF the city
found In ancient authors and ecclesiastical
history. tho travels OF early pilgrims, tho
| lie OF the ground, architectural evidence
and irnmemorial tradition.
| Wilson's excavations showed that modern
Jerusalem stands on at least slNty rect OF
rubbish Indeed, In more than one place
the rock is only visible at l2O feet below
the second wall
| In the Temple area he sank deep shafts
Through TO the foundations and took rock
levels, In this way showing the contour OF
the entire city. As the city appears above
ground to-day the proud words OF Jose
plus, the passionate love OF the ancient
Hebrews for their city and their praise OF
! lis ancient glorloa seemed TO the ordinary
observer not "A little absurd In tho presence
Of crumbling gray walls, narrow limits
| and mean streets,
But Warren restored the ancient city TO
the world, He stripped The rubbish from
the rocks, showed the glorious Temple
standing within It's walls, 1000 feet long
and 200 feet high. built in blocks OF mighty
! masonry He II was. too, who laid open