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P acific C hristian
“GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
MONMOUTH, O.RÈGON ; FRIDAY, JULY 29, '1881,
VOL. XI.
with certainty from it; much less a- though it were a dual noun. 'And, made or restored by some well-known j ; member them now.
The copies he has subsequently thirdly, that in Gen. xxii, 14 we Jewish monarch. The title given, to
Ah, England is to an American the
C hristian M essenger , word.
made have been but slight improve­ ought to render “ of which it is said it in the inscription of “ the Pool ” i jewel of the world,—-loveliest in its
Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi­
to-day. In the Mount of the Lord simply implies that at the time it was green lulls and dells, its secluded
ments upon his first attempt.
anity, and the diffusion of general in­
A happy chance, however, brought Yerah.” Yerah, the original title of first constructed no similar artificial homesr^its exquisite “ haunts of an­
formation.
| me to Jerusalem last February, and the Mount of the Lord, being after­ reservoir existed in Jerusalem, the j cient peace,’’—most interesting in its
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▲11 business letters should be addressed j my first business there was to call on ward supposed to belong to the verb Virgin’s Fount, from which the Con-j j realization of historian's 'drama and
to T. ¡F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary j Mr. Schick, who kindly afforded mb rn'ak, ‘sto see,” when its true mean­ duit led, being a natural spring and poet’s supernatural vision ; but while
Btump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon.
all the information about the in­ ing had been forgotten. Up to the the present Pbol of the Virgin subse­ uflori the most unobservant and su­
Advertisers will find this one of the best
scription that he could give, I then last the Mount continued to be called quently built above it. Those who perficial glance these horrible con­
mediums on the Pacific Coast for making
paid three sticoessiyo visits to the Moriah, which probably was originally are acquainted with Jerusalem will trasts between erornious wealth ;ijid
their business known. •
tunnel, and eventually obtained, I pronounced Moreh and came from the-'remember that the Pool of the Virgin abject poverty are so pitilessly thrust,
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- ., lies on the_eastern slope of the.Kedron \ no one can wish to dwel[ there, or to
believe, as perfect a copy ôf the text same rodt as Yerah.
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If we may lay stress on these Valley, southeast of the Haram share i.ts- loveliness aqd its...wealth.
as can well ba made. I found, how­
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20 00 ever, that Mr. Schick had not exag- geographical ’ facts, the inscription while the Pool of Siloam Occupies the The unsolved problem of earing for
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lower part of the southeastern slope the poor nowhere seems s.» insoluble
65 00 1 ger'ated the difficulties' of making it, | would seem to be referable to the
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12 0O 20 OO 35 00 65 00 120 oo though I was not troubled by the ( period of the Jebusites, before David of the rncient Tyro, o- >n Valley. ’ The as in the land of Merry England.—
Notices hi local column« 10 cents per line for effluvia of which he complained^ nor had captured the stronghold of Zion discovery of so ancient an inscription LipjAncoffft Maga'sine.
each-insertion.
i by the mosquitoes, with which the and made Jerusalem the capital of his in ♦ place, well known and often
Yearly advertisements on lilieral terms.
Profoesional Cards (1 square) $12 per annum.
to hope •that
conduit swarmed ; but I had to sit in new empire. - This inference is borne visited encourages
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.How They Got a Minister.
Mr. I. G. Davldton I« our Advertising the water and mud for about four ! out in a curious way by the language J other inscriptions bTtheearly Jewish
Agent In Portland.
They came to a little villagh church
hours and a half (if the time occupied i of the inscription itself. Although in period may yet be found in “ under­
He preached a good
Entered >t the Poet Office e.t Monmouth an . by the three visits be added together), ‘/he main pure Hebrew, presenting us, ground Jerusalem,” when means and and heard him.
•eeutid elms matter.
and, as the tunnel is not more than j in fact, with the words and very, opportunity can be provided for ade­ sermon. He was reverent in manner;
T9
quately exploring it.—. Indjtpè-idle at.
his church services were all orderly;
The Ancient Hebrew Inscription two feet in breadth, "’ihe cramped i phrases of the Old Testament, it is
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yet
marjeed
by
the
dialectal
peculiari
­
position
in
which
1
was
obliged
to
sit
everything moved smoothly. v They
Recently Discovered at Jerusa­
At a Horse-Race.
ty
of
substituting
A'
’
’
for
final
full,
even
quietly inquired abput him of his own
was
decidedly
fatiguing.
The
place
lem.
—
1
in
cases
where
the
.original
tail
is
pre-
1
was,
of
course,
totally
dark
and
every
, _A party of Americans traveling ip people, and there was but one answer:
JTTior. ▲. B. «AtCF, A. M.
character had to be made out by the ■ served in Hebrew. The inscription England were invited to the Good wood | he was all that a good minister and
> further shows that the meaning of the | races, aril this is what they saw dur­ pastor should
Then they mailed
An important discovery lately dim light of a candle.
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him
a
tittle
note,
'ftigir'
vacant pul­
!
word
garstn,
in
1
Kings
vi.
7,
must
m.fde at Jerusalem is a new proof that
The following is my translation .of
ing an intermission :
\ be an instrument for cutting stone,
it is always the Unexpected which the inscription :
pit
had
been
placed
at
his
disposal
the
After the Great Good wood stakes
happens. As -soon as scholars had
not
wood.
•
,
•
.
.
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first
Sabbath
of
the.
following
month
;
theYe was an intermission Yor luncheon
" Behold the excavation ' Now
come to the conclusion that no in­ this is the further side (or history) of
their
people
-wanted
to
hear
him.
It is clear .that the tunnel in which j of three quartern of an hour, and many
scribed monuments of the regal period the tunnel. While, the excavators the inscription is'engraved must have I of the occupants of the gratld stand They would give, him §50 for preach­
were to be-found, in Palestine, an in­ >. were lifting up the pick, each tow^r^. been excavated like the Mont Cenis I catne back -to their coaches, where ing, and -pa^-all expenses. To their
scription of very early date turns up hTs neighbor, and while there were Tunnel, the workmen beginning' elaborate arrangements had been go- surprise, and with a long list of ap­
in Jerusalem itself, thoroughly visited yet three cubits to the mouth (of the i simultaneously at—the two ends and | ing on for an hour or more for the | plicants in their hands, from D. D.’s
and explored as the Holy City has tunnel), the excavators were hewing i meeting in the middle. This raises < meal. In the coach next to us the to S. D. T.’s- they got this reply:
been. In June, 1880, a native pupil away. Each came -to his neighbor tç I our opinion of the engineering «kill of liveried coachman and footmen had
“ No,, brethren, I cannot come and
of Mr. Schick, a German architect Motsah YeruZiddah in the rock on the period, though the existence of given up their places on the top- to preach to you. I am not a candidate
long settled in Jerusalem, was playing
high ; and they worked eagerly in more than one cad de eac in the con­ two or three waiters, who, under the for your pulpit. I would not leave
with some other lads in the artificial
Yerah at the excavation ; the excava­ duit shows that it was not so scienti­ supervision of a majestic butler, were 1 my church for another, unless Provi­
reservoir known as the Pool of Siloam, tors worked eagerly each to meet the fically exact as in our own days. The as busy as bees preparing goxgeowG dence pointed the way. - sjomeWw I—
•lipped and fell into the water. On
~ other, piek to piek. And the waters tunnel has been several times ex­ banquet, most tantalizing and inviting do not believe the way lies in the di-,
rising ft» Uie surface, Ire noticed what
flowed from their outlet to the Pool plored, Col. Warren more especially tons, who in ourinexperience, had neg­ region of appearing before a congre­
looked like letters cut on the surface
for a distance of 1000 cubits, from the giving a graphic account of his ad lected to bring any provender but our gation of strangers and preaching on
of one of tberock-wallsof the conduit.
trial. I did this once. After that I
lower part of the tunnel (which) they ventures in it. He found the length baskets of delicious fruit.
Mr. Schick., to whom he mentioned
of
the
passage
to
be
1,708
feet,
or
heard I was not quite tall enough; my
A
tabfe
was
laid
on
the,
top
of
the
i
excavated at the head of the excava­
the fact, soon visited the spot, and
5G9j
yards,
though
the
distance
in
a
coat
did not fit as it should ; my neck­
coach,
and
joints
and
pates,
salads
tion here.”
.
’
came to the conclusion that the lad
direct
line
from
the
Virgin
’
s
Pool
to
tie
was
awry, and I learned that this
and
tarts
were
laid
out
in
temptirig
As no individuals are named, the
was right The inscription war en­
the
Pool
of
Siloam
is
only
308
yards.
was
‘
not
accidental, for it was just so
profusion,
while
champagne
and
claret-
age of the inscription can be deter­
graved on a tablet formed by cutting
Ther
length
of
the
cubit
mentioned
in
in
the-
evening.
’ In the first, part of
cup
seemed
to
be
poured
out
in
inex-1
mined only by the paluographical and
the rock to the depth of about half an
the
inscription
would
be
20|
inches,
my
sermon
I
spoke
‘too loud,’ in the-
haustible quantities. After a while»
geographical evidence it affords. This
linch and then smoothing it, and it
if
we
may
press
the
found
number
of
the family part)* made its appearance latter part ‘too low.’ I gestured too
would make it at least as old as the
«occupied all the lower half of -the
time of Solomon. The words are a thousand given in the text. _ Along evidently erente «A* la ereme : the'mo- much-with my left arm; I was too
(tablet, the ujiper part of the latter
divided from one another by points, with another gentleman, Mr. J. Slater, ther very handsome and portly; the nervous’ in my manner. My sermon
being left plain. The inscription con­
as on the Moabite Stone, and the | I attempted to walk up the tunnel papa dignified and aristocratic; the in the morning ‘was rather too analyt­
tained six lines of writing, but was
forms of the letters are also identical from its southern or Siloam end ; but, daughters pretty and coquettish, each ical ; I did not pray for the success of
baiow the level of the water, which
with those of King Mesha’s Inscrip­ though its bight was at first 1G feet, conveyed by attentive cavaliers, who I evangelistic work in the evening, al-
had,filled the letters, along with every
tion, with the exception of three, it gradually diminished, until at last seemed delighted to partake of the I though I had in the morning, and
other flaw and erack in the stone,
which are more archaic. From this I it became necessary to crawl on all feast. And they all ate '
i there was inore of the same order.
with a deposit of lime. This deposit we might argue that the inscription is [ fours through a deep deposit of black
Then came to our notice the trail of ‘Brethren,’ I then said, ‘as for myself,
had become part of the surface of the
earlier than the ninth century B. C. mud, with which the floor was the serpent; then we saw the black no more candidacy.’ Now, if you
rock, eo that the only way in which
The same inference must be drawn i covered. This we declined to do, not cloud which overshadowed and dimn- want to hear me, I shall be happy to
the letters could be distinguished was
! from the geographical names men- being provided with bathing-dresses. ed the wifrole glory of the scene. As welcome you to my church; but I
by the contrast of the white limo with
1 tioned in the text, if only they could However, we made our way sufficient­ at these ' races more than anywhere have no idea you will come. My
which they were filled with the darker
be trusted ; but, unfortunately, they ly far to acquaint ourselves with the else—except, perhaps, in the very in­ necktie is still- awry at times, and
surface of the native rock. The in­
rest on the impossibility of translating mode in which the conduit had been terior of some of the palaces to which ‘ sometimes I omit to pray for evangel-
scription was about 19 feet from .the
in any other way, arid the r of Yeru- excavated. The roof is flat; but »he we had been admitted—-were we I istic work in the evening. But my
outlet of the tunnel or conduit into
Ziddah is only a conjecture of Dr. floor is grooved in the form of a gut­ struck by the luxury an«t grandeur I people put up with ajl these and other
the Pool of Siloam, on the right-hand
Neubauer’s. My copy gives a doubt­ I ter, through which the water flows and enjoyment of the rich and noble, serious deficiencies, and having learn­
side of the visitor who enters it from
so, more than anywhere else, wens we ed in whatever state I am therewith
ful letter here. On the other hand, with a somewhat rapid current.
the later place.
The hill through which the tunnel painfully wounded by the sight of the to be content, I ain satisfied to con­
Yerah.
which
is
also
a
suggestion
of
|
As soon as the English Palestine
! is driven in a serpentine direction is unutterable destitution and degrade- , tinue to preach for my pqpple. If you
^Exploration Fund heard of the dis­ Dr. Neubauer, seems to me quite cer- !..
tain,
and
very
interesting
conclusions
, the southern end of the temple-mount, tion to the poor. Now thit the feast­ want to hear me, come, and welcome
covery, money was sent to Dr. Chap­
may
be
drawn
from
it.
Firstly,
that
| sometimes identified with the biblical ing and revelry had begun,'out from to my church; the sexton will give
lin, order that the level of the water
the
temple
hill
was
still
known
by
,
Ophel. It seems natural to suppose the hedges and from under the car­ you a good seat.”
might be lowered. This was not fully
that the conduit was made in con­ riages crept a crowd of inexpressibly
The committee found that they
accomplished till last January, when the name of Yerah at the time the in­
junction
with
the
great
public
works
ragged
and
miserable
wretches,
beg
­
could
not move the mountain toward
only about four inches of water re­ scription was engraved, which appears
of
David
and
Solomon
in
this
very
ging
and
cringing
and
crouchiqg
to
I
Mohammed, so four Mohammeds kind­
mained flowing through 'the conduit, to injply that the temple was not yet
part of Jerusalem. It seems, how­ the servants for a crust of bread, or a ly went to the mountain. They heard
and the lowest line o/ the inscription built. Secondly, that Yeru, which is
ever, to have been repaired by Ahaz, fragment of meat; armed with hooked the minister. They gave him a call;
became exposed to view. Mr. Schick the same as Yerah in the compound
since it is difficult to explain Isaiah sticks, with which they pulled out he went to preach to them to see how
then attempted to copy the inscrip­ name Jerusalem, was in the pre-
viii. 6, otherwise than as referring to from under the wheels bare bones, he would like them, as the church and
tion; but, as he was unacquainted Davidic period the designation of
it
From Nehemiah ii. 14; iii. 15, it from which they sucked theffrarrow ; not he, was the candidate. He preach­
with the Phoenician alphabet, he was what was afterward the temple­
would
appear that the artificial reser­ or backs of crabs, from which they ed ; possibly his necktie was a little
unable to distinguish between letters mount, Salem, of which Melchizedek
v'd!»
which
it supplied was indiffer­ grained a f> w drops ot juice—angrily, awry ; possibly he omitted to pray
and mere accidental scratches in the was king, being the western |>ortion
ently
termed
“ the king’s pool ” and almost, fecuciously, resenting refusals for evangelistic work in the evening.
atone, all of which were equally filled of Jerusalem. When David included
“
the
pool
of
Siloah by the king's of ;ood, and making unws i.eai t ache, Be that as it may, he accepted the call
with lime. His copy, therefore, was both localities within the same wall,
garden,
”
the
first
designation pointing one's throat swell, one's eyes till, to was installed, and is now a successful
utterly unintelligible. Not even the the city thus created became known
to
the
fact
that
it had either been look at them then, as it does to re- minister.— Chi iftian at Wurk.
forms of the letters could be made out as Jerusalem, which is printed as
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