Show UK OF THE CHALDEAJS American scholars ore moving to have the ruins of Ur of the Chal deans explored What remains of Tic 10 a great mound In the desert of Arabia Ara-bia six miles south of the Euphrates l I was a city thousands of years before be-fore NIneveh or Babylon was hull before the lust pyramid was built In Egypt l I was where Abraham and Sarah woro bOln grew up and wore married and from where emigrating they removed to Palosllno whore their descendants camo lo bo known as He brows One of the hopes which prompts the excavation Is to find the original tablets from which Ihc I Stories Sto-ries of time Creation and the Flood wore copied for the library of Nineveh and there Is likewise a hope that the I slory of Abraham and HA Jewish people peo-ple In pictures or language lay le unearthed An excavation made years ago rovealod the ruins 01 a Ipmplc l and what thai temple may contain Is the anxlcly of the explorers It will h exciting work Who knows what may bo discovered what new light may be thrown upon the time when mail first emerged from barbarism there Did enlightenment go from the Western World oven as St Patrick went to Ireland Vho kindled 1 the first light By what moans was time work of regenerating the race begun What mysteries have the drifting sands covered up and held so long from mens eyes Who knows what may be found of the time When the world was young and oor LImo record of time as yet U was avcet to dwell |