A TRIP TO PALESTINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 25 June 1913, Page 6

A TRIP TO PALESTINE.

LECTURE BY REV. PATTISON. There was a good attendance in the St. Andrews Hall last evening to hear the lecture on a "Trip from New York to Egypt and Palescine." Tho entertainment opened with' a violin solo, effectively rendered by Miss Rogers. The lecturer said that he would take his audience with him to strange lands and peoples. They would leave New York with its elevator railways, skyscrapers and hustle, and would embark on a steamer for Naples. They might get a little sisk on the voyage, for it was to be taken in winter, and the trip would prove stormy. Soon they would reach Gibralter, and once they had passed that memorable strait, they would be in perfectly calm water until they reached Naples. The harbor of Naples was v tho most beautiful of the kind he had ever seen. One could never forget tho cresconttehaped bay, the city circling the harbor, rising from the sea and stretch- | ing'away up the gently sloping hills, and Mt. Vesuvius smoking in the distance! The ruins of Pompeii were sadly impressive. One saw human bodies that had been buried under the awful avalanche. They were pet- I rified in the posture in which they had I died, their form expressing intense J agony. One might walk tiie streets, j view the houses of the people, their pagan temples, their forum, their hall of justice, their gladiatorial arena. But it was a silent city—a city of the dead. It had been buried under 20 feet of ashes and scoria, and its exact site was not known for centuries. From Naples we take a steamer—the "Italian Independent"—and sail for Egypt. We calf at Messena, the scene of the torrible earthquake of recent times, and pass safely through the strait of the father Scylla and Charybdis. After''a peek's voyage we will stop at Alexandria, whose forts were bombarded some years ago by English guns. We disembark and' visit the cr^, i!k delighted to find it to be a la'rge, populous and important place. The main streets and buildings of European, qupter of Alexandria wpufd tlo credit to any city in the world! The' speaker ; then. led, r hhv auditors by rail from Alexandria to Cairo, describing the land, its people and customs. The Nile, the Pyramids, the land of Josheu, the >,battle- , field of Tol-El-Itebir, and other places of interest were rapidly viewed. Finally there, seamed the trip from* Cairo to Port Said, and thence by Russian steamer to Joppa, the landing pht£e j: , for Jerusalem. We were now in the Holy tapd, the "land of the Book," the land spoken of in Bible story as the journey by rail up to Jerusalem from Joppa, where Jbnah embarkedron his perilous voyage.' He referred to the first impressions of the Holy City, and gave an interesting account of • Some of its many sacred places. The temple area, • the,Brook Redron, Calvary h and the Mount of QUves, were described. Miss Fieldes, Of Toko, sang two solos sweetly during the evening, Mrs McNeil and Miss Mackay rendered a very acceptible pianoforte duet. Mr P. Thompson proposed a hearty vote of J thanks to the speaker for his interest- j ing and instructive lecture. Thus j closed a very pleasant and profitable evening. j