The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-29

enter lie LUCK Il =
long and sixty feet wide, and it rises
about six feet out of the floor. IL
fills the whole Enclosure and comes =
close to the fence that one can toucI
it, or, if devOut. as most OF the Wor-
shippers | saw in the mosque were.
can put his mouth through the pars
and impress q kiss on 1t.
How / Saved the World.
AS we walk about the fence exam
ing the rock our turbaned gulde
| shows us its onders Here, says ne
pointing to a round hole in one Of the
| sides, lis the mark Of Mohammed S
heel. It was from that spot that the
holy prophet assembled to heaven, ano
as he rose the rock started to go up
with him holding fast to his heel. The
Angel Gabriel had to put his hand
upon it to keep it down, n mere.
pointing to five curious marks, are
the places where Gabriel's fingers rest
ed when he did So"
A little further on the guide tells
US that this rock is the center OF the
earth, and that some believe 1T to pc
also the gate Of hell. He shows US
q plate OF jasper as big as q checker
board, in which are three golden nails,
saying that the plate originally con-
tanned nineteen nails which Moham
med had driven into it. One nail
drops out at the end of each and
when the last nail is gone the end OF
the world will occur The guide Of
fered to let me pull out the last three
nails for a dollar apiece, but | have
no desire to hasten the judgment day
and, therefore, refused. In that way,
perhaps, I saved the world.
1.-THE devil got at his plate one
day" so our consular's kavass tells
me, "and was jerking up the nails at a
great rate when the Angel Gabriel
caught him and pulled him away.
These stories are silly, but they are
only a few of many which are told
US when we are inside the mosque.
Nevertheless the average Mohamme-
dan of his side of the world believes
them. and we see g~ray-bearded, long
goWned turbaned men and white,
sheeted yelled women praying over
these holy places. They kiss the
marks of M~ohammed's footprints
and run their handkerchiefs and beads
over the rock. They pray as they do
so, for Mohammed said tina one
prayer here is worth q thousand ut
tered anywhere else, and he prayed
here himself.
Solonon's Temple.
The greatest interest Of Mount
Moriah. however, is connected with
the fact that We know his was the
actual site Of SolomOn'S Temple, as
well IL lldl Oh the TWO OtIeT leilpleS
which succeeded it. The first house
of God erected by the Israelites was
the Tabernacle. This was construct
ed at the direction of Moses in the
Dessert of Sinai just after he had re-
ceiyed the commandments. 1t IS said
to have been just about half the size
of the Temple Of Solomon, although
there are passages in the Scriptures
which lead us to think the .eInple
m l1sf have haayS NpTyv m1lnh t0Poar TNha
Tabernacle was a building.
It was about fifty feet long and six
teen or seventeen feet wide. The
roof and walls were formed Of curtains
made OF linen or wool beautifully
seWed and fastened in places with
gold buckles. There were also cur
tains of goats hair and of rams wool
dyed red. Some suppose the roof OF
the Tabernacle to have been fiat, and
others that Il was ridged like a ten
with a cubeOAside about sixteen feet
square, which was the holy of HOLES.
In the latter was the ark Of the owe
nant and the table Of the law.
How Built.
Solomon's Temple was planned by
David and it is said that he collected
much Of the materials As to Solo
mon himself, he made a bargain with
Hiram King Of Tyre to aid him in
supplying the timber and certain
classes of the mechanics. Hiram was
q. Phoenician king. who lived up the
coast and who controlled the forests
Of Lebanon. He gave Solomon q con-
cession Of certain tracts Of cedar and
fir, and Solomon sent men in parties
of 10000 each to the mountains to cut
down the trees. The servants OF
Hiram aided them. and it is said tina,
they carried thy lumber to the shores
of the Mediterranean, and f1oated it
down to Jaffa, whence it was carried
up to Jerusalem, about forty miles
inland. 1t is stated that Solomon an
nually gave King Hiram 10000
measures Of wheat and twenty meas
ures Of oil as his part Of the contract,
and that the two kings were asso-
ciated together.
The first temple was begun by Solo
mon, just 2,915 years ago, and it took