The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-24
- Developments In
eDOp0tania Recall
Bible History
ERATIONS NEAR
BRAHAM'S HOME
lie At Megiddo, or
him of Esdrael0n,
II Likely
YMg RELIoIoUs RAMsLER

out not inc irost tntotrStn6
y the recent remarkable news
Dfble lands Is the fact that
- has fallen once more. and
\ Hme 20 the troops or Great
Despite all the attention
y being given to Bagdad--and
y TIE recent articles are amas-
nnccurate--that city Of the ca
k1noss not have anything like
N1lc attention that Old Babylon
-. In history, prophecy.
~. song and story. Babylon oc-
: unique position. and is pass
- the control Of the British
vWosthy.
gn1Iy. the British have taken
-. There are really two Baby
one 10 the Babylon OF today,
o other II the Babylon Of the
= NebuchadnexSar. The for
~ ne town or Hufsh. situated
~ confines Of old Babylon
mous for it's dates. ] have
1nfes In many parts Of Meeo-
y, bot those of Hillah are the
III. TIE town In small. with
~ hundred Inhabitants. and
1inss are all Of mud BRICKS.
y Babylon of old.
10y had more than a schol-
oDsest tn Babylon. The ex-
~ the work of excavating the
nmountins. ~ Dr. Kaloeway
70 $4,000 Q year, were met
German government. The
DersouAl interest In the
~ project Ia famous. Not
o Il 3 research work that
- the imagination, but II
n1p 3 stake In this wander
1ECfon TO which the imperial
W4Ut1&8ktr WTtt NMS&tFNs
cmbsrs Of Dr. Kaldeway's star
~ German officers, and that
Festivities we're not exclusively
||r1oGicai has been demonstrated
p oar1y success of the Turco-
m expedition. They accom-
1 what the British, long dom
\ - this region, had believed
ME.
IL Babylon IL practically a SUI
70 Bagdad. II automatically
m the fortunes OF that metropo-
4 Mesopofamia- When the city
|o caliphe fell 10 Gen. Aauds's
m and the Turks were chased
m their outlying positions.
~ was one Of the hrst points
y cleared.
- students best underrtsnd the
I1ches from Mesopotamia, for
b persons. for the most part.
only the haziest notions rs TO
,Dcation OF Mesopotamia itself.
y SPEAK Of its detailed points.
~ h the present retreat OF
X1xkish German forces In en-
~ BY the fact that they are op-
~ within strictly Bible lands.
1Aelr course is almost identical
that followed by Abraham.
- out OF Ur OF the Chaldees.
~ out Of Uh OF the chaldees.
~ Amsrn is on the edge of an
Or. The ChaIdeans are still
there Among the Christian
- hung by the Turks when
|<oot Bagdsd were eminen, men
~ Chaldean christisn church.
II the historic eastern churches
= hos borne witness to tts faith.
~ al prosecutions, In this IA
goGton.
- Abraham want TO Harsn. ne
rod the Tigris river. just an the
H ore doing. They have the ad-
- Of q hundred miles OF the
~ railway. which has been
n0rthvard from the city the
u which II bears. to old sa-
~ the place famous religiousIy
~ tomb Of the tenth Imam. the
whose return r. expected by
ms. II was because Of the pill
Dose that this section Of the
I'd was completed, without
- for the rest. The mosque
covers the tomb OF the tenth
y y one OF the most beautiful
= world. externally. No Chris
- ever been permitted TO en-
- sacred precincts. and few
gners have seen its walls.
1e(eAted at Mosul. the Turks
eSmans viii make their next
q another point Of Scripturai
-. Ras el Ain. which In In old
y where Abraham dwelt before
g to Canaan. and where he
~ steward 10 get a wife for
Here Rebecca's wen may
- se~n.
y a Ras ri Ain great stores OF
~ supplies are accumulated.
- II Ain IL the terminus OF
ncfruction OF The Basdad rsil-
preparations have Iona been
- . defense here, should ~
Doesesary. This II the point
~ nussisn army win strike.