Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-10-14
JERUSALEM.
tv eev, Horace D. Haskell.l

eonetiDes hesissse ~ eoooe
.salem, because so many people are liv-
'naer the impressions OF the teachings
ins De- childhood, the sentiments Of the
,,,,,nl songs they sing, and the mean
'ot the name, and they cannot con-
~ ~ how a great, mighty, wonderful,
"a vlorious religion = the religion Of
-. Christ - can be associated with a
~ whose very beginning was as that Of
~ handling child and whose history has
80 largely one OF sin and abomlnation,
az and massacre. disease and death.
70 however, the readers OF these articles
rarnsalem hold fast to the spiritual
s.sw.point, they will find, growing out Of
~ ashris. the ruins, the motley races, the
..ree contradictions, the ignorance,
'narstitions and impositions, q power
=, religion, the miracle OF which is I'M
snswersble.
,..vs,lers. as well rs some who are not
,..,ned or cultured, visit Jerusalem only
- away disappointed,a and to regard the
.,e;eut city as a fraud, and all because
NAV see nothing but the surface Of things,
srryed from site to site by guide, dis
nr.tsd at the recital OF superficial and
,.ncitul tales, harsssed by professional
,.ogsrs. and robbed by designing traders.
To those who 60 prepared to make a
.,uay OF the Holy City, and who take time
md give thought to the subject, there is a
,,seination, an appeal, and reward, COM
msusurste to the study, time and thought
given.
There is no city we study so much
about. read so much about, talk so much
.bout. and after ali know so little about
historically, geographically and srch@o-
logically, as the city OF Jerusalem.
There are some lessons quite necessary
IN learn il one expects to leave Jerusalem
wiser than when be- enters 1t. The first
thing is to familiarize himself with its
history, and its topography and to know
the Old and New Testaments. Then 1t is
we'll to study its archaeology and excava-
tons. The photography OF the city and
M enyirons is very interesting.
II il essential that the visitor bring
home to his mind the changes through
which jerusalem has passed in the course
oicenturies. He ought to remain in and
around the city long enough to know
points OF interest thoroughly in the light
Of historical topography. He must 20
tresbes. his mind and heart and gets into
the spirit OF the story OF the promontories
Iutting out into the Hebron and Hinnom
valleys and OF the surrounding hills and
dsles.
1.-THE traveller finds himself dependent
upon priest or dragomsn, as is so often
the case, be is usually misled, disguised
snd rebellious, but II he associates himself
with the Newman institute, the American
School OF Oriental Research, or attempts
bis Investigations independently, even, he
may trace the most extraordinary story
known to history from the time OF the
ave-dwellers to the present moment, and
finally leave the city and its environs with
a better understood bible, Christ Jesus a
precious possession, and Christianity a
priceless heritage.
II is not so very difficult a task, after all,
to prepare oneself to enter into and ap-
preciate the spirit Of the ages, to carry
shout a sense OF adoption, to see beneath
the surface upon which he walks, to look
into the heart OF things, to go back to the
childhood Of the world, to feel the con-
seiousness that he 10 gazing on the stage
where have been played many of the
mightiest dramas OF all time, to realize
that out OF the thought, experience and in
splrstion OF the Semetic races have come
the most excellent laws, both human and
divine, given to humanity, and to appre-
bend that Jerusalem is a sacred city for
The three most sublime OF all religions
the Jewish, Christian and Moslem.
From this mentality, holding stead
lastly to the spiritual ideal, the visitor
tothe Holy City rises above the sordid
conditions OF place and people, and finds
philosophy, psychology and spirituality
which dominate large part of the human
nee.
GLANCE BACKWARDS.
There IS little doubt that Jerusalem be-
gan Its existence in prehistoric times.
Inc hint Implements and weapons found
N the debris OF the ancient city mark
'ne stone age, and caves, both natural
sou artificial, point to cave-dwellers.
sosephus believed the Salem mentioned
ID denesis, the 14th chapter and 18th
verse, as we find it, to be the same place
- Jerusalem. The reference Is to
"eiehizedak, the king OF Salem, and
priest OF the most high God. This was
nearly two thousand years before Christ.
= is the first allusion, as far as / know, to
'ne place being inhabited.
eighteen hundred years before Christ,
abraham emigrated from Ur OF the
saalaees to the land of Canaan. He
oufieo his wife, Sarah, at Hebron, not
uany miles from Jeruslem. David
Iafched from Hebron upon Jerusalem
sau captured this stronghold of the Jebu-
dom.
me origin OF Jerusalem is described in
Ezekiel tho i Az n n a al