Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-02
TRIBUTE To JESUS
FOUND IN MOSQUE
by Dr.. MORGAN
Central M. E. Church Pastor,
Just Back from Holy Land.
Tells of Inscription.
FIRST DAYS EXPERIENCE
IN DAMASCUS A SHOCK
Hotel Window Opened on Square
Where Three Recalcitrant
Chiefs Were Hanging.

"a great trip and a rare good well
come home.'
That was the Rev. DIR. William II.
Morgan's hearty summary Of his trip
to the Orient. given today 10 an Eve
ming STAR reporter.
THE lnnd of mystery and oppression,
the land of great contracts between
what was, what is and what might be-:
the land of the Bible, the Holy Land
what can [ say about it.
I'm tell you about my first day n
Damascus, the capital OF Syria; it1l
show a little of what | saw and felt.
We arrived there Sunday and our hotel
windows overlooked d public square
not as far away perhaps as the park
out there. We saw three tripods in the
square II from eacb was hanging a
native chieftain, three Druse sheiks,
swinging slowly in the wind. They had
refused to pay the increased taxes
levied by the Turks and had led their
followers against the government. And
that day, from 4 o'clock in the mora.
ing, the Bedouins, CARRIED in the garish
costume of their race, thronged the city
TO view those men in the public square,
The expression on their faces. the
whole attitude of the crowd was hate
iul-terrible.'
DR.. Morgan's arraisnment of the
Turkish government was forcetul and
impressive.
az dapft l,1fat-a - Ia. ..vgIaf,,f1 Ithut
there is any future for any country
under the Turkish flag
Second Experience Different.
DR.. Morgan's second experience OF
that Sunday in Damascus was in strik-
ing contrast to his first.
''They have closed streets in those
eastern cities. | wanted TO get w TO
see an arch, which Henry Van Dyke
had mentioned in his book. The ladder
we pressed into service was too short
and | had to dig my fingers into the
worn crevises of the ancient masonry
and Chamber up. Then I pushed my
way through IA small opening so that
| could at length decipher the Greek
inscription. How strange 1t was to
read 1t. there in n Mohammedan city,
on part Of a mosque in which tho rites
of another religion We're then being
performed, Thy kingdom. O Christ. Is
an everlasting kingdom and Thy do
minion shall endure forever After the
tumult and the horror of that morning
il was a benediction."
DIR. Morgan went on to describe how
DR.. Lincoln Ferris, formerly of st.
Paul's. and himself had driven out
along the Damascus highway in the
afternoon to the traditional spot where
PAU had his vision and where he vas
converted from the Hebrew to the
Christian religion.
There was the snow-capped moan
tain IIermon just beyond us as we
stood on the old caravan trail Travelled
for centuries untold by the donkeys
and eamels of pack-trains, and in the
valley that for beauty is scarcely de-
scribable lay Damascus"
Or. Morgan stated that he had Wis.,
tied every place of interest around Je-
rusalem
Palestine is IA barron and weary
desert. under tho rule OF the Turks.
Fhe olive trees that are growing were
plarted by the Crusaders-the natives
plant nothing. The Bedouins have this
same black goatskin tents of Bible
days. And yet Palestine could easily
be the garden of the world. stretch
ing from the snow-clad summit Of the
mountains to the Great Sea, 800 feet
below sea level, there Is every degree
of climate rom the arctic to the torrld.
The soil is perpetuafly fortified and is
capable of marvellous fertility"
DIR. Morgan explained the difficulty
of Palestine's growth to the fact that
Yafa. the seaport, has q narrow. rock
bound entrance through which only
small rowboats can pass, then only on
calm days,
italy, France INC England were also
visited by DIR. Morgan.
III was particularly interested he
said, taking UP a subject hat was
evidently uppermost in his mind. Tin
the way in which the English people
seemed TO favor President Taft's propo-
sition in regard to n peace treaty.
While ! was on board ship a mass