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iiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiMiiiRHiiiiiiiiiiniiiiMiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiii, certainly being prepared for th e King. The King is coming. “Look up’’ (Luke 21 :28 ). Room Enough in P alestine “There is no reason for fencing th e Jew strictly w ithin P alestine,’’ says Rev. E. E. Hagin, a missionary. “ If he can negotiate for the boundaries of the kingdom of David, he will have a large land. The original covenanted land was to reach from th e river of Egypt to the river Euphrates. And this would embrace about th ree hun dred thousand square m iles— a te rri tory two and a half times as large as th a t of Great B ritain and Ireland. So th a t th e Jews— all of them who go b ack -sw ill find breath ing space. P ro fessor Ballad, an em inent German au tho rity on th e subject, has w ritten a scientific article proving th a t th e re is room in Palestine alone for an addi tional six million people. It would be no surprise, therefore, if several ‘mil lion Jews became domiciled in Palestine w ithin a decade. Though th e re may be hostility now, from the lim ited rem n ants of ancient races, the entrance of th e Jews and th eir expenditure of vast sums of money will afford work and give a new standard of comfort and stability for all whether Bedouin or Rev. Thomas Chalmers points out th a t th e deadness of Judaism becomes more manifest each year. Thinking Jews have long recognized th a t th e ir religion has no life, no vigor, no appeal to Jewish youth. .It is a th ing of rules and ceremonies, most of which are for gotten or are k ep t w ith no h ea rt by those who still make some pretence to Jew, Syrian or A rab.” Judaism Ready to Bury
5 lllt llllllin illllillllllllllllllllllllllB llllillllllllllllliiiiiiillilliilllllllllllu l A Goodly Land The P alestine Weekly says th a t the giant grapevines, w ith th eir enormous yield, of which we read in th e Bible, have th e ir modern counterpart, for such vines even now exist, having b ran ches thirty-five to fifty feet in length, w ith clusters of grapes weighing tw enty to th irty pounds, growing two or th ree on the same branch. Ac cording to th at, the old pictures in the Sunday-school books of th e spies re tu rn ing afte r th eir survey of Canaan, w ith huge bunches of grapes, each sus pended "from a pole carried on the shoulders of two men, were not far wrong. Verily it is a goodly land th a t th e Lord gave to His people! P alestine’s Religions A few general statistics will be in te r esting to those unacquainted w ith them. A year ago Sir H erbert Samuel, th e Governor of Palestine, sent these fig ures to the League of Nations Bureau: Population of Palestine, 700,000; Four- fifths of these are Mohammedans, 76,- 000 are Jews, and 77,000 belong to the O riental churches—Greek, Latin, Abys sinian, Coptic, etc., bu t mostly Greek Church. Digging Up City of David Under th e B ritish m andate for Pales tine a new Law of Antiquities has come into force. It prohibits irreg u lar ex cavations and preserves th e resjilts of investigation for the land itself. From th e Pool of Siloam, towards the south ern wall of th e city, an area of ten acres has been set ap art to lay b are the city of David. The Palace and “Millo” of David, the tombs of th e kings, and o ther remains are expected to be vis ible a t no d istan t date. The city is
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