| Show 4 ' THE llAKE TOIBtfyE 5UT3'AY MOIlinNG ISALT I 6CTbBER 15 1833 J asp ( I Inf w r t v Interesting New in the Very Place to Which t Moses Led His People m Discoveries 'A & h w t 4 ' S( At f After the Flight from Egyptian Bondage ’ n2 -- c t r" ' jk ufrtt- - - A ’ v- ? '? - fc 4"'?' - r' £ “ W -- otv I barred by the Lord t During the Third Christian century tha precise spot where the great leader ' of the Israelites stood was need as the site of the altar of a Christian church ' Down through the ages the faithful made pilgrimages to the altar to pay 4 homage to God Long since crumbled Into ruins the site is today being excavated by the Franciscan Fathers They found that not one church but two one existed on the mountain top The larger it is believed covers the ground which Moses trod when with failing sight he gazed into that Land of Promise to which he had led his people during the long Journey from Egypt He had led them out of Egyptian ’ bondage past Mount Sinai where the Ten Commandments were miraculous ly revealed for their moral guidance but because of tho divine displeasure of The Lord' Mbsei himself was not l! permitted to accompany them Into that fabulous country “of milk and honey” and dwelling in which his nation waa to jstn power and glory That the main church now being ex cavated actually msrke the spot where Moses stood is evidenced by eeveral Greeg inscription in which the name of the Israelite leader is clearly dis ' cernlble The Inscription! tell the Vf V- ' story of why the epot was chossn by ths early Christians from whom the tradition had come down through eighteen long and troubled ceaturiee According to Scripture: ' “ And Motn tvmt up from tho Aaawftwwiiiin plaint of Utah untt tht mountain ' Most Viewing tho Promised Land From of Ntbo to tho top of Pitgah that Ike Top ot Mount Hebe Reproduced After it tvtr ogaintt Jtmho And tht the Plat Made by Messrs Georg Rout-ledg- e Lori thomd him all tho land of ’ end Son Ltd From the Celebreled Gilead into Dan And Ike Lord laid until kirn Thil it tho land ' Painting by Lora Leighton P R- A Mod ern British School I' - ? w A J v tm Ox A-r-w I v- r X 4 w- - ’’Sj ' --7 a J ' jlXl 4fi ? W 'J r? j jwyiX: lziss6$Ui4w JtST-x- Fallen Columns 'of an Imposin Oirisllan Churrh Built on Mount Nelo In the Third Century and No Being Exravtel for inscriptions and Relies The Position of the Columns Would Indicate That They Fell During Some Terrific Earthquake There Were Two Churclica Erected of redemption through the Saviouy tvkich f twart unto their fathert to Are Archaeologist on This Spot " whom they Worshipped pio them" J Row Examining the Ruins for Trace Just what was the Promised Land of According to Scripture the reason ot-- Third Century Culture and --Moses was —wo hear so much in the Old Testa be which barred from Canaan was Customs cause when bidden to speak to a rock ment? It first symbolized to Abrahanv in the Wilderness that water might b when he was inspired to leave “Ur of PMm 0 tr SaniMa (Mms given his thirsting people the patriarch the Chaldees’ a new home for his famhad struck the rock with his staff This ily and' the great people that were to i K ciutwsaiiMiiwriM momentary lack of faith spring from it: a new land to the West resulted in his' being de in which he could enjoy freedom from nied the privilege of lead the idolatry of Babylonia And under divine guidance he and lng Israel across tho River Jordan into Pales his nephew Lot went to Canaan and there he settled in Hebron while Lot tine r fr The finding of the went to Sodom Thus the first promise Christian Church with a was fulfilled and for three generations pillar when the altar the Hebrews dwelled in Hebron until stood is a notable Jacob invited by his son Joseph next t' i ! achievement eves in this to the Pharaoh of t Egypt went down with hia twelve sons ana their families gTeat dty of archaeological discoveries The to settle in Goshen in Egypt But even there the Land of promise Greek inscriptions are beIg ing carefully atudled in loomed large in the imaginations of the hope that they will cast Israelites as the sons of Jacob were now light on1 the traditions called ’for Jacob hid commanded his that existed in tho fare sons to taka his bones with them when way day when they were ever they went -back to the ancestral home in Hebron- and even Joseph had chiseled Already it has been made a similar request of his sons When after more than four hundred established that the ancient church was ap years ths Israelites went forth' from proached through a sin- Egyptian bondage under the leadership gle door which led into of Moses it was once more in quest of apparently what was an- the Land of Promise the land of Canaan other church This sits is now becoming known aa Palestine after r now strewn with fallen the great Philistine people who lived on ' the Western slopes of the country columns 0 From tho apse of the Because the Israelitee had been a for four centuries St was larger church aud chief sanctuary doors lead out certain nat they were not equipped to into tho warlike inhabitants of Palconquer-thwhich are still to be ex- estine so they did not go to the Northplored From all appear- east which would have brought them to ances there must have-bee- the land in a short time but were Ted a settlement through the Wilderness of Sinai for' ' on the quite top of Mount Nebo forty years during which time the older The walla of a convent died out and a new have been found and also free-bor- n generation of trained war-rio- ra ths cisterns from which grew- up under the generalship of the monks attached to the Joshua ‘ i“ ment of which to them churches obtained their water But the thought of going to the PromAs v The Franciscan Fathers are proceedChrist was the apex and tho ised Land was ever uppermost in their v v force a of with men fulfillment- - - f 'w“ ing slowly only sixty minds And they 'always longed to con The Land of Promise has but encouraged by the mosaics and in auer it and succeeded in this at the end anticbecome the Holy Land to all scriptions already excavated they despite alarming reporta by ten of their Christiana because of tho ipate discoveries of tha most valuable spies that the country was filled with sort i ' V ministry of Jesus the Christ f giants - i and without the fullment of Here may be uncovered not only memdestruction After the of the Second the first “promise” made to orials of Moses’ last look at the Promised Temple by the Romans in 70 A D the the patriarchs and which Land hut also that impressive moment Jews scattered all over the world They was brought to actuality by when the great emancipator feeling hia Moses all that led np to tho time bad come turned to Joshua and were looked upon almost slfcays as wanderers with no Fatherland of their own’ fulfilling of the codling of uttered those fateful words preserved Rut today quite a number of them Christ could not have come in the first chapter of the Book of look to the restoration of Zion as makr to pass r Joshua: ing a home land for Jews calling them For this reason the spot “Be ttrong and of a good town selves Zionists after Mount Zion which on Mount Nebo is symbolical f was one of the chief centers of ancient ago: for unto this people thaU thou to tho Christians of the “ Palestine ' other far greater promise - divide for an inheritance the land a -- rrHt k j n l £ & i yvi'J' aaesaia—eipsaani 1 - t Creek Inscriptions ‘ Found ' Among the Remaini of the t Third tstaty Church Found-- 1 ed oh the Spot Where Moses ‘ Cased Into the slave-peop- Land Which lie Promised From " A tr' ?d“ - rV’r VV x — NE cf the moit poignant mo meats la tho Ilfs of Moaas as oceumd X recorded la tho Bible when ho ascended Mount Nebo and gazed with shining eyes into the Promised Land from which ha had been e-- le side-chape- ls lied Been Barred by The Lord for a Momentary Lack of i Faitk roi e slave-generati- e ’ y vsn ( i ' $ j - I v s I I r t dS a i fA yf rxlH$pm hr i fit Left Background Can Bo Seen tk Churrh Pillar That la Believed to Mark the Exact Spot W her Moira Cased Into the Promised Land Ik Pillar Remained Standing Through tho Earth- quakes of Eighteen Centuries U'kkh I wore unto A Irak ant tmf Isaac and unto Jacob taping J will give it unto my tied! I havt eauttd thee to tet it with thino eyes but thou ihalt not go over hither “So Motet the tenant of tht Lord died then in the land of Moab at cording to tho word of tho Lord And he buried him in a valley in tk land of Moab over again t Beth-petie man knoweth of hit tepulchrt unto thit day ( Deuter enemy XXXIVi t to According to this statement Fisgah Is one of the peaks of the larger Nabo from which Moses looked over into the Promised Land viewing it from North to South and East to West This is not at all impossible for the length of Palestine ie only about 120 miles and the width about 60 miles and in the very clear atmosphere of Canaan standing on a mountain-to- p towering 2645 feet above eea level Moses might well have bad a sweeping view of ail the land that was to plsy so ioiDortant a part in history while in the possession of the Israelitee f It is estimated that a man six feet look to a horizon ten miles tali may away and that for every foot he rises the horizon is extended on mile According to this calculation Moses might have surveyed an area far larger than ’ that of Palestine Moreover the northern limit of the land was marked by the great mountain because of ranges of Lebanon the perpetual snow on theis highest peaks which rise more than 8009 feet - f -- ar lt t) Apie of (k Mount Nebo Church Designed In the Form of a Side Thera Were Doors Presumably Leading Into Chapelt ( Semi-Circl- ‘ he laid down to die on the lonely ' moun-ent- ir tain-to- p itt the “Burial of Moses” by Cecil Frances Alexander so loved by readers of the Nineteenth Century are the lines : “By Nebo’e lonely tnounfain s On thit tide Jordan’! wave In a vale in the land of Moab Then Hot a lonely grave: ' But no man built f A eepulcker And no man taw it e’er For tht angtlt of God upturned (he tod And laid the dead man there” - The idea current among the Israel- ites was that tha place In which Moses was buried Wat kept secret for fear lest if the people knew where his body was buried they might erect a shrine there and worship Moses which would have been against the fixed ideals of the Jews’ - e on Either ' ’ - The identification of the apot from which Moses took his last look of the earth is no email triumph for the Franciscan fathers who expect in their current excavations to find many relies revealing hitherto unknown details of tho lives of the Christians who lived in the Third Century According to the diary of Saint Silvia she trudged up the mountainside and visited the larger of tho two churches on Mount Nebo sometime during tho years 386 to 383 Tho natural question may bo asked: “Why should this apot so intrigue tho imaginations of the early Christians that they built not one but two churches — - - rt on top of Mount NeboT” This is easier to understand when it is remembered that the Land of Promise to ancient Israel had become tho Land of Fulfillment to all devout Christians They searched the history of the acquisition of Palestine and law in it tha beginning of that tremendous achieve J mamUM lltt-Ct- j - “S Moses- - tk lervint of i (VraMth- - i SllnUni It ! 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