Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03
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cheated out of your eye teeth,
come to Jerusalem. Is bazaar:
~ are filled With trlcksscrs and
traders. and it has It's Insurers and
money changers as in the days Of the
Savior The people prey upon the pill
er:ms and tourists. Their main object
is to get gain. ana they work the
holiness of the Holy Gity fer all it is
worth. They sell candles which il burnt
in the church of the Sepuchcr VIII
carry away your sins in their smoke,
and rosar!es upon ythcl. II you count
your prayers you may be sure OF then
ascending 10 heaven
THE JESUIT AND THE BETflLE-
lIEMITE.
The rosary business Is one OF the
chief OF Jerusalem. me pcllS are cut
out in great quantities ut hetn!ehcni
and are shipped abroad by tie MD
lions They are SEM 10 the HOLY CIT.
for sale, ana there are some stores
which have nothing else except per-
haps crucihxcs ana collection platcs.
The merchants who sell rosarieS arr
often great rascals, and know one,
u Bcthlehemitc, who has just receiN-
ed n lesson which he S not likely soon
. 10 pIBtl. l nc IllLIl . its''li .'ip'N -
situated down Christian street. not far
from tho Iluco where YOU turn in 1"
the church of the Holy Scpulcher
His lesson came lrum Jesuit priest
who lives IN Chicago. ana who Is just
now starting home. The holy father
had come into the shop to buy some
rosarieS to carry back ~ his friends
He had picked out u half dozen bcauti-
ful ones. and had paid the price
without bargaining, As the storckeeper
wrapped UP his purchase. he looked
at him out of the tail OF his eye ana
saw him slip the rosaries he had
selected under the counter and put
some cheaper ones. in their place. The
Jesuit said nothing, but he took up
several beautiful carvings representing
the cruciiixion and ascension. each Of
which was worth about twice the
amount of the rosares he had picked
out. Handing these TO the man. he
told him to wrap them in paper. and
upon this being done he took boil.
parcels and started out of the store.
The Bethlchemitc merchant rnu after
him. and told him he had not paid
for the carvings. The father replied:
My friend. ] saw you change those
rosnries ana give me the cheaper ones
and you may consider this Il judgment
of Cod upon you for cheating. l shall
keep these carvings and IL you do not
immediately. return To your store VIII
report you to the Mohammcdan courts"
The man saw ho was caught and let
the priest go.
THE CANDLE SELLERS.
Another large business is the selling
of candles. Jerusalem is full of shrines.
and the pilgrims buy candles to burn ut
the holy places. They set them up at
the score or more sacred spots in the
church of the Holy Sepulcher and at
the stations along the Via Dolorosn
where Christ walked on his way to
Golgothn They carry them to the
Mount of Olives and to the Garden of
Gethscmanc. Some buy several candles
for each shrine, and the richer purchase
those of size and of many colors. Some
of the candles are of the size of your
finger and others are as big as a mans
leg. l have told you of the one as
large around as Il flour barrel which
was held at the customs house in Jaffa
and found to be filed with dynamite
bombs. That was sent by some OF the
discontents among the priests of the
Holy Scpulcher who hoped to blow their
enemies, now in charge, out of exist
encc, and did not care how many others
they murdered.
| have been in Jerusalem ut Easter
time and have seen the miracle of the
holy fire as performed by the Greeks
1t Is at that season that the chief
candle selling goes on. The pilgrims
who are here by the tens Of thousands
buy great punches of candles to take
into the church, and light them from
the fire. They can be then blown out