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.·iU WILMETTE LIFE Decea'n ber 30, 1927 Jaunt Along Coast of Palestine Is Refreshing REV. F. C. STIFLER T~LLS , I OF HOLY LAND OF TODAY American· University of Beirut, Fine Institution, Makes One Glad to Be an American A journey along the coast of Pal· estine is described by the Rev. Francis Carr StiOer, pastor of the Wilmette Baptist church, in the twelfth article of this interesting series. His recent tour of the Holy Land provided the material for these stories of the past and present of famed Biblical places, which are being entertainingly written. By Rev. Francis Carr StiOer I m i ~~ed iro m the da ,. I landed in .:\1 ·"\.andria ·" ·;t:-; lllu~ir. I ;un pa~~10natcly iund ui it J,nt ran r(mjure up no lon· j,1r the ( >rit·ntal ~ort. I actually had a pang ~>i homcsickne:..: :. : \\· h~·11 I heard a phonograph . ~m c t H'll i 11 .L!· a l a r e :-- u r t a 1n n g the ~t::t .,j ( :aliltT pbying. \\'ant t u I : t ' J I a p p y ... 0 ~ 1·: thin g ··r Y(IIJ JJ ra_ , . iJi r:tgint· thc.:n \rktt a treat it \\;1 :-- .a:- I :-.:tt tht· :-\\·dtt.:ring heat on a ~111Hb _, . :ttll'rn,,oJJ on the hotel n :randa. tn :-.lHl dt·nly la:ar a gn.·at Frt'tll·h ).! ilit:tr _ ,. Hand whose pn·s(·nn· T had 11·11 lltitt·l l. hl·~· i.n fl) pl<1y :-i lllllC oi the ia 111ilia r nld c bssir s. nllt a ha li 1·1 )_r k di . . tan! . .- \11 this happl·ned in Btmlt . . \ftt'r our dl'lightinl Baalhck Yi:-it \\t' had mot(·rt·d (1\·t·r tht· l.t·hanon irlntmta in s to the ~ l·:t - ru:t:-.t. Ht·irnt is tht· .L!Tt·at ~t:apc) rt oi Snia. It is dt cidcdly Fur, ·Jll'all in it=- .~ t· nn : tl appl'ar tl l<'t'. Thl' pt·npk art· tlltlre \\ ·e~tt· rn in lht:ir drc:-:-. ;llld Frt·nrh j,.., :--jlllkt·-n t'H'r\' wiJc:t:. lt is a t _ q lir :tl port. ()nl' se~·s on 1ts ~t rt'l't . . natit)n:tl:- ir,l!ll t'n·n· prinripa I C(lllll t r~- nf t hl· " ·or! d. · !n The pictures: Dog River, near Betrut, famed for warring in generations past (top)-Here is' Main street, Sidon, as it appears to camera's eye (middle)- View of cam· pus of American University nt Beirti t (bottom) .~.... .. ~.,;;r~;~ ; Directed by Wilmette Man , Tht· :\111niran ttni' t·r:--it ,. j.., J,)rated there. This is prohahh· thc: hl' . . t kn0\\'11 of the . ix g-r,:at in stitutions operating u.ndc.:r thr ::\car Ea :- 1 Colll'ge _ \s:-oria twn. Tncorporatl'd. wh(l:-it' ( ·l·ntral Di Yi :' ion IH'adquartvr:- arl' 1111dl'r thl' dirntion of 011e nf our \\ ' ilmette citizens. Dr. \\'illiar.n F. Eng]i . . !J. Jr . 0 11 our tour this :-umma. \\'t· ,·i:-it cd all of these ndlt·gt·s t'XCl'pt tilt· ullt' in Bulgar;a . .'\11(1. In· tilt wa,·. thr othtr lllOSt imprl' S~ in~ rulh-gl' of ·the group we sa \\' wa -; in Cnnstantinopk and its Presiden t i~ thr hrothn ni Henn· n. Gate. , our local T<:h:phnnt· managc·r. The American tmiH·rsit ,. of Beirut · is an in stitution that mak-es one gkt<l he is an American. Thert.· is no nrcd to (tiscard the name as ~omr of o11r institutions in the Old \Yorlcl and i;1 thr L1r Fa:-t arc flndin~ it \\'isc to dn. Bt·irut is proucl of the collegt· and well it may he for sine~ its fnuncling- in 1R66 it has dtvcloprcl departments in Arahic Litrratnrr. mathematics, 111 r d i ci -ne. cnmnH·rce .. Rihlical ArchaeologY, and Literature . Included in the student hod\" are Protestants. Orthodox Greek Catholi ·~. Latins. ~faronites and ArJlll'nian s a " 'n·ll as Jews and Moslrms. Tl1e Camp\ts and 1h<' Duildings were (Ill(' ( )f th(· bt·autiful ~it.dlts of our whole _io(trney. Dog River Reminder of Warring Past The American tmin;r:-it ,. drrw our dHitJJ.!'hb to\\'arcl the futurr while the littk trip \\'e to(1k that Suncla\' afternoon carried 11" hac!..: OYC'r a long extencl('cl 11a~t. \\Tr motored ten mil"~ n,0~th .along th(' ·coast to Dog Riwr. 1 hto; h a spot where there comes da~hing- through the · T.ehanon range ~ broad and turbulent mountain stream. For milleniums this riYer has afforded the pass through which the armies of Egypt have gone in their campaigns against the Kingdoms of the East, Assyria, Babylonia · and Persia and through which these Eastern Empires have hurled their hosts against F.gypt. From our earliest Sundav Sd10ol clays we have bc'cn told that- Palestine was a highway between the great warring nations of antiquity. There is no place like Dog Ri\'er to confirm t hi:; teaching for here on the sheer limestone cliffs aho\'e the roadwav the monarchs of all times have left the records of their conquests. There are the d'figies and the superscriptions of Ramcses II. of F.gypt, the Pharoah of the Oppression who reigned from 1300 next morning, suddenly George, our show~· r l~ath . Hatfa ts not a town of any antiquity to 1234 B. C. Most of the old monarchs guide, gave the order to stop and pointmentioned in the Bihle have their tab- ing to the rear he remarked, "There (Continued on page J2) tlH · lll·orkr11 (·; 1r.t\ .1 1: · i th· d," ' nt." ·\\ v l1·"kv·i :tJtd !11 j,, l.J ;!J,. h tr:.: (·,, : ll llll ·ll' tru( k I ilct\~ t \vr , ,., 1:. 1 :l 1i1 Jl.; ' it-, ll<n·d lllll: t k t\~· l1 t'< ll f, ;1 .! ,, t J., !l~ . at1d th · 1,.1d ,· 1\\·c, lt\ t·:, ,.. 1: IJ.t d . t d,111hl1· ~~·1 ,·,f r'v:tr . "-li,Tl' :tlld \\: t' pai1 1t ~·d ;t dull :.:Lt . ' . 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Suon \H' n ·arhvd '1\·rl' and -.a\\' till' T omh (,j ll iram. tht: k ing "i1(1 aided . SolonhHJ in the l~tti ldin .l!. oi tilt' Tl.'nlpk. I , A littk ,..,r.uth <ti Tyrt· \\t' \\t'llt throu!..!,h I ru:-tonh fr<llll ~nia and hark int0 . I' I ';d 1 .: o.; t i 11 t '. By lll i~ 1-a it n n, H111 '·'·e w ere at :\rre. iatll(ltt . nld rit\· on thl' north · I side oi the J, .. ,. (li l{;u.ia. Tht'fl' the r11arl ended a·nd nur day 's journc~r ·_ II 1 lets there, , Shalalllanczcr ·· . ··;:--:--tr · . - j clrht· d with a fi ittTll mih· ~pin at 30 haddon, 'l'iglath l'ilcscr, Scnnacncnh I milt--. an hour n n the h<:arh nf the sra at~~ others. . . . a' \\t' rouJJ<kd thl' ba,- t(l thl' citv of I here arc Roman mscnpt10n s tht'rt· 1hih · · and ont· of Selim the Ottoman Suit an , · · · who conquered Syria early in the ~-ix - 1 Haifa Has Big Future ~c.cnt.h ~entury. Napoleon III has his ! 1faiia hao.; l'akstint·\ h~·=-t 1;arhor. mscrJI),tton there .an~· last of all_ the I \Yhcn thl' l>ead ~l·a\ rlll'tniral pro~:ther elaborate t_ nlaad <tahl~ts t~l. -~ht: durts art· m 1 ~,- i 11 g· th.t: ~· prohahl _ ,. ':·ill . ench conquerors of 1918 ~llld ht. :-;tdl_ ! Lt lnaclt-d at thl' Hat! a durk .;. Hatfa tt the )m.o_r_e modestly hecomlllg on~·. nt 1 is alrt·;tdy a Jart:t.' rit~· oi 2S.OOO in the hrrttsh General ~lknhy: J hl· hahitanb . ~t.·:-.tling- nn tire side Clf hosts of ~he a_ges co'·.e r_m~. t_I~trt~·- <~tll' st.att·J_,. .\1 t.. Carmel ·it prl·st.·nts a prrtt_v hdundred hy~ars ~tt. th e lcas t h.t~ c llltlf:fch - ptct tlfl'. Ltkc all port t()\\'lls. \\'t' found e past t ts spot w 1 1ere t 1 ~~ nvcr o . cr:- it n·asonahl\' moclrrn. Our ho!el. ayass through the mount~tns. Ancte.nt though ratiJl·r ant -inft·stecl. g-aH us the history ll·t<l 1 . 1 f or <a\:-. 1 . . An 1 · 't t seems D very R' real tndeed to tnc ll"St "· foo<l \\.· 1.u VJSt or o og '1ver. ., 1 . 1 1 l· · 11 1 1 · f a · · · f I) . \\l 1cH t H'f( as we . t lt.' uxun· o I nvmg out o .1\ s we were < )ctrut · l 1 1 1 1