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In far-off Jerusalem, at this season of the year, divergent crecis gather to perform their various rites,-Jewish, Moslem, Catholic,

Greek Orthodox.

of

in this location.

S IN olden times, Passover Week | a similar group of

is st the outstanding season women

The alte of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Golgotha, of the year in the Holy City. It is one

carrying the Hill of the Skull, as seen from the walls of lighter Jerusalem, it was somewhere on the little knoll where marked for its sacred reminiscences make. Helena, in connection with the varied re mother

the the sheep are feeding that Jesus was put to death. ot ligious ceremonies of Jews, Oriental Em

ntal Emperor Constantine, claimed to Christians, Catholles, Protestants, and have found the original cross of

I was evidently in a garden, and all the details os- Moslems. The great Influx of Jews Christ during her visit to Jerusalem sociated with the story of the burial who have been coming during the in the early part of the fourth cen- and the events that transpired on last few years at the rate of 00,000 tury. The two crosses are then de- the resurrection morning seem to fit Bnnually from all corners of the posited at the Church of the Holy in naturally in this enviroment. globe, bringing with them the Sepulchre, since Costumes and habits of their en- believed to be the site of Golgotha.

very early times

THE HOLY LAND vironment in the Diaspora, add to

Doubtless it was never intended, as This Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the case of Moses, that the actual the kaleidoscople picture of these fes- tive days.. Motley crowds throng is most prominent of all, as it is here grave should be known with cer- the narrow streets of the city that the ceremonies centre. It has tulity, lest it be turned into a shrine of David on such occasions. Doubt a long and varied record. Built on of Idolatrous

worship, and less such was the ease at the time the Great, the first Roman emperor Christian faith which does not centre a magnificent scale by Constantine detract from the great fact of the of the antiypical Passover when Christ breathed His last on the cross

to embrace Christianity, under the aro

around B torab but around that of Calvary to redeem a world lost auspices of Macarius, Elshop of fundamental truth of a risen Saviour. in sin; as was foreshadowed during Jerusalem in the years 337-396, 11 Thus every inch may then be con that fateful night of the Exodus when was destroyed by are in 824, during sidered sanctified ground, where lic 10 minister in behalf of those the children of Israel were enjoined the ravages of the Persians; but trod

restored on much in need of physical and to slay the lumb and "take of the Was soon after

spiritual With the many vicissitudes

thus

blood, and strike it on the two side smaller proportions. In later years, hugh which the Holy City passed

the houses."

the church has suffered repeatedly

posts and on the upper doorpost of a similar fate, the most notable being since those glorious days, it is in- Easter time is at present the tourist the destruction by the intolerent spiring to contemplate the fact that season, when it may be said of the Caliph Hakim of Egypt in the year many of the outstanding features 1010, thus forming a principal cause prominent in the life story of Jesus Jews, as in ancient times, that they of the crusades to the Holy Land. It ns connected with Jerusalem are still are coming "out of every nation was rebuilt by the crusaders, and in

in evidence.

One of the most im- under heaven.' One important though suffering in the succeeding pressive experiences of the writer is element, however, has been missing centuries violent damage which was to sit upon the Mount of Olives- since the World War, some 20,000 always repaired, It has remained on which has not changed, except for Russian pilgrims who were con- the whole as then constructed. Its barrenness and look across the spicuous in the religious ceremonies During recent years there has been Cedron valley,

which Is also the for their childlike devotion. They considerable anxiety as to the state valley of Jehoshaphat, or of deciston, were also a considerable source of of this structure so that, following to the place where once stood that revenue to the clergy and their

eir very careful survey by different ex- magnificent temple, now occupied by retinue, who are now having a difficult time to gain their livelihood perts, elaborate repairs and re- the Mosque of Omar, while passing enforcements have Бесп effected, in review before the mind's eye the and to keep the deserted churches in rather unsightly to the eye, so as to triumphal march of Christ ns He repair in the hope of better days avoid any possible danger threatened rode up from Jericho umid the re- when present restrictions will be by its defective condition.

joleing of the people. removed in Russia. The banks of

the Jordan no longer resound with

the ecstatic joy of these devotees as

they

WHERE WAS THE TOMB7

The controversy regarding the

WALTER K. ISING.

used to wind up their pilgrim-authenticity of this site as marking WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR

with spectacular dip into its the real burial place of Christ has geny and sluggish floods to symbolize not abated. The main objection is the baptism administered by

John

that the building is located, it is

of

PANDAS

On the eve of Maundy Thursday, claimed, within the ancient city THIRD TRIP TO CHINA' groups of the different religious walls, while Calvary, the place of the bodies proceed to the Garden of crucifixion, and also the tomb Gethsemane, where services are held Joseph Arimathaca must obviously

New York. in the churches or in the open air have been that, according to the Chicago milionairess, who has al- situated without. There Mrs. William Harkness. the in memory of Christ's agony-ser-is

In modern times the opinion seems

to be growing, not with those, how

ready brought two live baby pandas from the bamboo jungles of the re- mote Szechwan

province од the Tibetan borders of China, is now planning a third expedition.

She

is undaunted by the dangers of tra-

velling in such war-torn territory.

vices which, in the bright moonlight Scriptures, Christ was to die outside of these nights are quite impressive. the city walls; and it is also certain Good Friday and the Sabbath follow that the Jews at the time of Jesus ing, religious processions werd their did not permit of any dead being way through the Via Dolorosa, the buried within the city walls. passion way trod by the Master, past Pilate's judgment hall, the house of Calophus, the high priest, toward Calvary, to the Church of the Holy ever, who share in the possession of this ancient sanctuary, that what is

Her two pandas, named Diana and Sepulchre. The seventh station

Tomb" known as the "Garden

Meimel, both females, which were this road marica the place where the more likely to be the genuine spot,

the first ever to be exported alive cross was lald on Simon, the Cyrentan, the father of Alexander was General Gordon, who fell in from their native bubitat, are now Zoo. The and Rufus. At some distance is the bottle in the Sudan in 1885, who dis- lodged in the Chicago house of Veronica, who, according to covered quite incidentally during his object of the new expedition, spon- visit to Jerusalem in 1883 that op-sored by the Zon, is to find a male a quite unreliable tradition, wiped posite the city wall, by a Moham with whom the two females can be the Saviour's face and, as a result, medan cemetery, there was a little mated, retained the sacred image in her hill having the shape of a skuil, show- Little Melmel arrived safely ut Chicago after a 16,000 mile journey ing, on the front side quite clearly the outlines of a face. Later, ex- in a cage. She was captured by cavations in the rear have led to the Chinese hunters in the Samulin unearthing of an unfinished tomb mountains us a tiny cub only a foot hewn in the rock. This is the only long, weighing Glb.

kerchief.

TWO CROSSES Among the procession we notice that moving scène of five select men bearing a heavy cross, while there is

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