BABYLON IS FALLEN TO THE BRITISH; TURKS FLEE OVER ABRAHAM'S ROUTE j Latest Developments on Mesopotamian Battle Front ij Recall History of Bible Characters (By the Religious Rambler) The dispatches failed to mention it. when reporting the capture of Bagdad, but not the least interesting item In At he recent remarkable news from Bible "lands is the fact that Babylon has fallen once more, and this time to the troops of Great Britain. Despite all the attention that is being given to Bagdad—and some of the recent ar ticles are amazingly inaccurate —that city of the caliphs does not have any thing like the hold upon public atten tion that old Babylon possesses. In history, prophecy, imagery, song and story Babylon occupies a unique po sition, and Its passing into the control of the British is noteworthy. Literally, the British have taken Babylon. There are really two Baby lons. One is the Babylon of to-day and the other is the Babylon of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. 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The town is small, with only a few hundred inhabitants, and its buildings are all of mud bricks, like the Babylon of old. Hard by arc the ruins of Nebuchad nezzar's palace, and the houses of the German archaeologists, who have been at work excavating the ruins for many years. .Before the war there were a dozen German scholars living regu larly at Babylon, together with the Arab workmen encamped outside the walls of their compound. The head of the community was the famous Dr. Kaldeway, whose hospitality has been extended to the few Americans who have penetrated into that remote cor ner of the world. Judging from the guest book which Dr. Kaldeway kept, I should say that there are probably not a score of persons in ail America who have pressed foot on the very bricks of the floor of Nebuchadnezzar's throne room, as the Germans have laid it bare. The Kaiser's Stake in Babylon Germany had more than a scholarly interest in Babylon. The expenses of the work, amounting. Dr. Kaldeway told me, to $20,000 a year, were met by the German government. The kaiser's personal interest in the Baby lon project is famous. Not only was it a research work that appealed to the imagination, but it was also a "stake" in this wonderful region to which the imperial German ambitions were di rected. The members of Dr. Kalde way's staff were all German officers, and that their activities were not ex clusively archaeological has been dem onstrated by the early success of the Turco-Teutonic expedition. They ac complished what the British, long dominant in this region, had believed impossible. Now Babylon is practically a suburb of Bagdad. It automatically follows the fortunes of that metropolis of Mesopotamia. When the city of the caliphs fell to General Maude's forces, and the Turks were chased from all the outlying positions, Babylon was one of the first points to be cleared. Your unsentimental British officer was not unmindful of the romance of cap turing the city which had fallen to Cyrus the Great and to Alexander the Great, and which has had a peculiar position in all the histories of an tiquity. As a German center it was important that it should not be left in the enemy's hands. In the Footsteps of Abraham Bible students best understand the dispatches from Mesopotamia, for ! other persons, for the most part, have only the haziest notions as to the lo cation of Mesopotamia itself, not to speak of its detailed points. Interest in the present retreat of the Turkish- German forces is enhanced by the fact that they are operating within strictly S Bible lands, and their course is almost Identical with that followed by Abra ham, when he followed the voice that called him out of Ur of the Chaldees. ' Kut-el-Amara is on the edge of ancient I Ur. The Chaldeans are still living I there. Among the Christian leaders i hung by the Turks when they took Bagdad were eminent men of the Chal dean Christian Church, one of the his toric eastern churches which has borne witness to its faith, despite all persecutions, in this famous region. When Abraham went to Haran, he followed the Tigris river, just as the Turks are doing. They have the ad vantage of a hundred miles of the Bagdad railway, which has been built northward from the city, the name of which it bears, to old Samarra, the place famous religiously as the tomb of the tenth Imam, the mahdi whose return is expected by Moslems. It was because of the pilgrimages that this section of the railroad was com pleted without waiting for the rest. The mosque which covers the tomb of the tenth Imam is one of the most beautiful in the world, externally. No Christian has ever been permitted to enter its sacred precincts, and few westerners have ever seen its walls. The route of Abraham, and of the fleeing army, passes old Ninevah, across the river from which is the city of Mosul, where the army is likely to make a stand. This is a walled city, the capital of a vilayet. A battle be neath the ruined walls of Ninevah would be in consonance with the char acter of this war. which has so won derfully linked the old and the new, the past and the present, the East and the West. All that is alive in Ninevah to-day is a little village over the re puted tomb of Jonah, and still bear ing that prophet s name. Fighting by Rebecca's Well If defeated at Mosul, the Turks and Germans will make their next stand at another point of scriptural interest, Ras el Ain, which is the old Haran, where Abraham dwelt before going to Canaan; and where he sent his stew ard to get a wife for Isaac. Here Rebecca's well may still be seen. Docs it not seem like a journey into the realms of the remote lands of mystery to contemplate a battle of modern troops where Rebecca watered the sheep? Here at Ras el Ain great stores of military supplies are accumulated, since Ras el Ain is the terminus of the construction of the Bagdad rail way. Preparations have long been made for a defense here, should it be come necessary. This is the point where the Russian army will strike. If it gets down from Bitlis, through Diarbekir. Jerusalem and Armageddon Of even greater interest, from the religious standpoint, than the military operations in the regions of Abra ham's early home, and of the exile and captivity of tho children of Israel, is the progress of the British expe dition up from Suez and the Sinai peninsula. Very little about this has got into print. A recent dispatch re ported tho troops as being at Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac and Jacob are buried, in the cave of Macphelah. This spot is a sacred Moslem shrine. Evidently the British have not only driven the Turks from the entire Sinai peninsula, but they have also cap tured the base at Beerslieba, which was the railhead of the new line built down throueh tho Holy I-and by the Germans, after the war began. El Arish. the border town betwen Egypt and Syria, fell to the British some time ago. Now, if they are at Hebron, it will be but a matter of days until Jerusalem falls into their hands —in- deed, the capture of the city of David may have been reported before this article can be printed. Tho old Jeb usite fortress, which has stood so many and so romantic sieges, is scarcely in position to hold out against a modern attack; although it is doubt ful if the British would attack it with artillery, because of the holy places. Should the British Suez army push northward, to effect a Junction with the forces from Bagdad, nothing would be likelier than a landing of re-enforcements at Haifa, and a bat tle with the Turks on Israel's historic battleground, the Plain of Esdraelon, perhaps In the neighborhood of the town of Megiddo—the real battle of Armageddon! THE REIJGIOUS RAMBLER. EUROPEAN WAR FORETOLD IX RIRLE So Says ClorKymau Who Predicts That Christ';; Kingdom Is Near To-day is the eve of the second coming of Christ, declared Rev. Dr. B. O. Wilkinson, a Seventh-Day Ad ventist clergyman, llis subject was "The Coming of the Universal King dom." .Neither the United States nor Ger many will become universal empires. Dr. Wilkinson said. The Bible pre dicts. ho said, that Christ himself will set up the next universal kingdom on earth. Dr. Wilkinson spoke at length on the modern nations, especially the United States and Germany. 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Such a beautiful future as this evidently does not sound like universal dominion being given to Germany or the the United States, it was not such a kingdom as theirs that could survive the great Armageddon, and overthrow what the twentieth chapter of Revelation de scribes as the kingdom of evil. There Is too much evil In both of them. '"We talk a great deal of the heath en In the Orient and Africa, but we wouldn't need a lighted candle to find plenty of heathen both In Philadel phia and Berlin. No nation which runs partly after God's order and partly after tjie devil's order is stronK enough now to be either universal or eternal. Moreover, the great stone which in Daniel 2 struck the metallic image on the feet was 'cut out with out hands.' We know very well that human hands were employed In the beginning of both Germany and the United States. "Friends, have you got your eyes fixed on either of these two coun tries? Let me tell you that you are taking passage on a sinking ship. While England is giving nearly s6,'- 000,000 to aid the war sufferers in Belgium, and France over $1,000,000 a month, during the whole length of the war, the United States hasn't given over $30,000,000. That Is not as much as England gave us when we suffered in the Civil War. Yet I heard a prominent director In only one great American corporation sa\* that in 1915 they had a net profit of $30,000,000. Does such selfishness sound like God's kingdom set up without hands?'" 7
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