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Mr. I HOLY PLACES.n n \ vgood□ i i;f thev to*ertvi rem n.IIu1linn. D, F. Thompson D* livers an Inter* ciUaff Lwmrc on Fatvfttinr?*Tuesday at the Cong re gatior.alchurch, lion. D. P. Thompson, of Pertlaud. formerly our minister tocor* i attracted a large audience byt ii, 1 *ik':frs ou lllC' Holy L uiil. The ian- Jfcatleinaa ir a cl ^observer, and dur-and ! ni~ lraVe*^ 111 *he Orient has made [ion sketches of what he has seen andhis impressions of the country and thepeople.ring I Landing' at Joppa or Jnpa fromwar. I P°rt Sjtld, on the Siirz canal. Mr.tT rbomp^ori ma le il- jrvjrr»**y t . Jt-ru- i*, . ! lem over the b uiitiful plains of Sharon.^ Hgilescriii’Ml this p iri ton of the jo .r-, ney as verv dell-Mufuk the ffru**vIQf . ‘r : I slopesfitting covered with many ffpucies i ir1 .tr uf •wild flowers, which grow* in pro- j nfusion. Arriving at the holy city ho visited the churches of the Holy St*p-r‘., ulc'ier and of the Nativity, where too ^R£j I sacred palaces are guarded by priests ^ I of the Homan, Crc k and Armenian faith, and these in turn protected 1‘oraeach other by Turkish soldier-. M«*._ *. I *■| Thompson says Christiana in the Orient display such malevolence to*wat ll€ICSi atsttUtrS'girewards those of cliiYjren: sects that if i: hehad not Ueexi. for the government forcesthey would delight in cutting ea»*hprJort* I others throats* The Dries?- of the Ji:*mli 1daL.ffereDt churches in the holy p • la ***,although daiiy attendi ng to their duties of keeping the lamps burning und ruidl ig pilgrims, never ex hm co words with each other, and this bus continued for centuries. The- Greekturns his ha ‘k to the Roman, nnd th~-e ot | in turn to the Armenian, When Russia, after the late Turkish war, was the- 0gnshitt n:Ith*it fMu0f given certain provinces of Cir* j hoicassia and Armenia, the Armenians, moc . rather than adopt th-* Creek f ilth, J ofv.went over the boundary lino into Tur- ; 'I ^ | k y, preferring to live under Moslem • ten rule than change their creed and be Bel | protected by the Czar. j cellie The Mosque of Omar built on the **ho y , site of Solomon’s L-tuple is a place of A pi it | general resort for Christian, Modem T and Jew, Within the lootoaure is gn» ii ] Mount Moriah, an elevation of about 311I4 four or five feet, which is hell snared tho; o I and surrounded by an iron railing, Be i d Here is the spot where Abraham at- shea tempted to offer Isaac, and other ther- secnes connected with biblical history, be c d Men remove their before enter- do ib I ing the Mosque, hut womoo-althoughTo they ore rarely permitted to enter— t ! are considered nondescripts by Mos-|t I lems and little attention is paid to s ! them | °m*The leper colony is bey op d the ^re f I brook Hitman, outride thegate* of Je- 5CQ o I rusalera, and the lepers arc completely wr?r a I Isolated from the in habitant-, of the * ' country. They are the most miserable \ q beings that Mr. Thompson ever saw, Gun Dependent aim cat entirely upon ir.* 1 *1divldull and public charity, they ek? ^out ami sera L1 e ex tat e n ce. T h e colon v r^jexists the same as It has for ages, and ^ . this is the only spot in Palestine where 3,.leprosy ia known. The* question i- de*bit-d v h ether it would not be advisable .^mcto destroy the leapera, and thus rid the Balacountry of ibis plague.Hie journeyings through Palestine Included visits to the Cave of Mac* peluh, the tombs of David and Rebekah. the valley of Jeho^aphat* the Garden of Gethsemens, Mount of Olives, Beth- Tclehem, Bethany, Jericho and the river Jordan, In the ruins of old Jericho, Jan.iij I near Elijah’a spring, M. ThompsooN parry celebrated Washin^too’s birth*day. Feb. 22d, and amidst patriotic songs and speeches the hour^t wore spent amiflst the re 1 Ms of a thou sand ages the same as they would have been nt home in the United Suites.The route from Jerusalem to the Jordan, is over a limestone, and the trail is worn four or live feet deep by thecontinuous travel of thousands of years-Shepherd? watch their dock® by night on the surrounding plains aalt;they didon that hallowed morn when the e ,Aventneceemo(girl in cacanmacitwo©Otll iAagelT’ choir up d run cod the birth of the Savior. Prowling bands of ^lJ'Bedouins render travel unsafe, and t/~ tsecurity is only guaranteed by hiring a , sheikh as guide, who. perhaps dividesthe backsheesh he receives among ^ ^ ^ his thieving confederates. Not foreach»ac:ut Tber the i side for t' it iswitha century has any one boon molested while under the guidance of this ^ Bedouin provided by the governor of Jerusalem, and robberies have been quite frequent when tourists have attempted to protect themselves.Mr. Thompson fished in the soa of Gallilee, and considered it as line sport aa in some of the rivers of Oregon, It We^ io about twelve miles long by six wide, and is a beautiful body of water. Frequent storms happen, and these are quiT,e;J;ingerous to small crafts that are used by those living on its shores.Thu lecturer claimed the attention of the audience, for over an hour, and the scenes depicted were realistic. Frequent quotations were made from the bfble and new Testament, descriptive?- f nQ|n events that had happened at the places cvisited. These increased the imerest 0Qat in iho address and made it in a cer* t-Ro ctain measure an epitome of biblical ,history. Mr. Thompson has seen a ^ AVIgreat many plaqea in this world, and ^ it U to be hoped tiiat he will Again ^eeufavor The Dulies with an other address ^ath on other places vi-ited by him.Thdock ing t from beendenta bo!
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Dalles Times Mountaineer
Dalles, Oregon, US
Sat, Feb 01, 1896
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