Show CHRISTMAS IN JERUSALEM Christmas is held in greatest rever rover reverence reverence ence once lJ by the tue Christians of or the thc East and nowhere is its ob observance er ance moro more solemn and Imposing than In Bethlehem tho tIme picturesque old town where Christ ChrIstI was born On Christmas Christinas eve eYe the devout of or Jerusalem gather together and flock k out of ot the city and march to tho the Church of oC the Nativity In Bethlehem the oldest monument of or Christian architecture architecture ar nr- ar- ar In the world There mass Is celebrated while armed armeil Turkish soldiers soldiers sol gol- sol sol- diers stand on su guard u beside the altar and around the tho brilliant star where Christ t. is suppo supposed ed to have lain aln in the tho manger manser and which gleams up from the thc pavement pa the thc mo most t con conspicuous object In the thc grotto St. St St. Louis Globe Demo crat |