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Show Ij IN THE HOLY LAND THEN AND NOW j With the capture of Gaza and Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, the following from the London ' Star is of more than passing interest: 1 "It that picturesque special corre-I corre-I spondent to whom we owe the narrative nar-rative of the sun and moon standing ' still In the Valley of Ajalon had wit- nessed the onslaught of General Allen-b3's Allen-b3's auxiliaries, he might have pictured pic-tured behemoth wallowing on the shoore and leviathan rising out of the sea. It is related in the Book of Judges that though the tribe of Judah , took Gara, they 'could not drive out the Inhabitants et the valley because they had chariots of Iron.' Allowing f for the intervening centuries which 1 ( have transformed the 'chariots of iron in tanks, we see that In this case the j I omens are in favor of the invaders, and we may reasonably hope that the clearing out of the Philistines will be j final and complete." oo |