The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1913-04-04


is common 10 ALL 1t is gaudil.
decorated outside and inside witt
hanging lamps, candle sticks as'
various trappings. Besides tn
supposed sepulchre and Calvary
this huge church contains sons
forty other holy places, anC
relics, all of which are devotedly
kissed and many are apparently
worshipped by the ignorant and
superstitious, but devout pilgrims
many Of whom walk for hundreds
of mi. .es to be in the church fol-
Christmas and especially for Easter.
And whether this be the real place,
or not, of our Lords oruciixion,
burial and resurrection, it is at least
very real in the imagination of
thousands, and cannot be very far
from the site where all these things
took place. So. as We entered the
portals, a feeling of 'eepest rever-
ence filled our souls. and sympathy
could not help but flow from the
hardest hearts at some of the scenes
that can be witnessed almost daily
within those walls. From the Holy
Sepulchre we weI ded our way thru
the dirty Jewish quarters to the
Jews wailing place." 1t was on
Friday afternoon, the dav when
most all the Jews close up their
shops early, and after taking a bath
and putting on clean clothes. go
with their book of Lamentations in
their hands, to a very old section OF
a wall which is said to be, on good
authority. the only thing that re-
mains of the old Temple enclosure.
Here they group themselves in binds
of ten or twelve and wall in unison.
Manv tourists go there to see a kind
of sp ctacular performance, and it
is true that their looks. dress, and
most every thing else which they
ha and do is different from any
thing we have ever seen before, but
when one sees the real tears of sor-
row flow. and witnesses the pathos
in those poor old faces as they weep
and mourn over their fallen race,
and pray for the restoration of their
beloved temple, one does not feel
like laughing From the wailing
place, the Jews proceed to their
and have kind of a
service for their Sab
bath" on Saturday. In the syna-
gogues we noticed that they wear
their hats and the women sit be-
hind a latticed screen during the
service.
Three different pools of dirty !
'tagnant wat r claim to be the Pool
If Bethesda. We paid our franc a
piece to see only one, and hope we
Jaw the right one!
Some very ancient arches, and
marble floors recently excavated
we're pointed out to us as the floor
i Pilates Judgement Hall and the
Ecce Homo" Arch, over which is
row built a church and a convent
choot From this place to the
huroh of the Holy Sepulchre, the
walk their Via Dolorosa,
+ way Of the Cross Along this
treet you see their Fourteen
of the cross, but there is
% historical evidence whatever for
hese sites nor can they even be
ure that,the directions are correct
ince the street was not SO named
ntil the fourteenth century.
The present Jerusalem is much
mailer than the Jerusalem Of {
hrist's day. The Mt. Zion of that
ay was covered with palaces, and l
ow large part of it is a ploughed
ED. Solomon could find no !
stronger than "Comely as !
David describes it as I
city that is builded compact to- I
sther, and it is very compact with 9
Try narrow streets and low stone y
mud houses. With every destruc-
on of the city, the rubbish has t
led higher and higher above the q
al footprints Of our Saviour and
e real holy places that we wished :
much to see.
There is an interesting American