Show ANOTHER SYMPTOM LATE news dews received direct from palestine will doubtless be of marked interest to latter day saints who believe that the literal gathering of the jews will before many years be an accomplished fact the report is to the effect that baron rothschild Both recently boughtin bough boug hta tia whole town contiguous to the lake of Tib erias aa in the holy land the purchase includes farms fields houses and all pertaining to the place the town is ancient magdala the native place of mary magdalene now known as madjel in the hands of the arabs the village is little better than an accumulation of huts but the surrounding country is very beautiful and exceedingly verdant and will serve admirably for colonizing purposes that being the understood object of the purchaser the abou amou amount nt paid for the town and its belongings was the sum of here is another among the numerous evidences in support of tact fact that the prophecies concerning the jews are about to be fulfilled gradually and apparently from natural causes the remnants of the ancient people of god gather those only who are looking for the signs of christs coming being able to perceive the preparatory work at its present stage even now the work of the father hath bath commenced among all nations to prepare the way for the gathering in of the remnants from their long dispersion Pe recording cording to the dathe promise made to the ancients who by faith and inspiration ioD saw this day and were glad but a vittle attle while and the times of the gentiles will be fulfilled f 11 ed the information conveyed in the foregoing was embodied in a note fr from om elder our special palestine correspondent |