The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-09
LETTER FROM DR.. PAUL lOYNEH

81 Dear Dr. Upchurch, wife and littl
: girl, and all your patients and Sur
: day school class and church: "Peac
be unto you, all peace, yea, perfee
J peace and at such time. "Ezr
ST., 7:12.
Greetings to all in Jesus preciou
name from the city Of THE GREA'
KING; praise His holy name.
This is very holy city now re
ligiously speaking, for last Frida
was the Mohammedan Sunday as wei
as noted Sunday. Ali the NOLAN
medans begin holy pilgrimage. go
ing to visit the holy places of thei
book, the Koran, which can be Sc
cured from Wanamaker's depart
ment store, Philadelphia and New
York, and Fleming H. Revel, Chica-
go, for about seventy-five cents.
| (Sales translation is the best) They
marched into Jerusalem with green
flags (Mohammed, the prophet of
Moslems' color) and each supposed
descendant of Mohammed wears a
green band called '1effie" around
his tarboosh, a brimless flat-topped
round red cap, or hat. They haye
many other colored flags and march
in as the old Confederate soldiers do,
singing, clapping hands and cymbals
and shouting This is our land; we
for our country" and cursing the
Jews as they come in sight.
But the Jews, the most peaceable
people on EARTH, close their shops
and remain out of sight, fox year be-
fore last at QUIZ Easter, the Jews
Passover and Mohammedan Nebby
Musa, tomb of Prophet Moses, the
Mohammedans, finding the English
government was not protecting the
city or expecting trouble, began kill
ing poor old Jews within the city
walls and soldiers coming would not
allow the young Jews from outside to
enter the gates, and many Jews were
killed (about twenty and over two
hundred wounded Last year at Joffa
fifty Jews were killed and two hun
dred wounded, and last September at
Damascus Gate there was fight in
which five Jews were killed and sew
eral wounded. The Christians ESQ
called Catholics) also bitterly hate
the Jews and are joining with the
Mohammedans and causing Gods
wrath to fall upon them soon. 81
will curse them that curse thee,"-
Gen. 1878.
After marching into the city with
cannons and machine guns mounted
on automobiles and pointing at them
from every gate of entrance, and
heavily armed English soldiers on the
walls and mounted on horses riding
in the parade and on foot mingling
with them and going before and be-
hind, they go through the narrow
streets to the Mosque of Oman, built |
On the grounds of the Temple of Sol
omon and Herod's Temple in the time
Of Christ, who said that not stone
should be left but that all should be
,orn down, which was fulfilled in
AID. 70, when Vitus, the Roman gen.
eral gave the charge and his soldiers
scaled the wall, killing over a mil
ion Jews, ripping up the women
With child
After a service at the Mosque of
Aska, where all services are held (the
Mosque of Oman, built over the dome
# Rock Moriah, where Abraham Of
cred up Isaac, is too sacred for serv-
ces and visitors must take off their
hoes or put sandals over them as
hey go in to see the building and
Rock Moriah) between twelve and
hree O'Clock they march out at Ste
Ten's Gate, on the east, cross the
Brook Kedron, pass Gethsemane, go
around Mount Olive to the south,
lass Bethany, where Mary, Martha
md Lazarus lived, and where Jesus
aised Lazarus from the grave where
lie had lain four days. Martha said,
BY this time he stinketh" Mary be-
ieved she should see the glory of God
manifest there. Martha was for put
ing it off until the resurrection day,
tut Jesus called for Mary and found
he one who sat at His feet, believed
md said, Come forth Lazarus" and
lie came and Jesus is the same yes
erday, to-day and forever.
Then on down the Jericho road
hey go, singing, dancing, shouting
ike our Indian war whoops, past the
food Samaritan Inn, and in about six
hours they land at the Moham-
nedans' Tomb of Moses, which is be-
ween six and ten miles south of Jer-
cho and twelve miles west of the.
Jordan River, but if you will read the
asst chapter of Deuteronomy, the
fifth Book of Moses and the Bible,
YOU will see that his tomb is about