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Ten :4. m7. ?" Illrther int 990' Otcamahig aunt. or- "or the cam` my isyoun. ` ` _ ` entity 1 Montreal Fnd.?q3uebec-4du:omopen8uby the Inighw water boulevard to~ CLASS, both the /modrate rates and the flat-famed (`AR1'A`l\'lA\'r Isllvllnvtu nan-vs uuu uu: lHl"IIlI1CC CAI:\TADIA PACIFIC 'theAtop of Mt. Carmel which ends Ullllu I `will give you a brief outline of my first week here and the circuit covers ed. Arriving on February 5' we .land- ed Sunday morning. 6th, and went in cars through this city- of Haifa to here at the sea. The Roman Catholic monastery there has a chapel over the reputed home. of Elisha- `The. view wias wonderful `over sea and plain - the mountains of northern Galilee and snow-capped Hermon in Syria. Then to Nazareth. a busy ` little town in a cup-shaped valley ; surrounded by high hills. Here again Roman Catholic chapels over the reputed home or Mary at the time of the Annunciation by the an- gel: als home and so-called work- shop o Joseph. The fine athletic young priest who so glibly in excel- lent `English told us, andsshowed us these. is an American only a yea from Chicago. his home city. A vis- it was made to Mary's well. We were assured of its genuineness, as it is the only spring of water there in all history and women and chil- dren come now as always long dis- tances to this well for. water. `This well` and the hilltops from which Jesus as boy and youth couidsee most of the hills and plains so famed, long before Him and more so since-are the places we are assured had His personal presence. A l'QAI..... 4- `V . _ . _ -LL -- " ` "` - The Examiner has received from cross the frontier. showing passports Rev. F`. T. Graft n, formerly ot.Ba`r-,V 0 British and also to French as we rie. the followin letter writ-ten on gnter their mandate oi'._ Syria. Further Feb. `17, at Haifa. . the chief port or along the coast we pass the straggling Palestine. . ' village or Tyre. Acres , V This is Just a little -Epistle to: the to its former greatness. Ten miles` Gentiles" in Canada from the land 0! more the ruin of Surafeud (Zarephath the Hebrew and Arab but from one of the Old Testament and Sarepta of of the most recent of the Dorninions the _ of the British Empire though 'per- Journed with the widow duri haps `today less than 400 British` raniine--"The barrel jot meal "Tommies" are here to hold the land not. neither did the cruise of all fail." and they mostly in a police capacity. -See I The only navy is an American (U.S.) IV. 24-30. `H g 3 ere perhaps also our Lord ironclad in port here on a friendly healed the daughter of the Syro-Phoe- can. ' nicianwoman (Mark VIIX24-31). `I I_wii_l_ give a_br_iet outline Sidnn +m..+'.... mu-.. ..-...._ _. .. t or ruins testity V New Testament) where Elijah so- asted ` Kings XVII. 8-24: also Luke 1 :Ro;v%. I 1'HunsnAv. MARCH. 24. 1927} ; Lev. F (T . Grafton Tellsiof Many Places} Familiar '1` to Bible Render and `Students ~ i of Ancicnt History. ' ` J. z. Minn. TCGIKIU Totjontb VISIT TO PALESTINE `.l.'llI'K. ', . `Passing over the new 1 oughfares near the armopy buildings we cross the Beta the river now muddy `wi rains. and enter the Orient: with its winding narrow s covered bazaa.rs.'- ' Barbed tanglements at six .._!n the across some arcades, sand 1 UL'LllUl'll non 1 Iiere s at ha an- `JLIlJII\III ;' he nnanlo-uv , this duty the Abana by many chan-` gursva mrougn whose depths tumbles the "Rue de Barada, the` Abana Riv- er of Naaman. the Syrian leper, as in the tifth chapter of II Kings. Bound- last mountain side and stretches out into the vast plain below. By great engineering featsthe Romans diverted its water-s`4by subterranean aqueducts to supply and cleanse the.city which `system is still in force though the drinking water comes by `another channel from Lebanon springs. After nels leaves the city. fertilizes for many miles the plains eastward making lux- uriant gardens and vineyards and `then loses itself in the desert sands-- - a lost river. V _. p 1 As, with the \!'iV8l` we emerge from ` the tremendous gorges we pull up at the depot` of the most ancient city o the world. Damas--its present native ' .A,r_notley throng, speakingunknown tongues. crowd through the little un-.. pretentious station house and wenenter the old. old city jostling Jew and Gen- tile. Moslexn V and Intidel, Arab and Turk. - ' ' . "Da'n'ph'.-n `A----- 4* - " - V ' ` `I'&V" our train crosses the valley sweep and then up and over the great A_ntI- Lebanon range (whose southern out- post ls Mount Hermon) and descend- ing '_we wind down the multl-colored gorges through whose depths Ba}'_ada_, t_he`*4bana. an Al \7--...-_ s In evo- oks liked uuis great. pmm the Jordan also has its birth and sweeping southward is supplement (1 by the streams from snow-clad ermon and the full-born river from the cavern at Ancient Dan. Along this` far north Jordan Valley also `flourished Herbd's once proud city of Caesarea-Phllippl. ' (whose and__giescend- Ina -nu; n.l....1 .'I---- A` LIIIH nun ue-1. oth Ivnun ww uuua unu` ramxues have beenl massacred. Some of the boys from here are in the Armenian homeat Georgetown, Ontario, and greetings were sent to them fyom Beirut. Trans- -,nort cars (autos) connect through .`Dam_,9scus with Bagdad (near Baby- lon) 640 miles away. A Leaving : next fhnvhina nu nu ------- _-- - _.. . -..--uu vs. lolthe Lebanons with Mt. Hermon now away to the East. Thirty miles brings us to the .big city and port of Beirut. I called here at the American Presb,v- V terian University" with over 1200 stu- dents in arts. law. commerce and med- fcine--christian. Jew, Moslem, Arab. Turk. Syrian and Palestiners. I per- sonally met and conversed with sever- al students of the far'East. `Some 70 ` B professors and assistants are on the I` stafflot this university and hospital, 5 one of whom, a Canadian doctor. has - just returned from furlough. I was - conducted by a youth. from here across 2 the city, and knocking at a door, was - met by Rev. D. C. Eby and` welcomed . also by his bride and by Miss Bowman of the staff. They have charge of the Armenian "refugee work. Mrs. Eby ! was Miss Elizabeth Remington, whose I school days were spent in the old I school (now the rink) at Singhamn- ton. , The Remington home was near the parsonage and new school. Mr. . Eby. whose early home.was.at South- ampton. Ontario, knows -Singhampton well. His present bride of three months, coming now from Western Canada is a sister of hislformer wife who died at a resort up in the Leban- on Mountains. Herremains are in the old_city of Damascus. Miss Bowman has also visited friends at Glen Huron. That evening I also visited a men's meeting in their crude frame building. used as school and church and com- munity centre. Two services were conduc_ted-one in Turkish /language, the nfhnv In A-v--A--'-*-c " ' ` ` --..-..... -uuuuu \Ay1n.l'I\ V11, Z`1'6.l). .S1don. thirteen miles north of Tyre, is still a. busy town in midst of vast orchards. mostly orange and lemon groves. We pass along the foothills of the me eitv mm mm M: um...` uuaus no DGFUUQ Wire en` afternoon bag barri- Iullv CW VVIUU CHOP` the armory and public :53 -B"a.rada. Bridge, ` `with recent the Oriental quarter, 3' narrow streets and ..u...u.aun zuues and me 1 and valleys produced was winter season and Jeauty and luxuriance Phese mountain villages great summer resorts Of dustv fnwna ant` wide thor- Lrmm-1: and nnkll- n can `,,quu.rl;8!', H streets and win: an. nuuuul. 1V.l.l`. wa.s.at Lde rom u fnv-iv: an nvl5A u H! CLCICH ormer ;s Bowm9.n den d ue and linrn- su L U/(.8 l from their been nu ul- Luruugn 1153 D181 Today the ct: deuverer. She land come? Sh . Alexander and Caesar. L walls). How have the mi p Hazael and Pompey. Dariusand Saladin (his tomb beside the Great Mosque within its ghty fallen! Herod; Mahommed. where? Silence. . Damascus people have in" turn wor- shipped the sun and moon. It was a strong Hebrew centre. a noble chris- tian city and adevoted Moslem people. Mecca. over a wilderness. a rail- way Qarri an annual pilgrimage or many- thousand. Abram. seeking a new God. called home. Jacob eeing and later returnfng with `Rachel and `Joseph, Jonah on the way to Nineveh. Daniel` in the captive band, Ezekiel, Ezra. Nehemiah. hosts of such passed through its plains. - ' city pleads for another shelsays, when will Eng- She promised to. And if portal. Again within and down a nar- row alley we descerfd to the supposed home of Ananias who received Paul. now marked by a shrine as most all iniplaces of sacred connections are by -ii- 41. annulus!` S108 gate is now the main 2 either the Greeks or Roman Catholics. Nearby have _been partly unearthed remnants of great pillars significant or some greatbuilding of a forgotten past. perhaps of a christian church or the daysof early christianity. Along the western end of Straight street whole blocks of business and luxurious residences. some 500 in num- lessness towards an innocent city by French cannon tram nearby hills de- stroyed some t-hree thousand homes and buildings and perhaps one thou- ` sand lives. Signs of war about and within her today, sounds of echoing guns Just died away, her adjoining populous villages obliterated and her vineyards, orchards and homes blight- ed. This is Damascus today. the old- est ,city of history. Nestling under the shelter of` the Anti-Lebanon at the outlet of the only passes from the Mediterranean and the west. facing the fertile plains to the east which lose their verdure in the barren wastes that stretch nearly six hundred miles tovFard the rising sun where Baghdad sits, a paltrysubstitute for Babylon. her proud mistress and neighbor of the golden age or Nebuchadnezzar. and between Mesopotamia and Egypt, between the Tigris and Euphrates, the , Garden of. Eden and Assyria to the , north. and the land of Cleopatra and . the Pharaohs in that other great gar- den of "ancient history to the south. There at the great crossroads of em- pires si-ts Damascus today. where five ` thousand years ago `or more she took r stand an ancient city in thedays when Abram passed by on his way from Ur of the Chaldees to Canaan. About her walls and through her gates have gone the armiesot every nation of every age--Chaldeans, Babylonian. Assyrians, Persians. Greeks, Romans. Egyptians, Syrians, Arabians and Turks: theselatter. driven out 9 years ago -by AllenbyVsiiBritish troops sweep- ing up om Jerusalem and now France under h r- mandate controls vher des- tiny. Mighty voices long stilled have echoed in her palaces. Cyrusand Ne- ' buchadnezzar. Tothmus and Pharaoh. Alexander and Caesar. Pompey. Dar-imntnmi Qnlmu- 11.1.. .-_- _-.. uu;u uxcmv uu!:- IJRLSS [He guargs. We Visited the remnants of the re- puted house of Naaman. the leper. healed through Elijah and his seven- fold dip into the Jordan. A leper col-t ony now inhabits the ruins. The tam-I ous Jewish brass works well repays a call. This, the greatest of its kind in the East. has a world-wide market for its eautiful and expensive trays! and brass work embellished with cop- per, gold and silver. The finished pro- duct is housed in a building the rear wall of which shows the archway or the_ great Central Eastern, Gate through which Paul doubtless entered. A smaller side gate is Again within and dmm. . no-- leach , um southern city wall the great stones! : of` the Roman construction are evi- dent but the wall much heightened above these at later date. A typical house on thewall, similar to and near the south gate where he was let down in a basket `and escaped, is still evi- dent. `The Greek Orthodox Church have recently used the material of the southgate and adjoining house and` are now constructing a shrine and portal at the spot. About here are drastic evidences of French guns which recently demolished the second outer wall. the roadway, trees and- surrounding buildings. Only the last few days may onenass the guar s. Visited remnants nf Fhn ...._ Senegalese soldiers on guard reminded us that a semi war state still exists. . We are welcomed by Rev. Elias and . Mrs. Newman of the Irish Presbyter- ` Ian Mission to the Jews of Damascus , and doubly so by Mrs. Newman as we come from her old home of Toron- to. where her people still are--but or- thodox Hebrews. Mr. Newman for some years supervised the Jewish christian work in Montreal under the Presbyterian Church of Canada be- fore he Went to Chicago and since then here. Next day with his expert guid- ance we traversed Straight street, [calling at the only Protestant church and school, and out the Eastern gate through which St. Paul entered, blind- ;ly led after his divine vision. Along the southern city wall stones. constrnr-.h'nn urn cur` I I . . , cades on some main corners. black I l suvernment. The safe stolen'from the Huntsville office of the Canadian National Ex- press Co. last December has been found hurled in the snow about eight miles from- Huntsville. Valuable na- pers were still in the safe but the money which it had contained was missing. . ~r.|uayJ.wu In. renetang. - Falling from a"plank into the creek : at Meaford. which was swollen by the spring freshet, `Jessie Buchan. a Mea- ford child. was carried about 200 `I yards down the stream before she was rescued. In commemoration of this twenty? five years service on.the Orillia wa- ter. light & power commission, J. B. Tudhope is to be presented iswith an oil portrait at the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the opening of the plant. The total cost ' of the Atherle.v `Bridge at Orillia was $118,000, which is not more than 15 per cent. in ex- cess of the contract price. It is ex-V pected that the bridge-will be main- taineii and operated by the `federal government. Canadian Nsmmm: mu -- ........_y vu,vUV Luz` the 1926 operiition. Revenue for the year amounted to $22,586.89. A deputation from Penetan recent- -ly waited on Premier Fergu on and the provincial secretary requesting the Government to enlarge the Ontario `Hospital in. Penetang. Falling from afnlsmla {non u... .._..s. A Matchedash man has a. Buff Or- pington pullet that recently laid an egg measuring 7%, by 9% inches and weighing 61,49 ounces. ` Meaford Hydro-Electric A System showed a surplus of nearly $5,000 for operation. denutatinn fr-nn-i `Dnno;-. n ~ - - - --4 u.uu. LUWII. Buff` a l5ub31c School Inspector Day of Or- iuia recommends the addition of four more rooms to the public schools of that town. . ' A I'a+n`InnAn-|- ----- ' V ` ` 8.! In [1 . . David Roadhouse of Meafozd has completed 45 :years as official` bell- rlnger -tor the town. . ,. Or1llla s ta,x?;rate- for-1927 has been fixed at A45 mills,` two mills less than last year. The tax levy will rai_sej$213,- '9/91.47. Bradford Hydio depaftment had a net profit for the year of $1,667.54. Total revenue during 1926 was. $13,- 68`53.39. -A ' "kn. cs-I.--I v - - .-----7: tie`?- 1- e _ e ~ 1` Meafard I tail: rie has - been `struck at 49% m1lls,La;n increase of amlll and- a half. e 3`-ww'w 'E`lI'L"l`l` K93 ! * * I 31; DISTRICT NEWS &&&4LV..'..v..r. .w__.-. 4- - -- - -- - D14 ox:-->3 vxoxoxc vx<~rI-xcg 51:3 auu nupnrates, the an the n . hIStO!`,V to thh nnna THE emu: sxammzn" j notL Britain then give us back the Turk. We are fallen on evil days. But `most of all Damascus needs the Great Deliverer, the. Prince of. Peace. The little band of missioners need another Paul to come in her eastern `gate! church rolls and it may be questioned it outside the workers enough true F. M. TYRRELL, supersntende; ROSS BLOCK. DUNLOP STREET,~ BARRIE, ONT. and leave awhole meal cool-zilng in the oven. Your responsibility ends till it's time to serve it. And the eight other Beach features of the range give your full service with an econ- omy of fuel. ` ` A booklet telling how to use con- - trolled heat comes with every range. Anyone can learn in arfew minutes; which Abram asked and God Dromised` to spare Sodom and Gomorrah. Next morning three inches of snow [covered the city. The oranges and lemons on the trees were covered un- der 2;. most unusual snowy blanket. We left for the south and Palestine! christians could be found the roll tn nnmhm. um --L v -ova iv (Iv: U0 `Further north 13~miles`climb1mr the `promontory, the pilgrims ladder, we _ to answer ' [nit-nuns Gr...` {on the great Roman Road Paul tra- `velled back to Jerusalem. Little we thought that 40 miles away with nearly twenty other tour- ist cars we would be tied up 48 hours by snowdrifts at the Turkish village of Koneitra. Such was the case be- fore we got to Palestine and the Brit- lish flag. ' Lure we E ish ag. VANCOUVER UL |.JUl.`l.Ul`IHlK- Tuesday morning, February`; 8. I left Haifa by car for Damascus. The first ten `miles is onethe shore of the Mediterranean, very- much like Wa- saga Beach. Crossing the K shon near its outlet, meeting cars a d donkey and camel rtrains, we crossed the River Namein (ancient Belus) on whose sands the Phoenicians first discovered how to make glass. Here is Acre (old Ptolemais). The Crusaders fortress still stands in ruins and here King` -emu I.As_v ALULIUL Richard of England made his stand in -' the third Crusade. Outside its walls 3 is the great mound built by Napoleon V where he planted his guns and bom- - barped the city but met his defeat be- cause the British had captured his eet. The cannon balls are. still in the fortress walls from that d_ate of 1799. on the sea`side walls British cannon balls or 1840 can still be seen embed- ded when'Engla.nd broke the Egyptian power of Ibrim Pasha at this same old stronghold which held the -key to the Indian Empire gaiteway. The old aqueduct oi. Roman days -still supplies water to Acre. `!:I.-..LI_ -__ -. .. uuuu nu... guvuwuucc Going to Nazareth we rounded Mt. Carmel, crossed the Kishon whose waters were red with the blood of the 450 prophets of Baal. The place of sacrifice can be seen from the motor road and a w_hite monastery stands out over the Valley of Esdraelon-with a break visible just below, through Cruel, of the fortress of Megiddo--- w ere vthis plain opens through 7 to Sharon. Here Jehu overtook'and slew Ahaziah when taking Jezreel. Here the Crusaders fought as did Napoleon ~ and Allenby. Many new Jewish col- j onies dotting the plain and hills are - restoring the land as never before ` since Bible times. We pass the mound 1 where Sisera with his 900 chariots of 1 iron guarded the pass between Carmel < and the mountains of Galilee and on 1 that plain of Esdraelon he met his fate I at the hands of Barak and Deborah.. g \ r I On our return to Haifa `the ship left at 4 p.m. and I remained alone. a stranger in a trange land. I at oncej! round my way to the afternoon service` I at the Mt. Carmel Bible School con- ducted y Rev. C. S. Rohoid. a con- to verted J w, for some years in charge C of christian Jewish work in Toronto. i and his wife. a Toronto lady. Closing that service it was thrilling to hear f:] the old hymn "Rock of Ages sung at onc_e in the old familiar tune by that ?` motley congrega-tion in four languages ` -English, Hebrew and Arabic voices ' mingling. I was that night entertained at their home with some of their staff. I Incidentally Mr. Rohold had spent a. g day last August at Duntroon and Coi- : lingwood with Rev. Mr. Silverlight whose first wedding ceremony Mr. V; Rohold had the honor of performing. Se 'l`I'IAH!`n\`7 IHAWVQIV-Lav `UVAI-\-I-0---I 9