Show u H i Yields New Treasure K Ancient R Church Where Paul Pauland and Barnabas Preached Is Unearthed I I Washington The The ancient city of ot Antioch In Syria which c has r Kidded yi rich treasures of antiquity Is Ithe the scene of explorations which have i Must j st disclosed an on earl early church as a 0 SIte cite where Paul and Barnabas are ore beC believed be be- ed e C to have preached A A bulletin from the Washington ton i hea headquarters quarters of the Notional National Geographic Geo Geo- i graphic society based on a communIcation i cation by William U. U Hall Ball says 1 For IFor a n thousand years ears Antioch was t 1 Uhe the he C capital city that ruled the Industries Industries Indus Indus- I tries trade and commerce commerce of th the Euphrates Eur Eu- Eu r and ond Tigris valle valleys s And now the turn of fortunes fortune's wheel has again Directed the stream of tru trade past h her r doors I She has hns become the not natural outlet d for ifor the wealth of cotton corn cor and nn dates produced I In the volle valley of Meso- Meso t A Dramatic Invasion In the lays days of Its glory glor the people or of Antioch were gathered In the great theater listening listening- to n a famous actress while the Persians were besieging the 1 city trusted to their splendid I n 1 fortifications and feared n At a n point In the pia play the actress paused I t bile hile with arm outstretched toward tJ the lie e mountain above the city slie sire exI exclaimed exclaimed ex- ex I claimed Behold the Persians are come I There was great applause the audience thinking thInking- It a fine bit of sto stage e eI I play hut but as ag a 0 shower of arrows dark- dark darkened darkened lined ened the sky the people turned to behold behold behold be- be hold that Instead of pia play It was reality The he enemy was within the walls and plunder and destruction had already begun I When we read the story of Ben llen BenHur Bur Hur and nd follow him about the streets pf of that splendid ld city elt or enter with hIm the palaces of the rich or see sel gaming g with his friends In the magnificent cent palace on the Island in the Orontes or watch with breathless interest In- In Interest terest as os th the hero guides g the four fleet leet Arab stee steeds s through the maze of the chariot charlot race Antioch seems a fabled city of ancient times living In story only East and West Still Conflict I It Is hard to come to reality and think of American motorcars rushing rushin along the roads roods where Ben Hur guided This his matchless Arab steeds or of great motor lorries trundling across the I plain where the long trains of camels brou brought ht their caravans of riches from phe the East The hippo hippodrome rome where Ben BenHur BenHur Hur ur the Jew contested with the he Roman Homan Is In ruins but the East I and ond the West Yest are Just as surely In conflict today A According cording to the Roman reformer und and satirist Juvenal from Antioch also the waters of the Orontes overflowed overflowed over over- flowed Into the Tiber and thence came come superstitions and ond Indulgences and excesses excesses ex ex- excesses that caused the corruption of Rome Home This may be true but also It was In AntIoch that the disciples s were first called colle Christians The most magnificent splendor of ot Antioch was its Its great street This ran straight through the city from east to west At each end there was an on impressive im mm- pre lve gate The eastern gate was later known as os the Gate of St. St Paul It was still ston standing 45 years ago almost almost almost al al- al- al most complete but now even the foundations foundations foun foun- have been removed for buil buildIngs buildings build build- Ings In the modern city The western or Daphne Dophne gate was called the Gate Gote of the Cherubim for over this gate Titus placed the golden cherubim he had taken token from the temple In Jerusalem Jerusa Jerusa- lem These two gates were about four miles apart aport Between them was a 0 grand boulevard ord A Fifth Avenue of the Ancients On liOn each sl side e of the street was a 0 double row of columns The outside aisle In each case was roofed over oyer furnishing a shady talk alk ILI It satanic and a 0 dry on and sheltered way during lurIng the winter storms Between the tile Inner I rows of columns column was n a broad highway for for chariots and ond horsemen This street t was lined tIned with ma magnificent magnificent I cent public buildings temples shrines and palaces of the nohl nobler s. s I Many Inny other streets crossed crossed the great gleat street always at right ht angles and an at every Intersection arches were erected call called d About the middle of the city another another another an an- other broad street also colonnaded extended from the river to the We moun moun- taro tain In this street near the river rl was located the men mentioned men men- previously and where It crossed the great street was created the This altar was the center center of the city on and was devised In Imitation of ot that at Delphi which had hod been er erected erected erect erect- ct- ct ed by hy the ancient Greeks Greel s supposing Delphi to be he the center of the tho world Here was a sitting statue of Apollo the patron god of the s. s Outside the eastern gate for a distance distance distance dis dis- tance of two miles King Herod of the Jews built a n continuation of the great grent street street also had hod n row of ot columns and ond was paved pa with marble It traversed the portion of the city known as Herod's suburb From the western or Daphne gate gote a great highway hwo extended for some six or eight miles through the suburb of or to the noted grove of or Daphne This road skirted the low foothills At At frequent Intervals there were fountains and on both sides were the ma magnificent villas illos of the nobility no no- nobility of Antioch |