lower about 5000 feet elevation. The canals, length not given. One quar- The average depth of snow in the mountains is reported as eight feet. The Wasatch here rise to a great hight, and snow lies on the mountains all the year round. Twentyfive reservoir sites are reported in detail, aggregating 17 square miles, sufficient to irrigate 20,000 acres at least; about ten of these reservoirs are in the valleys and the remainder in the mountains. IRON COUNTY. This county lies south of Beaver on the rim of the Great Basin, running from the Wasatch to Nevada. Its area is 2,102,400 acres, and nearly half of it is arable land, some of it capable of artesian wells, but most of it destitute of water; 6,997 acres are reported under cultivation. The irrigating season is given as 142 to 269 days. The elevation of the valleys runs from 5400 to 6100 feet above the sea. The duty of water is given as one cubic foot to 65 acres in the more arid valleys and from 160 acres to more than double that in the moister valleys. The water supply comes from eight small streams, capacity 67.63 cubic feet per second. The land is irrigated from 15 to 42 hours per year. If the water could be saved, from 10,000 to 20,000 acres could be redeemed; 14 reservoir sites are reported in detail. Water storage is the only means of developing the agricultural of resources county. The soil is chiefly clay. this EMERY AND UINTAH COUNTIES. KANE COUNTY. This county is more rugged than Washington and more elevated except along the Colorado River. It The average depth of snow in lies east of Washington. The area the mountains is 4 feet. Twelve is 2,659,200 acres of which 1825 acres reservoir sites are definitely reported, are cultivated and 13,350 acres are and many others are mentioned. said to be arable. The irrigating There is enough storage to use dou-season is 182 days long, and the duty ble the total water supply. Proba- of water is from 37 to 75 acres to the bably 10,000 to 15,000 acres more cubic foot per second. The water could be irrigated by saving the supply exclusive of the limitless waste water. Great suffering often Colorado River, is thirty-one cubic results from scarcity of water in feet per second. There are nine this county. canals, length not given. All kinds of crops are raised in this county, even sugar cane, fruit, peanuts, etc. Figs could be raised in the hotter portions. HOT COUNTIES. These counties are far more arid naturally than the dry counties, WASHINGTON COUNTY. This county is situated in the southwestern corner of the Territory. The area is 1,649,920 acres, of which 8892 acres are cultivated. These are situated along the Virgen River or its tributaries chiefly. It is estimated that 18,900 acres could be redeemed by an increase of the water supply. The lower valleys are 2,700 and the upper 4.000 feet above the sea. In the lower valleys the irrigating seasou is 197 to 228 days long, in the upper 122 to 177 days. The water supply The crops are greatly damaged by lack of water. Sufficient reservoir sites are reported to irrigate all the arable land in the county. The average depth of snow in the mountains is four feet. the same as in the foregoing, though The crops in this county are much more small grain and hay are raised in proportion to the area cultivated. SAN JUAN COUNTY. This county lies in the southeastern corner of the Territory. Most of it is now proposed to be made an Indian reservation. Its area is 5,809,920 acres. There is a narrow strip of land along the Colorado and San Juan rivers that will produce the crops of Washington County, and has an unlimited water supply. Most of the cultivated area is 5000 feet above the sea, near the La Sal mountains There are 1025 acres cultivated. Dry farming is successful in some localities in the mounThere are good facilities for tains. storage of water. OTHER COUNTIES. Small parts of Garfield and Piute counties situated along the Colorado are capable of raising the same products as Washington County. UTAH TERRITORY. To this group belong parts of these two counties, which lie between the Green and Grand rivers. There are many thousands of acres comes from the Virgen River, To sum up we find there are of clayey soil that could be reclaimed four streams and many springs, about half a million acres of land by great canals running from these capacity 191.8 cubic feet per rivers, whose unlimited water second. In the lower valleys the supply, greater than all the rest of land is irrigated 84 to 90 hours per the Territory put together, will run year, and the duty of water is one to waste without assistance is given cubic foot per second to 20 acres. In in constructing such canals. There the upper valleys the land is irri is no part of the Territory that needs gated 26 hours per year, and the developing more than this. Very duty of water is one cubic foot per deep artesian wells might be suc- second to 60, 80 and 128 acres. cessful here. EMERY COUNTY. under cultivation at the present time. This area could be doubled from the present canals if there were more water, and by new canals, etc., the various countles estimate that about three and a half million acres could be redeemed. This is doubtless three and a half times too large. The average depth of snow in the mountains is four feet. The length of the irrigating season in the moist counties is 152 days; in the dry counties it is about the same in the cultivated area, in the hot counties it is about 200 days. The returns average unsatisfactory in this respect, and must be wholly revised. The duty of water is about There are 31 canals, length not given. One third of the But a small part of this county crops were lost this year by lack o belongs to the dry counties, still water. It is probable that watef nearly all of the cultivated area lies enough could be stored to redeem in that section of the extreme west- most of the arable land in this ern side of the county. This lies county. Vast quantities of water directly east of Sanpete and Sevier go to waste in the Virgen river in counties at the foot of the coal range. the winter and flood time in Spring. The rainfall does not exceed 10 The depth of the snow in the mount-80 acres to the cubic foot per second inches per annum. The water sup-ains is two to six feet. in the moist counties, in the dry ply comes from four creeks and one This county raised 30,000 lbs. of counties it is uncertain and in the river breaking through the precip cotton last year. The Sultana seed-lower hot counties it is about itous eastern face of the coal range less grape is grown here and pro- 20 acres. The water supply is about in narrow canyons. The flow of duces from 3000 to 5000 lbs. of 3000 cubic feet per second for the water is 171.15 cubic feet per second. the finest quality of raisins. Both moist counties, 250 for the dry counThe area of the county is 5,603,680 the hard and soft shell almonds are ties, and 250 for the hot counties, The cultivated land is 14,825 raised in quantities here, as well as totai 3,500 cubic feet per second. acres. The soil is a very refractory figs. It is believed that oranges can This is probably our minimum water clay. The duty of water is one be raised here. Olives are grown in supply throughout the driest years cubic foot to about 35 acres. Castle this county. Peaches and apricots in the counties reported. If we were Valley is 4,500 feet above the sea, to add the supply in the Green and and the irrigating season is 229 days Grand rivers this amount would be long. Little Grand Valley is 3,900 more than doubled. Almost all of feet above the sea, and its irrigating the present supply is appropriated season is 244 days long. There are 34 during the irrigating season and our acres. from this region are very fine. They Territory must remain at a standstill without water storage. There are 150 reservoir sites reported in detail, and nearly as many more mentioned. They vary in capacity from 130 square miles to one acre, and from 2 feet to 100 feet deep. About one-third of the crops were lost this year through lack of water. has way fall in the heart of our mountains, try, and possibly none more interbut it will not fall far short of 40 esting than the debate in the House inches nor more than 60 inches per of Commons concerning the Royal annum. It should be observed that Grants bill. It may safely be said though we have two inches more that during the present Queen's rainfall in Salt Lake than in Den- reign no measure has been more ver, yet but 46 per cent of it falls stoutly withstood than the request during the irrigating season, while of the present Parliament for pro73 per cent of Denver's rainfall vision for Her Majesty's grandUtah, Nevada and Arizona are comes when it is needed most. children. The government, reprethe most arid portions of the United The possibility of reclaim ng Utah, sented by the tory party, proposed States and therefore the preservation by artesian wells has been greatly to give the Prince of Wales £50,000, and economical use of all their overestimated. All the wells so far as an addition to his income, but water supply is an imperative neces- obtained have been found in some Mr. Gladstone opposed this and sity. To show how we differ from one of the basins of the ancient moved an amendment to the effect Colorado and the east, I have pre- lake, of which Great Salt Lake is that the Prince be allowed $36,000 pared a diagram of the average the saline remainder-the area of and provide for his own children. monthly rainfall of Salt LakeCity for that lake never exceeded 18,000 The government abandoned their thirty-three years, and of Denver, square miles. The clay sediment own proposition and supported that Col., and Des Moines, Iowa, since from that lake makes the impervious of the "grand old man." But Mr. the beginning of observations there. cap of those subterranean reservoirs, Labouchere introduced an During the irrigating season here, whose rims are but slightly elevated amendment to the bill, which pracDes Moines, a place where irrigation above the valleys, and the reservoirs tically denies any addition to the is not necessary, has a rainfall of are fed from the bases of the moun- already enormous yearly income of over two acre feet, and Denver tains, where the surface water runs the Prince. This was strongly supalmost one acre foot, while Salt over the gravel debris between the ported by the radicals. Mr. John Lake has less than two-thirds of an mountains and the clay rim. The Morley will not support Mr. Gladacre foot, which would make a dif- average depth of these artesian wells stone's compromise unless the ference of about 11,000 feet to the in Salt Lake Valley is about 100 grant is final. The wording of the is such that the acre, which must be made up by feet, in Utah Valley 200 and in bill that much more water from the Tooele about the same. In Millard is left open for further unlimited streams to irrigate our lands, as well County a few wells have been demands. He has the support of as that of Colorado, is irrigated. But driven with a depth of about 200 the bulk of the Liberals and part of during the same period the relative feet and a flow of to 10 gallons the Liberal-Unionists. Mr. Gladhumidity of Denver is three degrees per minute through 12-inch stone, in making the compromise higher and the temperature two de- pipe. Since no solid rock is struck from £50,000 to £36,000, understood grees lower, which would greatly in driving wells they are very liable that it would be final and voted for increase the amount of water re- to clog up in a few years. The flow it upon that understanding. Meanquired to irrigate an acre of land in in Salt Lake Valley will not average while feeling all through the country Utah in proportion to that of Colo- 25 gallons per minute, though some is running high over the bill. Large rado. Besides this, Denver is nearly wells far exceed that. A well flow-meetings addressed by prominent fifty miles from the crest of the ing five gallons per minute will irrimountains from which a part of its gate an acre of ground. moisture is derived, while Salt Lake City is but ten miles, and has a lake of 2000 square miles in area within seven miles on the other side. These things make Denver fairly repre- was the final witness. He illustrated sentative of northern Colorado in by a diagram which he had pre-a weakening of the hold which the general, while they show Salt Lake pared the oscillation in the surface City as the place with at least 50 of Salt Lake and the amount of rainper cent more rainfall than the rest fall in Utah, extending over a period of the Territory (save the moun- of many years. tains themselves) and with a At the conclusion of the testimony very abnormal humidity. There- the session closed, with the underfore what applies to Salt Lake standing that the party would rein the great amount of water re-sume their journey westward at quired per acre will apply with re- 7:30 next evening, no definite prodoubled force in the dry and hot counties. We have had evaporating pans located in various parts of the Territory for the last two months, and though these were of necessity placed out of the reach of the wind the evaporation averaged about.3 of an inch per day, often running up to .5 of an inch. Had they been placed where the wind could have reached them the evaporation would have equaled 15 inches per month. The enormous drain upon our water supply can therefore be well understood. This militates against shallow reservoirs in the valleys. If Utah Lake were raised three feet its water would all be evaporated during the irrigating season, if none flowed in or out. Enough to irrigate 83,000 acres would go up in the air. From records kept in the mountains the evaporation there during the same period was only .08 of an inch and never exceeded .17 per day. Therefore reservoirs in the mountains are at least four times as valu The map and charts accompanying this report will give all necessary details. PROF. MARCUS E. JONES. gramme being adopted for the in- a drive to any part it might be desirable for them to visit. Some of the members probably preferred to avail themselves of the only chance their visit to the Territory would afford for taking a run out to and a bath in the lake. The committee paid the witnesses brought before them here A COMPLIMENT by saying they were not only more politicans are being held, protesting against any further increase to the the already exorbitant_sums paid to the royal family. In 1873, the minority against royal grants was only thirteen, but in 1889 it was of the debate on the question will be ten times that number. The effect throne has upon the people. Liberal Clubs and Trades' Unions have also been passing resolutions against the proposed government grant. It is aid that the Queen has about she spends very little of her own £14,000,000 sterling in banks, and Parliament. The thing is almost money, every expense being met by certain if the present grant is allowed it will be hard to get the evolution of public feeling conanother out of Parliament, providing tinues, as it has done since 1873, from a state of sacred reverence for the crown to one of public demon stration. You will have heard by this time that "Jack the Ripper" has been prosecuting his operations again, this time upon a woman named Alice Mackenzie. The police were forewarned by a letter from "Jack" himself. Since the murder he has sent another letter, stating: "Shall do two more next time at Whitechapel." The most strenuous efforts of the police have failed to unearth this human butcher. Spiritualists have even failed to produce him. True, they have given descriptions of him, also of his residence; and LETTER FROM ENGLAND. many other particulars were elicited from communications with the spirThere are a great many things its of his victims, but without avail. able as those in the valleys. of political interest taking place Stuart Cumberland, the famous We do not yet know the rain- from day to day in this coun-thought-reader, has seen visions and THE DESERET WEEKLY. dreamt dreams of the Whitechapel struck at once, and their places colonies of evicted or expectant." murderer. He published a portrait were quickly filled. of "the gentleman" in the current meeting was called and the action of riences that can never be forgotten." number of the Mirror. Mr. Cum- the management condemned, the A general "These," adds the writer, "are expeberland thus describes the murder- men threatening to come out on fering and persecution keeps the er's face: "It was thinnish and strike if the notices are not removed people from lawless outbreaks and What is it that amid so much sufoval in shape. and prominent, showing plenty of treatment by the company of half- revenge on their enemies and opThe eyes were dark and their comrades reinstated. The restrains them from taking criminal white. The brow was and the chin somewhat pointed. hours a day," narrow, starved, underpaid men, working 16 pressors? The complexion was sallow-some-mented on. where between that of a Maltese tion was recognized, and 260 of "the victims retain their confidence was severely com- Not much. Is it the coercion act? The need for organiza- Whitefield points out, the fact that those present gave in their names in early deliverance and certain But it is, as Mr. as members of a combination to be restitution," from the effected succalled the "Amalgamated Associa- cess of Mr. Gladstone's policy. That tion of Car Drivers, Guards and policy has spoken hope to the coun'Busmen, "which was declared duly try and turned lawless into lawformed. deputation to wait on the directors, They also appointed a law abiding Ireland. with a view to the removal of the grievances. and a Parsee. The nose was somewhat Semitic in shape, and formed a prominent feature of the face. The formation of the mouth I could not see; it was shaded by a black moustache. Beyond the hair on the upper lip the face was bare. There was a wild intensity about the dark, full eyes that fascinated me as I gazed into them. eyes' of a mesmerist. Stuart' CumThey were the berland thinks the assassin wil commit another murder and then be caught. What a sigh of relief will go up when that is accomplished. In his last murder he was disturbed, and did not take any portion of the body with him, as in the case of the previous victims. There are many theories put forth as to who the fellow is. Some say he is a sailor, others a butcher, and the doctors name him a religious maniac, which is the most probable. There has occurred quite a crisis in the Durham coal trade. The men have been petitioning their employers for an increase of 20 per cent. It seems that the Durham miners' wages were much below the average of the country. The employers offered 5 per cent at once and an additional 5 per cent in three months, or submit to arbitration. the matter the matter in The union took hand a ballot of the whole country to asand had certain what were the feelings of the men,and the return shows 32 to 1 in favor of a strike as against the masters' offer of two 5 per cent advances or arbitration. There are large collieries where the ballot was practically unanimous in favor of no strike, but at the same time they passed resolutions urging the officials to press for and accept an immediate 10 per cent advance as a final settlement. A further vote will be taken before anything definite can be done. The Cleveland miners' officials have also been balloting on the question of whether the employers' offer of 5 per cent should be accepted or not. The result of the ballot is not made known yet, but a very strong feeling exists against accepting the terms offered. consider the prices now warrant The men them in demanding the full 10 per cent. has considerably changed and we Since I last wrote you the weather portant day, and is it not written: weather. It rained on that imhave had a return of St. Swithin's St. St. visited the north. There was very The Shah of Persia has at last little excitement over the event. There were the decorations, and the Swithen's Day, gif ye do rain, for forty only thing the Shah will think about Swithin's Day, an' ye be fair, for forty are the Mayor's lunch and Armdays it will remain; strong's works at Elswick. He is a rather ordinary-looking individual, As a result vegetation is looking days 'twill rain nae mair? his diamonds and jewelry possess-well, and the grain is in fine conNevertheless, it was much needed. ing greater attractions than his per-dition. Some of the showers being son. is very dark, and takes particular | deal of grain has been beaten down, His majesty wears spectacles, heavy and the wind strong, a good notice of English ladies. "A short time ago an East Lon-one and fruit is more plentiful this but the present outlook is a bright book with the strange title of "The don Wesleyan minister wrote a year than for many years past. Devil's Mission of Amusement." Another minister thereupon felt August 1st, 1889. moved to take up the cudgels on beSTOCKTON-ON-TEES, England, TRAMP. half of harmless fun, and published a book or pamphlet called Amusement Devilish?" logical professor at the Wesleyan conference called attention to some A theostatements made in the latter work which he thought unguarded. With started the public will probably not the curious triangular duel thus concern itself much; but it will await with interest the next volume from the pen of the very original author of "The Devil's Mission." The title, yet been selected, but the choice lies I believe, has not Sleep Satanic?" "The Sinfulness of between "Is Seven Hours' Country Walks, and "Lawn Tennis a Short Cut to Perdition." "Is been once more brought prominent- HASTE AND HEALTH. they learn how to live. There are Nowadays men begin to die before no more Methusalehs. The race is being railroaded along at steam think of health-are under too much speed. People are too hurried to pressure to pause for physiology. They bolt their meals, race for the cars, jump for the boat. thodical man does more work and Those who live fast do not live well. The steady, moderate, meday the work of a week. The racer better than one who tries to do in a gives out sooner than the plodding world that can make amends for which can be won by work in this draught horse. There is nothing shortened and enfeebled lives. by early dawn is a fool. The me- "Ireland seems to be steadily driftA little friction has been caused plorable decay, the evidences of overwork in the long run. ing into a condition of most debetween the Manchester tramway which are apparent wherever one farmer gets tired and gives out at Now, there is no gain in haste and men and their employers owing to goes, and are common to every class noon. notices having been placed in some of the community, save the salaried to sleep nights, and fails at 45. The The of the train cars asking the aid of and privileged. The scenes of de-student who sits up nights ere long The mechanic is soon unable the public in preventing fraud, and vastation to be witnessed, the har- becomes disqualified for study. He offering a reward of £10 for informa- rowing uncertainty of small popula- shakes and walks totteringly. His tion leading to the conviction of any tions, the exasperating espionage constitution becomes shattered, and of the conductors who break any of and oppression, the existence in he is obliged to take to his bed. Fret the company's bye-laws. The no- every direction of groups who have and worry, disease and death are tice intimates that fraud has been been in prison or who are doomed to unprofitable returns for an effort to practiced for some time the employes. Twenty of the men by the cheery greetings of little Journal of Health by go there, are but too plainly relieved force nature.-S. H. Preston in THE MORNING OF JOY. Do you long for the brightness You should keep the heart loving, By the dark night of weeping Keep your heart in its sunshine But the dark night of weeping You may take all the blessings But in love you must cherish If the dark nights of weeping It will come to your waiting- All the dark nights of weeping FROM THE ORIENT. VOL. XXXIX. Babylon once ruled the world with an iron grip. Their power and pride seemed likely to last as long as man should stand upon the earth. They were undisputed masters of the whole earth then known; they were the head of gold. Today where shall we look for a Babylonian? In the squalid Turkish village of Hillah, built opposite the obsolete ruins of Babylon? No; we have come, as it were, to the "miry clay" of that great vision of Daniel. thousand years ago Xenophon, with a formidable army of Greeksenough to crush any army then on earth-came out against them. They were called "Kyrduchi;" but they retained their liberty, and today inhabit from Constantinople to the walls of China, while Greece can barely boast of two millions of the most heterogenous people now on earth. Why should two empires fall and a Tartar tribe abide? and beautiful set of Church works. But I am digressing. On the third day's journey we came to a small though very beautiful Roman heathen temple. All inscriptions and pagan emblems, as the reader may understand, had been long since effaced or hewn to pieces by the iconoclastic Moslem conquerors. The building is now a mosque, or Mohammedan house of prayer. In the graveyard surrounding it are strewn a great quantity of pillars, columns, pilasters and chapiters, some of which yet surmount the graves of Mussulmen, over whom they were placed to serve as tombstones. It is now about three weeks since Elders Smart and Simmons reached Alexandretta, where the representatives of the Sublime Porte proceeded to give them that initiation into Oriental life which usually awaits the unsuspecting missionary who ventures ashore in Turkey. To this Brother Jos. Tanner, who forAmong this wreck of palatial merly presided here, can testify ruins appear a few Latin inscriptions from personal experience. The on Roman graves, each headed by a custom house officers took from With much self-complacency and dedication: "To the Gods of the them every book, pamphlet, tract satisfaction of mind can the pil- Manes" (departed souls). One of and paper they had, whether relig- grim Latter-day Saint look upon these slabs bore a particuious or secular; and in their fanat- these proofs of the decadence of larly plain inscription, though icism or desire to anticipate any-great man-made powers and con- the date from the foundathing which might tend to subvert quering nations. How the soul tion of Rome, which follows the present government or religion, grows weary in trying to grasp the the three initials A. V. C. (Ab Urbe they even took from the Elders immutable designs and the impar-Condita) was partly erased. It was their personal mementos, photo- tiality of the Great Maker, and His inscribed to one Martinus, most graphs of friends, etc. wisdom and foresight, which allows sweet son of" Brother Edgar Simmons deplores the proud and highminded to rise this turn of affairs, not only because aloft, be filled to overflowing, and to he has by far the heaviest loss, but fall down and vanish forever, while because by it he loses a complete the humble abide! Nineveh and etc., "died at the age of 26 etc.," ending with this wish: "May the earth (or soil) rest lightly upon thee." Half a day's journey either way mournful howl. etc. As a consequence, they never LETTER FROM MISSOURI. from this Temple we saw fragments ones pass into oxen, dogs, camels, I gave audience of two hours at of ruins and Roman pottery, vases, the Catholic Church. Father Ansbasins, decanters, small vats, urns, lem scolded his congregation nearly etc,. some enamelled in Græco-Roan hour for what he called the man and Pompeian style. Soon af"mortal sins" some of his flock ter this President Hintze took the committed two weeks previous, in steamer for the capital, and I progoing out doors during divine ceeded to Antioch. On my road to service. From his account, the act this town, which the Turks call was not a courteous one; but it often Antakeeah, I saw even more evioccurs that people are excusable for dences of the Greek and Roman withdrawing, even though it be in conquest and dominion. Although the time of service. It is something, I tramped eighteen miles without The good people of Mary ville however, that should always be discovering an inhabited village, I have politics, temperance, religion, avoided unless a condition unfound ruins and debris all around. in plentiful quantities. With their foreseen occurs to render a The Turkish government are build- eleven churches, and, of course, withdrawal imperative. Also ing a State road parallel or even eleven ministers, there are quite some had failed to attend the upon portions of the ancient Imper- enough societies and systems from ceremony of mass, for which neglect ial Roman road, which through neg- which to select a path to lead to the the speaker pronounced rather strong lect is unfit for travel, and-will the realms of peace hereafter. The denunciations. After which the reader believe it?-the modern thought strikes me that one church, priest subsided into a more benign Turk is actually macadamizing that of the right quality, would be bet- influence and began the ceremony road with the marble, mosaic work, ter than all of the eleven. The of mass, occupying about one more bricks and tiles of the Greek and Scriptures inform us that there is hour of precious time, as the benches Roman empire, which they extract one hope of our calling, one Lord, were growing hard on which we from tumuli or mounds of ruins. one faith and one baptism, and sat. But that was the ceremony I The workmen and road masters they warn us against the lo went thither to see, and I looked find this material easier to re-heres! and lo theres! that were to be and listened with deep tnterest. I duce into macadam than the flint multiplied among the children of beheld the form of the ceremony, rocks of the neighborhood. Where men. And here are perhaps eleven but failed to be instructed. There once stood marble halls, granite por- ministers to be paid each a salary of was erected, back of the speaker's ticos and regal villas the gazelle now $1000 per year. Rather expensive stand, a splendid altar. Six candles grazes on the fallen walls and the for a town of 4500 inhabitants, espe- standing upon it were lit by a little chameleon slowly changes color as cially as at least ten ont of the boy dressed suitably for that service. he creeps over the granite, marble, eleven denominations must be found The priest issued from an adjoinpottery, or withered branches, and in error, for the Savior plainly pro- ing room dressed in his priestly at sunset the jackal begins his claims against a plurality of gos-garments and was attended all pels. His gospel is to be preached through the ceremony by two little Antioch is in very much the same to all the world and its ambassadors boys, dressed in character, whose condition. There are ruins all over. are to go forth without purse or part of the ceremony consisted in scrip and not preach for hire or divine for money. He instructed his apostles to preach faith, repentance and baptism for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. So far as has come under my notice these churches, or their minIn front of the town flows a river isters, do not preach this kind of a whose waters are tepid from run- gospel in its entirety. I have atning through a shallow and slug- tended three meetings here and gish marsh, no longer drained as failed on each occasion to hear the anciently. A solitary bridge spans full Gospel of Christ taught. I heard this stream, and to make the city quite a number of wholesome views impregnable there stands a rickety advanced, and moral truths, clothed old Saracene cannon, on wooden in beautiful language and enunciblockwheels, in front of the bridge. ated according to unexceptional Near by sits a Turkish artillery man rules of rhetoric. Such I have often resting his chin on a carbine, and heard by able lecturers who made no smoking a cigarette. He is sup- profession of religion. Such are posed to be on duty! Turkey is so taught in the enlightenment of all over. The Turks will squat or civilization in all countries and are One object attracted my attention. dwell anywhere they can, never at- excellent so far as they go; but they It was the representation of the tempting any improvements. They fail to formulate the grand system of Virgin Mary which had its place cut down a forest; when it is gone the Gospel as taught anciently by toward the upper portion of the althey burn weeds as fuel; when these Christ and His Apostles. tar. It represented a female in full too are consumed they mix manure Rev. T. H. S. Kenney, the Bap-stature attractively clothed, with a and grass, and when no tist minister, is certainly a genial form perfect in symmetry and grace. more grass is found they move gentleman. He possesses versatile The linaments of the face were exoff. So well is this trait un- abilities. As a speaker he charms quisite and seemed to radiate the derstood by the Bedouins, their the attention of his audience. His charms of benevolence and charity. co-religionists, that these Arabs care- enunciation is clear and his rhetoric It was certainly a beautiful ornafully transmit to their descendants unexceptionable. But, like most ment, but, it seemed to me, it was the following: "Remember, sons of other ministers, he needs converting wonderfully out of place. the desert, to steer clear of the Os- to the order of the true Gospel, as Mary, as the mother of Christ, is manli; for where a Turk puts his he fails to preach it in its fullness. a personage of great distinction, and foot down, thenceforth the grass no If the people are satisfied, and, eternal will be the glory that awaits more grows." In Antioch (with upon the free exercise of their her. Unstinted will be the honors 6000 inhabitants) there are numer- agency, choose these shallow sys- which glorified beings will pay her ous Christian sects, Jews and Mo- tems to live and die by, it is their through the eternal ages. But it hammedans. Among the Moham- privilege; or at least they have it in seems to me the Catholic idea is to medans here are Pharisees and their power so to elect, and I would deify her beyond what is really Sadducees! The Pharisees strictly offer no hindrance to their wishes her true position. They seem hold the religion of Mohammed, but more than to offer them the plan of to interas the the Sadducees deny the resurrection, the Gospel as laid down in the cessor between them and the Heaand instead insist that after death Scriptures, should it be in my venly Father; making her the good men are born again and bad power. chosen advocate to represent their Behind the city is a mountain spur, crested with creuelated fortifications guarding the whole city on one side. Behind the embrasures are niches in which anciently stood archers, outposts of imperial legions. Now all this is in decay; only here and there a buttress stands intact. kneeling, shifting the Bible to the right and left of the priest to suit his convenience; in lifting the skirt of his robe, ringing of bells, and bring ing what I supposed was called "holy water" in glass vessels, etc.; all of which was done at the proper per time when the right one was given. At intervals beautiful singing came from the choir situated in a gallery at the back of the audience. During the ceremony the back of the priest was towards the audience. He assumed a variety of solemn and quite graceful postures, knelt and rose up frequently before the altar, often making the sign of the cross. All was done with solemnity; but there was in it nothing explanatory or edifying to a stranger. elect her |