Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-07-12
DIR. PORTER WRITES AGAIN
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yellow sau,e from candles around al
tar Nany women wOrshippers In
black on knees on marble pavement.
Every SO aften they touched forehead
10 pavement. Some carried prayer
rugs. Singing by invisible choir of
men and women was lovely.
June 5 Went to Zion gate and to
garbage dump south of city wall. DON
KEY loads of rubbish being burned
there. Arab boy rakes horse manure
down hill to use on gardens. He says
English good-Jew got money; he
want Jerusalem. An Arab school boy
comes by Is excused, sore throat, see
doctor. Has Arabic grammar and mod
ern copy book. Has written beauti-
fully an English poem in book. Eng
lish schools are doing the work and ere
they know it our language win be
spoken by the Arabs of Palestine ev-
erywhere. Went to southeast corner
city wall, 80 feet above, 80 feet below
surface; to Virgins fountain, only
fount of living water near Holy City;
to Pool of Sloan 1900 feet south with
a 100 foot aqueduct running to Foun-
tain. Both intermittent. At fount
boy told me water would run at noon.
1t ran at II at Sloan, filled trough 5
feet wide, 40 feet long and run near
half an hour a three inch stream
Must have poured out 100 barrels
Went to Well EnRogel. Twas there
1440 B. c. on boundary betweenBen-
jamin and Judah Arabs wanted back
shish all along. Worse about it than
dozen years ago. Went up to Top
het and seated on Olive root wrote
letter to Tribune. Makes twoce I've
been in hell. Once above Trondhjem
in Norway and here. This Hinnom
valley, GeHinnom, Gehenna of Greeks
is New Testament He'll. 1t is a great
grave yard on hillside. A. ID. 20 seige
of Titus, they threw 111000 starved
Jews bodies down there. Dinner
American restaurant at 2.
June Went to 0phel, site Of Da-
vid's city, which was Zion. Is south
of Temple Area on ridge 1870 rods long
by 80 wide. Is all gardens now fer
tilted by city sewage. Got up on city
wall over Dung gate and wrote letter.
Hot down there. Prickly pear grows
on two or three acres inside dung gate
up to southwest corner Temple wall
and Robinson's Arch. Came up Kid
ron by tomb of Absalom and took pic
ture of it. Lot small rocks inside,
thrown in by Jews. Wen to American
Colony Store. To bed at 1880. Is
dark at z.
June z Early breakfast, and to
Gethsemane, up middle road to Olivet,
north to German church and school
buildings dedicated April 1910 by
Prince Eitel; used now as Government
buildings; two Arab soldiers at gate.
Thirsty | asked German boy for was
ser. He took me to faucet From
Btheleem" he said. Water from Ar
roub ID miles from city piped to top
of Mt. Scopus and along Olivetk In
a thousand years the unspeakable Turk
would not have done it. Went north
half mile to Hebrew University build
ings, quite extensive, now used for
government police school. Went south
to Place ofAscention, of Queen Helena,
which is not the place according to
Luke, and to Place of Lannntation
where Jesus wept over city, and thru
vast Hebrew Cemetery to Jerico Road
over Via Dolorosa to my room.
June 8 Eggs, bacon. bread and tea
AZ cents for breakfast. Met a Mr..
Davis of U. S. A., owner of a Chau-
tauqua outfit going around world. Is
at my hotel. We did Gen. Gordon's
Calvary and Garden Tomb together.
Saw Skull Hill in face of so foot ele-
walton. The garden, and tomb. be-
lieved to be that of Joseph of Arima-
thea are owned by an English lady
and given to the world. An increas-
ing number of Bible scholars feel Ger
tain that this hill and the tomb in the
garden were the scene of the Cruel
tiXion, burial and resussection of in
sus. 1t is quiet and peaceful there
and the New Testament narrative de-
scribes it exactly, NEAR to city: there
was a garden and in il a new tomb. /"
II was near Golgotha the place of a
skull. There are two cavities i'm the
rock resembling eye sockets and an
oval hill above, and anciently the place
was used as "the place of stonine" bv
the Jews for blasphemy. St. Stephen
was stoned to death close by. and in
Roman times executions took place
there. Saw quarantine oA Ger. Went
to !. M. c. A. in afternoon.
June 9 PM. Went to Temple Area
with some English ladies from Haifa
and an American Colony boy for guide.
Could not enter Temple Area. Friday
is Mohammedan Sabbath. Got two
dozen post cards for Is cents per doz-
en- at American Colony, the only place
where they don't play the hoid-up
game. The boy guide would not take
the half dollar | offered him.
June 10 Went to Temple Area with
Mr. Davis; to Dome of Rock, and nm
der it, to Dome of the Chain, the little
dome close by used as Model of bio
dome often called Mosk of Omar
Then to MOsk Elaksa and studied an
forenoon that, So acre Temple area
but did not find way into stables under
southeast corner. Got rock from area
where Paul was assaulted by Jews ST
time he made memorable speech to
them from steps of Citadel. What
historic events fit across the memory
of the student who sits here and drinks
IN for hours events which have taken
/ place on this area. The whole history
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