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;1 t t, t:.'" s (f ko?i'!r:j away ' . v. y Yioiill oll.crwl- J : ; i v h . is so dear to T', i a anoyance is kept up t! ; rj - -a of putting fees in the ' : ; a few greedy ocials. We e c. -polled to spend twenty-four i the steamer at Jaffa before and to pay for health certlfl ? v ien no questions were even i about health. But little time i e; nt In Jaffa. It doe3 not take j to see the sights of that place. house of Simon the' tanner, on top of which Peter saw the on, is pointed out, and the tra onal place where the same apostle ed Dorcas from the dead is also wn. The enterprising dragoman Jaffa seems to realize the scarcity interesting places in his city., and strains a point to multiply mem. finally calls attention to a curve the seashore and calls It the Bay Jonah. This he does with a smile if betrays his doubts. It was from 'a (Joppa) that Jonah sailed on t fatal yoyage The story of Jo h. and the big fish has alwayB con d up doubts in the minds of iy. It has furnished much merrl nt for the enemies of the Bible t has been difficult for Christians j explain satisfactorily. But It Is 'ply a question of whether one be es In miracles at all or not. If I does, then this one was no more Wkable than the. others. Certain-, it was no ' more difficult to keep ah alive in the fish than It was -lse the dead or to feed the five asand on, five, loaves, and ; two js. There would seem to be no .in "for doubt since Christ himself s it as an historical fact (Matt. 40). . It is to be noted, too, that 1st calls the fish a "whale." . . (ERE DIRT ROAD IS SHORTER ; THAN RAILROAD;. v rom Jaffa - to ? Jerusalem Is 88 es by dirt road and 54 by railway. latter winds. Its tortuous way ngh the mountains of Judea' and alfces 3 1-f hours by. train, une stop Is at Lydda, where - Peter ted the saints and healed Aeneas k.he Daisy. While at Lydda the iDles at Jopna sent for him and went there - and raised . Tabitha jn the dead and presented her e to the saints and widows. . The ; station Is Ramleh, said to be Arlmathea mentioned in, the New anient, , Here, lived Joseph, "a man of Arlmathea," . who begged 'Hate the "body of Jesus and laid his own new tomb. Ramleh is tVion ft A ft ft nAonlft. A -of whom are Christians. Near hleh is - a small village on a hill. S MII ;was pointed out oy a pro onal dragoman on the train as place where Sampson got : the e hundred foxes, whose tails he together, with firebrands between ha,-- and then turned loose in the wheat of the, Philistines. Some va the train asked him if Samp kef . soologlcal garden on the but he could not enlighten the Uirer. We had gone only a few !S further when I saw a large red -trotting off towards a cactus a to conceal itself. The, cave of Jpsort is in plain view from the .1 (I r) i t throi the lur.3 of the I'hi:; that was near," etc We may notice also w window but that remarkable Jaw with which he slaughtered so y Philistines was not in evidence. br 'twenty miles out from Jaffa railway traverses the Plain of on. This plain is a fertile tract between the mountains of Judea the Mediterranean. " Aitnougn trotaA fni mnn than ROAD Vfftftf lout; the aid of fertilizers, it is I remarkably productive, v A: few prising Germans have settled in I Around Jaffa and are s aemon Axis what a j goodly . land, it Is.' I soil and climate are ; especially ted to the growth, of . oranges, figs, grapes, wheat, and corn. !iges are. as ' plentiful as hickory' in our country. From Jaffa V are annually exported . many f loads of the finest11 oranges in Vorld. Over 500 ships clear the I every year laden mainly with oranges and other products of I -magnificent, plain. .' It Is - not Hsing that the martial Philistines it bo valiantly for their posses ria. Sharon. ; ..,-- SECRET OF THE DOUGHTY - PHILIISTINES. doubt many" Bible readers have red the fighting qualities of the stines and wondered how it was j they, survived so many almost 'onnli11aHnna Than 1 aavm .ve had more lives than a cat pying a small ". territory, : there 1 not Den .many of them. yet it was ; impossible to kill ,-out or conquer ' them perma y.t Recent excavations and dis- ' aa have thrown y much ; new i on the t Philistines and show I they- were eitherEgyptlahs" or tributary to Egypt. And no t(lt was -from Egypt that new Its came to take the places of , destroyed by the Israelites. In certain brick tablets with cunel 1 characters on them were found Sper Egypt. The brick tablets d out to be "letters to the tlan kings fronutheir tributary .e or rulers in Asia,; These f have been ; translated into hh and some of thenvwere from. ''a. A copy or the translation hown me by a resident of Je m. ! Some of the ? letters from tine cities refer to the Hebrew on and cair for the return ofJ lan garrisons wnicn had been rawn. - The appeals for soldiers ry earne'st. j In response to these Is, no doubt, came fresh recruits )lenish the ranks, of the Philis that were destroyed by Joshua la f successors. Further proof ;$ theory, is furnished In an ,d for museum in Jerusalem, niseum 1 hot mentioned In the i books and probably not seen ard.of by one in five hundred s to the H6ly City. The same man who showed me the trans of the brier, tablets carried I the museum in an Arab school are priceless' discoveries that confirm or explain the, Scrip ut they are piledup in old . scattered over the floor in ion and no attention paid to n the Philistine Exploration obtained of the -Sultan a, con , to excavate in Palestine, , to -ilasion granted was' annexed jlatlon that everything found . be' delivered to ' the Turkish Ities. Among the obejets found land or the rhllistinea wcr in fenl, rin"i. parn, v" "C.-.l t:. --v.-! .-i the way or -tinn, althou-ii (Lx. 13:17). that Solomon, ho married a daughter of Pharaoh. recognized "the land of the Philis tines" along with Egypt a3 his boundary on the ? southwest. (II Chron. 9:26 JERICHO, THE" JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA. From Jerusalem there are many in teresting, excursions usually made by visitors. The most important one. after Bethlehem, is the trip to Jeri cho, the Jordan and the Dead Sea. In company with a party from Iowa, with whoiri we had been travel ing, we made this journey. It re quires at least two days, as the river and sea are twenty-five miles . from Jerusalem. We employed , no guard. We had not proceeded far, however, before a heavily armed Bedouin gal loped up beside us and continued to stay with us. ... We asked our .driver what the fellow meant, and he in formed us that that . was our guard for the trlp. We instructed the driver to Inform the self-employed guard that we ' did not need him and that he had as well go back. But. ha was not to be dismissed so summarily. He insisted . that it was a .govern ment requirement arid that he was in he line of his duty. s. We tried In vain to get rid of him. Upon returning ti? Jerusalem I Investigated the so- called "government requirement" and found that the ' Turkish government had entered into: a compact with the Bedouins . of a certain ' village near Jerusalem whereby the villagers were granted the ; exclusive privilege - of guarding tourists on the Jerusalem Jericho road on condition that the villagers Would be responsible for the safety of the tourists.. Upon this idiotic compact' the Beduoin villagers base their claim to escort parties on that particular 1 road . . and 5 to levy blackmail on travelers. If the travel ers decline to pay, then these govern ment agents themselves hold up and rob the tourists. Consequently, there Is no escape from robbery. The ras cals first offer you the privilege of consenting to the robbery and agree Ing upon the amount. Otherwise they take all. The only robber we saw on the trip was our guard. The au thorities have granted him and his fellow villagers a ' monopoly of the robbing v business. But this Is only one of the many impositions that tourists have to submit to In Tur key, The road to Jericho passes through wild, uninhabited country, known as the Wlldernenss of Judea. v The descent to Jericho from "Jerusalem is over 4,000 feet, and impresses one with the : significance of the word "down" in the narrative: "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to jericno ana fell among thievs." THE SCENE OF THE GOOD SA JVIARITAN'S ACT. Midway between0' the two nlaces tradition localizes the parable of the Good Samaritan, i Qri the Xsupposed site there is now a new building, in which refreshments and novelties are sold. , In the back, end of the house is adummy in female attire, which tne proprietor calls "Mrs. Samaritan." The story of the Good Samaritan is a most, beautiful one. Whether it was an actual occurrence or, a para ge is not Known. But it has been earnestly insisted by one that It was a fact and that the Good Samaritan was a drummer. In, support of the theory that he was a drummer, it is arguea mat. he knew a good hotel ana had with, him, a bottle of liquor. JimutlO AND THE CITIES OF .Tim i JfLiAINS ALL GONE -Jericho is situated lih the " Jorrtfln piain aDout one and a half miles irom me root or the Jordan moun lains. ine present town Of that name is merely a wretched vMintr of mud huts, with two or three fairly the age of the prophets and the one destroyed by Joshua was at Jhe foot of the mountains west of the nreant viuage or - tnat name. There are really no remains of it But its site is known by the spring Ellsh healed by casting salt in them. (II Kings 2:21). The water of the spring ' is good, and bountiful enough to run a small mill. A large reservoir has been constructed to collect the wa ters - for purposes of irrigation. The Jericho of Herod the Great, which unrist visited, stood at the foot of tne mountains just where , the Je rusaiem road entbred the Plain of the, Jordan. There is nothing of it left except stones scattered over the ground. The old cities- of the Dlaln one and-all,havebeen wiped out of existence. Even the once magnificent and fertile valley of the Jordan is a sheer desolation. At one time Jericho was a city ot paim trees (Deut 34:31 adorned with balsam gardens and the sycamore. The . territory surround rounaing ine jencho .of the New Testament was given by. Antony 'to Cleopatra.' But she preferred money tO JeTlcho soil, so aha anM tt . W Herod the Great. , That old rascal erected a winter palace in It" and inere aiea a miserable death. . Th a only thing that has remained and in mj Bmne pmce -is ine nichwuv 4Vnm JJerusalem. On its side. nmhi. hear the foothill, the duck-legged Zacheus climbed that sycamore In oraer to see ine Man from Galilee. On 44a. side sat the bllnnd Bartlmeus, who begged of the passers-by. in Jericho to-day are troops of beg gars whose apostolic succession from Bartlmeus could be easily established THE COTTON PLANT GROWS FOA SEVERAL TEARS. . All that the great Jopdan f Plain needs is a different population, under a different government Again it could be madeto blossom as the rose. ; It is naturally very rich and produces all of the sub-tropical fruits and plants. A killing frost is rarely seen, and even tomatoes grow in abundance during the winter months Oranges, lemons and bananas are plentiful near the spring of Elisha A wise system of Irrigation from the waters of the Jordan would ebnvert the whole , plain . into a-'small Nile valley. The soil and climate exactly suit cotton. I . saw some very large cotton Btalks. at Jertcho fthe seed came : from Georg!a).. ', The l stalk grows to a bush and produces cotton annually for several yearn. No work required.'" except r'rjt 't'-.rt 1 . 1 a r -, f ........ . . ' I.;;:;:;; t:ii:y co:rno:.::i: TWLUN DII riXG AND rouiuNa. - The De3i Sea is about six miles from Jericho, and lies between the mountains of Moab end Edam on the ast and the mountains of Judea on the JVest. It is d miles long, three to nine miles wide, and is 1,312 Ie3t De low the surface of the Mediterranean ea. It receives the waters of the Jordan and other streams, but has no outlet . The supply of water by the Jordan and other streams 13 not greater than the demands of evapora tion. Were it not for the Jofdan the sea would soon become dry. ' The specific gravity'of the water is such, that the human body floats on it like a cork. Nothing can live In it and no shells are found on its shores.' It Is properly called the dead sea. Just above It, on the east, is lonely Nebo, from which the great law-giver looked Into the land he Was not permitted to enter. The Jordan, the most re nowned river in the world, loses Itself In this sea of death. About an hour s drive above the sea is the ford where Joshua and the Israelites crossed over Into the Promised Land. They "pass ed over right against Jericho" (Jos. 3:16. There is but one place where they could come down the mountain 'right against Jericho." There is an old ford there," but theTTiver is too deep to be forded. It is some eight or ten feet deep and runs very swiftly. In Its rapid course it stirs up the clay i and the water becomes very muddy, i Such It was In the days of Naaman (II. Kings 5:12). On Its banks are tamarisks,. poplars, willows and think cane. This old ford Is the traditional site of Christ's baptism by John, the Baptist. At this placeman enterpris ing fellow has erected a small house on posts (above high 'water) and keeps curious souvenirs for sale, He also keeps row boats to give-pilgrims ride for "backsheesh." r Many thousands of pilgrims from - different lands visit the spot during each vear. Some of them are baptized -or rath er' baptize themselves In an unusual wayv. They ; wade In the Jordan, string themselves out In a line and, at a given command by a priest, all duck their heads under the water. That Is probably a compromise between Im mersion and sprinkling. Others go away confirmed In their belief that Christ was Immersed, while still others go away equally confirm ed In their opinion that the water was sprinkled or poured on him. The lm- merslonist finds that the river Is deep enough for him to go under and come up straightway out of the water, while those who favor another mode assert that It is too mudy.- If John had not been Immersing, argues the immersionlst, he would have bapttzzed In Elisha's : spring, near - Jericho, where the water Is clear. The sprihk-.! ler retorts that; John baptized, large numbers who were "fishermen lir the Jordan and he sprinkled or - poured where it was more convenient to his converts. So "there your are." , A SHERLOCK HOLMES CONCLUS- Before leaving home a very ardent' sectarian, placed me under promise to examine carefully the t place where Philip 'baptized the eunuch ana to let him know If the pool- was large and deep onough for one to be immersed In. I have looked into the matter for ; him and find that there are two. places ! claiming that honor. One is on a ' road leading from Jerusalem towards Gaza and the pool Is near the present railway track and is big enough to Immerse one In. Ther'other is on the ! road leading toy way of Hebron, and j Is not large enough to Immerse one In. . And "there you are" again. If 1 the eunuch was on the former road then he could- have- been - immersed,:! but if .on the latter he could not have ' been. I am sorry that I can not tell my, friend which road Phillip and the eunuch were traveling. 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