Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-07
Church il, Nazareth, Said to Be Built Over the
Site OF Josephs Workshop.
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SFFHE hills of the Holy Land" that have spoken to
all Christcndom OF Peace and Good VIII for
nearly twenty centuries, are to resound with the
roar OF artillery and the hiss of the rifeball The
sacred places which trod by the the Child
Jesus. and in which He to manhood the Son
Of the Carpenter be profaned by the
bloody of if the latest verified by
events
A missionary has just reached Cairo, Egypt fleeing
before the aroused Turkish soldery According his
report the Turks preparing themselves against an
invasion OF Palestine by the British, and the allies
OF the Germans, they planting the hills
around Nazareth, digging trenches and building great
military roads from the port, Acre, as far as
Mount Carmel for the transport other heavy artil
lery which they expect the Krupps ship through
Mediterranean Sea.
III the cry has up all the world at the
unchrstian that has burst forth between Christian
nations, what will said now that the Holy Land It.
self is to become n battle ground?
1t was III Nazareth that the Saviour made His home
for eight and twenty years according Luke H. A. 49,
bl: And Joseph also from Calilee out OF the
city OF Nazareth And when they had performed all
things according TO the law OF the Lord they returned
into Galilee to their own city Nazareth. And the
Child grew, waved strong in spirit filled with wisdom
and the grace of God was upon Him. And He
down with them and to Nazareth and was sub
ject unto them. And Jesus increased wisdom and
stature and in favor with God and man."
The malicious ingenuity of the Turk could not have
selected spot earth whose proclamation by war
rs this of Nazareth. mind of every believing
Christian it is the most sacred spot earth
Grated by the actual life or Him to become tho
Saviour OF mankind.
cluster of hills forms the northern wall of the
famous Plain Of Esdraeon and this what seems
to be the crater OF extinct volcano sides OF
this crater the village OF Nazareth clings with its
houses tier tier, like reaching upward
toward the blue sky II IS upon these hills that the
Turks planting their cannon
Here is still shown the fountain OF the Virgin" to
which Jesus and His mother have resorted day
by day for the needed water and here, too is shown
the house, made church. in which the Saviour
lived toiling carpenter the side of Joseph who
was called His father.
Millions ot.thTist ian pilgrims have TO Nazareth
during the t1asf twenty seeking the nspira-
ton they might gather by contemplation OF the places
sanctled by the lc OF Jesus. where largo part
of the time that He earth He preached peace
and love. The contrast and contradiction in ideas
tween then and now raise the Interesting question OF
what the Saviour himself would say were He 10 see
these warliko preparations around His old home?
But Il the war continues and spreads, as is likely,
10 Syria, which, OF course Includes all Palestine many
blows VIII be struck The places identified as
important in the birth OF Christianity and in its later
development The very port OF Acre mentioned in
the New Testament hut as Ptolcnnais from which
the military road is being built Mount Carmel
was famous in the days OF the Crusades
d'Acre. tho seat OF lie Christian Kingdom and head
quarters OF the KNIGHTS Templayg.
Should the British invade Palestine there will be
another Crusade for of the detectives cannot fail
TO be Jerusalem the Holy Sepucfre IT would be
trishtful, indeed to contemplate the battcring of the
great Golden Gate" and the possible destruction Of
the Church Holy scpulchre itself that wonderful
-lorument OF Saracenc art
I the British guns are cvelled at Jerusalem they