Show LITTLE CHANGE IN BETHLEHEM points of sacred interest have been well preserved the hills of be are full ot caves natural and artificial ana many of them have historic signify cance there is the milk grotto in which joseph and ary are said to have concealed themselves before their flight into egypt to escape the evil designs of herod the snowy whiteness of the soft chalk out of which it is hewn s ascribed to the spilling of a few drops of the virgin s milk when she nursed the infant jesus another grotto Is pointed out as that in which st terome tor more than thirty years lea the life of a hermit when bitter factional dissen alons had forced him to leave rome on a western hi a rock strewn plateau around which stately tere births stand guard marks a place where the ancient I 1 hebrews brought their sacrifices unto the lord it la a solemn pace well fitted to excite devout thoughts a where a man might well keep om munion with hia maker in its broader features bethlehem Is almost unchanged since the days of vid from in bethle hem by frank amer in four track news |