The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-06-01
study of Palestine Advised.
Editor County Record

Editor County Record
With your permission | would like
to address few remarks to our
Sunday.school scholars. want
to persuade at least some of them
to take up the study of Palestine.
| know of no study that would in
terest and benefit them more. If
we become interested in news from
a certain place, such as the great
European war, we turn to our maps
and get each place fixed in our
minds. If we go away from home,
how gladly we turn to the columns of
our County Record for news from
the places we know. And so you all
will find it a pleasure to follow our
Sunday-school lessons regularly. Pal
estine, as some of you might know,
is narrow strip of country, not
quite as large as our own State,
bordering on the eastern side of the
Mediterranean sea. This land was
first called Canaan; from Canaan,
the son of Ham; also the Land of
Promise, from its being promised by
God to Abraham; also the Land of
Israel, from the Israelites; some
times it is mentioned as the Land
of Judea. from Juda, the principal
of the twelve tribes. 1t is now
known as Palestine. from the Philis-
tines, who inhabited the southwest
ern part of the country. 1t is often
referred to as the Holy Land, from
its being the scenes of the greater
part of the transactions recorded in
the Bible and particularly of the
birth, life miracles and cruci6xion
of our Savior. The Jordan, the Gel
ebrated river of Palestine, is deep
and rapid, but very narrow. 1t
flows into the Dead sea after passing
through the sea Of Galilee. This: is
one of the places so often. mention,
ed in the Bible and you all should
study it we'll and learn all you cam
about this, beautiful lake which is1
about IA miles long and three, niles1
wide. It was on this sea: that sol
many miracles were performed. BY
our Savior. Near the sea of Galiiee5
several of the Disciples were called.
It was near its borders that much
of our Savior's time was spent. The
two principal centers of his labors
during his ministry were the Sea of
Galilee and Jerusalem and its vicin-
ity. l wonder how many Of our
Sunday-school scholars remember
His prophecies concerning the great
buildings of Jerusalem when He said
that mot one stone shall be left
standing upon another? Yet it
was only 81 years before it was TAX
en- and destroyed by Titus and his
army. Again when ne looked out
over the city and said. Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, how oft would | have
gathered thee as a hen gathereth
her brood and We would not What
has been the result of its wickedness
and unbelief? The Israelites who
were given all this land, the chosen
people of God, are now scattered to
the four corners of the world and
are people without country.
| wonder if there are any parents
who will pack their children off to
Sunday-school with no help on their
lessons. No wonder our Sunday
schools have so few attendants.
Now, in conclusion, want you all
to remember that on the east of the
city is the Mount of Olives, where
He went after eating the passover.
Between the Mount of Olives and
the city is Gethsemane, where He
was betrayed. On the north side OF
Jerusalem was Calvary where He
was crucifed. Northeast of the
city was Bethany where he raised
Lazarus from the dead and the place
from which he ascended to Heaven.
l want you all not to forget that it
was on Friday, April 8, A D 33. that
our Savior was crucified and on the
following Sunday He arose from the
dead, and upon this fact rests all
the hope of the entire Christian
world. e.