Eureka Reporter | 1906-04-27 | Page 7 | Little Change in Bethlehem

LITTLE CHANGE IN BETHLEHEM points of sacred intel est have been well preserved the hills of be are full of caves natural and artificial many of them hayg signify cance there la the grotto in which joseph am are sa d to haya tone aled rem selves before their fight into egipto to escape the evil designs of herod the snowy whiteness of the soft chalk out 0 which it is hewn s to the spilling of a few drops of the virgin s milk when she nursed the infant jesua another grotto Is pointed ou as that in which st jerome for more than thirty years lej the 1 te 0 a hermit when bitter factional dissen s ons had forced him to leave rome on a western hi 1 a rock strewn plateau around which stately tere births stand guard marks a place where the ancient hebrews brought their sacrifices unto the lord it is a solemn well fitted to excite devout thoughts a place where a man might well keep communion tom munion with his maker in its broader features bethlehem Is almost unchanged since the days of vid from in bethle hem by frnk camer C amer in four track news