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ARTICLE XXI.
TU RKKY [Continued
[61 Syria: The Lebanons and Baal
bek (Heliopolis).
Leaving the city of Bey rout we
take modern continental compart
ment cars to ascend, cross over,
and descend the Lebanon Moun
tains into the beautiful and extern
sive vale of Coele Syria between
the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon
ranges. As we star.d on the
heights of Bey rout and look north
ward up the coast, our eyes, if
they could follow the coast line,
would rest notably upon Tripoli,
with its 26,000 people, well built
and picturesque of position, where
a great trade in soap, and a fair
business in silk, fruit, and sponges,
All surgical and medical cases: are done, and on the whole the
taken, except contagious diseases j best starting-place whence to make
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A happy and prosperous new year to
you all
Mr. Frank Parrott made a business
trip to Newnan on Tuesday last.
Miss Kate Coggiu opened her school
at Rock Spring last Monday with very
good attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie McGee spent sev
eral days with relatives near Moreland
last week.
Misses Mattie ind Zeuobia Thurmond
visited the family of Mr. M. D. Thur
mond last week.
Messrs, M. W. Daniel and J. H. Hall
spent Wednesday Inst in Newnan.
Miss Lucy Thurmond is the guest of
relatives in Palmetto this week
Mrs. Tom Daniel and mother. Mrs.
Daniel, of Palmetto, were the guests
last Saturday of Mrs. M. W. Daniel of
this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Posey, ol More-
laud, visited their parents hero Xmas.
Rev. W. A. Davis failed to till bis ap
pointment at Rock Spring hist Saturday
and Sunday.
Miss Odessa Ellison, of Fayette ('n.,
was the guest of the Misses Smith last
Sunday.
Jim McDonold and Miss Ida Hell Hall,
both of this placo, were quietly married
last Sunday night at the home of Mr.
Jenkins, J. P.
.Miss Minnie Lee Thurmond returned
home lust Saturday, after ten days most
pleasantly spent with friends in Atlan
ta, and attended the Shropshire-Bentley
nuptials.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Thurmond visited
the family of M. W. Swanson, in Fay
ette county last, weed.
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the excursion to the far-famed
| “Cedars of L.ebancn," about 5,000
feet above the sea. The range of
Lebanon reaches its highest point
I in the snowy crest at the northern
i extremity of the basin of Syria
and behind which lie the cedars.
This grove, now scarcely a half
mile in circumference, has about
400 trees in the middle of a vast
recess in the central ridge of Leb
anon at the bead of the Wady
Kadisha; and not more than a
dozen of the most ancient cedars
remain, o^e or two of which are
upwards of 40 feet in girth; the
rest being not more than 5 feet in
diameter. From this, down to
tender nurslings, are trees of
every size, for the most part so
crowded together on the different
knolls as to have interfered with
one another's growth. “Still, no
one can enter the grove without
being aroused to feelings of the
highest admiration. Alone in their
glory, with scarcely a vestige of
other vegatation in sight, these
beautiful, grand, and noble trees
with their fan-like branches, in
terlacing boughs, gnarled and
knotted trunks, and sombre shade,
cannot fail to impress every eye
that beholds them. And when we
think of their antiquity, their anci
ent glorv, their world wide fame,
and the sacred uses to which the
‘Cedars of Lebanon’ wi-re placed,
we can comprehend the wonderful
magnetic attraction which has for
centuries drawn pilgrims to this
lonely (snowy) spot. Besides the
immortal honour which links them
to the erection of God’s great
Temple in Jerusalem(I Kgs. v, vi;
Ezra iii. 7) the-‘Cedars of Leban
on’ are constantly celebrated in
the sacred poem:', of Hebrew min
strels as symbolic of majesty, no
bility, power, and strength, and
even as emblematic of religious
worship (Psa. io4:i6;also 29:4,5;
92:<2;Isa. 2:12,13; 37:24; Ezck.
31:3-10; Amos. 2:9). Onethingis
certain, in ancient days the cedar-
groves of Lebanon must have been
of immeasurably vaster extent and
quantity than they are at the pres
ent day. Besides the cedars above
described, and those at the con
vent of Mar-Sarkis, there are
smaller and less notable groves to
he found on the higher slopes of
Lebanon.”
Beyond Tripoli, still on tin;
coast-line, we come to Ladikiyeh
Laodicea with population ol
about 6,000, the seaport ol a fertile
district, tobacco, silk, and sponge
being the principle articles of
trade. Yet further northward we
come to Antakiyeh (Antioch.
Syrian , on the left bank of the
Orontes, in easy communication
with the sea, in a situation worthy
of a royal city, and in a plain of
wondrous fertility, endowed with
every natmal requirement. The
modern town stands on the level
gtound at the N. W. angle of the
Ancient city. Little now remains
of the former glory of ‘‘the proud
capital of the Seleucidae, the third
city in the Roman empire, famous
for the splendour of its palaces,the
richness of its architecture, the
vastness of its wealth, and the
luxurious refinement of its people,
it is now nothing more than a
wretched little Arab town of less
than 6,000 inhabitants. It was
here that the disciples were first
called Christians [Acts 1 r.26j;
here Barnabas ministered to the
earliest converts |ibid. i9-24);here
Saul was introduced by him to the
Church [ibid. 25, 26]; here Aga-
bus prophesied a forthcoming
famine, in prospect of which the
Christian community contributed
for the relief of their brethren in
Judaea [ibid. 27-301; here Paul and
Barnabas received their great im
pression, which led them to enter
upon the first missionary tour
(ibid. 13:1-4); hither they returned
to report their progress to the
brethren [ibid. i4:26-28];and hence
they set out for Jerusalem, for the
first general council of the Church,
which was summoned on account
of disputes in Antioch [ibid. xv ).
The Church thus planted by the
apostles continued to flourish and
increase, until Antioch was at
pressed coal b'oeks to fire wiht,
having good relay stations. Some
of the finest engineering in the
world is on this line, strong and
artistic masonry work at sides and
over ravines to avoid damage from
rains and melting-snow streams
abound, the roadbed being so in
genuously arranged as to give the
train .1 opportunity for holding
its purchase on gained ground as
the Lebanon is ascended, The
highest station and nearly the
highest point on the line is Bai
dar, 487X feet, reached through a
bleak and barren region and tw.»
tunnels, the atmosphere getting
cooler and colder as wc enter the
snow line, now somewhat on the
melt, in April. At Reyak we
change cars to those going to
Homs by Baalbek, the other cars
proceeding on direct to Damascus.
The cogged-wheel engine is only
used on the Lebanon section.
Revak is 6 miles beyond Xahleh
Mu’allaka on the plain of the
Beka'a, one of the most beautiful
and fertile in the world, like fine-
prairie land. On the way we've
seen sheep and shepherd, goats
and herder, cultivated fields and
barren rocks, large herds of cattle*
grazing, towns here and there alb
along, with the names of the sta
tions in up-to-date English as well
as in Arabic. The Beka’s abounds
in plentiful springs, probable
“streams from Lebanon," the nar
row entrance to this great vale be
I ing at its northern extremity
length regarded as the capital of
Christendom. Amongst the long
roll of bishops and patriarchs of
Antioch, the most illustrious was
the sainted Ignatius, who was car
ried hence to Rome, under the
Emperor Trajan, and thrown to
the Hons in the Colosseum. Down
to the present day the patriarchate
of Antioch has been retained by
the Greek, Latin and Armenian
churches.” Through the hands, of
Persians, Byzantines, Greeks,
Saracens, Crusaders, Moslems,and
through the throes of earthquakes
where is the very considerable
town of Hamah, the ancient Ham
ath; and spoken of in Scripture as
“the entrance of Hamath,” th<r
northern limit of the Promised
Land which God gave to Israel
[Sg. of Sol. 4:15; Num. 34:8; Josh
•3:5; Jud. 3=3. I Kgs. *.-65; 2 Kgs
14:25; Ezck. 47:16.] The wernff
Beka'a means “cleft,” so-called be
cause it seems to have been liter
ally cleft between the mountains
by some terrible natural convulsion
in som .- remote age, the probable
result of a-‘fault’' as in the case of
loo, the city has passed, until to- j the Jordan and the Nile Valleys,
clay it presents the lesson, so often j Hence the name given by the
set forth in numerous illustrious Greek of "Eoele-Syria,” meaning
olden cities. “Hollow Syria,” or “the Basin of
“Self-abasement paved the way
For villain bonds and despot sway”
Syria.” And yet it is a tableland
rather, about 3,000 feet above sea
fertile and favored by nature and
lown of the 1 in days gone by, it suffers as does
many another part of this empire
To the northward and westward ! level, the watershed being near
from Antioch is the way to Tar-1 Baalbek, the streams to the south
sus, the birth-place of Saul who | contributing to the Leontes, | Nahr
became Paul the mighty apostle to Litany]; and those to the north to
die Gentiles, whose inspired rea- *-he Orontes (Nahr Asi). However
sonings in the Scriptures are pow
erful to the tearing
strongholds of Satan
Transferring our vision again to I ^ rom the curse of a corrupt goi
our starting-point, Beyrout, we' ernment an(1 careless peasantry;
make ready to take our train over though there are some exceptions
the Lebanon to Baalbek. And as ; hcr 9 anfl the re in the way of care
we face the Lebanon range with ! an ^ cultivation to profit,
the sunlight sparkling o’er the “As the train winds its way up
snowy coronet, we understand how mountains, the laughing waves
the church of former days as it. of tht -‘ Mediterranean are behind
looked up to the lofty brow of the us - antl scenes of diversified beauty
mountain, whose highest point,' are before us ’ ° n the one hand
Sannin, is .0,000 feet above thc I we behold pictures of majesty and
. * . . .! glory; on the other we arc charm
with ravishing glimpses of terraced
vineyards, whose vines twine
themselves gracefully around huge
stones; hovels with qtieerly con
structed roofs are nestling upon
the mountain-side; we are saluted
by Syrian peasants of rustic health
land quaint beauty; while to the
left are the snow-capped peaks of
; Lebanon, like royal thrones above
' our heads.” You may not know it,
but the word “Lebanon” signifies
“white”—from the higher peaks of
the mountain being white with
snow the greater part of the year,
just, as in other countries the
names of the highest mountains,,
such as the Sierra Nevada, the
Himalaya, and Mont Blanc, are-
gained from the fair mantles bor
rowed from the skies beyond.
“I very mile ol soil is new, and
every native face is strange, s«* we
1 < ’ouiimiei.l mi tit li l J njjt*-. 1
sea, could employ its calm and j on the other we are charmed
immovable majesty as an emblem
of the Great Redeemer of man- i
kind, saying “His countenance is
as Lebanon”! and the prophet’s I
question comes home with a new
reality, ‘Shall a man leave the
snow of Lebanon?" And after
one has got a glimpse of “the
Land of the Book” and “the Land
of Bondage,” sve have an explana
tion of Moses'ardent desire: “I
pray Thee, let me go over and see
the good land that is beyond Jor
dan, that goodly mountain, even
Lebanon!” | Sg. of Sol. 5:15; Jer.
18:14; Isa. 35:2; Deut. 3:25.]
We pass a beautiful driveway,
fine terraced lands, the mulberry,
the vine, the olive, in great culti
vation, over hard rock and marbly,
also a soft whitish-yellow lime
stone formation, on a cog-wheel
rail wn v, the on !r.c- , on win-. 0 um:
