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Abraham in Babylonia. According to the report of Mr. C. Leonard Woolley, head of the expedition, the temple lies close to the Ziggurat, or tower, of Ur, and inscriptions on bricks and stones proved it to be “ that of Nin-Gal, the great lady, wife of the Moon God of Ur.” The building occupies the whole of the south corner of E-temen-Ni-Il, the terrace-enclosure of the Ziggurat. "The temple was built, in its pres ent form, by Sinbalatsu-Ikbid, an Assyrian governor Of Ur in 650 B. C., who always seems to have been short of cash for his building schemes and so employed the poorest materials. Fifty years later Nebuchadnezzar added to or repaired the buildings, and later again his grandson, Nabonidus, re paved the temple floors.” The report tells of finds made at lower levels beneath the temple of Nin-Gal that, give promise of good re sults. “We have found,” the report said, “ inscribed door sockets of sev eral periods, inscribed foundation tablets in black and white stone* and in copper with texts of Kuri-Galzu of Larsa, 2072-2060 B. C., and one of the earliest inscriptions found at Ur describing the foundation of the temple by a local governor, ‘for the life of Utu-Hegal, King of Freeh,' who was suzerain of Ur.” — Reuter’s American Service. A total of 38,646,750-has been spent for upbuilding the Holy Land during the last four years by the Palestine Foundation Fund.
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE LAND . AND THE BOOK Jewish News Notes Compiled from Various Sources
parison of facts shows that no mission field of modern times has been as fruit ful as the Jewish.“ Books for the Blind The Jewish National and Hebrew University Library has recently receiv ed a request with which unfortunately it could not comply. The Blind In stitute of Jerusalem has asked for books in Braille type. The Budget of the Library does not provide funds for buying books, so that they could not be acquired through the usual chan nels. The Council of the Library appeals to the many friends of the blind the world over to send them Braille books so that the blind in Jerusalem may have the solace of reading. These should be forwarded to the Hebrew University Library, Jerusalem, Palestine. The statistics of the Library on the first of Ellul show that the volumes catalogued numbered 100,241. — The Jewish Chronicle. The Buried City of Abraham The monthly report of the Joint ex pedition of the British Museum and the U n i v e r s i t y of Pennsylvania Museum excavating at Ur of the Chal dees makes known the finding of another temple in the buried city of
New Junction' o f Palestine Railways Tel Aviv will become the junction of Palestine railways, according to arrangements made between the Pales tine railways and the municipality of Tel Aviv, it is stated in a cable dis patch to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. According to these arrange ments a new line will be built from Kalkilieh to Tel Aviv, eliminating the station of Ludd. The new line short ens the route between Jaffa and Haifa and Jaffa and Jerusalem and connects the Judean colonies with Tel Aviv. — The New Palestine. Results in Jewish Evangelization Rev. Thomas M. Chalmers quotes the Jewish Year Book as placing the Jew-' ish population of the world at 13,- 000,000. He then remarks: “ In the nineteenth century 72,000 Jews accept ed Protestant baptism, not to mention the 132,000 baptized into the Greek and Roman Catholic churches. This is one Protestant convert to every 156 of the Jewish population. The number of baptized converts among the heathen and Moslems in the. same period was 2,000,000 or one to every 525 of the heathen and Moslem population. Three times as many Jewish converts enter the Gospel ministry as of converts among the heathen. A careful com
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