Show I I The latest propostlpn i to build u I railroad to connect Damascus with Mecca A company Is estimating estmatn that the faithful in their desire to visit their sacred city will give the road enough revenue to justify its construction construc-tion What a reversal of ancient usages 1 The camel to retreat before the iron horse the bell and the whistle of the locomotive to confound and allenco the Muezzin when from the minaret he essays es-says to call the faithful to prayer the ground beneath the Kaaba shaken by the heavy tread of riwhlnef trains The road would of course pass t through I tL Medina and tho thunder of the trains would Jar the tomb In whlcn the prophet proph-et sleeps Would tho rule which has prevailed In tho United States apply there follows clone in Would the free school folows the wake < of the locomotive IB herd to be 1 another resurrection In that land Lazarus more wonderful than that of Is the land itself to be awakened as from the dead and with the awakening n return of the worlds interest in that region the J Htory of which is the most fascinating in history Who knows I n divine purpose has decreed what has been does it not contemplate a clmduS chapter to make clear that after af-ter all the design was holy from the first and meant for the gopd of mortals mor-tals |