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Most of us know the boundaries of
our own state, or at least our own
county, but we little realize the edu.
cational value to be gained from an
occasional hour devoted to reading
of other lands.
Take, for instance, Palestine, which
is described as a narrow strip of
country at the eastern end of the
Mediterranean sea, stretching north
and south 140 miles, and from 80 to
40 miles east and west, covering in
its entirety an area of only 1,200
SQUARE miles. Why, most of our states
cover from five to ten times as much
space, the state of Texas alone con-
tanning more than 20 times the area
of Palestine.
or all of the lands of the earth,
Palestine is one of the most interest
ing, for in this small country orig
mated a volume that is familiar to
all-the Bible 1t has often been a
question of wonderment that such a
small portion of our earth could be
instrumental in producing a work so
universally known. And yet small
countries have given 10 the world
some of its greatest treasures. Take
for instance Greece, England, Italy
and Egypt; all of them are small, yet
they have been world leaders in some
one or another characteristic.
Today there is not place on our
planet which is more thoroughly
studied and known than this 1900
square miles of Palestine. Even in
our own generation, every foot OF it
has been surveyed. Our geologists
have gone through the rocks botan-
lists have gathered and classified its
plants, and biologists have collected
and arranged its animals. Maps have
been made that show every noun
tain, valley, lake and river, as well
as cities and villages.
In Palestine are to be found all the
rock formations, as well as all OF the
flora and fauna known TO this earth.
Between the high attitudes OF its
mountains with their perpetual snow
and tepid waters OF the Salt sea-
every climate is experienced, in
which there is every living thing
that is known. to the earth. So it
has been truthfully said that Pales-
tine is the whole world in nutshell
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ing knowledge set forth in the New
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