The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-23
Jerusalem, Palestine.

Dear Bro. Marshall, Baird and
Commercial family: All peace, per-
feet peace, be multiplied unto thee
from the God of Heaven, our Lord
Jesus Christ. / send you greetings
from the lovely mountain of Olivet,
where the Lord has led me to live
few weeks, or as long as he chooses,
for my will is lost in his, and all
want to do is to glorify my precious
Saviour, who so wondrously saved me
in dear old Union City on Church
street near the C. p. Church one glo-
rious, r-to-be-forgotten night
in the spring of 1907. That event
is sacred, its effect lasting, and after
fourteen years of blessed service for
my King, the meek and lcwly Naza-
rene, can say it is growing better,
and Jesus dcarer and life sweeter
each step of the way. And dear ones,
| if you will stop and consider your
ways, repent and take the dear old
Bible and take Gods ways and fol-
low them, he will lead you beside
the still waters, and you shall lie
down in green pastures and you will
not want foolish gold and worldly
pleasurc-but to abide in Him will
be your joy; and you will be satisfied
with His goodness and your daily de-
sire will be to be like Him, and you
will watch, work, pray and be ready
for His glorious coming in the clouds
in the cir, and be caught up to meet
Him, and so shall we ever be with
the Lord and be like him.
Mount of Olives is beautiful range
of rolling mountains $500 feet above
sea level on the cast of Jerusalem,
"the city of the great King" and is
about one hundred feet higher, and
gives us the best views of this most
noted city; between Mount of Olives
and Jerusalem lies the Brook Kedron,
where our Lord passed over so many
times to pray and pour out his soul
in the agony of prayer for his own
(the Jew, for the poor lost, sad
world and for you and for me.
AS walk out in the garden west
of my room, rented by one of the
hated, despised Jews, who loves me
and said "You can come and sit in
my garden any time you wish and
stay as long as you like"-but he
does not give this to the poor native
Christians or Mohammedans because
they hate the poor Jews, but, like a
child, the Jew is reached easiest by |
love, SO are you. Here, in the gar
den, l see Jerusalem, compact, so
closely built together. The Temple |
Area, with Mosque of Omar, Calvary |
and the many round gray domes of
houses and churches, towers and |
steeples pointing upward to that ha-
ven of rest, found in Jesus Christ,
not in the Worlds vain glory. On
the east side we find the little village |
of Bethpage, with only few houses
left, and to the southeast the noted
town Of Bethany (the home of Ma
ry, Martha and Lazarus). Here the
church rulers were stirred into a
rage and the world heard of the Won
derfUl power Of JcsuS, who raised
Lazarus, who had been dead four
days, and Martha's doubt arising,
He had to send for trustful Mary,
who believed He was able, and at the
call Lazarus arose bound hand and
foot, but willing hGnds loosed him.
The pillars and foundation of their
home are pointed out, and Lazarus
tomb, near where you go into a
place of many tombs, all hewn out
in the rock; you go forward about
ten feet, down about ten feet and
wind back as many, where we find
where he lay, and we can understand
why Jesus cried with loud voice,
Lazarus, come forth" II
Here is where Jesus led his disci-
pies on that glorious day when he
lifted up his hands and blessed them
and was parted from them and car
ried into Heaven, and where the two /
men in white apparel stood by them 6