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By degrees the veil? lu tills case,
'muny; ftei of sand ? Is belha. drawn
jjway from the mysterious region of
Central- Asia whence< some authorities
assert tame the ancestors of tlje peo
ples of all continents. As the sand is
dug or blown from ruined cities un'd
temples, history Is b$lng pushed fur
ther "und farther back and there is be
ing disclosed evidences of the high de
cree of civilization and culture that
existed In this mountain ond desert
girt region thousands of years ago.
Perhaps the most fascinating .and
the most mysterious of these -central
Asian regions Is the Lop or Tarlm
Basin, north of Tibet, which consti
tutes the heart of eastern or ChlneBe
Turkestan. The entire central portion
of tiie basin Is desert but around its rim
between it and% the mountains that
almost encircle It, Is a string of oases
thht have llfeured prominehtly In his
tory. In these oases toda^ are towns
whose mimes at least are familiar:
Yarkand, Kashgar, Khotnn, and many
smaller ones to the north, less known
hut locally Important. ,
It Is only within the last half cen
tury1 that the West has become pass
ably well acquainted with the Lop
basin -, but medieval Europe had Mun
chausen-llke tales of the region In the
celebrated letters of Prester John, a
more or less mythlcul character, who
was represented to be a powerful
Christian emperor living In central
Asia. In one of the letters It Is stated
that : "Among .other tilings which ure
very wonderful In our country fs a
sea of sand without water. ' For the
sand moves and swells In waves In the
manner of all seas, and Is never still.
This sea cannot be crossed either by
boat ot by any other method, and of
what sort the land may be beyond It
no one can know. And although water
is absent entirely, nevertheless there
are found on the shore on our side
many kinds of flsh more delicious and
sweet-tasting than are ever seen any
where eliye." Other wonders ure re^
lated same region. For In
stance: '?."Into the 8ondy sea Itself
.flows, three days of the week, a river
of stones- without water, Impassable
while' Its flow continues. Beyond It
lies another river, whose sunds are
mere precious stones ; or sometimes
this River of Oems flows through the
Bandy sea, and Is indeed the Sabbatic
river, flowing six days and resting the
seventh, which keeps the ten tribes of
the Children of Israel from crossing
Into the land of Prester John. And In
one part of the desert where the sea
lies Is a people with round feet, like
horses' hpofs; and In another port Is
the land of Femeoye Itself." a land
where none but women dwell, and they
are ".very st^rk and . cruel" : and no
man dare bide mo.-e than an hour.
Old Talas Not Fmr From Truth.
Strange us these stories sound, they
are only slight perversions of tlie
truth. During u recent visit to the
Lop basin facts were observed which
may perhups explain ull of them. For
Instance, wl on Brst one sees Chinese
women of high clusn their diminutive,
feet are strangely suggestive of the
hoofs of animals. As to the fable of
the laud of Femenye, there 13 nothing
now to give rise to it directly. Marco
Polo relates, however, that In his day
in the region of Hnmi. not many hun
dred miles from Lop-Nor, none but
women were found In the villages
when caravans arrived. The men de
parted in order that the travelers
might he more comfortable, and might
be the more ready to pay for enter
tainment. Even today the people of
Haml possess customs which seem to
be a reminiscence of the ancient hahlt.
The Lop basin. In the very center of
Asia, Is a great depression. 14.UOO j
miles long from east to west and 4O0 I
wide. Around It lies a ring of lofty I
plateaus from 10,000 to 20,000 fe-t |
,blgh. At their bnse Is -a ring of plei- i
mont gravel, almost destitute of life, {
and sloping gently Inwft'wllke a huge
beach 'from 5 to 40 mUo?-?'ide. Then
comes another the tor.c -f vej '*s
tlon. whore alone there are plant* and
an opportunity for human inhabitants
other than the few "nomads of the
plateaus. Finally within the son? of
vegetation lies a vast desert nren about
1.000 miles long and 2.">0 wide. Its
western three-quafers consist of a
i-prttnhle son of sstitl. the Takln Kaknn
desert, yellow or jrfly on the edses
pink In tin- Inner portions Row ?f!or
row of almost Impassable ?ind dune?
has been plied np by the wind t"
Heights of fu'l V>0 feet In plnres The
smallest dunes offcte move forward
hundreds of feet In a year In the dl
r?t;^lon of the prevailing winds; the
largest scarcely move at all. The
saudi Is most beuutlful, with Its grace
ful swdeqf'of wuvy dunes and ripples,
hut the natives hate anyl fear It. It
' hai proved 'the grave of tnpny a na
tive., gong" jnad with tlilrst In the vain
search for . the gold supposed to lie
hidden hi. sand-burled ruins.
A 16 w rivers flow Into the desert of
Takla-Makan. Most of them soon
wither to 'pothlng. All are very vari
able, and some, such as the Vash
SUerl, flow In raging, Impassable tor
rents during sunny weather In sum
mer, but dry up when cloudy days
among the mountains prevent the melt*
Ing of -snow. ? The dry bed# of these
"Sabbatic" streams form veritable
"rivers of stones." Lii certain cases
one might almost say with the old
ihronlcler that there are streams
"whose sands are mere precious
stones.'" When the Khotan and Kerlya
rlyers are low, crowds of natives go
out from the oases to dig In the gravel
of the river bed for Jude, one of the
most highly prized of Chinese precious
stones. Gold also Is found In the up
per parts <5f the beds of the Kerlya
and other rivers.
Ssa of 8alt Is a Marsh.
East of the Sea of Sand there lies
a Sen of Salt, the bed of the ancient
Lake of Lop-Nor. Today the lake Is
merely a marsh, fed by the Taring
river, and filled with huge reeds 12
to 15 feet high. Near the mouth of
the river, where alone the water Is
fresh enough to support life, the Lop
llks have planted their villages of
reeds. Formerly, according to their
own account, they lived wholly on flsh
and birds caught In the opeu lanes and
pools of the swamp, where the. fisher
men still paddle their canoes of hol
lowed poplar. They cannot go far to
the east, for there the swamp grows
more and more sullne, until finally It
merges Into a great 'plain of salt, the
bed of the expanded lake of former
times.
The old bed of Lop-Nor Is one of tlie
most absolute deserts in the world.
Even the hardy natives never venture
Into it. For five dayn a caravan of
Western explorers recently stumbled
wearily over n sea of rock salt broken
Into huge polygons 10 or 12 feet In
diameter, which had buckled up
around the edges to a height of from
one to three feet. It was like the
choppiest , sort of sea , frozen solid.
When what appeared to be soft places
were selected In which to pitch tents,
the Irou tent pegs bent double. For
00 miles north and south and for near
ly 200 east and west there Is abso
lutely not a sign of any living thing.
It Is relatively but a little while
since Lop-Nor was much larger than
now and expanded to such a size that
most, if not all, of the old bed was
covered by water, as Is proved by the
location of ancient roads and beaches.
At the time of Christ, the lake ap
pears to have been of larse dimensions.
Then It diminished In size, and abont
Ave centuries later was probably as
small or smaller than It now Is. Ij?ter
It expanded, and with varying fluctua
tions remulned comparatively large
nnttt about 1000 A. D. Now It has
once more diminished, an'l the people
who formerly were supported by It
have largely died off. A century or
two ngo they used to carry flsli two or
three hundred miles eastward to the
Chinese cities where Nestorlan Chris
tians lived In the days of Marco Polo
and earlier. Now the deneri has be
come so rigorous and the flsh have so
decreased In number thnt the traffic
has been given up. The writer of the
letters of Prester John was almost
rlzlit when he said that tisli were pro
cured from the Sea of Sand. They
certainly came from the bonier be
tween It anil the Sea of Suit.
In the last few years Important finds
have been made among the rufns of
temples and cities In the cdze of the
deserts of Chinese Turkestan, over
which sand has drifted. Caves, too.
have been found In cliflfs rimming the
In which are c'.almrately
carved ar.il decorated shrines The
1 evidence so far uncovered Indicates
thnt the people who Ihed In the conn
try before the Christian ^rn had tnd.>
j "arnpoan languages and so lire r:o?e'>
' connected with Europeans. The re
| l|ci<>n of these early Inhabitant*
Rudithlsnv hut Inter thev ?"re ???'ti
Otiered by Moslems pnd M^tvim-'vlnn
ism is now doiuliiHnt Th?? tlnds cv*-t.
s<>om to nthctifr thnt it v *'>' '<?? r
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SundaySchool
T Lesson'
<By REV. P. B. FITZWATBH. D.D., Teftoh*.
of Knirliah B?ble tn the Moody Bible Inatl
tute of Chicago.)
<? 1924, Weatein Newnpaper Union.)
Lesson for May 4
A88YRI AN EXILE OF ISRAEL
LESSON TEXT? II Kings 17:1-18.
GOLDEN TEXT ? MI will delight my
?elf In Thy statutes: I will not forget
Thy word." ? Ph. 119:16.
PRIMARY TOPIC? How a Little Girl
Helped a Great Soldier.
JUNIOR TOPIC ? Israel Driven Into
Exile.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC ? A Nation Punished for Its 81ns.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC? Lessons ,From Israel's Downfall.
I. Israel Taken Into Captivity (vv.
1-0).
This was In fulfillment of that which
Amos had predicted In the days of
Jeroboam II at a time when the nation
was at the height of Its prosperity.
The northern kingdom was ruled by
nineteen kings, all of whom were
wicked. Their wickedness was not be
cause of lack of Information or op
portunity but In spite of . It. God
promised the first king His blessing
If he would be loyal to Him. Jero
boam departed. from Qod and the apos
tasy thus begun continued downward
to the end. In the reign of Hoshea,
the last king, the king of Assyria came
and besieged Samaria and carried the
children of Israel captive to 'Assyria,
from which they never returned.
II. The 8lna Which Caused Their
Doom (vv. 7-18).
1. Conformed to the Ways of the
Heathen (vv.7-0). God had command
ed them not to follow In the ways of
the heathen, but these Israelites, in
stead of maintaining lives of sepa
ration, secretly dtd that which was
displeasing to God. Secret sins, as
surely as open sins, bring ruin, for all
things are naked and open to Him
with whom we have to do. The One
who visits judgment upon the sinner
knows all things. 4
2. Serve Idols (vv. 10-17). They not
only compromised by "walking In the
statutes of the heathen," but wor
shiped their, gods. It was a short
step from following In the statutes of
the heathen to worshiping their gods.
Before they worshiped Idols they cast
off the true God. Indeed Idolatry came
Into the world because the race did
not wish to retain God tn Its affections
(Romans 1:21-23). Idolatry did not
come In through Ignorance but through
willful perverseness. People today
worshiping false gods have first cast
off the authority of the living God.
Man Is a religious being. When he
ceases to worship the t?ue God he
worships other gods. . '
3. They Were Rebellious (w. 13-15).
God by his prophets has said unto
them, "Turn ye from your evil ways,
and keep, my commandments," but
they stubbornly refused His testimony,
even rejected His statutes. God In
love tried to save them. He sent some
of the noblest and best prophets who
ever spoke to men to persuade them
to turn from their sins, such as Eli
jah and Gllsha, but they stiffened
their necks and plunged deeper Into
wickedness. This they did In defiance
of God.
4. Caused Their Sons and Daughters
to Pass Through Fire (v 17), This
was the dreadful Molech worship, the
most cruel rite of heathen worship. It
was done by kindling a fire In a hol
low metal Image until Its arms were
red hot and placing llv? children there
in to be burned to death. This was
the depth to which the Israelites had
sunk.
5. Resorted to Magical Practice*
(v. 17). When faith In the true God
wanes men always turn to the magical
arts. In this way the Israelites sold
themselves to evil In the sight of the
Lord anj prlovoked Him to anger.
III. The Judgment Falls (v. 18).
At this stage of the drama the cur
tain dropped. God could not be lnao
tlve longer.
1. God Was Very Angry. His anger
Is not raving fury but the revulsion
of His holy nature against sin. God
cannot tolerate sin In His presence.
His wrath must strike. Though He
waits long, the debt tnnst be paid and
that always with compound Interest.
There Is only one way to escape God's
wrath ; that Is to turn from sin unto
God through Jesus Christ.
, 2. Hemove Them Out of His Sight.
The land of Palestine Is regarded as
the land of God's sight ? that Is, the
place of His manifested presence.
These people are still scattered
among the nations and as a political
organization they will never return
to their land. The Judgment was se
| vere, but not more so than the sins
| morlted. God had waited long. The j
J desnislng il His grace evoatunlly I
| works ruin. Therefore, what Judgment ]
| mMst fall upon 'he people who In the
j llfht of this day reject Ills grace and
i His mercy.
I
Practical Christianity
"Oo," never spells "Stny." We necil
more religion In the s-o-le, ns well ns
| In the fo:!l ? a walklrg ns well ns a
. talking religion. The trouble Is not
so much with non-church-tolng masses.
1 ns she non-going church. We need
' not only a lookout committee hut s
"Go-out" committee. ? II. (J O'.tbud.
A Chvi?tian
| A Christian Is one who fnllowi
C! r'st hut It a l*aJ?r of men.? Chris
Muti UeraliL
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1 how It was that I ?uw you kissing the
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less you were looking through the key
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An examining physician for one of the
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