PALESTINE AFTER THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 2 August 1915, Page 3

PALESTINE AFTER THE WAR.

In the Gartshore Hall, George St.. Edinburgh, a meeting was addressed by Ihe Lev. V, illiam Christie, of the Jewish Mission, Glasgow, his subject being “Palestine for the Jews—Now 1.115. The Rev. Mr. Christie, sneaking of the war and territorial changes it might involve in the Near East, said Egypt was now a British Protectorate, end there jvere rumours that Palestine was to become the same. Our occupation of Egypt had not been 'any more a military occupation than a Christian occupation. In the past we had no military occupation of Palestine, but wo had had no miltary occupation of Palestine, but we had had a missionary occupation. The Turkish wars of recent years had denuded Palestine of young Mosl'om life, leaving the young men of the Jews. The preportion of Jewish population was changing accordingly. Thirty-three Jewish colonies were scattered over the land. Abdul Hamid ’s acquisition of family and personal effects on large tracts of land in, the Jordan Valley had secured the title of these la ids to future occupation against, and cheeked, the raids of. the plundering nomads in Western Pa'.vstinc. There had been an unbroken faith in the heart of the Jewish people throughout the centuries that thewould be restored to their Own hind, and the calculation of one of the most distinguished Jewish commentators marked 1915 as the year of restoration. Not only was it an article of the Christian faith that there should be a restoration of the Jews, but it was an article of the Moslem faith as wel. The Germans had been uniting the mission stations in the East with railways. These railways had been built for military purposes, but they would do much to facilitate the work of Scottish missions when and if the Holy Land came under the protection of Britain.