» TRAGIC JERUSALEM Originally a city of Chaldean. Capital of Abraham. Captured by Egypt. 1400 B. C.—~Captured by Jobusites. 1058 B. C.—Capital of David 922-332 B. C.—Frequently warfare and rebuilt. 168 B. C.—Stormed by the killed 12,000 Jews. 54 B. C.—Looting of the Temple. A. D. 70—Destroyed by the Romans. A. D. 148—Razed again by the Romans. A. D, 325-—Restored to old dignity. A. D. 837 Captured and churches destroyed by Caliph Omar, a Saracen. 1089-—Captured by the Crusaders. 1187—Retaken by Saladin. 1229 Recaptured by Crusaders. 1244—Ruled by Egyptian Sultans, 1201 Christians expelled from all Holy Land. 1517Seized by the Turks 1917—Recaptured by British under Cen. Allenby. HE thoughts of the Christian world at the approach of Easter inevitably turn to the Holy City and the scenes of the the Savior. Jerusalem is built on a rocky rising 2,500 feet above the Med Romans, whe last hours of hill The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, nean. It Is fourteen miles distant from the Dead sea, the waters of which in clear weather are visible from it, with behind them the somber moun tains of Moab. Its name, observes a writer In the Montreal Herald, occurs first In history on one of the tablets found at Telel-Amarna, in Egypt, the date of which Is about 1400 B. C., con- taining a letter written by a prince ruling Jerusalem under Egyptian suzer- ainty. On the tablet the name is spelled Urusalem, which is believed to mean “city of security” or of “peace.” The Biblical history of the city 1s familiar to all. Melchizedek, who blessed Abraham, appears in Genesis a8 “King of Salem.” The second verse of the Seventy-second psalm identifies Salem and Jerusalem or Sion, but the story of Melchizedek is so obscure that no one can say when the Holy City had its beginning. Egrpt held it for a time, but about 1400 B. C., the Jebu- sites, a tribe of Canaan, captured and held it for many years, David captured it from the Jebusites about 1000 B, CQ and made it the eapital of his kingdom, and there Solomon built the temple where now stands the exquisite Mosque of the Rock. Since David's time the city has changed hands 24 times, being destroyed and rebullt again almost as often, But it seems Indestructible. Nebuchadnezzar may deport its peo. ple; Titus may plow its site and sow it with salt; Hadrian may efface its mame by planting on its foundations “The Lord Is Risen” By DIANA KEARNY POWELL in Washington Post HE Lord is risen! See the cave, The sepuichre St. Joseph gave The fast.sealed rock is rolled sway, Come see the place where Jesus lay, Satan is conquered, and the grave. Though faith is scorned by fool and knave, Though thieves may mock and rabbles rave, Still do we hear the angel say, “The Lord is risen™ You whe of sin have been the slave, Be free, for He who came to save Has conquered death this Easter day. Join with the angels as they pray, Sing with the birds, the wind, the wave, “The Lord is risen!™ the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina; but its memory Is restored, its ancient sanctuaries are adorned by ples and still It stands The ancient cit a square mile in dd by n low are much as have been dreds of years. All around it is great new city, modern and lively, ted here and there by the bi and charitable foundations bul ury before the war new area. It inside is surround wall, they the dot- it during the hailf-cent by the $ various Christian churches, vide some of the tures In the Iandscape, such as Russian cathe most conspicuous fea the ves and the barrs The great this holy season, | modern t, stril among all cities of lem 1s a holy city to three great fal Judaism, hristianity and hans danism. Monuments to the great begin nings of all three are there and now after many centuries of bitterness, all three may worship unhindered at its shrines, To Christians, the most poignant of the many tragedies of Jerusalem is the Crucifixion of Jesus, which many be- lieve took place nineteen hundred years ago. Reverent research has ascertained with fair certainty the scenes of the last fateful days In the wall of Jerusalem there Is still to be seen the famous Golden Gate, through which Jesus is said to have entered on Palm Sunday, when the peo. ple shouted “Hosanna |” and flung palms in his path. It is also thought to have been the Gate Beautiful, mentioned In The Acts. The masonry is Byzantine, but It is believed to hide older work. It is kept walled up, perhaps by rea- Aspe At the Cross son of a tradition that on a certain Friday a Christian conqueror would en- ter by It, ending Turkish rule forever, The first Church of the Holy Sepul- chre was built, after a careful search for the true site, by Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Chris- tian emperor, and dedicated in 336. It was later destroyed by fire, as were several successors, the present build. ing gating from 1510, The was completed In 1868 The present building and is constructed of a red stone, something posite the dome is not large and yellow Inside, of entrance, Is a door, through which one, by stoop may enter the Holy i feet by seve like mar. bie. smn 11 ing, Rep Is a small six seven and a half feet high. Hantly three burnin Armenian and wal room by forty the Ro lamps Greek, ig and cell ble to protect who might chip Th thao ae ¢ il fiffmane was a Mount the Brook Kedron, to } 18 and his disciples e Garden of Ge beautiful spot on the side of the of Olives. across which Jes: ly repaired frequent. refreshment. et larger, i" is dred and nl in it seven ent about circumference. If that hua the for rest no doubt, DOW a t trees, the larg feet In not the origi the Agony of Jesus in ~ they are certainly off-s} ity six are witnessed they trees aote of that » for a ry. To mass arden te knowledge » temple, ans can onl with special Sealed Golden Gate Where Christ En. tered Jerusalem, gion, and on certain days they are not permitted to enter it. Under the Mosque of the Rock, which stands in the Har- am enclosure, Is shown the sacred rock where Abraham is said to have made Isaac ready for sacrifice, and there, too, is the cavern in which David is said to have prayed. There is also a round hole in the rock which Is traditionally reported to have been made by Mohammed's head as he as- cended to heaven, The temple, which was begun by Herod the Great, father of the Herod who beheaded John the Baptist, was still in process of building during the life of Jesus, Its beauty and the splen. dor of history and religious idealism it symbolized and enshrined affected the heart of Jesus as it did every othe er Jew. No other city In the history of the world has gained the passionate uttered that most moving apostrophe, that are sent unto thee, how often | together, even ns a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Lonely John, dreaming on rocky, sea. swept Patmos, of a “new heaven and a new earth,” instinctively thought of “the holy e¢ity, new Jerusalem, come ing down from God out of heaven, . .. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into It" i THOSE OVER 65 Enormity of Task. On a subject which at the moment is engaging the attention of thinkers and economists everywhere, the fol. lowing analysis, from the New York “Realizing that no old-age pension can ignore the progress that sclence has made In prolonging human life, the administration re. junested the Committee on Econom- © Security to present figures to show must face If it is io support those who attain the age if sixty-five and who are unable to support themselves In gainful pations, “Since 1000 the number of the su- jperannuated (by which term those who are sixty-five ang over are meant) has been steadily increasing. Then it was 4,000,000, or a little more oCcCuU- pow It Is 7.500.000, by 1070 It will be per cent, or 5.4 per 15,000,000, cent ; or 10 “The obvious remedy is to save for the proverbial rainy day. But how? The committee makes the point that &¢ man of sixty-five may expect to live until he Is seventy-six or seven. ty-seven. He should have saved about $3,500 to enjoy an income £25 a m«nth for his declining years, But ten families, Uni Uves a total of wmrnings that £1,000 and £2,000 and best earners | their only $71 out of lle somewhere betw If £3.500 is of sixty If on £25 n the ted States, save In whole a year. the capital that a man needs to maintain hi month allowance revegal-—we A year his is only mise how » on that ies not {two dig to youth it follows tha end out of find permanent positions amin with inrge firms that have instituted pen- sion systems, It may be that this presentation of the case i8 too black, The evidence is strong that a population tends to pecome stationary, At some future date, which may be nly a half cen. tury hence, births and deaths will bal ance each other, If technological un employment Is but a passing phenom. enon, it follows that there will be more and more old workers and that the good jobs will not all be filled by youth.” BOTH HUMOR AND POETRY EVINCED IN PLACE NAMES The southern mountaineers whim and commemorating episode more or Broke -Jug ie of his songs place names jest, some grimly comical or tragle creek, Tear-Breeches ridge, Gal mountain, Seldom Seen holloy Rip-Bhin ridge How vividly that recalls certain scrambles th stony thickets—Burnt-Shirt Jerk 'Em Tight, Hanglr , Headforemost mountal some Jers { any ~-guch ! rougn moun tain, creek Avger ereck, lery Clazard ereck, the Devil's Courthouse, and so on, In Cumberland county, Tennesses, two beautiful brawling streams unite whose names are No Business ereek and How Come You creek. Une doubtedly, there is a story back of each name, jut the mountaineer is often poetic, too, and gracefully deserip- tive in his place names. The touch of melancholy in his nature is evi denced by the frequent recurrence of such names as Lonesome sand Troublesome, Desolation, Defeated, Poor Fork, Kix Falling Water and Lost creek are significant names Dome, Balsom Cone, Brothers, fone Pald Thu Little Snowbird, Grandfa Hawksbill ; Graybeard Bald are ly and de. gdom Come, of streams, Cragey Mack nderhead ther; and Wine iyrical the Spring all mount n in North in bold pro- name, and 1 have a of the slow lift of towered 1,000 soft drawl of fain ma rolina whether a certa mount montory had a pleasant his feet above us, and his mellow, low-pitched volce as he answered : hit's called the Winter Star."—Alvin F. 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