Show r U iL Palestine CL r Remarkable P Photographs Showing How After All Q i T- T Hf u b NO s r r M 1 c L tH th the e Ven Centuries rv t th thIT the e Holy IT ITI I y L Land an d I Is s Still SOil tz Peopled D l e d k AS Lt a I rf w 1 t lt n u t rte c cz a P J f z zb b by M Men en ent k a rt t 0 rr J-rr- r n t tt t f Y w w t e I i and d Women rf ar ar 5 1 r i si y v Who Wh o Seems Seem wL v va a i r y A I r J t tK K e kr i iJ t 4 C k kr r ys s to Step 3 r B h Ht i 4 rc a From the thea r r e r w w wr I 3 t L t r ti r n a f Y v riY Bibles Bible's it ri J Jr r i in iri r r 1 6 a y Pages 1 r Y 1 Li x r s 's 1 1 j J i iS iy ir S r y i ry x i l To os Tr v h i AT te tei i A picturesque view of Jaffa the ChiefF chief F the Saviour should return to earth IF today day He would find the Holy HolyLand Land Itself and the life that is lIVed there in many ways says ays astonishingly like Ille hat hat they were when He hallowed Pales Pales- Palestine tore tine by His presence nearly two thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand years ago In spite of the changes wrought by centuries of war and aud disaster of every land kind in spite of the modernizing influences of the last few years Palestine remains much the same sort of land that It was not only in Jews Jesus time but till still further bad back in the time of Solomon David ld and the other Old Testament heroes The narrow streets of Jerusalem and Bethlehem still stall wind about in the tortu tortu- tortuous tortu- tortu tortuous tortuous ous way they did centuries ago and be- be beneath beneath be beneath neath the pavements now in to use remain some of those thOl that knew the pressure of the Saviours Saviour's feet A large part of the Uio people of these towns lo and cities and of the countryside beyond their walls dress and eat and live hv their lives in much mach the some way oay did life life- lifetime W life lifetime that their thell ancestors in Jesus time Nowhere else on earth is the life lee of day today day so 80 closely hn linked ed with that of re- re remote remote re remote mote antiquity There are flivvers m In Inthe inthe the streets streets but many who ride nde in them or dodge out of their way lookas look as if 1 they had stepped straight from the pages of the Bible Some of the women make maJe their dresses on American made sewing machines but the garments they stitch are duplicates of those e that were corn orn by women nineteen hundred years ago when they crowded about the Man Manof Manof of Galilee Galileo to hear his bis words To discover in m n Palestine relics that date only from Jesu Jesus time is nothing extraordinary Arch are now uncovering things which tale take the tOO of the country back to years before the Christian era Only the other day Professor R R E Stewart the English arch ogist l- l ogist brought to light fight in Jerusalem pot pot- pot pottery tang tery walls walla and masonry that are lUe be- be believed be believed to date from B C and that make the city five centuries older than previously pre discovered evidence had in- in indIcated indicated in indicated Those important finds were were made on the site of the original city of Jerusalem lust just south of the temple It is the part of the city which the Old Testament I tells us I Iwas Was taken talen from the J by David and his men And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the J tes the inhabItants inhabitants inhabitants of the land which unto DavId saying Except thou take away the blind and md the lame thou shall not come in hither thinking David Dald cannot come in hither stronghold Nevertheless David took the tho strong hold of Zion the same is the tho city of David II II Samuel vi 7 And Professor Macalister is sure that some of the walls the picks and shovels of his excavators have laid bare are the very ones which this same chapter of the Bible tells us David built round roundabout about from Millo Mille and inward after he had settled down in the fort he had taken from the and renamed It the city of David Some of the pottery found may have graced the magnificent house which David built here from cedar trees sent rum him by his friend Hiram King of Tyro Tyre To this royal mansion we are arc told he brought more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem Near the spot where Professor Mac Mac Mac-alister Glister allster found the relics that take tale us bad back to an earlier period than we have ever known in m the history of the Holy City he discovered a natural naturU cave At the tho theA bottom of this cave is fa a rude shaft per per- perhaps perhaps perhaps haps natural leading downward ton to n a A spring now having a very weak flow of water and communicating with the tho city in Inside Ide the walls through an open open- openIng opening opening ing in one end of the cave I of Palestine and also famous I i- i 1 4 t seaport T if V famous as the place from which 1 1 t rf l t tj Jonah set that oat land land- on the memorable r r t r t Nt F b Ft v vt r I d fail t voyage I t l 1 r tar ed him in the o whales whale's belly rte r e er es t s et I fi r 1 r a arV at t I rV w P F i ir r i t rr e y FJ t tI I 1 I t ta F Ft a t a t r hr l t p h l i e i a pf y 1 a r rf f r f n 1 1 I licit C K 15 ad I r rv v t F r sf y iy J r S Si ear t tet et t- t tv tar v d dl l r Sl Sll y l d b yN any a ia t tt rY rYr r y yS S ar e a 4 ta w is 7 a I JS y d GY tP r e A Ar yr i ia r 6 v N q 3 f tb 4 a r b ro t ty y 1 s fi r iY r e 5 y kW A- A s v AA r h o i oM T Many Lv nT M cap J u leaf primitive kv t ti methods of I wd ship building t still persist at Jaffa JaHa where a merchant f marine that will fly the Zionist Zion flag is being constructed sa t air airlie lie lieSSA W 4 Ww w A Jerusalem boy of day to-day dressed just as he would have been if he had lived in the Saviour Saviours time It I is believed that this was Jerusalem's first water system and that it had fallen into disuse at least 2500 2600 years and per per- perhaps perhaps per perhaps haps years before Christ Jerusalem was a J city until Its capture by David about the year ear 1000 B C Struck with the numerous advantages of the particularly city city particularly Its abundant water supply and the case with which it could be defended ho defended ho at once strengthened its fort fortifications and made it the scat seat of hi his kingdom Jerusalem remains a walled city Ity as asit asit asit it was in the Saviours Saviour's time and for many centuries before In the walls that still stand and the rums ruins of others arch archa arch arch- ts are arc able to point out that were bu built t by King Solomon others that were erected by Herod the Great and still others that were vere the work of Agrippa only a few years after Christs Christ's death Like the ruined city of Beth Shean Jerusalem of today day is n fot founded upon the remains of many cities of ot past a ages their ruins rums lying one on top of the other underneath the populous streets and houses of tho the present The archeologists have unearthed whole hole houses and temples temple lying beneath the present streets and the most interesting relics of Greek and Roman times are frequently uncovered m In digging the foundations for new build build- lUgs But one docs does not need to search out oat buried ruins rums to find not only things but life itself in which there hAS been little change since the SavIours SavIour's day and aud in many cases since the time of the Old Testament prophets The grain gram merchants of Palestine scorn to use the tha modern sack to market their products and aud ding cling to the old Biblical method of good measure pressed down shaken together and run run- running run run- running running ning over First they fill the measure jU Just t as full of grain as they can cau Then they shake shale it to make male room for stillmore still stillmore stillmore more grain gram which they scoop up with their hands and heap over the top Tailors sit as ns they have for centurIes at the doors of their tiny shop shops squat squat- squatting ting cross leg legged d on ledges raised two tv-o or three feet abo above e the street k kel Icel el When customers come they must stand In the street to do i their bargaining and be measured in m case they decide decade to buy Bags made of heavy heaY skins and hold holding m ing several gallons are arc still in use for carrying water Only now and then does docs the traveler see Bee one ono of Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's ellers eller's oil oilcans cans or some come other modern receptacle cle being carrl carried d to and from the wells and springs Sheep and goats arc are driven to market Just as they were in Biblical times time the shepherds going ahead and making the tho flock follow by calling to them When shoo sheep stray further than they should from the rest ret of the flock the tha shepherds shepherd call caU them to attention by firing pebbles from slings sings just such affairs of goat hair as David was armed WIth when he did battle with the tho giant GolIath The plows used by the farmers are crude Irude cumbersome things made of wood tipped d with iron and drawn usually by byo o en bullocks or camels Thera The ra- ra ra do not care to use usa horses for this work because they would have to walk too fast to keep leep up with them Centuries of war and other misery have robbed Palestine of much of the n The narrow winding ding Maui Main Street of lj t 1 Bethlehem B a little more crowded but buti i l- l r w IT I otherwise not much changed from what s w Ji c it was when Jesus was born bom here t a aw y gL h g s1 ear o Sea e a a aaI aI W WF F dx r 41 L w i 4 St ell St Stephens Stephen's gate gale at Jerusalem through which the th Saviour often passed and which centuries of war have left practically unaltered fertile bloom which made It it in Old Testament days a land laud of milk and honey Under the better conditions which the British h mandate is the inhabitants however the fields and pastures are being bang fast restored to some some- som something something thing of their time old-time luxuriance and Wonderful results aro following the attention the Zionist colo colo- colonists cola cola- mats are giving to irrigation and scientific scientific scientific agriculture On this page today day are arc reproduced some of the latest photographs to reach this tills country from Palestine They y give fascinating glimpses of Jeru Jeru- Jerusalem Jeru- Jeru Jerusalem Jerusalem salem the birth birth- birthplace birth birth- birthplace birthplace place of Jesus and of Jaffa t the ancient seaport of Palestine as they looked when an enterprising photographer set setup setup setup up his camera there only a few weeks ago S Students t u den t s of Bible history tell tellus tellus tellus us that a man who lived in the tho Saviours Saviour's time and was familiar WIth any of these places would in- in instantly in instantly st recognize the t h e s e 0 photo photo- photographs photographs gr graphs ap hs if they could be brought before his eyes day today day In all aU its es- es essential es- es essential es essential features the Holy Land remains m u e c h the same as It was 2000 years and even longer ago The bright sunlight of our modern civilization civilization tion has not yet made much Im- Im im on Peep jeep shadows of antiquity that brood ver these towns and cities and seem to enfold them forever Ever since men learned to sail the j sea a Jaffa Jana ht has been the chief port of Palestine Here lIue were landed the im- im immense immense im immense mense quantities of timber and other materials used by King Solomon m In bu budding his temple Here came the cedar logs which King Hiram sent rent from the forests of Lebanon for David to use useIn usein usein In the construction of his royal mansion Tho goods that were brought to Jaffa Jana Janas s on boats were carried overland to Jerusa Jerusa- Jerusalem Jerusalem lem rem and the other cities of oE Palestine on the backs of camels or men Jaffa is still an I important port and aud the center of quite a shipbuilding in industry It was lIS from Jaffa the Bible tells us us that Jonah sailed on the voyage which ended in his memorable three days m- m inside in inside side the v whales whale's hales hale's belly J Jaffa alTa has been for centuries a great port in spite of the fact that it has one of the worst harbors in the world The water is often so rough that the land land- landing landing ing mg of passengers is impossible But it is planned to build breakwaters and dredge new channels channels to construct modern wharves and shipyards and to tomako tomake tomake make mako the port one that will outdo even the glory it knew when it was in the hands of the Phoenicians Ph Bethlehem is 15 now a city of in- in In Inhabitants probably habitants habitants probably ten times the lation population it had when Christ was born there It owes its size chiefly to the thousands of ot pilgrims who ho come con continually from allover all over the world to pat pay re erent homage to the birthplace of the Saviour The grotto which I is shown the VISitor as the place of the Nativity has lost all resemblance to the rude stable it issup is sup sap posea sup sup-posco once to have been But in and around Bethlehem are arc innumerable stables with mangers of stone that call to tellus mind the one in which the Gospels tell tellus tellus us daymen the Christ child was laid To this day men and women sleep on ou the floors of these stables stahlee just as Jesus parents dId when they found there was vas no room for them at the inn The streets of o Bethlehem are arc as ns redo redo- redolent lent of the past as those of thronged themen vuth uth In 11 hung ing counterparts of the men and women who walked walLed them in the tho days when Christ was on earth Thero are men as holy of as the twelve Apostles Apo Ues and women s sweetly ass sad of face as Mary as Magdalene The lepers and cripples and beggars whom the Saviour took on compassion and all andall the oU r r figures that move through the imn ortal artal New Testament duplicated here wherever er you vou ou lookIn look story in these are thoroughfares S S v li liv 1 |