CHRIST is risen, Christ the first-fruits
Of the holy harvest field.
Which will all its full abundance
At HU second coming yield;
Then the golden ears of harvest
Will their heads before Him wave.
Ripen'd by Hi* glorious sunshine,
From the furrows of the grave.
Christ Is risen, we are risen;
Shed upon us heavenly grace,
Rain, and dew, and gleams of glory
From the brightness of Thy Faoe;
That we, with our hearts in Heav'o,
Here on earth may fruitful be,
And by Angel-hands be gather’d.
And be ever. Lord, with Thee.
—Montreal Herald.
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TRAGIC JERUSALEM
Originally a city of Chaldea.
Capital of Abraham.
Captured by Egypt.
1400 B. C.—Captured by Jebualte*.
1058 B. C.—Capital of David.
922-332 B. C.—Frequently destroyed in
warfare and rebuilt.
322 B. C.—Taken by Alexander the
Great.
168 B. C.—Stormed by the Romans, who
killed 12,000 Jews.
54 B. C.—Looting of the Temple.
^ A. D. 70—Destroyed by the Romans.
A. D. 148—Razed again by the Romans.
A. D. 325—Restored to old dignity.
A. D. 637—Captured and churches de
stroyed by Caliph Omar, a Saracen.
1099—Captured by the Crusaders.
1187—Retaken by Saladin.
1229—Recaptured by Crusaders.
1244—Ruled by Egyptian Sultans.
1291—Christians expelled from all Holy
Land.
1517—Seized by the Turks.
1917—Recaptured by British under Gen.
Allenby.
CHE thoughts of the Christian
world at the approach of East
er Inevitably turn to the Holy
City and the scenes of the last
hours of the Savior.
Jerusalem is built on a rocky hill
rising 2,500 feet above the Mediter
ranean. It is fourteen miles dis
tant from the Dead sea, the wa
ters of which in clear weather are
visible from it, with behind them
the somber mountains of Moab. Its
name, observes a writer in the Mon
treal Herald, occurs first in history
one one of the tablets found at
Tel-el-Amarna, in Egypt, the date
of which is about 1400 B. C., con
taining a letter written by a prince
ruling Jerusalem under Egyptian
suzerainty. On the tablet the name
is speiied Drusalem, which is be
lieved to mean “city of security” or
of “peace.”
The Biblical history of the city
is familiar to all. Melchizedek, who
blessed Abraham, appears in Gen
esis as “King of Salem.’’ The sec
ond verse of the Seventy-second
psalm identifies Salem and Jeru
salem or Sion, but the story of
Melchizedek is so obscure that no
one can say when the Holy City
had its beginning. Egypt held it
for a time, but about 1400 B. C.,
the Jebusites, a tribe of Canaan,
captured and held it for many
years. David captured it from the
Jebusites about 1000 B. C. and
made it the capital of his kingdom,
and there Solomon built the tem
ple where now stands the exquisite
Mosque of the Rock. Since David’s
time the city has changed hands 24
tijps, being destroyed and rebuilt
almost as often. But it seems in
destructible. Nebuchadnezzar may
deport its people; Titus may plow
its site and sow it with salt; Hadri
an may efface its name by planting
on its foundations the Roman col
ony of Aelia Capitolina; but its
memory is restored, its ancient
sanctuaries are adorned by new tem
ples and still it stands.
The ancient city is a little more
tij*n a square In area. It Is sur«
rc^aded by a low wall, inside which
things are much as they have been
for hundreds of years. All around
it is the new city, modern and live
ly, dotted here and there by the
big religious and charitable founda
tions built during the half-century
before the war by the various
Christian churches. They provide
some of the most conspicuous fea
tures of the landscape, such as the
Russian cathedral, with its onion
shaped dome, the convent of the
Mount of Olives and the barrack
like hospice of Notre Dame de
France.
The great interest In Jerusalem,
at this holy season. Is not, however,
In Its modem aspect, striking as it
is. Unique among all cities of the
world, Jerusalem Is a holy city to
three great faiths, Judaism. Chris
tianity and Mohammedanism. Mon
uments to the great beginnings of
all three are there, and now after
many centuries of bitterness, all
three may worship unhindered at
its shrines.
To Christians, the most poignant
of the many tragedies of Jerusalem
Is the Crucifixion of Jesus, which
many believe took place nineteen
hundred years ago. Reverent re
search has ascertained with fair
certainty the scenes of the last
fateful days.
In the wall of Jerusalem there
is still to be seen the famous Golden j
Gate, through which Jesus is said
to have entered on Palm Sunday,
where the people shouted “Hosan
na !” and flung palms in his path.
It is also thought to have been the
Gate Beautiful, mentioned in The
Acts. The masonry is Byzantine, but
it is believed to hide older work. It
is kept walled up, perhaps by rea
son of tradition that on a certain
Friday a Christian conqueror would
enter by it, ending Turkish rule for
ever.
The first Church of the Holy Sep
ulchre was built, after a careful
search for the true site, by Empress
Helena, mother of Constantine, the
first Christian emperor, and dedi
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
in Jerusalem.
cated In 336. It was later destroyed
by fire, as were several successors,
the present building dating from
1810. The dome was completed in
1868. The present building is not
large and Is constructed of a red
and yellow stone, something like
marble. Inside, opposite the en
trance, is a small door, through
which one, by stooping, may enter
the Holy Sepulchre. It is a small
room, six feet by seven and seven
and a half feet high. It is bril
liantly lighted by forty-three lamps
kept burning by the Roman, Greek,
Armenian and Copt churches.
Floors, walls and ceilings are cov
ered with marble to protect the rock
from pilgrims who might chip it.
The Garden of Gethsemane was
a beautiful spot on the side of the
Mount of Olives, across the Rrook
Kedron, to which Jesus and his
disciples frequently repaired for
rest and refreshment. Formerly, no
doubt, much larger. It is now a plot
about one hundred and ninety-five
feet square. There are in It seven
olive trees, the largest being about
twenty-six feet In circumference. If
they are not the original trees that
witnessed the Agony of Jesus in the
Garden, they are certainly off shoots
of them.
The chief Moslem sanctuary of
Jerusalem, the Haram-es-Sherif,
built on the site of the temple, can
only be visited by Christians with
special permission, and on certain
days they are not permitted to en
Sealed Golden Gate Where Christ
Entered Jerusalem.
-ter It. Under the Mosque of the
Itoek, which stands in the Haram
enclosure. Is shown the sacred rock
where Abraham Is said to have
made Isaac ready for sacrifice, and
there, too, is the cavern in which
David is said to have prayed. There
Is also a round hole in the rock
which is traditionally reported to
have been made by Mohammed’s
head as he ascended to heaven.
The temple, which was begun by
Herod the Great, father of the
Herod who beheaded John the Bap
tist, was still in process of building
during the life of Jesus. Its beauty
and the splendor of history and re
ligious Idealism it symbolized and
enshrined affected the heart of Je
sus us it did every other Jew. No
other city in the history of the
world has gained the passionate af
fection of a people as has Jerusa
lem. Brooding over It in the last
days Jesus uttered that most mov
ing apostrophe, “O Jerusalem, Jeru
salem, thou tiint killost the proph
ets and stonest them that are sent
unto thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens, un
der her wings, and ye would not!”
Lonely John, dreaming on rocky
Patmos, of a “new heaven and a
new earth,” Instinctively thought of
“the holy city, new Jerusalem, com
ing down from God out of heaven
. . . And the gates of it shall not
be shut at all by day: for there
shall be no night there. And they
shall bring the glory and honor of
the nations Into it.”
At the Cross
Friendly Interest
By SCOTT W. RYALL
$. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
VVNU Service
SOME find the Ninth ward merely
an unpleasant conglomeration
of smells, fruit peels, push-carts,
kids an uone-too-clean clothes on
tire-escapes.
But they are not the Ninth ward
ers. For them It Is an oasis In a
cold city; a dowdy, fat mother hold
ing forth a friendly interest for
the good, bad and indifferent among
her sons and daughters.
Sentimentally and pathetically,
that was tihe. But, while the resi
dents of those dark smelly canyons
appreciated It in essence, they hard
ly applied the emotion as sentiment
or esthetic.
And sometimes It was a distinct
Inconvenience.
Solomon Brady Isaacs, a gentle
man of mixed parentage, found that
out. Solly had. at one time, been
the hope of the ward with his broad
street and school education topped
by a not-so broad correspondence
course in law, which enabled him
to skin by the law examinations.
From his mother Solly Inherited
a tine mat of red while his father
contributed a pudgy form nnd nstute
mind. By his own efforts he set
up the combination behind a second
hand desk and gold-leaf lettering,
"Attorney-nt-Law,” on the window.
It was a moment of pride to his
father when he opened the office
and his feelings were shared by
the wnrd. up one block and another
They dutifully brought their paltry
law cases to him. were surprised
that he expected pay. did not pn.v
him, nnd after some months the
landlord found it necessary 10
cnrry out eviction proceedings for
which case he did not hire Solly.
Solly evacuated the wnrd In bit
ter anger nnd went through a four
year siege as law clerk In a down
town office. There Ids education
broadened to Include Intimidation
and conching of witnesses, the lu
crative profession of framing alibis
nnd disposing of “hot” bonds; In
short, the manipulation of justice—
at a price.
He scraped and saved through
those years, gathering a clientele,
nursing a dream of revenge.
One day In June, when the smells,
fruit peels, push-carts, kids and
clothes were most evident, Solly re
turned, preceded by a small van of
new furniture which went Into the
whole seconu floor of the newly
renovated Lowenthal building.
> He sat behind curtained win
dows, grinning down spitefully on
the staring fnces of ertswhlle neigh
bors. Then he turned on the sallow
youth, newly appointed guardian of
the outer office.
“All case from the Ninth ward
paid In advance and double rate."
the little lawyer instructed sav
agely. “I’ll show ’em. And every
afternoon you go out Find who
owes money to which. Get ’em to
sue. Make ’em mad. Make Mr.
Ginsburg, at the Kash and Karry
grocery, collect from everyone who
owes him money. Scare ’em!"
His eyes blazed viciously.
For six months an Insidious Influ
ence gnawed within the ward. It
was carefully guided and superin
tended by the red-headed ninn be
hind the curtained windows In the
Lowenthal building.
“I hear Mr. Ginsburg Is having a
hard time of It. A bad thing when
a family man goes astray.”
“Who said that?"
“The boy who works for Solly
Isaacs. Up let It slip. 1 know he
didn’t mean to. He bit his lip,
like this."
Rad days, very bad days for the
ward with friend against friend
and even old man Isaacs suspected
of handling stolen goods.
In the midst of It the little law
yer watched the growing havoc and
expanded his business of nlding
criminals through loopholes of law.
His neighbors, unsuspecting vic
tims of his malignant hate, were
proud of his comeback. They
watched his meteoric rise with won
der. without too great curiosity, but
they did watch.
The people on flrlmm street
knew the back of the ..owenthal
building and could see certain skulk
ing figures go In the alley. Rut
why didn’t they go in the front
way ?
As thoughts will rise to murmurs
and murmurs rise to official ears,
there came a time when the plnmb
Ing In the Lowenthal building sud
denly stopped and workmen must
mess through Solly’s prlvnti offices,
much to his Irritation, secretly leav
ing little hidden transmitters.
Detectives listening from another
part of the building, making notes
of Solly’s Indiscretions and sins,
were the Indirect cause of Mr.
Glnsburg shaking his head sol
emnly before Mrs. Breeden some
four months later.
“I hear Solly Isaacs Is on book
keeping at the prison,” he said, “You
remember, Solly? Of course. Funny
around him; a cpilet, harmless, nice
young feller. Ah, If we had only
known, we might have warned—”
“You never can tell, Mr. Gins
burg. Would you mind charging
that?”
"Glad to, Mrs. Breeden.”
"And I’ll be In about the old ac
count on Wednesday.”
The ward produced Its smells,
carts, kids and clothes. Nothing had
changed, except that Solly Isaacs
was “on bookkeeping” at the prison.
Modern World Indebted
to Early Medicine Man
Though the patients of the sha
man, the early South American
tribal medicine man, are believed to
have survived mostly In spite of his
cures rather than because of them,
the modern world Is Indebted to the
shaman for many discoveries In the
medical field. Equipped with only
a few knives of obsidian or flint, the
teachings of predecessors, and a 20
year apprenticeship during which he
lived a life of celibacy, the shaman
discovered Casenra sngrada. quinine,
cocaine, sarsaparilla and Ipecac for
medicinal uses. He allowed his pa
tients to chew coca plant leaves,
from which we derive cocaine. In or
der to produce a mild anesthesia.
All this has been told by Hilly Teel
Mettel in an article on “Medicine In
Ancient America," which appeared In
UJgela, the Health Magazine.
Tne Aztecs recognized the con
tnglous nature of certain diseases
and Isolated patients suffering from
those diseases. Farther south In
Peru, the Incas practiced a bold
form of modern surgery, trephining
or skull surgery. They performed as
many as five operations on the same
patient, though no one knows the
reason for these operations unless
they were done for religious or mys
tical reasons.
The bone binder cured sprains,
fractures, dislocations and contu
sions. Ho bandaged the part, and
massaged and poulticed with Ituellla
alblcaulls, which has been used in
this manner for centuries.
The medicine man had to respond
to all calls of tlie sick and was paid
only when he effected a cure. His
pay was determined by the length
of time required for the treatment.
Most of his treatments were nccom
Appalling Thought
Father—Why keep worrying about
the children?
Wife—1 can’t help It.
Father—But, my dear, you are
hurting your bridge game.
Dr. Pierce’* Pellet* are best for liver,
bowel* and stomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv.
Soviet’s High Hopes
Soviet Itussln expects Its output
of gold to lend that of South Africa
within the next two years, making
It the world’s lending producer of
the yellow metal.
ponied by religions or mystical cere
monies and dances, In which he Im
plored the gods to help him extri
cate the evil Influence that wns cans
ing the pain, lie believed In curing
"like with like"; for example, a
wasp sting was treated with crushed
wasps' nests, and snake bites were
treated with juices from vines that
twisted and curved like snakes.
Asthma, called false breath, was
treated with fat from a black hen. If
this did not effect a cure, the patient
wns given red peppers, salt and
strongly antiseptic astringent leaves
of the mimosn tree made into n tea.
If both of these failed, then the
patient smoked a cigar of black to
bacco which contained chill peppers.
Future Airships
Airplanes of the future will re
semble winged rockets, according
to M. Louis Breguet, the French air
plane constructor. The fast com
merclal planes, he says, will have
a heavy wing, loading 20 to .'to
pounds per square foot, means for
Increasing rho lilt considerably, air
nnd ground brakes, and powerful
and light engines moderately super
charged. There will he a frequent
use of altitudes of flights not ex
ceeding 18,000 feet. The machine
also will have comfortable cabins
heated, and when necessary, sup
plied with oxygen.
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Russia has recognized Australia,
at least so far as Its fauna Is con
cerned, declares the Los Angeles
Times. In years to come the emu
and the kankugoo which adorn the
Australian cont-of-arms may be
hopping around the steppes more
freely than In their native land,
where they have heed warred on by
generations of sheep and cattle
men because of their appetite for
crops and grass.
As part d? the five-year plan,
emus and kangaroos were Intro
duced to Russia, and they have
thriH'tl and multiplied, even in the
cold winters of the Moscow region.
Emu eggs contain about 000 grams
of nutritious foods and kangaroos
can be eaten, but their principal
value Is in providing shoe leather
of the highest quality.
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