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Show TRUTH ABOUT THE LAND OF UR District of Busy Cities Filled With Hum of Commerce. Wo may gazo to-day, even a3 wo walk the streets of London and Paris, upon immortal statues, and majestic obelisks, dainty jowols of gold and delicato silver vases, exqulslto signets and vast libraries, maps and pictures, school boy exerclsos and children's toyB, somo of which wero burled In oblivion two thousands years beforo Abraham was born. Tho land' of Ur was no desolate cxpanso of pasturago; it was a hlvo of industry; a district of busy cities, tho homo of a thriving commorco of settled laws. It had Us schools and monasteries, whoroln wero studied tho lessons of an historic past of which its citizens wero rightly proud. Abraham and his family wero no mero Bedouin shoikhs as BIblo artists ar-tists love to paint thorn rugged, uncouth, un-couth, unlettered, but mon of lnfluonco and substance, whoso wealth was secured by written conveyances, whoso transactions In land and stock gavo occupation to tho lawyers. Only tho poorer peasantry woro denied the art of writing, and thero seems no valid reason for resisting tho broad claim made both In tho Talmud and by Josephus that Abraham was abreast of tho Intellectual movemonts of his day. Sunday Strand. |