The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-12-10

ms down IN it to get back IA bucket he mad
cropped, noticed a door which led him into 4
WONDERFUL garden, where he picked Il loal. y,
ore Of his acquain;ances TO whom he showed
1t had ever seen its like and. since ii DID not
Wither, all agreed that ii must be Of celestial
origin, a hypothesis absolutely incontr0yertihle
because the secret door could not be found a%ain
1T had disappeared as completely as the entrance
to the tombs OF the Kings OF judah, accidentally
lighted upon, as benjamin Of Tudela informs us
by stone lnasOAS and carpenters employed in
Snoring the foundations of the temples and pal
aces that succcssive!y rose and were RACED Oh
the site Of Melchizedck's hill fortress.
The northern part of The sacred inclosurc is
occupied by tie Jami' al-.tqsa, or Distant House
of Prayer. with its superb pulpit. one Of the finest
pieces of woodwork eXtant. 1t was carved b. a
celebrated sculptor Of Alelpo ut the charge Of Sui
tan NuradG II, and was placed in its present 20
sition by Sultan Saladin when. after his capture
of Jerusalem, the Christian church became Il
Mahommedan mosque. This event could not &C.
cur, of course. without being duly announced by
signs and wolGcrs. In numerous churches OF
Europe the cruciiiXcs shed tears of blood and Il
monk of ArgcntCuil saw the moon descend Ia
earth viii weeping countenance. Truly. the city
reverted again Ia the Christians By the treaty of
February Is. 100. concluded between Saladin'l
nephew Malik al-Kanil and the Emperor Fred
erick III, but after the departure of that brilliant,
if unscrupuloas. monarch, the Kharezmians van
dered Wet and prepared the way for Turkish
rule Of The holy places.
The Distant House Of Prayer-in popular par
lance the Palace Of SoloinOn-was assigned 10 The
protection of The arstocratic brotherhood inSti-
tuted in Ills to protect pilgrims to the holy
PLACES and to fight the battles of Christianity
Since the cdiice was situated in the temple
grounds. the members Of that brotherhood became
known as Knights Tcmplars. The order ceased
TO exist In 1914 when its grand master, Jacques
de MOlay, was burned at the stake. With mis-
last breath lie summoned the two puissant enc
mics who had comprised his fall, TO follow and
face him before Gods tribunal, as they id
King Philip tie Fair of France within three. and
Pope Clement V within twelve months Tie saAe
year, 1914, brought the revival of another broth
erhocd closely associated with the history Of Pal
estine-the Knights IIospitalcrs, originally he
Brothers of ST. John. 1t was founded just hcroye
the first crusade by a certain Gerald Of ANA u,
ON the lines OF an earlier order, the members Df
which served rs ministrants TO the comfort Of
lepers and pilgrims in distress, under the patrol-
age of st. Lazarus. This order OF the Hospital
of st. John nj Jerusalem, to write out its full
name, later known as the Order Of the Knights
of Rhodes and as the Order Of the Knights Of
Malta, is still very much alive IL some Of it's Off
shoots. In the East ii counts descendants Of the
Sultan Saladin among its pensioners, and also in
the West it takes an active part in relief work.
During the great war, it supported at Etaples,
between BOulogne and Montreuil, a large hut hos
pital, where many OF those wounded In the Ger.
man drives toward Amiens and the channel ports,
and In General FOch's decisive counter. offensive,
were cared for.