Show I 1 jordan valley w I 1 of ij I 1 j A associations acion with region sacred replete spot ilal lal I 1 etter I 1 he world a most I 1 historic valley Is that abrou through g waldi tie tic rl jordan winds its ita tortu iun churne broin its narrow delille di allo whre win re the headwaters of the river guell lit in a t thousand hf id bu bubbling rills front from angioi the atones of tile the cave of pan ilan through farally plains idan to its ita mile I 1 le a ot of I 1 lini in I 1 around tile the ik ihil tl gut it la ili with alth natues names fa millir to e vr v tr r one ona kh has haa nad cither haciey or profane on uio the mountains ahbe lows aws fall over the valley INI ss the law from god an I 1 cin centuries later christ cassed its ita highways ant its byways through its IN I 1 titles 1111 lid fertile beldi phlip bing and the leh lessons Bolla with nith all the civi civilized lizel boril Is now nom fd familiar millar it Is 13 the scene of the lif cork of the gleat eat tt ant tender lender of mec that humanity ling has er known herein lie was A as a albiol I 1 1 I e I 1 art aal I 1 woi a ili I 1 a coffed at and beere I 1 at toru torulf tompat lt I 1 till an I 1 threatened in tills valle lie he mil I 1 theolea the ralpd the d a al I 1 to life nil male to pt I 1 think aisi of humble the tumultuous waters of tie sea with ilia footstep aal wiped lut ut the batain ot of original LAIL with the abony ot of gath bela ine an aal I 1 the fat which mitch close 1 around tile ly of calvary alii U upon poll the v in ling boidin I 1 long aff In infer fir it aliu biml if ac W or f 1 I 1 rit enen c en lefore I 1 the pi oplie ta toll tol 1 of tile future advent adent 0 of the ments menta alch make inaho history were nero ing along the banks of the ji tin lin wars bragd cities rose robe and till fill lint gov ern ments octal ant filiac the soll soil waa aas fei tile an I 1 the to 10 glon gion rich and populous I 1 hoenec ians greeks ant winans remans imo cime find con littered at finies and the hosts boats of the I 1 cir stans and the 9 I 1 lans spi ead it with waste an aal I 1 desolation dut it always recovered fiction the hie attacks of the invaders ln aders and the life ot at christ gecine I 1 with fumat humanity lity and bloss mod with A ith now there la is little of the ol 01 oil I 1 life lit in the valle A scanty supply BUI ply of nan fish wall woul I 1 ren repaid aid tile the fillici ninn iman N who cwt cat its his it lift t ohp flocks aio at 0 few and tho the fielis are barren of the titles lilies and there tile me but few el ea denote that this wits was once a garden spot of the m voiad at id I 1 alio llio lie dinou isains adill rise la in majestic aplin ter lor tie jor bjorlin ain dashes an ag of yore over precipices and ana rolls tit HI through marches gall all lee lea often li it ashes into fury as aa it lid did when tho the master balo bale it be q itce and the dead sea shim meis in the but the spirit an I 1 the ufa life of the val ley are goue gone nor ar enith eaith quake and time have contributed to tile the surrounding nedies of ruin I 1 1 he valley of tt tl a 0 jordan stretches from north to south in the lattern pal pait t of palestine the river Is formed from the of springs OW K V tr fri t r in tho dubni to at M ill III is and mount 1 or a number ot at wiles miles its louisa Is a hilll 1111 pictures lue ilia country mountains tower above cither hide bide and the stream dashes over dizzy I 1 alij an 1 through deep and rocky frothy chasms it varies greatly in 1 I ith and ILI III tit til in so borne me blaces i laces it la is not noie than liau fifty yar yards d a wide mile aul aiom three thre 0 to F een t on toot foot deep its source la Is lib ab ut mt 1 1700 feet ab aboe e tho the swi sei but whole it lows into tile the D it nl I 1 sea it Is 1 het tills this ion level el lit in I 1 i line ft aiom am lla its bourse to its mouth it Is feet mills alli a long but its ita la is so BO wind int ink that within it a bolle anus of biety miles bolg and from four to live miles bread it travel bis at I 1 e ast 20 miles mile 1 and this time conr twenty beven railus rai lus ut bc fare ore it HI efi reals reala into lake melon now cal called oil hutch it sti struggles aggles ulli a morass malch Is thickly with on leaving this like the rh aler er Is and aad I 1 but Is soon boon puit fled and becomes a torrent 1 fe small islands and rocks illicitly sit with oloan clea tilts liia about two to miles below I 1 like moron meron Is jacobs jacob s Bil bilote die whet a jacob on oil his return front from Is wild bild to have crossed it was as built after the crusa crua alea lea about iteen miles acion 1 lov tills bridge tho the stream enters lake I 1 like tl TI or Conne snit mole moie known as lit S hn 1 of hallin Hl llin about this tiny intini sea bea which to Is only ly about seventeen miles long and rom rent six oil to alno miles wide and pit n ironed by the retiring hills the most sacred scenes of history were enacted I 1 brorn I 1 rom tile tho shores bare rocks and now rise its it natural leafty Is in no way remark ablo able but the lotions surrounding it lind land a fascinating chaim chaibi its east ern title bile la Is nw In fisted by bedouins Bedou ins lose homos are among the ruins of and who ho are as remorseless in waders as ag any who lived in the time of 0 G 01 1 I teen loon tile the m n toast la Is now a comparative waste aaste with but a few hamlets in place of the once densely populate I 1 region here lived that harly race of mountaineers an ener getic Is ie people favored by jestis and industrious skillful and Na valorous lorous at any time they were reaty to muster men to defend gali leos lees against the romans on the shores of tah sea andrew ant an 1 peter dwelt dwell mended their net and their fish there four fakir of the disciples were summoner sum monel to become became of men in the suffice surf ice of the sea Is mirrored the mountain from which jesus spoke to tile the multi multitude multitud on oil thia sea floated tile the bont from the dek of which the great TIBI her spoke to the budea on the shore and around it ilso the same mountains which echoed ills ilia voice the waters are the same na as those upon which ile he walked in the fourth watch of the night and winds similar to those lie he buds bade ile bo still are Las cantlin cant thil lii waves upon vic the shores most moat of the cirios in which lie 1 I er forine I 1 life his mighty works are in ruins and the in its and the lealous I 1 I 1 el 0 1 a aal it I 1 h his Is hosts tit aio a lone but ula ilia won wol still remains issuing from the sou southern soul hein thein extremity of tile the lake the jor borlan ian enters a broa I 1 valley alley which Is designated in tile tho bible as the plain its width varies flout ive flee to ten allis I 1 lorn Cla claville lilLe to tho the alad sea bea no lillie spans tho the its course Is through a deep chasin or fissure in tile the hattlis crust A it ft kilter it aliu 11 al 81 a a it to Is deiy its depth not ix heillig ce illig ilion or tour four feet ibis body of water cater birks the southern boundary of the alley la IS one of the wonders of tho the woi coill I 1 I 1 it lies between the mountains of moab on the east and those of hebron on the west the locality is that 0 at the ancient vale of siddia which lot od who when n part ing from al raham rhe file sea la Is sup posed to have teen been formed by an euth quake accompanied by volcanic action the hallcy appears to have sunk to a great depth and the waters of the jordan flowing in produced the sea which was mao made intensely salt by the saline strata sk posed to their so ac tion lion in this areat catastrophe the cities of sodom and Gomo gomorrah were do strayed tit ai d it la is supposed to have taken taff n place about 1 MO JOO years before the mission of christ in this mysterious boly of arter la Is lost the river which drains tho the valley of the joi jet I 1 lin lit the land which will A ill for ever live in story I 1 because it was the sit BI tie lie of the labors of him who ar prom 0 hica lei bial life r C I 1 I 1 z J J I 1 15 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 0 O 7 11 J ra 1 I if 11 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ill 1 1 evl 14 Y al I 1 1 D 1 il ail I 1 Y 11 11 1 2 I 1 xa I 1 5 agy I 1 ini ka 0 o I 1 I 1 11 I 1 al ff o 0 4 rth r ov 91 I 1 1 72 7 I z 1 k L f k az X V kr AJL n 1 7 i 1 effly 1 il 11 ta laj po f 4 WW I 1 j av 1 eso k az ael jr I 1 I 1 I 1 M f n j 4 I 1 III M I 1 S za 2 mk i Z a t g 1 4 ag j IL t I 1 IY T I 1 li A I 1 11 I 1 alc A A 1 I T I 1 1 abr 7 T THE OF TRE RIVER JORDAN |