Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-03
PALESTINE REJOICED
THAT SHE NOW IS FREE
Liberation Of Holy Land Great
Era in History, Says Wis
count Bryce.

A crowded meeting was recently held
IN the Querns Hall, London, under the
cbairruanahip of VIsc0lnt Bryce in thanks
giving for the delivcrance Of the Holy
land. lord Bryce MAS supported ~ the
Bishop in jerusalem DR. MacInnes)
aud ldout-Col Sir Henry Mcmahon,
late high commissioner iu Egypt, who
H. acting as chairman n the IOndOn
Committee of tho Syria and Palestine
Relief Fund A large number Oi reprn-
sentative men ~ the religious life "
London gathered on the platform.
Lord Bryce said that they bad mr.
10 celebrate a very great cycnt--on' ~
the greatest events Of The century DID
they not sometimes feel their mind
unenal 10 taking 10 the f0ll sgnifrauoc
and magnitude u the groa' events Rhi'h
were passing IN their dayy Sometime il
seemed ~ II, especially when one con-
fcmplofed the results which might Ho1
from such events, that they wore grea'er
than ordinary human inicilig"nce could
grasp.
/ Palestine WAS no more than an cpi5ofe p
the war, but 80 any other time a would
have been an cvcnt IN lt7oN enough ~
I'll and nOYc mons minds Tor hall
generation Think What 3 nneant ~
! have brought about t6at yrodiDo'ls
! change in this central country q no
/ world, the homo u three world rcllgior8'
/ The Liberation of Jerusalem turned one
+ thoughts back 10 three yreat previous
( cras n thc history ~ TINT cOun'ry. Pale
I tine was lost % Christianity ? oen'uries
ago. when the tremendous Onslaught T'
4 the Arabs shortly after me death q
/ Nohamrned lopped awav Palestine E1ypt
( and Syria from inc Christian Rounn
Empire.
Eight oenturies hid psssed gfn~r che
1 Turkg, harbarols race from the north,
I carnc down overturned the ancient Arab
/ Empire, and established themselves i
I Palestine. when. sucn were the ins'ii' +
thoy offered to the Christian pilgrims, t1r
wrath of Europe found expression in t1e
+! crieades Ibc crIsading kingdom lasf'
fn- about tvo canfurcs during nearly one
nj which the crusaders held JerIsaleTn
but Jerusalem vas finally lgSt - Chr
tiarity N the Twoifth Century, when
-aladrn, the great head Of the Aoslern
world, overthreFv the crusaders near the
Lake III Gailee. and shortly afterWsrd
rart,lred the Holy CITY. during the seven
centuries which had p8ssed -ince then
Palestine had had ~ suffer many things
both under the Egyptian ,ultans and
since the Sixteenth Century, under the
Iurks
rom that TYRANNY A. last Lord Bryce
continued she wae delivered, and de-
Hvered under circumstances # hr1ghtest
omen ior her future >he was delivered
hv 4 Christian power, which based its
strength unon the forsakng OF rersecG-
tlon and the establishment q equal
rights and freedom for all. Z hat was the
idea underlying the proclamation rt
General AiIenbv A better opportunity
for progress would he gwen n the peopie
nf Palestine now than they sl2d ever
enJoved since the faii of the Roman
Empire Was II not a comforting thought
nat the rule Of the Turk had gone Ior-
cver2 Too long had the Christian ra4
tIons borne with the unspeakaDIe, .a-
tolerable. irreclamable Turk, who vas
never tit for anything nut conquest. and
whose only mission ia the lands ne con-
quered Gas 10 destroy civilization.
Il gas not only Palestine and ~yria
that had cause to he grateful. il vas ail
those rarts al ASIA Minor winch were
ianApteQ ay hrlstans, particularly tiH
Arrnenlans Especially n1Ight those prps-
cnt rejoice III the tact that wnen the Brit
ish troops entered Jerusalem. and agair
when thev entered Damascus, hey were
greeted with accl4matIons py the people
not by Christians and Jewg only, but 2l5c
hv tie Mosle There could 5e lc
netter augmv for the future man thai
The British should be received ~ tAt
l.berat0rs IL the country by all the ele
nents IN lts popuiatlon.
he Bishop IN jerusalem Or. Mac
Innes3, described the appearance u Gaza
after is capture by saying that ont
glorious night Of full moon ne spent tS'
hours walking through the TlIns o[ ~
cltv-a city whlch had contained $500
pcople-and never met soul. rIiy
as The prophet had said, badness aa,
come upon GAIA. Ten thousand peopl'
had nov gone back 70 this city OF Ssm
son, but the d.ffiCllty was TO secure ToO'
for the rebuilding Of their houses.-
+ Chrlstllu Science Monitor.