TWIXT EAST AND WEST.

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 81

TWIXT EAST AND WEST.

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MidT?*y 'brtwwn— Jtfrioa T ~ and Exirope th# extensive v rodt-boii7id island of Cr«te rises sheer out of the blue waters of the Mediterranean. The approach -to Cvndia, one of the principal towns, is extremely beautiful. Skirting the iron-bound coast, dark, sullen gorges are aeen cleft far ' into the beetling cliffs and crags: here a bold promontory jut* out into the ocean ; or here is a wild! chaos of detached boulders and masses 04~ rock, over which th» foam-oreeted billows continually break; while in the background is * range of lofty cloud-capped mountains, Mount Ida towerbis above them all — not, however, the Mount Ida of mythology, which is by the Bosphoma — garbed summer and winter in perpetual snow. Upon landing it is soon apparent that although many of the buildings are of Moorish origin, yet that the Moslem has gradually been driven back by western civilisation.' Here «nd there a veiled woman oxj a tnrbaned Turk or Arab may be seen, but ; they are few and far between, although, I judging by the many thoueandsof Mohamme- ( dan graves in an extensive cemetery — the -tombstone of a male Moslem- & always surmounted by a sculptnred fez or turban, that of a woman by a cifaplet of roses or other ornament, — it must *t one time have been tbicklj populated . by the adherent* ;of that faith. ' ' A few miles ■from the tdwn the traveller finds himself in the realms of hoary .ntiquity. Knostos, the foundations of which, are now laid bare, the city of Minos — the great naval monarch and pioneer of European civilisation, who reigned more than, a thousand years before Alexander the Great was born, -and whose history was considered to be mere -legend until these great ruins | were discovered — is, with -the exception, c(9 course, of the magnificent relics of the eatpast so abundant in Egypt, perhapß the moat ancient city in the world. Ar-d although built so far back down the dim. vista. of the ages, yet some of the works of art found therein, especially a number of great am-phorse. or wine vases, perhaps sft or 6fft in heigh*, and ornamented in the ehastesfe designs, are equal in grace and elegance to any made in these dfcja of advanced" civilisation. And it is remarkable how the spade of th« archaeologist is confhmang ancient history. Even Agamenuroa himself wa* by some regarded aa more or leas a> mythical Being until hir> city and tomb weTe discovered and excavated. And now time after time- discoveries ontinue to be made, absolutely confirming Biblioal history, and hop«le«sly crushing the futile efforis o-f the so-eallecl "higher critics" to discredit Holy Scripture. But the Bible will remain until time is no more, a record of ft»- earliest history of th» world, and above all £b» Divine announcement to mankind that {fee Son of God cams, in humility to this earth in order to mak» an atonement for tnt-negreßSioH by Himself bearing the punishment do* for and att behalf of al' who will receive Him. aa tie* Mediator. Mrs It. Peters, Mitamar, Wellington, N.Z., s*jb: "I quo nm&Aj TCeotmnend Cheat* bcrlarn't Colic, Cholera, and XKarrhceaE Remedy to anyone suffering from pain« inJ the stomach. A few days ago my little boy, aged six yearn, was suffering- agony with tni« complaint. I only , save him. ti few dose* of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera* and DiarshflM. Remedy, and he was sooa well, and has not been troubled since. X think this remedy should be kept in every ham?.." For s»l« everywhere