Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-03-31
Letter from Holy Land

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Jerusalem, Feb. "a, 1910
Rev. w. D. Dew,
Pikeville, Tenn.
Dear Brother:
In compliance with your request
am writing you from the Holy Land
We have visited great many interest
ing places, and have been trying t.
select some nice postals from most o.
the places and mail them to you
You will find some valuable history
connected with nearly all the places
shown on the cards. would have
written you letters but we have beer
kept moving continually, therefore ]
have not had the time to write any.
one. In fact, this is the first letter ]
have written since left New York.
1 have been sending out cards only.
We visited Bethlehem yesterday,
and back to Jerusalem, and travelled
all over the city in the afternoon. To-
day we visited Jericho and the Dead
Sea; also the River Jordan. We took
a boat ride ON the Jordan river. We
gathered some pebbles from the Dead
Sea. We took our boat ride where it
is claimed the children of Israel cross
ed the River Jordan, and near where
they pitched their tents in the valley
of Jordan. From this point we could
look straight across and see Mt. Nebo
on which Moses stood when be was
permitted to view the Promised Land,
and from this view point is where the
tents were pitched when John the Bap-
fist came down from the wilderness
country and preached baptism and re-
pentance for the remission of SINS
And near this point is where Christ is
supposed to have been baptized by
John. Immediately after which He
was lead up into an exceedingly high
mountain to be tempted of the devil.
This mountain, Quarantana, has a
monastery erected ON its summit and
is in plain view from the Jordan.
Right near to the present site of
Jericho Is the fountain whose bitter
waters Elijah made sweet, and looking
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from which he assembled to heaven in
chariot of fire, when he let his man
tie fall upon Elisha, and just short
distance from the point of ascension
we can look over the hills and see the
brook where Elijah was fed by the
ravens. Here in this valley near Jer-
icho, called the valley of Acor, is
where Achan was stoned to death.
Some of the old original walls of Jeri-
cho are still standing, The very re-
cent excavations to depth of forty to
fifty feet have exposed the old walls
All these things and many more too
numerous to mention are in full view
from the small village of Jericho.
just above to the south is where Alb
raham and Lot pitched their tents and
divided the land, Lot taking the val
ley and Abraham all the hill country
reaching beyond Hebron, both of
which great portion is hopelessly |
barren. Just above here to the south |
is where Lots wife is thought to have
been turned into pillar of salt. Jer-
icho is twenty-five miles from Jerusa-
lem. And, en- route from Jerusalem |
to Jericho, we passed the village of |
Bethany about two miles from Jerusa-
lem, and we we're shown the house, or
rather the old walls, in which Mary
and Martha once lived. We also saw
the tomb where Lazarus was buried, |
and from whose gloomy walls Christ
broke the slumber of death.
Last week we visited Nazareth and |
Tiberias, or sea of Galilee, which is
about seventy-five miles from here
(Jerusalem). Tiberias is eighteen |
miles from Nazareth. At Nazareth we
stood on high point from which we
could see Mt. Carmel, to the north
west, with its majestic peak bathed in
the heavenly atmosphere, right where
Elijah called down the fire from heav-
en- which consumed the altar, and just
below at the base Of this mountain is
the brook. Kishon, where the prophets
were slain. And little farther on
and to the west we could see the range
OF Mt Samaria, and just a short dis
lance from this range and to the south
stands little Mt. Hermon, and by the
side of Mt. Hermon stands a small
near whose base is the little
village of Main. Just little south
EAST stands Mt. Tabor, or Mount of
Running by the side
Of Mt. Carmel lies Esdraelon, one of
The most beautiful and fertile plains I
have ever seen. And jus about where
it ends, alongside of Mt. Samaria
came the fertile plains of Palestine,
which greatly surpasses the plain of
Esdraelon, both in beauty and fertili-
". From here we could look to the
lorth and see the snow capped noun
aims OF big Hermon in the range of
Mt Lebanon, fully one hundred and
fifty miles away.
Since writing the above we visited
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