THE HOLY LAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 15

THE HOLY LAND.

LECTURE BY BISHOP WESTWATSON. An interesting account of his visit to Palestine was given by Bishop WestWatson last night in the Art Gallery before a numerous and deeply interested audience. A number of lantern slides, some of them snapshots taken by Mrs West-Watson, illustrated the Bishop's remarks. The tour started from Port Said, where the party left the steamer and took the cnanee of getting berths in the following steamer a fortnight later. Thence to El Kantnra, the site of a big camp during the Great War, whence the Palestine railway starts. En route were seen some of Zionist settlements, which, with their buildings of Western European appearance, appeared strange and exotic. The barley harvest was in progress, but the speaker said that he could not

vouch for the absolute accuracy of the statement that the barley was intended for a European distillery. The major portion of the lectins® was devoted to Jerusalem, and its environs, and to descriptions of • the numerous Holy places in and Around the Holy City. His Lordship, lii« many others probably, was struck bj" the fact that at the entrance to th£ Church of the Holy Sepulchre there was a Moslem janitor—a fact that he described as pathetic, indicating as it did the rivalries and jealousies of the different Christian sects in Jerusalem. The sacred places were pictured, afl'J were described in considerable detail. The sneaker said that he had heart! it said that the Anglicans should endeavour to get a share in the Holy places, but he hoped and trusted tha< they would not—the. Sectarian rivalries and disputes were too dreadful. Compared with them, St. George's Cathedral, Outside the city's wall seemed a real place of rest. A vote of thanks was accord e! BishoD West-Watson bv acclamation it the conclusion of his remarks.