The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-03

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struments which are used at the
present time. We felt like saying,
There is nothing new under the
sum-" The bodies in stone of those
buried, giving their expression OF
agony in that fearful hour, horses.
dogs, mice and too many things to
mention in an article of this kind,
were found.
Rome, the Eternal City," once
the metropolis of the world and af-
terward the spiritual empire of the
Popes,is situated on the Tiber. 1t
dates back to 754 B C, probably be-
yond that time. Thousands of OBJ
jects interest US in this ancient city
which it would be impossible to
crowd into ewspaper article. The
Roman Forum and the Palace of the
Caesars now being eXcavated, the
Coliseum, st Peters Cathedral, the
Vatican. the seat Of ecclesiastical
power of the Roman Catholic church,
st Paul without the Gates, st John
the Lateran, the Pantheon and other
points can but be merely mentioned.
| drove down the Appian Way which
st Luke mentions in the last chapter
of Acts, where Paul met the brethren
from Rome. | also went into the
prison where Paul was probably con-
fined. In one of the churches the
guide showed US the footprints of
Jesus, in stone, where He stood when
talking to Paul. In another church
he showed me the real feet Of Jesus
in an iron cage. said to him in re-
ply to these tracks of Jesus and His
feet: We'll, Jesus must have been a
very heavy man to leave such deep
tracks in marble, and then, too, If
Christ is in heaven He is there with
out His feet and therefore His en-
tire body has not been resurrected
from the dead" In another church
you are shown a skull of Jesus and
in another church second one. A
member of the party remarked to
the guide, Il see this is a very
large skull and the other a very
small one; how is that" Wei"
replied the guide, "the other one
was when Jesus was 9. little boy"
What miserable superstitions the
Popes have fastened on these people!
In the church of St John Lateran
these Romanists claim to have the
twenty-eight marble steps from Pi-
late's stairs in Jerusalem. They are
placed before the great altar in this
church and by crawling: up them on
your knees and repeating prayers
and counting beads you get remls-
sion of sin for nine years. While
crawling up these steps the monk
Martin Luther had his vision of the
RIGHTEOUSNESS and sinfulness of such
an act. He arose disgusted with Ro-
manism, walked down and began his
wonderful Reformation of the six
teenth century.
Florence, the city Of Dante and
Savanarola, is marvellous and seems
to be created for poets, artists and
all those human souls who love
beauty. The beauty of her sky, the
mildness of her climate, the mag
nifcence of her surroundings. the
grand and numerous artistic monu-
ments. which recall the glory of her
past, concur to make Florence one of
the most charming cities of the
world. 1t is called another Athens.
Renan said that whilst Athens diff
fused culture among the ancients,
the modern world is indebted to
Florence for its civilization.
We leave for Venice and Switzer-
land tomorrow. Some of our party
are already planning to return with
me next spring to visit the Holy
Land. l. d BASS,
of Mexia, Texas.
Florence, Italy, July IA.
Hotel Berna Parlamento.