Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
Tiny Palestine Has c
 Glory AbOUe ALI Else

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 son, sharing the unfailing supply from
 the barrel of meal and the cruse of
 oil-nOt an unfamiliar menu now in ' Palestine-during the sore famine oi
 Ahab's day.
 | South of Carmel was Caesarea, a
 royal city of the Herods. It is a desc late ruin now, almost entirely sea covered The mere name of the
 place brings thought of the greatest
 man who ever walked the globe since first the Almighty sent it circling round the sun For it was in this city that Paul made the pathetic appeal to his friends:
 What mean ye to weep and break mine heart? For l am ready not to
 be bound only. but also to die at Jeru- salem for the name of the Lord Jesus"
 To the same city he was brought
 back after a little while to endure two years imprisonment In one of its magnificent palaces of state he ap peared in turn before Felix, Festus and Agrippa and uttered that marvel ous burst of oratory unequaled in forensic speech. And it was from Caesarea-g event in all its his tory-tbat Paul, a manscled prisoner, sailed to preach the gospel "to them that are at Rome also" Caesarea is now in British, not Turkish hands.
 The Fifth Gospel
 Palestine affords an historic geog- raphy lesson It is no common lesson In the earth's geography. We have before our eyes in Palestine what Re nan calls "the fifth gospel, torn but legible-" Many have noticed the re- markable testimony which the land gives to the book None who see Pal estine can fail to observe and be af- fected by it. Each new traveller, in war or peace, adds fresh confirmation to the precision and accuracy of the book
 It is a generally believed error that only a few of the Biblical sites have been identified On the contrary, some 450 out of the 622 Biblical names west of the Jordan have been settled upon with historical certainty. The sacred associations of the Land of Israel are more abiding than the framework of its everlasting hills. It is these asso ciatiOns, which have affected every tribe and people, that still most pow erfully move the traveller from the west who comes into the far east.
 IL is not the quaint oriental life. not the marvellous sunsets, not the clear and sparkling atmosphere. not the glorious flowers and fruitage of this land which appeals most strongly. but its wonderful history. It is the Holy Land apart from every other land. II IS the land of the Patriarchs and of the Prophets; of Abraham and David and Solomon and the Apostles. The very names of its rivers and hills and valleys are part of the worlds religious terminolOgy. We stand on JOrdan's stormy banks" or on "Pis- sah's heights; we "go down into Gethesmane" and bear the cross to  - There are many mountains celebrat- ed by poets pen and artists pencil but there is only one Mount of Olives. There are many cities glorious in his tory and magnificent in art, but there Is only one Jerusalem. Como is rivaled l in Killarney. but there is only single I Sea Of Galilee. There are many in teresting towns of antiquity which I men have travelled weary miles to see. but there is only one Bethlehem, one Nazareth, one Jerusalem. For PaIes- tine has its glOry above all else be 1 cause here the Son of God was made flesh and dwelt amongst men.
 Tt is historically incontrovertible." !" said Doctor Gregg, that here in the Holy Land appeared he whose pre- cept. example and pierced right hand l have lifted heathenism off its hinges and turned into new channels the course of human thought