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DS 149 .J36 1914 
 Jannaway, Frank G. 
 Palestine and the powers 
 

 
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE says 
 
 “Mr. Frank Jannaway’s name is 
 familiar in Jewish circles ; he knows the 
 Holy Land from within. His knowledge is 
 as extensive as it is thorough ; and his 
 views are always sympathetic to us. He 
 sees Palestine as the land of the future, and 
 every new development is to him the fulfil¬ 
 ment of a prophecy. . . . It is not often 
 
 that a Christian visitor sees so deeply beneath 
 the surface as Mr. Jannaway does. It is this 
 fact that makes his book so valuable. He 
 can see the beats of the human heart beneath 
 the ragged garment, and the flash of ideas 
 amid the squalor of poverty. I do not know 
 of one book on Palestine, except Mr. 
 Jannaway’s, that does not make some 
 reference to the dirt of the Jewish quarter.” 
 
I 
 
 PALESTINE 
 
 AND 
 
 THE POWERS; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE INTENTIONS AND AIMS OF 
 RUSSIA, GERMANY, BRITAIN, AND TURKEY, 
 
 REGARDING 
 
 THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, 
 
 IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY. 
 
 Illustrated with Original Pictures 
 and Maps. 
 
 FRANK G. JANNAWAY 
 
 ( Author of “ Palestine and the Jews," “ Salvation Army and the Bible, 
 “ A Godless Socialism," “ Satan’s Biography," 
 and other works). 
 
 BIRMINGHAM : 
 
 C. G. WALKER, 21, Hendon Road, Sparkhill. 
 London : 99, Stockwell Park Road, S.W. 
 
Contents 
 
 • • • 
 
 . 111. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 List of Illustrations - vii. 
 
 Preface to Present Edition - - ix. 
 
 Preface to Previous Edition - - xi. 
 
 A Remarkable Jew - - - i 
 
 A Remarkable Prophecy 5 
 
 Fifty Curses 6 
 
 Hadrian’s Edict ----- 9 
 
 The Dying Turk ----- ii 
 
 Turkey Opens the Door - - - 13 
 
 Unwalled Villages - - - - - 16 
 
 A Grand Outlook ----- 19 
 
 Dry Bones ------ 20 
 
 Sure Word of Prophecy - - - 23 
 
 Theodore Herzl - - - - 26 
 
 Israel Zangwill - - - - 27 
 
 The Basle Programme - - - 30 
 
 Ten Years Later - - - - 31 
 
 Jewish Colonies at Jerusalem - - 33 
 
 1911 and Since - - - - - 48 
 
 Good and Bad Colonies - - - -50 
 
 A Jerusalem Prison ----- 51 
 
IV. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The London “ Standard ” Fables - - 55 
 
 Typical Water Supply - - - 58 
 
 "We have seen with our Eyes”- - - 61 
 
 Jerusalem a City of Jews - - 64 
 
 A Touch of Human Nature - - 66 
 
 The Jew at the Top - - - - 68 
 
 The Jew at a Premium - - - 69 
 
 The Coming Jew - - - - - 71 
 
 The Wonderful Jew - - - - 73 
 
 The Incomparable Race - - - - 75 
 
 The Jew Financially - - - - 77 
 
 Jaffa - - - - - 79 
 
 Tel Abib ------ 80 
 
 Petach Tikvah ----- 83 
 
 Rischon-le-Zion - - - - 84 
 
 A Lovely Garden City - - - 86 
 
 Educational Establishments - - - 88 
 
 The Ratisbonne Institute - - - 90 
 
 The Lamel Settlement - - - - 94 
 
 Other Jewish Institutions - - 95 
 
 Abraham’s Vineyard - - - - 96 
 
 “ Neither Bars nor Gates ” - - 98 
 
 Blood Ritual ------ i 0 o 
 
 Just a Foretaste - 101 
 
 Jew versus Gentile ----- 104 
 
 The “ Jewish Colonial Trust " - 105 
 
Contents. 
 
 Jewish Colonies in Galilee 
 
 
 
 
 V. 
 
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 106 
 
 The Technicum 
 
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 108 
 
 Jewish Colonies in Samaria 
 
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 Other Jewish Colonies 
 
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 Agricultural Establishments 
 
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 The Meaning of Zionism - 
 
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 Russia's Greed 
 
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 Russia's Preparations 
 
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 The Russian Tower 
 
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 Russia the Colossus 
 
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 Germany's Finger in the Pie 
 
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 Germany's Preparations 
 
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 Germany’s Intentions 
 
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 Russia's other Allies 
 
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 Britain’s Intervention 
 
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 Merchants of Tarshish 
 
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 The Young Lions 
 
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 Britain an Outsider 
 
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 Cyprus and its Secret 
 
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 144 
 
 Beaconsfield or Gladstone 
 
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 Mr. Asquith - 
 
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 Beaconsfield a Tool of Providence 
 
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 152 
 
 Russia and Germany 
 
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 The Suez Canal 
 
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 156 
 
 Britain's Unpreparedness—God's Opportunity 
 
 157 
 
 Why Britain will Fail 
 
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 158 
 
VI. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Palestine Protectorate - - - - 160 
 
 God Glorified—Not Man - x 63 
 
 Jerusalem Delivered - - - - 164 
 
 Jacob's Trouble - 
 
 Britain's Navy Doomed - - - - 167 
 
 Britain's Merchant Service - 
 
 Armageddon. X y 2 
 
 Armageddon not in Europe - - - 174 
 
 A Convulsion of Nature - - - - 176 
 
 Godless Socialists - Z yy 
 
 Angels x yg 
 
 The Great Day of Judgment - xSo 
 
 Joy for the Jews - x8 2 
 
 A Strategic Retreat - - _ - 184 
 
 Off Jaffa ------ 186 
 
 Lord Kitchener - z gy 
 
 Colonel Conder - jg^ 
 
 A Punitive Expedition - - . >191 
 
 God's Ways - ^ 
 
 An Ideal King - ^ 
 
 A Good Time Coming - Z gy 
 
 Isaiah's Glowing Pictures - - - - 198 
 
 Dr. John Thomas and Egypt - 208 
 
 Press and other Notices - 213 
 
 Comprehensive Index - oth 
 
Illustrations. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Map of Palestine, showing Jewish 
 Colonies - 
 
 Sir Moses Montefiore’s Almshouses 
 Map of Turkey—' Then and Now ” 
 Tel Abib : Young Zionists Drilling 
 Petach Tikvah : A Wedding Group 
 Rischon-le-Zion : Main Street 
 The Lamel Settlement : Avenue, with 
 Mr. David Yellin 
 
 Evelina de Rothschild School for 
 Girls, Jerusalem 
 
 Bezalel Institute for Arts and Crafts 
 Abraham’s Vineyard and the Bochara 
 Colony, Jerusalem 
 Meah Shaarim Gates - 
 Rosh Pina Agricultural Colony 
 Zichron Jacob Colony (Zammarine) - 
 Russian Tower on Mount of Olives - 
 
 Jerusalem as seen from the Russian 
 Tower - 
 
 German Settlement as seen from the 
 Russian Tower - 
 
 Holy Land, with the Island of Cyprus 
 
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Preface. 
 
 XX; 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 * Don't do it. Books on Palestine are 
 a glut on the market. They are not wanted. 
 The Gentile doesn't want them and the Jew 
 won't have them. You'll have to get rid of 
 them as remainders." 
 
 Such was the advice and warning of a 
 city publisher to whom we submitted copy 
 of our recent publication of “ Palestine and 
 the Jews." We ran counter to his well- 
 meant advice and are not sorry. The Gentile 
 did want it, and the Jew would have it. So 
 much so and so quickly that the whole 
 edition went in a few months. 
 
 At the end of the book, pages 213 to 215, 
 we furnish the evidence for our making the 
 above statements, and in so doing will assure 
 the reader that the whole of the information 
 which called forth such flattering letters and 
 
X. 
 
 Preface. 
 
 press notices is incorporated in this book. 
 Nothing has been omitted. 
 
 Here we take the opportunity of thank¬ 
 fully expressing our indebtedness to Mr. T. 
 Hirsch, Manager of the Jewish Colonial Trust, 
 London ; Mr. D. Levontin, Manager of the 
 Anglo-Palestine Co., Jaffa ; Dr. E. W. G. Mas- 
 terman, of the Palestine Exploration Fund; 
 Mr. Israel Cohen, of Berlin, Editor of Zionist 
 Work in Palestine ; the Society Co-operative 
 Vigneronne, Rischon-le-Zion ; Mr. E. Hatch- 
 well, Petach Tikvah ; Dr. A. Ruppin, Tel- 
 Abib; Mr. Herbert Loewe, M.A., late of 
 Cambridge, now of Oxford ; Mr. Ginsberg, 
 of the Palestine Trading Co. ; Mr. F. Renwick, 
 Palestine Manager to Messrs. Cook and Sons; 
 and all those other good friends whose names 
 will be found in the following pages. 
 
 Frank G. Jannaway. 
 
 99, Stockwell Park Road, 
 
 London, S.W. 
 
Preface. 
 
 xi > 
 
 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 
 
 The Good Old Book, so regarded by 
 Jew and Christian, says, " He that answereth 
 a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and 
 shame unto him 11 ; therefore, as this little 
 work claims to be of the most momentous 
 importance to all lovers of Zion—Jew and 
 Gentile—we plead for a full and fair hearing 
 before judgment is passed. 
 
 Some of the facts, which here appear 
 in book form for the first time, we have 
 already embodied in articles to the Press, 
 and they have been appreciatively received 
 in the Jewish world. One literary friend 
 of repute, Mr. Leon Simon, referring to the 
 tabulated list of Colonies or Ghettoes found 
 on pages 33 to 48, wrote : “ I consider it a 
 most valuable piece of work/' and per¬ 
 mission was asked to reproduce such list 
 
XII. 
 
 Preface. 
 
 in the pages of our ever-welcome monthly 
 visitor. The Zionist. During our recent 
 visit to the Holy Land, we found that in 
 Jerusalem, as well as at Jaffa, Haifa, Zichron 
 Jacob, and other Jewish centres, the said 
 lists had been carefully preserved for 
 reference. Many well-known lovers of Zion 
 have personally expressed their appreciation 
 of such an exhaustive chronological list. 
 
 We do not claim to have cited all the 
 available evidence, being anxious only to 
 give such as we had personally examined 
 during our repeated visits to the Land, and 
 which, we venture to assert, clearly demon¬ 
 strates that we are living on the eve of 
 " Zion's Glad Morning," so long predicted 
 by Israel's inspired prophets. 
 
 We hope our Jewish friends will not be 
 prejudiced because we quote Jesus, and refer 
 to him as Lord. 
 
 F. G. J. 
 
 London, 1914. 
 
St Georges Bay. 
 
 BEYROUT^y * VaQu. 
 
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 Yaforeh ^ 
 
 DOM 
 
 Map of Palestine, Shewing Jewish Colonies. 
 
 0 City, or Town, with large Jewish population. 
 
 A Jewish Colony ; or, Centre of Several Colonies. 
 
 P.S. It must be understood the details are only approximate. 
 
 Palestine and the Powers, by F. G. J ANN A WAY. 
 
 To face page 1. 
 
PALESTINE 
 
 AND 
 
 THE POWERS. 
 
 A Remarkable Jew. 
 
 Nineteen hundred years ago the Roman 
 Emperor Tiberius received a letter from 
 one of his officials which ran thus :— 
 
 " There has appeared a man here, 
 in Palestine, who is still living, whose 
 power is extraordinary. He has the 
 title given him of the Great Prophet; 
 his disciples call him the Son of God. 
 He raises the dead, and heals all 
 sorts of diseases. He is a tall, well- 
 proportioned man; there is an air 
 of serenity in his countenance, which 
 at once attracts the love and rever- 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 ence of those who see him. His 
 hair is of the colour of new wine: 
 from the roots to his ears, and from 
 thence to the shoulders, it is curled, 
 and falls down to the lowest part 
 of them. Upon the forehead it parts 
 in two, after the manner of the 
 Nazarenes. His forehead is flat and 
 fair, his face without any defect, and 
 adorned with a graceful vermilion; 
 his air is majestic and agreeable. His 
 nose and his mouth are very well 
 proportioned, and his beard is thick 
 and forked, of the colour of his hair ; 
 his eyes are grey and extremely lively ; 
 in his reproofs he is terrible, but in his 
 exhortations and instructions amiable 
 and courteous; there is something 
 wonderfully charming in his face with 
 a mixture of gravity. He is never 
 seen to laugh, but he has been observed 
 to weep. He is very straight in 
 stature: his hands are large and 
 spreading, and his arms very beautiful. 
 
A Remarkable Jew. 
 
 3 
 
 He talks little, but with great gravity, 
 and is the handsomest man in the 
 world/' 
 
 This interesting Jew, it seems, could always 
 get a crowd to listen to him ; and, whatever 
 they might have thought of his theology, 
 they had to admit his daily walk was beyond 
 reproach. 
 
 “ Never man spake as this man/' 
 
 “ He went about everywhere 
 doing good," 
 
 was the unanimous verdict of all who came 
 within the sound of his voice, and the reach 
 of his hand. 
 
 Well might Max Nordau, one of the greatest 
 Jews of our times, say as he did say, although 
 he disclaimed his Messianic claims :— 
 
 ” This man is ours. He honours 
 <our race." 
 
 Well, this Jew had been pursuing his usual 
 good work of relieving the afflicted to such 
 
4 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 an extent as to arouse the curiosity even of 
 a tax gatherer, and make him climb up 
 a sycamore tree in order to have a better 
 view of so remarkable a philanthropist. The 
 incident culminated in the two becoming 
 host and guest to each other. Thereafter, 
 followed by an admiring throng, the Hebrew 
 benefactor set out on the long and interesting- 
 journey from Jericho, away and up to Jeru¬ 
 salem—away nearly twenty miles, and up 
 over four thousand feet. By-and-bye they 
 reached Bethany, after leaving which, there 
 
 on the slopes of Olivet, Jerusalem came into 
 view, as it still comes into view, for the 
 topography has not changed. The scene, 
 with its associations, was too much for this 
 sympathetic and patriotic Jew. Tears came 
 into his eyes as he affectionately beheld the 
 Holy City, and he then gave utterance to 
 
Jerusalem’s Fate Foretold. 5 
 
 A Remarkable Prophecy. 
 
 Looking intently upon the city, he 
 exclaimed :— 
 
 “ If thou hadst known, even thou, 
 at least in this thy day, the things 
 which belong unto thy peace ! but 
 now they are hid from thine eyes. For 
 the days shall come upon thee, that 
 thine enemies shall cast a trench about 
 thee, and compass thee round, and keep 
 thee in on every side, and shall lay thee 
 even with the ground, and thy children 
 within thee ; and they shall not leave 
 in thee one stone upon another; 
 because thou knewest not the time of 
 thy visitation ” (Luke xix. 41-46). 
 
 All the world knows how that prophecy 
 was fulfilled to the very letter, under Titus 
 and Vespasian, by the Romans, when over 
 a million Jews were slain, and hundreds 
 of thousands taken captive. We know, too, 
 how that terrible work was repeated 65 years 
 
6 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 later, when the Jews, having recovered 
 themselves, waged rebellion in their endeavour 
 to remove the Roman yoke. It was in the 
 reign of Hadrian, when they were led by 
 one Bar-cochba, or “ Son of the Star,” 
 as he was called; one of the many false 
 Christs. Historians place the awful sequel 
 as second only to the horrible work under 
 the Titus invasion. The desolation of the 
 Holy Land generally, and Jerusalem in par¬ 
 ticular, was then complete, and the prophecies 
 uttered by Moses, 1,600 years previously, 
 were fulfilled absolutely. 
 
 Fifty Curses. 
 
 The curses God had threatened against 
 Israel in the event of disobedience all came 
 to pass. They are to be found in the Book 
 of Deuteronomy, chapter xxviii. There, in 
 verse 15, God said :— 
 
Fifty Curses. 
 
 7 
 
 “ It shall come to pass, if thou 
 wilt not hearken unto the voice of the 
 Lord thy God, to observe to do all his 
 commandments and his statutes which 
 I command thee this day ; that all 
 these curses shall come upon thee 
 and overtake thee/' 
 
 Among those curses we note, in verse 25 '— 
 
 " The Lord shall cause thee to be 
 smitten before thine enemies; thou 
 shalt go out one way against them, and 
 flee seven ways before them ; and shalt 
 be removed into all the kingdoms of 
 the earth.” 
 
 In verse 37, too :— 
 
 “ Thou shalt become an astonish¬ 
 ment, a proverb, and a byword, among 
 all nations whither the Lord shall 
 lead thee/' 
 
 Jesus Christ gives us what might be called 
 
 microscopic, albeit comprehensive, digest 
 
8 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 of that chapter of Deuteronomy, in Luke 
 xxi. 24 :— 
 
 “ They shall fall by the edge of 
 the sword, and shall be led away captive 
 into all nations ; and Jerusalem shall 
 be trodden down of the Gentiles, until 
 the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled/' 
 
 That twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy 
 contains fifty distinct curses, not one of 
 which remains unfulfilled. The Romans did 
 the main portion of the work under Titus, 
 Vespasian, and Hadrian; and the cost of 
 quelling the Bar-cochba rebellion by the 
 last-named Emperor, both in life and money, 
 was so enormous that he vowed the Jewish 
 people should never again be allowed to 
 assert themselves in Palestine. He sought 
 to carry out his determination by expelling 
 all the Jews from the Land. He razed their 
 venerated city to the ground, and built there¬ 
 upon the new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, 
 
Under Gentile Sway. 9 
 
 Hadrian's Edict. 
 
 He issued an Edict about the year 135 a.d., 
 forbidding any Jew to settle in the Land. 
 And that Edict held good for over 1,700 years. 
 
 The reality of the Hadrian Edict will be 
 better realised when we note that even so 
 recently as 1827, when Sir Moses Montefiore 
 visited the Land he could not find more 
 than 500 Jews there. And they were the 
 scum of the race, the poorest of the poor; 
 mere nomads, pilgrims—and even they were 
 only there on sufferance. It cut Sir Moses 
 Montefiore to the quick to behold so lament¬ 
 able a condition of affairs in the Land of 
 Promise. The diary which he compiled of 
 his visit to Palestine, written for private 
 circulation, is now before us, and is painful 
 reading. He sought the permission of the 
 Porte at Constantinople to erect almshouses 
 where the poor old Jews might, at any rate, 
 
io Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 end their days in peace ; for, of course, in 
 those days especially, the permission of the 
 Turkish authorities was absolutely necessary 
 before any building could be erected for 
 Jewish purposes. The Edict of Hadrian 
 had never been repealed, though it was, in 
 some respects, obsolete. He did ultimately 
 obtain a firman from the Porte, as a result 
 of which he had built outside the south-west 
 walls of the city twenty-seven two-roomed 
 cottages, and a windmill for corn-grinding 
 purposes. The firman had been obtained 
 in 1838, and Sir Moses Montefiore was granted 
 an audience with the Sultan in 1854, but 
 owing to obstacles existing at the time the 
 consent was obtained, the buildings were 
 not erected till 1856. 
 
 But this condition of things was not always 
 to obtain. Christ said, as recorded in the 
 text last quoted, it was only to be 
 
Fate of the Turk. 
 
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 “ Until the times of the Gentiles 
 be fulfilled.” 
 
 The Dying Turk. 
 
 Not the least among the Gentiles to tread 
 down Jerusalem and all she represents has 
 been the Turk. For many a long century 
 he has parted God’s Land among his Pashas 
 for gain. In the Book of Revelation the Otto¬ 
 man Power is referred to as the Great River 
 Euphrates.” That book contains a divine 
 programme in symbol. The last symbolic 
 event prior to “ the kingdoms of this world ” 
 becoming " the kingdoms of our Lord, and 
 of his Christ ” is thus given :— 
 
 “ And the sixth angel poured out 
 his vial (of the wrath of God) upon 
 the great river Euphrates ; and the 
 water thereof was dried up, that the 
 way of the Kings of the East might 
 be prepared ” (Rev. xvi. 12). 
 
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 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 All the previous items of this symbolic 
 programme have been fulfilled, as history has 
 shown, and all in keeping, too, with inter¬ 
 pretations arrived at long before they were 
 fulfilled. And in keeping with such inter¬ 
 pretations Turkey began in 1820 to dry-up 
 rapidly. Appearances did not favour such 
 an interpretation, as an extract from the 
 Annual Register (London), 1820, shows. 
 The extract reads :— 
 
 “ The Ottoman Empire, by a long 
 and unwonted good fortune, found 
 itself, at the commencement of the era 
 (1820), freed at once from foreign war 
 and domestic rebellion.” 
 
 And yet, from that year onwards, to our 
 own times the symbolic Euphrates has been 
 slowly but surely evaporating. Now, as 
 we have seen, and do see, all the long-closed 
 gates of the Holy Land have been opened to 
 
Turkey and the Jews. 13 
 
 the rightful owners; and where there were 
 but five Jews previously we now find a hundred 
 —instead of 500 we find one hundred 
 thousand ! The Turk could only keep the 
 Jew outside until the Times of the Gentiles 
 were fulfilled. 
 
 Turkey Opens the Door. 
 
 In keeping with divine prophecy, the Sultan 
 of Turkey, in the exercise of his sovereign 
 rights, issued a decree proclaiming that the 
 " Land of Promise ” was closed no longer 
 to the descendants of Abraham, but that 
 it was open for them to return and settle 
 there as farmers and husbandmen. That 
 was in 1856. The change was so unexpected 
 that one newspaper writer, who knew some¬ 
 thing of prophecy, asked :— 
 
 “ Can this be the first decided 
 movement towards the accomplishment 
 
14 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 of prophecy relative to the history of 
 this wondrous people ? ” 
 
 Some years prior to that a student of 
 prophecy—Dr. John Thomas—wrote and 
 printed the following conviction :— 
 
 " I believe there will be a pre- 
 adventual limited colonisation of the 
 
 country by Jews.And that 
 
 the prosperity of this colony .... 
 will be the cause of the country's 
 invasion by the Russian ‘ clay,' styled 
 ‘ Gog ’ by Ezekiel. It will be the sign 
 of ‘ The Time of the End/ indicative 
 of the speedy return of Christ." 
 
 Now, why did Dr. John Thomas have that 
 conviction ? Solely because of what he had 
 read in the prophetic Scriptures, which he 
 accepted without any reservation as the 
 inspired and infallible word of God. He 
 implicitly believed Christ would fulfil his 
 promise :— 
 
Gentile Rule to End. 15 
 
 “ If I go away, I will come again ” 
 (John xiv. 3). 
 
 He also believed that as Jerusalem was, 
 according to Christ, “ the city of the great 
 king,” it would only be under the heel of 
 the Gentiles 
 
 “ Until the times of the Gentiles 
 be fulfilled.” 
 
 He likewise believed the apostle Peter 
 when he told the Jews, as recorded in Acts 
 iii. 20, that Christ would only remain away 
 
 “ Until the times of restitution 
 of all things, which God hath spoken 
 by the mouth of all His holy prophets 
 since the world began.” 
 
 Having those convictions, he searched 
 further the Scriptures, with the result that 
 he discovered it was distinctly revealed as 
 a “ Sign of the Times,” indicative of " The 
 
16 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Time of the End,” and the “ Second Appear¬ 
 ing of the Lord Jesus Christ,” that there 
 would be, just prior to his Second Coming, 
 a partial, though very pronounced and 
 unmistakable, return of the Jews to Palestine* 
 
 Unwalled Villages. 
 
 He cited in particular certain verses from 
 the thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel's prophe¬ 
 cies, and in particular verses n and 12, 
 which read thus :— 
 
 “ And thou shalt say, I will go 
 up to the land of unwalled villages ; 
 I will go to them that are at rest, 
 that dwell safely, all of them dwelling 
 without walls, and having neither bars 
 nor gates, to take a spoil, and to 
 take a prey ; to turn thine hand upon 
 the desolate places that are now 
 inhabited, and upon the people that 
 are gathered out of the nations, which 
 
Turkey. 
 
 (" The people who at this present time are accounted the 
 greatest are the Turks.”— Tillinghast, 1640.) 
 
 In addition to her loss of Hungary in the 18th 
 century, she has during the past century lost all 
 the territory printed black in the above map, including 
 
 Greece 
 Bosnia 
 Servia 
 Bulgaria 
 Roumania 
 Roumelia 
 Tunis 
 
 Herzegovina 
 Montenegro 
 Albania 
 Moldavia 
 Wallachia 
 Algiers 
 Ardaban, etc. 
 
 Her only possessions now are those shown by the 
 diagonal lines, and those are now threatened by her 
 enemies. 
 
 Tripoli 
 
 Cyprus 
 
 Thessaly 
 
 Crete 
 
 Kars 
 
 Batoum 
 
 To face page 17. 
 
 See page 12. 
 
Unwalled Villages. 
 
 17 
 
 have gotten cattle and goods, that 
 dwell in the midst of the land.” 
 
 The context of that remarkable prediction 
 leaves us without any necessity of guessing 
 when it will be, or where it will be, for such 
 context informs us it will be in “ the latter 
 years,” and that it will be upon “ the moun¬ 
 tains of Israel.” That is what we read in 
 verse 8 :— 
 
 " After many days thou shalt be 
 visited ; in the latter years thou shalt 
 come into the Land that is brought 
 back from the sword, and is gathered 
 out of many people, against the moun¬ 
 tains of Israel, which have been always 
 waste; but it is brought forth out 
 of the nations, and they shall dwell 
 safely all of them.” 
 
 For the moment, leaving the question 
 as to what, or who, the invading power 
 thus addressed as “ thou ” is, let us note that 
 
18 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 for twenty-five long centuries it has been on 
 record that at some future time, termed 
 “ the latter years/' the Land of the Jew, 
 which has been uninhabited and desolate, 
 would be re-inhabited and blooming ; that 
 Jewish colonies would be established “ on 
 the mountains of Israel "—“ unwalled 
 villages," " dwelling safely all of them." 
 
 But, be it noted, that for seventeen hun¬ 
 dred long dreary years—1,700 years !—there 
 was not the slightest sign of any such move¬ 
 ment. From the time of the Hadrian Edict, 
 135 a.d., till, as we have said, the Sultan of 
 Turkey opened the Land in 1856, there 
 was no apparent reason for thinking the 
 Jew would ever be free to return to “ the 
 land of his fathers" (humanly speaking ; 
 for, of course, it was emphatically a matter 
 of divine prophecy). Even in 1856 there was 
 by no means any rapid return. At first it 
 
Ezekiel’s Glowing Message. 19 
 
 was very slow business—a matter of “ here 
 a little, there a little ” ; and that is just 
 what God inspired His prophet, Ezekiel, to 
 say it would be. That prophet being himself 
 one of the captives in a foreign land, would 
 be able to appreciate the glorious messages 
 he had to convey to his fellow captives. 
 
 A Grand Outlook. 
 
 Look at chapter xxxvi. In verse 1 we have 
 this soul-inspiring command :— 
 
 " Thou son of man, prophesy unto 
 the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye 
 mountains of Israel, hear the word of 
 the Lord." 
 
 In verses 10 and 11 :— 
 
 “ I will multiply men upon you, 
 all the house of Israel, even all of it: 
 and the cities shall be inhabited, and 
 the wastes shall be builded : and I will 
 multiply upon you man and beast ; 
 and they shall increase and bring fruit: 
 
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 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 and I will settle you after your old 
 estates, and will do better unto you 
 than at your beginnings : and ye shall 
 know that I am the Lord/' 
 
 In verse 24 :— 
 
 “ For I will take you from among 
 the heathen, and gather you out of all 
 countries, and will bring you into your 
 own land." 
 
 And in verse 35 :— 
 
 “ And they shall say. This land 
 that was desolate is become like the 
 garden of Eden ; and the waste and 
 desolate and ruined cities are become 
 fenced, and are inhabited." 
 
 Dry Bones. 
 
 In the following chapter (xxxvii.), we 
 have the evidence that it would be a gradual 
 process. Ezekiel is there given a word 
 picture in vision as to how it would all be 
 brought about. The long-scattered Jews 
 
Israel’s Dry Bones. 
 
 21 
 
 are there represented as so many " dry bones,” 
 in graves in a valley in a foreign country. 
 In verse n he is distinctly informed 
 
 “ These bones are the whole house 
 of Israel.” 
 
 And they are represented as lamenting, 
 thus:— 
 
 " Our bones are dried, and our 
 hope is lost: we are cut off for our 
 parts ”—or, as it is better rendered 
 in the Revised Version—“ we are 
 clean cut off.” 
 
 The prophet was all intent, as well he 
 might be in view of such an exciting picture. 
 He watched the " dry bones,” and what 
 did he see ? He saw just what he had been 
 previously told to prophesy. In verses 4-6 :— 
 
 " Prophesy upon these bones, and 
 say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear 
 the word of the Lord. Thus saith 
 the Lord God unto these bones: 
 
22 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Behold, I will cause breath to enter 
 into you, and ye shall live ; and ye 
 shall know that I am the Lord : and 
 I will lay sinews upon you, and cover 
 you with skin, and put breath in you, 
 and ye shall live ; and ye shall know 
 that I am the Lord/' 
 
 Ezekiel saw it all. He saw the “ sinews ” 
 come upon the “ dry bones,” and “ the flesh,” 
 and “ the skin ” ; and then he saw " the 
 breath ” enter the resurrected bodies, with 
 the result, to use the words of Scripture, 
 verse io :— 
 
 “ They lived, and stood upon their 
 feet, an exceeding great army.” 
 
 The meaning of it all was told to Ezekiel 
 
 in language found in verse 12 :— 
 
 “ Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, 
 O my people, I will open your graves, 
 and cause you to come up out of your 
 graves, and bring you into the land 
 of Israel.” 
 
Lord Reading’s Opinion. 23 
 
 It is not every Jew who is prepared to 
 accept such an assurance from the prophets 
 of Israel. For instance, the present Lord 
 Chief Justice (Lord Reading) told Mr. 
 Stephen Graham he did not think it likefy 
 that the children of Israel would return 
 to Palestine ; but his interviewer, who had 
 travelled far and wide among the Jews, 
 replied, " Nevertheless, the air just now 
 is full of prophecy about the return of the 
 Jews. The Jews themselves are whispering 
 much about the fulfilment of the old prophe¬ 
 cies, and though it is not likely that the Roths¬ 
 childs and the great financiers will go to 
 Jerusalem, I believe there may be something 
 in the possibility of re-establishment of the 
 Jews in Palestine as a nation.” 
 
 Sure Word of Prophecy. 
 
 Has not God been as good as His word ? 
 Has He not been at work among the “ dry 
 
24 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 bones ” of Israel ? Have not the Jews 
 themselves lamented their dry-bone condi¬ 
 tion for over 1,700 years ? It is not many 
 years since that their representative organ, 
 The Jewish Chronicle , in a leading article, 
 printed this lament:— 
 
 “ We are passing through critical 
 times. We want a first-class brain to 
 guide us; and a first-class personality 
 to shake the dry bones of Judaism.” 
 
 When Sir Moses Montefiore visited the Holy 
 Land, was not Israel complaining in the 
 words of the prophet Ezekiel:— 
 
 " Our hope is lost; we are clean 
 cut off.” 
 
 That is the sum and substance of what is 
 contained in the diary of his visit, kept by 
 Sir Moses Montefiore, and which we have 
 had the pleasure of reading. He grieved at 
 having to admit that in the whole land only 
 
Then and Now. 25 
 
 500 Jews and Jewesses could be found; 
 and they—oh, " Tell it not in Gath ! Publish 
 it not in Ashkelon ! ” Drop the curtain over 
 such a sorry picture, and let us look at things 
 Jewish since then. Truly, the " dry bones ” 
 are being transformed into “ an exceeding- 
 great army ” of ardent nationalists, as full 
 of hope as the “ dry bones ” were of despair. 
 Just think of these facts, which can be 
 verified at any good library :— 
 
 In 1827.—Not more than 500 Jews 
 in the whole of Palestine. 
 
 In 1856.—The Hadrian Edict an¬ 
 nulled, and the Jews invited to return. 
 
 In 1875.—" The Jewish Colonisa¬ 
 tion Fund ” founded. 
 
 In 1896.—Dr. Theodore Herzl 
 startled the whole of Jewry with his 
 idea of a " Jewish State.” 
 
 In 1915. —One hundred thousand 
 Jews settled in Palestine. 
 
26 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Theodore Herzl. 
 
 Not only did Dr. Herzl gain the ears and 
 many of the hearts of his fellow Israelites, 
 but he roused the whole civilised world with 
 his suggestion of Palestine for the Jews as a 
 Judean state. And no wonder! Let us 
 reproduce the closing words of the pamphlet 
 which had such a marvellous effect :— 
 
 " Therefore, I believe that a 
 wondrous generation of Jews will spring 
 into existence. The Maccabeans will 
 rise again. 
 
 “ Let me repeat once more my 
 opening words—Jews wish to have a 
 state, and they shall have one. 
 
 “ We shall live at last as free men 
 on our own soil, and die peacefully in 
 our own home. 
 
 " The world will be freed by our 
 liberty, enriched by our wealth, and 
 magnified by our greatness. 
 
Dr. Theodore Herzl. 27 
 
 " And whatever we attempt there 
 to accomplish for our own welfare 
 will re-act with beneficent force for 
 the good of humanity/ ' 
 
 This wonderful man—this Jew—was lion¬ 
 ised everywhere, except in Russia. Inter¬ 
 views were obtained by him with the King 
 of Italy, with the German Emperor, with 
 the Pope at Rome, and—with the Sultan of 
 Turkey, who has Palestine in his grasp. 
 
 Israel ZangwilL 
 
 True, Dr. Herzl died, July 4th, 1904, 
 but not without having set in motion a 
 movement to which no mortal power can put 
 a stop. Admitted that in the eyes of many 
 the death of Herzl, and the introduction 
 of Israel Zangwill as leader of " the Terri¬ 
 torial Scheme ” (which was formulated the 
 following year, and means anywhere for 
 the Jews except Palestine), apparently gave 
 
28 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 a set-back to the Zionist cry of " Palestine 
 for the Jews ” ; but it was only apparent 
 —not real—as all who have eyes can now see. 
 
 Mr. Foster Fraser, in his Conquering 
 Jew , voices the mere surface thinker, when 
 he says, “ The Zionist Movement, inaugurated 
 to promote the realisation of the Hebrew's 
 dream throughout the ages—the return to 
 his native Land after more than eighteen 
 hundred years of homeless wandering— 
 suffers, as do many movements with idealistic 
 aspirations, from lack of unanimity of 
 opinion among its supporters. Many dis¬ 
 tinguished Jews, while most desirous of 
 centralising the race in some land they might 
 call their own, are by no means sure that the 
 Holy Land offers, in modern days, the con¬ 
 ditions essential to the successful establish¬ 
 ment of a self-supporting Jewish State. Sites 
 in other countries, particularly in British East 
 
Mr. Israel Zangwill. 29 
 
 Africa, are under consideration by the Jewish 
 Territorial Organisation, of which Mr. Israel 
 Zangwill is president/' 
 
 Extremes meet! And it seems to us that 
 such was so when the gifted playwright 
 was placed in the chair vacated by the devout 
 and enthusiastic Zionist. But though they 
 were linked by the “ chair," they were, in real 
 life and aspirations, as far apart as the poles. 
 We sa\7 this with every desire to be absolutely 
 fair with Mr. Zangwill, and therefore here 
 state that he has written us disowning any 
 intention of excluding Palestine from his 
 programme of the Jewish Territorial Organ¬ 
 isation. But our impeachment remains. Mr. 
 Israel Zangwill is not a Zionist in the sense 
 or to the extent that his predecessor, Dr. 
 Theodore Herzl, was. With the latter it 
 was wholly and solely " Palestine for the 
 Jews ” and “ Judea a State ” ; and neither 
 
30 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Argentina nor South Africa found any place 
 in his projects or schemes. With Mr. Zangwill 
 it is different, and he does not deny it. 
 
 The Basle Programme. 
 
 Genuine Zionists do not need telling or 
 reminding, but outsiders do, that the first 
 article of the Basle programme runs as 
 follows :— 
 
 " Zionism strives to create for the 
 Jewish people a home in Palestine 
 secured by legal guarantees/' 
 
 And now what do we find are the relative 
 positions of the aims and schemes of the 
 two men ? “ Territorialism ” has fallen flat 
 
 —nay, it is to all intents and purposes " as 
 dead as a door nail," and its creator is a 
 success in what more befits him—novel 
 writing. On the other hand, " Zionism " is 
 more alive than ever it was. Since Herzl 
 died more than thirty thousand Jews have 
 
Eye-Witnesses. 31 
 
 gone back to Palestine ; and the Holy Land 
 is more “ the Land of Israel ” than ever it 
 has been since the Bar-cochba rebellion. 
 
 Upon this subject we can speak with the 
 authority of an eye-witness. In 1901, the 
 writer and his wife (with Mr. C. C. Walker, 
 the Editor of The Christadelphian) went the 
 round of Judea. That visit created an 
 appetite for more information ; and, so, in 
 the same company, the next year we again 
 visited the Land. We leisurely did it from 
 north to south, with the aid of tents, and 
 horses, and mules. We saw much more than 
 we saw before ; but not sufficient to arouse 
 one's enthusiasm very high in what we may 
 term the Zionist thermometer. 
 
 Ten Years Later. . 
 
 Ten years rolled by, and with them came 
 a growing desire to again “ view the Land ” ; 
 and there came not only the desire, but the 
 
32 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 opportunity. Well provided with letters of 
 introduction from some of the best known 
 Zionists of Germany and Great Britain, we 
 decided to avail ourselves of the opportunity, 
 but determined on a prolonged stay in and 
 around Jerusalem itself, which is really the 
 hub of the Zionist wheel. At the same time, 
 we did not shut our eyes to Zionist progress 
 outside the Jerusalem radius—for progress 
 there has been. And then (1914), two years 
 later, we paid another visit to the Land of 
 Promise, and found that the progress of the 
 Jew was more than maintained. In Palestine, 
 as a whole, in place of the 500 nondescript 
 Jews in the Land when Sir Moses Montefiore 
 visited it in 1827, there are now 500 two 
 hundred times over! Jews who are fast 
 supplanting the unbusinesslike Gentiles, 
 whether the latter be Christian or Moslem. 
 Of these 100,000 Jews, 70,000 to 80,000 live 
 in and around the Holy City itself. 
 
Tel Abib : Young Zionists Drilling. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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Jerusalem Colonies. 33 
 
 Whereas, even so comparatively recently 
 as 1882, a thriving Jewish colony, or ghetto, 
 was somewhat of a phenomenon, there are 
 now no fewer than fifty-seven within trumpet 
 call of the walls of Jerusalem. With the aid 
 of some of the good friends we made during 
 our last two visits, we have been able to 
 tabulate them in chronological order, thus :— 
 
 Jewish Colonies or Ghettoes 
 
 In and Around Jerusalem, with Dates 
 
 when Founded. 
 
 In 1852 : 
 
 Mishkenoth Shaananim rnasmo, 
 
 “ Dwelling-places of Ease ” or “ Security ”). 
 Known as the “ Moses Montefiore Alms¬ 
 houses/' and owe their origin to a legacy of 
 Juda Touro (Yehuda Thora), of New Orleans, 
 America. With the aid of the Montefiore 
 
34 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Fund, there are now 26 Tenements, with 
 about 130 occupants.* 
 
 In i860 : 
 
 Me ah Shaarim (d^ib hne, “The Hundred 
 Gates "). Excepting the Alms-houses above 
 named, this is the oldest, as well as the largest, 
 Jewish Colony in the Land. It was founded 
 by a Building Society for promoting Jewish 
 buildings in Jerusalem. It has 600 Tenements, 
 with a population of about 3,000. 
 
 In 1869 : 
 
 Nahalath Shebah (mats nfm, “Heritage 
 of Seven," or “A Seven-fold Heritage"). 
 Founded by private individuals. It has 180 
 Tenements, and about 900 inhabitants. 
 
 Birket Mamilla (D^Tl^D ro-Q, 
 
 The Pool of Mamilla"). Colony of the 
 
 * The known population of many of these colonies averaged 
 five to a tenement j therefore, all have been reckoned on 
 that basis. 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 35 
 
 Mughrabim, founded by private Mughrabi 
 (African) Jews. It comprises 35 Tenements, 
 with about 175 inhabitants. 
 
 Sukkath Shalom nmr, " Booth " 
 
 or “ Tabernacle of Peace"). Founded by 
 private Jews. It has 30 Tenements, and a 
 population of about 150. 
 
 In 1872 : 
 
 Beth David (tit m, “House of David"). 
 Founded with the donation of a rich private 
 Jew. It has 10 Tenements, with about 50 
 occupants. 
 
 In 1876 : 
 
 Mishkenoth Israel (fwiar maimo, “Dwel¬ 
 ling-places of Israel"). Founded by a 
 Building Society for promoting Jewish 
 Buildings in Jerusalem. It has 125 Tene¬ 
 ments, and about 625 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1879 : 
 
 Nissim Bar (pi dd' 3, the name of a Rabbi). 
 Founded by a Building Society for promoting 
 
36 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Jewish Buildings in Jerusalem. It has 160 
 Tenements, and about 800 inhabitants. 
 
 Eben Israel (bmun pw, “Stone of 
 
 Israel ). Founded by a Building Society 
 which built every year not less than six houses, 
 and expected, at the end of seven years, every 
 one of its members to have his own house. 
 It comprises 130 Tenements, and about 650 
 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1880 : 
 
 Beth Yaakob (npm rvi, “House of 
 
 Jacob ”)• Founded by a Building Society, 
 of seventy members, which decided to build 
 ten houses every year. It now has 40 Tene- 
 ments, and about 200 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1882 : 
 
 Mazkereth Mosheh (rrwo rroio, “Remem¬ 
 brance of Moses ”). Founded with money 
 from the “ Moses Montefiore Fund.” It has 
 I 5 ° Tenements, and about inhabitants. 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 37 
 
 Ohelei Mosheh (nma " Tents of 
 
 Moses ”). Also founded with money from 
 the “ Moses Montetiore Fund/’ It has 130 
 Tenements, and about 650 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1884 : 
 
 Yamin Mosheh (nmo pep, “ The Right 
 Hand of Moses ”). Founded with the aid of 
 the " Moses Montefiore Fund/' It has 160 
 Tenements, and about 800 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1885 : 
 
 ' Beth Israel (bn-iur ro, <( House of 
 Israel”). Founded by a Building Society 
 for promoting Jewish Buildings in Jerusalem. 
 It includes 230 Tenements, with a population 
 of about 1,150. 
 
 Battei Mosheh (roa^Ti ™d ^ra, 
 “ Houses of Moses ”). Founded with a dona¬ 
 tion from Moses of Wittenberg, for the Poor. 
 It has 39 Tenements, with a population of 
 about 195. 
 
38 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Shekonath Hatemanim (o^DnrT nratD, 
 “Abode of the Temanites"). Founded with 
 contributions of London Jews for the Yemen 
 Jews. It has 18 Tenements, with a population 
 of about 90. 
 
 In 1887 : 
 
 Machaneh Yehudah (rmrr runa, “ Camp 
 of Judah"). Founded by a speculative 
 Building Company. It has 170 Tenements, 
 with about 850 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1888 : 
 
 Shaar Hapinah (mrsn n sw, “ Gate of the 
 Corner"). Founded by a local speculating 
 Jewish Company. It has 40 Tenements, with 
 about 200 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1889 : 
 
 Battei Ezrath Niddachim (dTna tii 
 “Houses of Succour for Refugees"). 
 This Colony is in Siloah, and was founded by 
 a Society for helping persecuted Jews. It 
 has 150 Tenements, and about 750 occupants. 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 39 
 
 Nahalath Tzevi ("is r£ra, “Heritage of 
 Tzevi ” Doubtless in honour of the Jewish 
 benefactor, Hirsch, whose name represents 
 Gazelle , which is the meaning of Tzevi). 
 Founded with money from Baron Hirsch’s 
 Fund for the Jews from Yemen. It comprises 
 90 Tenements, with about 450 occupants. 
 
 Shaarei Tzedek (p*n ' nxw , “ Gates of 
 Righteousness ”). Founded by a local specu¬ 
 lating Jewish Company. It has 45 Tenements, 
 with a population of about 225. 
 
 Ir Shalem (sbw ts, " City of Salem ” or 
 “ Safety ”). Founded by a similar Company. 
 It has 15 Tenements, with about 75 inhabit¬ 
 ants. 
 
 In 1890 : 
 
 Shebeth Tzedek (p*n rora, “Dwelling-place 
 of Righteousness ”). Founded by “ Urfa,” 
 for poor Persian Jews. It has 250 Tenements, 
 with a population of about 1,250. 
 
40 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Benei Mosheh (tod " Sons of Moses ”) 
 Founded for poor Jews, and built on a site, 
 given by the Central Committee of the Ash¬ 
 kenazi Jews. It has 80 Tenements, with 
 about 400 inhabitants. 
 
 Zichron Tobiah (rrma jvot, " Memorial of 
 Tobiah,” see Ezra ii. 60; Zech. vi. 10). 
 Founded by a local speculating Company. 
 It has 40 Tenements, with a population of 
 about 200. 
 
 Battei Shimon (n*D» to, “Houses of 
 Simeon ”). Founded by the Sephardim Com¬ 
 munity for the Poor. It has 25 Tenements, 
 and about 125 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1891 : 
 
 Shaarei Yerushalaim (D^&nv 
 
 Gates of Jerusalem ”). Founded by a local 
 speculative Jewish Building Company. It 
 has 50 Tenements, with about 250 inhabitants. 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 4i 
 
 Nahalath Shimon (prom r6m, “ Heritage 
 of Simeon Founded by a similar Jewish 
 Building Company, and has 36 Tenements, 
 and about 180 inhabitants. 
 
 Kerem Shelomoh did, " Vineyard 
 
 of Solomon ”). Founded by a speculating 
 local Jewish Company. It has 30 Tenements, 
 with about 150 inhabitants. 
 
 Ezrath Israel (fwior mn>, “ Succour of 
 Israel"). Founded by a similar Company. 
 It has 26 Tenements, with a population of 
 about 130. 
 
 Eben Yoshua (scnm pN, “ Stone of 
 Joshua ”). Built by a Jew, partly for 
 business. It has 12 Tenements, and about 
 60 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1892 : 
 
 Ohel Isaac (pnr ^rro, “ Tent of Isaac "). 
 Founded by the local Hungarian Community 
 
42 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 for poor Jews. It comprises 220 Tenements, 
 with a population of about 1,100. 
 
 Ohel Shelomoh (ne&tD " Tent of 
 
 Solomon”). Founded by a speculating local 
 Community for the Poor. It has 50 Tene¬ 
 ments, and about 250 occupants. 
 
 Beth Abraham (otton run, “ House of 
 Abraham ”). Founded by a local speculating 
 Company. It has 38 Tenements, and about 
 190 inhabitants. 
 
 Agudath Shelomoh Miland ( htun 
 “ Solomon Miland Band ”). Built by 
 a well-to-do Jew. It comprises 35 Tene¬ 
 ments, and about 175 inhabitants. 
 
 Dameshek Eliezer pmoi, t( Eliezer of 
 
 Damascus,” but also see rather Genesis xv. 2, 
 R.V. margin). Founded by the Horodnah 
 Community. It has 25 Tenements, and about 
 125 inhabitants. 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 43 
 
 Shebeth Achim (dtw nits, “Dwelling-place 
 of Brethren ” allusion to Psalm cxxxiii. i). 
 Founded by a speculating local Jewish Com¬ 
 pany. It has 6 Tenements, and about 30 
 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1893 : 
 
 Rehoboth (rnmm, " Broad Places ”). 
 Founded by rich Bokhara Jews. It comprises 
 200 superior dwellings, with about 1,000 
 inhabitants. 
 
 Nahalath Zion (jvs r6m, “Heritage of 
 Zion ”). Founded by the “ Alliance Israelite 
 Universelle.” It has 60 Tenements, and about 
 300 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1894 : 
 
 Kenesseth Israel (Wiar hddd, “ Con¬ 
 gregation of Israel ”). Founded by the Central 
 Committee of the Ashkenazi Jews. It has 120 
 Tenements, with about 600 inhabitants. 
 
 Ohel Simchah (nnoffl “ Tent of Joy”). 
 Founded with money provided by Jews in 
 
44 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Hungary. It has 16 Tenements, and about 
 So inhabitants. 
 
 In 1895: 
 
 Juret el Enav (iwn bn na-iM. Local 
 
 reference : near the Valley of Hinnom). Built 
 by a private Jew. It comprises 80 Tenements, 
 with about 400 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1897: 
 
 Nahalath Yaakob (apjn rbm, “Heritage 
 of Jacob ”). Founded by the Warsaw Com¬ 
 munity. Comprises 50 Tenements, with about 
 250 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1902: 
 
 Battei Nathan (jna to, “Houses of 
 Nathan ”). Built with money from “ Nathan 
 of Chicago/' It numbers 50 Tenements, with 
 about 250 inhabitants. 
 
 Battei Mosheh Menahem Vodner 
 ztob to, “Houses of Moses 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 45 
 
 Menahem Vodner ”). Erected by Moses 
 Menahem Vodner, of New York. It has 
 20 Tenements, with about ioo occupants. 
 
 In 1903 : 
 
 Battei Yaakob Badodah (rrriTi npip 
 “Houses of Jacob Badodah' '). Built with 
 donation from Jacob Badodah, of Warsaw. 
 It comprises 50 Tenements, with about 250 
 inhabitants. 
 
 Battei Kolel Minsk (pmo SS'D Tin, 
 " Houses of the Minsk Community ”). Founded 
 by the Minsk Community. It numbers 8 
 Tenements, with about 40 occupants. 
 
 In 1905: 
 
 Zichron Mosheh p-Of, " Memorial of 
 Moses ”). Erected with the aid of the “ Moses 
 Montefiore Fund.” There are 130 Tenements, 
 with about 650 inhabitants. 
 
4 6 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 In 1906: 
 
 Achavah (mnN, “Brotherhood"). Built by 
 a local Brotherhood Association. It numbers 
 40 Tenements, with about 200 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1907 : 
 
 Shaarei Hesed (“ron ’nsta, “ Gates of 
 Mercy ”). Erected by a General Charitable 
 Association. There are 40 Tenements, with 
 about 200 inhabitants. 
 
 Shekonath Rabbi Tzadok (pm 'm 
 “ Abode of Rabbi Tzadok ”). Founded by the 
 
 Alliance Israelite Universelle. It numbers 
 15 Tenements, and about 75 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1908: 
 
 Eshel Abraham (cmis Sen, “Tamarisk 
 Tree of Abraham,” or “ Grove," see Genesis 
 xx i- 33 )- Built by Georgian Jews. It has 
 no Tenements, with a population of about 
 550 . 
 
Jerusalem Colonies. 
 
 47 
 
 Gibeath Shaul (ViNtD rum, “High-place 
 of Saul” : see i Sam. xv. 34). Built by a 
 speculating Jewish Company. It comprises 
 30 Tenements, with about 150 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1910 : 
 
 Battei Mendel Rand (th Stjs vn, 
 “Houses of Mendel Rand”). Erected with 
 donation of Mendel Rand for the poor Ash¬ 
 kenazi Jews. There are 26 Tenements, and 
 about 130 occupants. 
 
 Yegia Kapaim 2W, “ Lifting-up of 
 Hands ” ; i.e. f “ labour of hands/' see Gen. 
 xxxi. 42). Built by the “ Workmen's Asso¬ 
 ciation." It numbers 20 Tenements, with 
 about 100 inhabitants. 
 
 Battei Kolel Zebenberger ^nn 
 
 "irrarm, “Houses of the Zebenberger Com¬ 
 munity”). Erected by the Zebenberger 
 Community. It has 16 Tenements, and about 
 80 occupants. 
 
48 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Battei Dov Hornstein xn tq, 
 
 “Houses of Dov Hornstein ”). Erected with 
 donations by Dov Hornstein for the poor of 
 the Volin Community. It numbers 15 Tene¬ 
 ments, with about 75 inhabitants. 
 
 1911 and Since. 
 
 We cannot trace, and therefore cannot 
 record, the founding of any new Colonies or 
 Ghettoes during the past three or four years ; 
 but that does not mean that Zionism has 
 receded. Not by any means. It simply means 
 that Zionism, in common with all sections 
 of society, and all movements, has been more 
 or less affected by the troublous times of the 
 last few years. The Turko-Italian war of 
 1911-12, and the great European war, com¬ 
 mencing 1914, both directly affected the three 
 seaports of the Holy Land (Jaffa, Haifa, and 
 Beyrout), thereby interfering with the tide 
 of Zionism. But only short-visioned people 
 
Despondent Zionists, 49 
 
 will look upon such as a waning of the move¬ 
 ment. We admit that on the outbreak of 
 the great European war a few thousands of 
 Jews hurried away to British protected Egypt, 
 and a few to America. But the latter were 
 very little above the yearly average, and 
 the former will, no doubt, quite as quickly 
 hurry back to the Land as soon as the war is 
 over. Hundreds of Italians left Palestine 
 when war broke out between Turkey and 
 Italy in 1911, but thousands went back when 
 peace was proclaimed. And history will 
 repeat itself, for there is no doubt that where 
 thousands left in 1914 tens of thousands 
 will hurriedly return as the result of peace; 
 especially when it is fully realised what a 
 British Protectorate means. We make bold 
 to predict that the undesired period of inter¬ 
 rupted progress will have the same effect 
 that enforced idleness has, and that the 
 reaction will be great. 
 
5o Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Then, too, we must not forget that the 
 divine programme requires that the outcast 
 Jews shall be in Egypt at the Time of the 
 End, for the prophet says :— 
 
 “ It shall come to pass in that day 
 that the Lord shall set his hand 
 again the second time to recover the 
 remnant of his people which shall 
 be left . . . from Egypt.’’ (Isaiah 
 xi. ii.) 
 
 Good and Bad Colonies. 
 
 We would not for one moment have our 
 readers imagine that all the foregoing Colonies 
 are everything, or anything like everything, 
 that we could wish. Far from it. Many of 
 them are wretched enough in all conscience. 
 Some of them can only be described as places 
 to “ exist ” in. In fact, many of them are 
 known as “ Box ” or " Tin Colonies/' so-called 
 from the temporary character of their 
 construction. The less said about their sani- 
 
Victims o! Circumstances. 
 
 5i 
 
 tary arrangements the better; although, 
 in sheer justice to the poor, pitiable Jewish 
 occupants, we must say the fault does not 
 lie with them, for they are but the victims of 
 circumstances. We have no hesitation in 
 saying the average Gentile of the same class 
 would come off even worse under similar con¬ 
 ditions. 
 
 But we must not dwell too much on the 
 dark side of things. The sunny side is getting 
 brighter and brighter, as we shall see when 
 we come to treat of that charming Jaffa 
 suburb known as Tel Abib, founded and prac¬ 
 tically controlled by Dr. Arthur Ruppin 
 (see page 80, etc.) ; and that equally charming 
 Jerusalem suburb, controlled by Mr. David 
 Yellin, and known as the Lamel Settlement 
 (see page 94, etc.). 
 
 A Jerusalem Prison. 
 
 Most people are said to be " creatures of 
 environment/' or '* victims of circumstances. 
 
52 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 If that be so, then clearly the Jew is not 
 entirely to blame. The Syrian circumstances 
 and environment are notoriously bad—bad 
 in the extreme. They are Turkish! We 
 had once been told that if we would know 
 something of official Turkish dirt, we must 
 visit a Turkish prison. With such in mind 
 we had for years wanted to get inside one 
 of these penal establishments, or “ Blood 
 prisons ” as they are called. We had a 
 glimpse of one at Acre in 1914, just between 
 the bars, as it were. We were informed that 
 the only certain way of getting inside was 
 to transgress the Turkish law. There were 
 two ways of doing such. One was to commit 
 violence of some sort against one’s fellow- 
 man, and the other was to offend the “ Powers 
 that be,” spiritual or otherwise. Bible 
 precepts would not allow us to adopt the 
 first way, although bribery would soon have 
 
Turkish Prisons. 
 
 53 
 
 made a way of escape out of the prison after 
 we had sufficiently satisfied our curiosity. 
 And as to the second, we could not adopt 
 that way as the resultant durance vile could 
 not so easily be ended even by means of 
 backsheesh. 
 
 The British Consul's endeavours to get us 
 a permit ended in a flat refusal from the 
 Governor of the prison at Jerusalem, as " no 
 Europeans, for the present, are allowed to 
 visit the prison." We then heard that native 
 relatives of prisoners awaiting sentence were 
 allowed to have an interview, and if we could 
 find one we might possibly get through with 
 him. We discovered one from Samaria, and 
 as he was an ex-dragoman of nearly three 
 score and ten, and therefore, knew a thing 
 or two," we relied on his promise to get us to 
 the desired haven, of course to the tune of 
 the usual backsheesh consideration. But just 
 
54 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 as we thought all was well, and we had passed 
 the various sentries on guard, and other 
 officials, even to the swearing of our guide 
 “ by the beard of Mahomet," we were uncere¬ 
 moniously brought to a standstill at the 
 last door, and escorted back to the entrance, 
 and solemnly warned never to appear there 
 again unless we wanted to be kept there. 
 It transpired that some one or other of the 
 officials recognised us as having been on a 
 similar errand upon a previous occasion with 
 our friend Mr. Dunn, of Abraham s Vineyard, 
 and feared the reasons for our curiosity. Not 
 to be entirely " done," we got our guide to 
 get us a look at the Remand prison. We 
 succeeded. The sight of the poor prisoners 
 we shall not soon forget. They were herded 
 together in a barred place like wild animals. 
 No furniture of any description ; not even a 
 single sanitary appliance of any kind. Their 
 
The “ London Standard.” 
 
 55 
 
 food was pushed through the bars to them. 
 The floor was filthy beyond describing in these 
 pages. We could well believe what we were 
 told was the reason we were not allowed in 
 the Blood prisons. They had been so 
 neglected, in spite of Government grants, 
 that the governor was afraid Europeans 
 might write their experiences, and such reach 
 the ears of the Sultan, and cause trouble. 
 
 What we saw was bad enough—horrible ! 
 What must those be like which we were not 
 allowed to see ! 
 
 The M London Standard ” Fables. 
 
 What we have written about the Turkish 
 prisons is true also of Turkish cities, towns, 
 villages, and things generally. The " Un¬ 
 speakable Turk,” or, as Mr. Gladstone so 
 expressively put it, the damnable Turk, 
 remains so still. The improvements in Pales¬ 
 tine, if not entirely due to the Jew, are 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 56 
 
 certainly not in any way due to the Turk. 
 He does not improve, nor do things while 
 under his control, in spite of the fables which 
 sometimes appear even in the leading daily 
 papers about the modernity of Eastern places 
 
 and customs. Here are extracts from a whole' 
 column of such nonsense which was published 
 
 recently in the London Standard 
 
 “ Where Jaffa gate once stood, 
 to be closed at sundown against all 
 stragglers of the night, is now a broad 
 open avenue of imposing aspect/' 
 
 " Many of the picturesquely 
 narrow and crooked streets in the 
 heart of the city have also been 
 widened and straightened to admit 
 of the clamorous passage of electric 
 tramcars and whizzing taxicabs, which 
 are often hampered by the serene 
 disdain of some obstructing country¬ 
 man mounted upon his primitive and 
 slothful ass/’ 
 
Newspaper Fictions. 
 
 57 
 
 4< Electric lights are everywhere, 
 flashing their message of the New in 
 public buildings, hotels, private houses, 
 and street lamps, and in glittering 
 signs of potted foods and patent medi¬ 
 cines/* 
 
 " Motor cars are quite common, 
 too, and it sometimes brought a laugh 
 to the lips to see a solemn turbaned 
 1 urk or Arab sheikh in flowing caftan 
 whirl by in a handsome touring car 
 of the latest model/' 
 
 “ Even the watering carts, exactly 
 like those you see in your own London 
 streets, have replaced the bearded 
 Jew with his goat-skin of water, while 
 an alarm of fire promptly brings out 
 a clattering rush of petrol-driven 
 engines, ladder trucks, and water 
 towers of the most improved patterns/' 
 
 “ There is also an excellent system 
 of water supply and drainage/’ 
 
58 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 The Standard printed all that rubbish on 
 the authority of an alleged " President of 
 the Wesleyan Theological Seminary, Boston, 
 U.S.A.” —the Rev. S. F. Graham. There 
 is no such Seminary, with any such President, 
 and never was. We personally explored 
 Boston for such a “ Rev.” and found that he 
 was as much a myth as any one of the many 
 improvements he is alleged to have reported 
 to the London Standard. Evidently the 
 Standard editor was caught napping, but 
 has not the courage to say so publicly, 
 although he has been assured that the entire 
 string of so-called improvements is a tissue 
 of lies. The improvements did not exist ex¬ 
 cept in print in his paper. We mention this 
 matter because we find the fictions are being 
 repeated on the public platform as gospel. 
 
 Typical Water Supply. 
 
 Not the smallest of the troubles of the 
 Jewish Colonies is the problem of the water- 
 
Jerusalem Water Supply, 59 
 
 supply. It is a problem indeed. Of constant 
 water supply, as it is known in all other 
 civilised cities, towns, and villages, Jerusalem 
 knows practically nothing; for of what 
 adequate use is the intermittent flow through 
 the 3 1 or 4-inch pipe which brings water 
 to that paltry outlet over the Lower Pool 
 of Gihon ? And even less adequate are the 
 little springs in the valley of the Kidron, 
 known as the Virgin's Fountain and Job’s 
 Well. Barely sufficient is the supply for one 
 Colony, let alone the whole of this now densely 
 populated city, with its fast-growing suburbs. 
 The inhabitants have to depend on their 
 cistems, in which are collected “ the early and 
 the latter rains,” and, we might add, the filth 
 they bring in their train. Most of these 
 huge cisterns or reservoirs are underground, 
 and in some cases about thirty feet square, 
 the inlets at the top being level with the 
 
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 roads; hence the inflow of filth from the 
 roofs of the houses and the byways. We were 
 foolish enough to look down the hole by which 
 the water is drawn up from one of these 
 cisterns, and we shall never forget it. When 
 we expressed our surprise that cholera did 
 not result from using such water, our guide, 
 who was an ex-medical officer of the Turkish 
 Government, simply and smilingly exclaimed 
 he did not think cholera germs could live in 
 such water! Filters are entirely unknown to 
 the inhabitants, but the people are beginning 
 to learn the advantages of boiling the water 
 for drinking purposes. 
 
 So long ago as 1863, Dr. John Irwine Whitty , 
 the eminent civil engineer, devised a simple 
 and inexpensive means of reproviding Jeru¬ 
 salem with a constant flow of water from 
 the Pools of Solomon, at Etham, beyond 
 Bethlehem, some seven miles in a direct 
 
Facts o! Zionism. 61 
 
 line from the city. The pools there are said 
 to be furnished with water from a sealed 
 fountain connected therewith. He estimated 
 this scheme would only have cost about five 
 or six thousand pounds, but, like most other 
 schemes for improving the Holy Land, it all 
 ended in smoke. 
 
 “ We have seen with our eyes.” 
 
 Day after day, we spent our whole time 
 visiting any and every place or building that 
 was Jewish—colonies, ghettoes, institutions, 
 schools, and business houses—all of which 
 showed beyond the shadow of a doubt that 
 the God who inspired Ezekiel to write and 
 foretell the uprise of Zionism, the establish¬ 
 ment of unwalled villages upon the mountains 
 of Israel, and the reclamation of the waste 
 places, has been at work carrying out His 
 programme. And not only so, but Jesus 
 Christ, to whom 
 
62 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 “ All power is given ... in 
 heaven and in earth ” (Matt, xxviii. 18), 
 
 is still carrying out the work the Father has 
 given him to do. The programme is given 
 in symbol in that marvellous " Book of 
 Revelation/' at the opening of which he 
 assures us, chapter i., verse 18 :— 
 
 " I am he that liveth and was 
 dead; and behold, I am alive for 
 evermore/* 
 
 And what is not the least interesting 
 part of his programme is, of course, what 
 is to happen at the end, so that we might 
 know when to expect him to fulfil his promise 
 contained in those words :— 
 
 If I go away ... I will come 
 again ” (John xiv. 3) ; 
 
 or, to use the language of the Apocalypse, 
 chapter xi., verse 15 :— 
 
 " The seventh angel sounded, and 
 there were great voices in heaven, 
 
Turkey to Go. 
 
 63 
 
 saying, The kingdoms of this world 
 are become the kingdoms of our Lord, 
 and of his Christ/' 
 
 The event previous to that, he describes 
 in the following words, found in chapter 
 xvi., verse 12 :— 
 
 " The sixth angel poured out his 
 vial upon the great river, Euphrates; 
 and the water thereof was dried up that 
 the way of the Kings of the East might 
 be prepared.” 
 
 Interpreting the symbolic Euphrates on 
 Bible principles, it represents the Turkish 
 Empire, seeing it runs through the territory 
 belonging to that power, and surely we 
 have evidence enough that Jesus has been 
 gradually drying up that empire in whose 
 grasp the Holy Land has been for so many 
 centuries. The capital city of this land is 
 fast changing its complexion, although it is 
 still the most cosmopolitan city of its size in 
 the world. No less than 45 tongues are said 
 
64 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 to be spoken there. Jerusalem is no longer a 
 Moslem city ; or an Arab city ; it is no longer 
 a Latin or Greek city ; but a city of Jews. 
 
 Jerusalem a City of Jews. 
 
 We will illustrate this fact with a little 
 incident that has left an indelible impression 
 on our mind. It happened upon a certain 
 Saturday afternoon. We wanted to purchase 
 a number of articles as presents, and, among 
 other things, decided upon some Turkish fezzes, 
 which are worn in the Land by nearly all 
 the Jews, as well as the Turks and Christians. 
 As the result of enquiries as to the best 
 market, we were directed to " Christian 
 Street/' so-called because it is the principal 
 thoroughfare (!) in the " Christian Quarter ” 
 of Jerusalem. The other “ quarters " are the 
 Moslem, the Armenian, and the Jewish. Off 
 we went to Christian Street, and what did 
 we find ? That out of every twenty shops or 
 
Rischon-le-Zion : the Main Street. 
 
Street in the Lamel Settlement, Jerusalem, with Mr. David Yellin. 
 
 See page 94. 
 
 To lace page 65. 
 
Jerusalem a City of Jews. 
 
 65 
 
 bazaars, on an average only one was open for 
 business. What was the matter ? We asked 
 the first man we met who could speak English, 
 and he told us it was always like that on 
 Sabbath day. But we urged it was Saturday, 
 not Sunday ! " Yes,” he replied ; " but 
 
 this ' Christian ' Street is now mainly occu¬ 
 pied by the Jews.” It thrilled us, and we 
 could not help turning to Romans xi. 15, 
 which runs thus :— 
 
 " If the casting away of them be 
 the reconciling of the world, what shall 
 the receiving of them be but life from 
 the dead ? ” 
 
 Yes, " life from the dead ” very aptly 
 expresses the uprise of the Jew in these 
 “ latter years ” in his own land. Where 
 the Jew is allowed a free hand, the ordinary 
 Gentile “ hasn't a look in.” 
 
 The more we have seen of the Jews, the 
 more we have been drawn to them, and 
 
66 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the more we love them ; for intimate acquain¬ 
 tance with them enables one to endorse 
 the implied judgment of Mr. Stephen Graham, 
 when, in the course of some very interesting- 
 facts in his work, Russia and the World , 
 he speaks about “ The Jews with that sweet 
 reasonableness, kindness, and common-sense, 
 which distinguish their life when they are 
 not too embittered by persecution/' 
 
 A Touch of Human Nature. 
 
 During our round of visits we came across 
 more than one incident which increased 
 our respect and love for the Jew. At one of 
 the Jewish Colonies we visited the literary 
 head thereof, or, as we should call him in 
 Britain, the village schoolmaster. In his 
 back garden we found fifty or sixty children. 
 On asking what it all meant, he introduced 
 us to a young Jewess—his bride—they were 
 married but two or three days previously. 
 
A Touch of Human Nature. 67 
 
 But we were more curious than ever to know 
 what this company of children in their best 
 clothes meant. He then informed us that his 
 wife and himself did not think it right to be 
 happy without trying to make others happy 
 at the same time, and therefore the first 
 few days of their honeymoon they were 
 spending at home trying to make their 
 neighbours happy by means of teas and the 
 like; and, to-day was the children's turn ! 
 
 But, we came across an even more touching 
 instance of unselfishness than that. A 
 young Jewish couple had decided on their 
 first week “ over the hills and far away ” in 
 Galilee by themselves ; but, on the eve of 
 their marriage, in paying a few visits to 
 friends to say good-bye, and to receive 
 congratulations, the bride came across an old 
 schoolmate who had married three or four 
 years previously, and had two little ones 
 
68 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 and a sick husband. On calling, she found 
 the latter dead. The newly-married couple 
 had no honeymoon in Galilee. They stayed 
 at home, and spent the money in buying the 
 widow a sewing machine ! Not many Gentiles 
 make such a sacrifice as that. 
 
 The Jew at the Top. 
 
 Just another incident to show <f which 
 way the wind blows.” A card was handed 
 in to us one evening at " Olivet House,” the 
 well-managed and homelike hotel of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hensman, and nephew, where 
 we were staying. On it was printed, “ Isaac 
 Nissenbaum, Clokes Pressed.” We inter¬ 
 viewed him, and enquired the object of his 
 coming. “ Oh,” he replied, “ I have come 
 to clean your clothes.” Yes, they sadly needed 
 cleaning after all the rough exploring we 
 had been doing ; but we had no others to 
 wear while these were being cleaned ; that, 
 
The Jew at the Top. 69 
 
 however, was no obstacle to " Isaac.” “ You 
 take them off, and go to bed, and I will bring 
 them back nicely done in two hours/’ 
 Isaac * was as good as his promise. No 
 wonder the Gentile is being ousted by the 
 Jew. 
 
 The Jew at a Premium. 
 
 There is a remarkable opinion expressed 
 by Rozanoff, the Russian writer, in Fallen 
 Leaves. We might almost term it an 
 involuntary prophecy. He says "The Jew 
 always begins with service and serviceableness, 
 and ends with power and mastership. In 
 the first stage he is difficult to grapple with. 
 What are you to do with a man who simply 
 stands and puts himself at your service ? 
 But in the second stage no one can get equal 
 with him ... We are all running to the 
 Jews for help. And in a hundred years all 
 will be with the Jews.” 
 
70 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 We have often wondered whether Rozanoff 
 and those with similar anticipations are aware 
 that what they think possible or likely is an 
 absolute certainty ; that the day—not The 
 Day of the Germans, or of the Russians, 
 or of the British—but “ the Day of the Lord/' 
 when the Jew will be the head of all nations, 
 and not the tail, as he has been for all these 
 long centuries. It is as certain as that day 
 always follows night. All Israel's inspired 
 prophets tell us so, and they are either to be 
 absolutely relied upon when they tell us 
 “ Thus saith Jehovah ” ; or, they are to 
 be rejected as self-deluded dreamers. We are 
 writing for those who still have unbounded 
 faith in the prophets of Israel. 
 
 Prophet after prophet proclaims the same 
 story, and paints the same picture. 
 
Honours lor the Jews. 71 
 
 The Coming Jew. 
 
 The Prophet Zephaniah thus portrays it 
 (iii. 20) :— 
 
 At that time will I bring you 
 again, even in the time that I gather 
 you : for I will make you a name and 
 a praise among all people of the Earth, 
 when I turn back your captivity before 
 your eyes, saith the Lord/' 
 
 Isaiah's divinely inspired pictures are 
 simply enrapturing. Just a sample or two :— 
 
 “ Thus saith the Lord God, Behold 
 I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, 
 and set up my standard to the people ; 
 and they shall bring thy sons (the 
 sons of Zion) in their arms, and thy 
 daughters shall be carried upon their 
 shoulders. 
 
 " And kings shall be thy nursing 
 fathers, and their queens thy nursing 
 mothers : they shall bow down to thee 
 with their face toward the earth, and 
 lick up the dust of thy feet; and 
 
72 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 thou shalt know that I am the Lord; 
 for they shall not be ashamed that wait 
 for me ” (ch. xlix. 22, 23). 
 
 “ I will also give thee for a light 
 to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be 
 my salvation unto the end of the 
 earth ” (ch. xlix. 6). 
 
 ” And the Gentiles shall come to 
 thy light, and kings to the brightness 
 of thy rising.” 
 
 “ And the sons of strangers shall 
 build up thy walls, and their kings 
 shall minister unto thee.” 
 
 “ The nation and kingdom that 
 will not serve thee shall perish ; yea, 
 those nations shall be utterly wasted.” 
 
 “ The sons also of them that 
 afflicted thee shall come bending unto 
 thee ; and all they that despised thee 
 shall bow themselves down at the soles 
 of thy feet ” (ch. lx. 3, 10, 12, 14). 
 
The Wonderful Jew. 73 
 
 And Zechariah is very descriptive, not 
 to say picturesque, in his prophecies. Hear 
 him :— 
 
 “ Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; 
 In those days it shall come to pass that 
 ten men shall take hold out of all 
 languages of the nations, even shall 
 take hold of the skirt of him that 
 is a Jew, saying, We will go with you : 
 for we have heard that God is with 
 you ” (ch. viii. 23). 
 
 The Wonderful Jew. 
 
 Yes, the wonderful Jew ! What a past! 
 What a present ! Of course, we mean the 
 Jew in the sense Paul spoke of him in his 
 Epistle to the Homans, where he calls them 
 (ch. ix. 3, 4) :— 
 
 My brethren, my kinsmen 
 according to the flesh. Who are Israel¬ 
 ites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, 
 and the glory, and the covenants, 
 and the giving of the law, and the 
 service of God, and the promises.” 
 
74 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 In that sense we endorse the language of 
 Mr. Madison Peters, who, in the conclusion 
 of his interesting work, The Jew as a 
 Patriot, remarks, “ The Jew has given to 
 the world the knowledge of the only true 
 and living God. He has given Moses, who, 
 in the twelve United States of Israel, gave 
 to the world the first republic, and whose 
 laws after thirty-three hundred years still 
 form the basis of the civilised world's juris¬ 
 prudence. Jesus, the ideal of the race . . . 
 of whom Strauss said, ‘ he remains the 
 highest model of religion within our thoughts ' 
 .... of whom Renan declared, ‘ Whatever 
 will be the surprises of the future, Jesus 
 will never be surpassed ' . . . this Jesus 
 
 was a Jew. Dr. Max Nordau voices many 
 when he says, 1 Who then could think of 
 excluding him from the people of Israel . . . 
 this man is ours. He honours our race, 
 
Max Nordau on Jesus. 75 
 
 and we claim him as we claim the gospels— 
 flowers of Jewish literature, and only Jewish! 
 Our Bible, the Old as well as the New Testa¬ 
 ment, was written by Jews. What would 
 the world have been without the Bible ? 
 
 . Liberty, charity, and brotherhood 
 find their only place of abode in Bible 
 countries .... for this Book we are 
 indebted to the Jews.’ ” 
 
 The Incomparable Race. 
 
 Incomparable in many ways—certainly in 
 matters of health. And the reason can only 
 be traced to the fact that they are bound by 
 certain sanitary and other laws to which 
 the Gentile pays no attention—we mean the 
 laws of Moses. True, the Jews only partially 
 obey them ; but what might not result from 
 a whole keeping thereof, if such good results 
 accrue from only a partial obedience ? It 
 is on record that in High Street, Whitechapel, 
 
76 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the death rate among Jews is only 28 per 
 1,000 ; whereas in the same street, the death- 
 rate of the Gentiles is 43 per 1,000. It is a 
 fact also that, given the same number of 
 Jews and Gentiles, there are 143 still-born 
 among Gentiles, and only 89 among the Jews. 
 It is also on record that on an average, out 
 of 1,000 Gentiles, 750 die before they are 
 27 years of age ; whereas with the same 
 number of Jews, their 750 have not disap¬ 
 peared until 53 years have passed. We are 
 not surprised therefore, at being told by such 
 an authority as Hoffman of Berlin, that " the 
 life of a Jew is 50 per cent, more valuable 
 than that of any other known people/' 
 And when we turn from the Jew physically 
 to the Jew mentally, or, rather, intellectually, 
 we still find him in the fore-front. In all the 
 schools and universities the world over the 
 Jews are head and shoulders over the Gentiles. 
 
77 
 
 The Jew and Finance. 
 
 In statesmanship, in medicine, in music, in 
 law, in science, at all the examinations the 
 Jew leads the way. If our readers are 
 sufficiently interested, and can spare the 
 time and money, they will find overwhelming 
 evidence in those 300 pages entitled The 
 Conquering Jew , by Mr. John Foster Fraser. 
 We do not doubt for a moment the truthfulness 
 of the story that, when the late Sir Moses 
 Montefiore begged Prince Paskievitch, the 
 Russian Governor of Poland, to do something 
 for the education of the Jews, he exclaimed : 
 
 “ God forbid ; the Jews are already too clever 
 for us. How would it be if they got a good 
 schooling ? ” 
 
 The Jew Financially. 
 
 Upon this detail the Jew is even more 
 to the front. In The Separated Nation , by 
 S. Bonhomme, we read “ Some years ago, 
 the house of Rothschild was applied to by 
 
78 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the Russian Government for a loan. The 
 elder Rothschild went to St. Petersburg, 
 where he was waited upon by the minister 
 of finance of the Russian Government, Count 
 Canerin, a Lithurian Jew of pure Hebrew 
 descent. The loan was connected with the 
 affairs of Spain. From St. Petersburg 
 Rothschild proceeded to Madrid, where he 
 had a conference with the Spanish Minister 
 of Finance, Count Mendazibil, an Arragonese 
 Jew of pure Hebrew descent. Thence he 
 proceeded to France, where he conferred 
 with the French Premier, Marshal Sault, a 
 Parisian Jew of pure Hebrew descent. A 
 final interview was held at Berlin with the 
 minister of finance of the Prussian Govern¬ 
 ment, Count Arnim, a Prussian Jew of pure 
 Hebrew descent. Negotiations were now 
 ended: Rothschild offered the Czar their 
 terms, and he accepted them.” 
 
Business at Jaffa. 79 
 
 It is said on good authority that the Holy 
 Land is virtually under mortgage to the 
 Rothschilds, a mortgage which no Gentile 
 power dares to meddle with. 
 
 Jaffa. 
 
 Humanly speaking, the Jew will be the 
 making of Palestine. During his exile there 
 has been no prosperity there. It has only 
 made headway since he has been permitted 
 to found colonies there. Twenty-five years 
 ago the imports and exports of Jaffa were 
 practically nil, whereas now the imports 
 amount to nearly one million sterling, and 
 the exports nearly a million and a quarter. 
 
 Jaffa is really the principal seaport of the 
 Holy Land, and several days can well be 
 spent there by the friends of Zion. We 
 don't mean in the manner in which Jaffa is 
 " done ” b y the ordinary tourist in visiting 
 the alleged house of Simon the Tanner, or the 
 
80 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 House of Tabitha, interesting as such may 
 be to the sentimental and credulous; but, in 
 visiting the flourishing Jewish Colonies in the 
 vicinity, which have sprung up in recent years, 
 and which we propose in the next few pages 
 to describe briefly. To our readers who 
 can speak Yiddish, we would say, make your 
 headquarters at the “ Kammanitz Hotel/" 
 while in Jaffa. But our British and American 
 friends we would recommend respectively 
 to Mr. Hardegg's " Jerusalem Hotel/' and 
 the Hall Brothers' “ Hotel du Parc." Both 
 the latter are well situated away from the 
 filth and riff-raff of Turkish Jaffa, and in 
 close proximity to the offices of Messrs. Thomas 
 Cook and Son, whose advice and help even 
 the most experienced travellers frequently 
 find invaluable. 
 
 Tel Abib. 
 
 Talking of Jaffa, you no sooner land there 
 than you are made acquainted with a new 
 
Tel Abib. 
 
 81 
 
 an d r6in3.rka.bl0 suburb. It is wholly Jewish, 
 and is known by the name of Tel Abib. It 
 was mere waste land a few years ago. Now 
 it is a charming residential neighbourhood. 
 It has a population of about fifteen hundred 
 inhabitants, and comprises more than two 
 hundred residences. These are not huddled 
 up together, as in cities and towns—terrace 
 fashion, with thin walls which permit one's 
 spoken secrets to be heard next door—but 
 charming little detached cottages, each 
 surrounded by its own grounds. They are 
 erected on building society lines, with money 
 advanced by the Anglo-Palestine Company, 
 the flourishing financial offshoot of the Jewish 
 Colonial Trust or Bank, whose managing 
 director at Jaffa is Mr. D. Levontin, to whom 
 we were greatly indebted for his valuable 
 information and introductions. With such 
 capable directorship, the company is bound 
 
82 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 to go ahead. The moving spirit of the place 
 is Dr. Arthur Ruppin, an out-and-out enthu¬ 
 siast in the work. 
 
 The inhabitants include about fifty trades¬ 
 people, thirty teachers, twenty-five skilled 
 workmen, and sundry physicians, engineers, 
 lawyers, and other professionals, all mainly 
 employed at Jaffa. The settlement has well- 
 paved and well-lighted streets, main drainage, 
 
 good water supply, and trees at the sides 
 of the roads, forming charming avenues. It 
 also possesses a Hebrew college, school of 
 music, school of needlework, synagogue, and 
 a public reading room. 
 
 The building conditions which obtain at 
 Tel Abib are especially interesting. Here 
 is a brief digest of the principal ones — 
 
 i.—Every house must stand on 
 its own grounds of at least 700 square 
 yards, two-thirds of which must be 
 garden space. 
 
Petach Tikvah. 
 
 83 
 
 2. —Every street must be at least 
 39 feet wide, and a certain space left 
 between each of the houses. 
 
 3. —Public gardens must be laid 
 out, and never built upon. 
 
 4. —Shops must be concentrated, 
 and only erected on certain reserved 
 spaces. 
 
 5-—The owners of the houses are 
 all under bond to contribute for paving, 
 lighting, cleaning, fire watch, etc. 
 
 6.—Every male inhabitant to take 
 turn to guard alternately during half 
 a night with the paid watchman. 
 
 A very interesting detail about this remark¬ 
 able Jewish suburb is the fact that the people's 
 language is not Arabic, nor the Yiddish of 
 Whitechapel, but the Hebrew of Moses and the 
 Prophets. 
 
 Petach Tikvah. 
 
 We next paid a visit to the colony of 
 Petach Tikvah, which lies about a two- 
 
84 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 hours’ ride to the north-east of Jaffa. It is the 
 richest and largest Jewish agricultural colony 
 in Palestine, and has a population of about 
 two thousand three hundred. It was founded 
 in 1878, by Jerusalem Jews, and was greatly 
 augmented in 1882 by exiles from Russia, 
 including many highly-educated students. It 
 possesses two hotels, a concert hall, com¬ 
 mittee buildings, pleasure gardens, several 
 schools, and, of course, a synagogue. The 
 colony also possesses forty thousand eucalyp¬ 
 tus trees as an antidote to malaria, rendering 
 the district very healthy ; it also has a large 
 number of fine orange groves. Petach Tikvah 
 comprises over five thousand acres. 
 
 Rischon-le-Zion. 
 
 In the opposite direction to Petach Tikvah, 
 about two hours’ ride from Jaffa to the south¬ 
 east, is the well-known Jewish colony of 
 Rischon-le-Zion, which in plain English means 
 
Rischon-le-Zion. 85 
 
 " First to Zion/' a phrase found in Isaiah 
 xli. 27, associated with prophecies of “ good 
 tidings ” for the Holy Land in general, and 
 Jerusalem in particular. It was called 
 Rischon-le-Zion, because it was at the time of 
 its establishment the first Jewish colony met 
 with in the Land on arriving at Jaffa. It 
 was founded in 1882, mainly with the 
 assistance of Baron de Rothschild, by Jews 
 driven from Russia during the terrible perse¬ 
 cution then being carried on in that country. 
 It was financed by Baron Edmund de Roths¬ 
 child. It comprises about twelve hundred 
 acres of land, which have been planted with 
 over a million vines. It gives occupation to 
 a thousand Jews, and at times provides work 
 for more than double that number. The wine¬ 
 making plant and machinery once seen are 
 never forgotten. We were amazed. It 
 possesses the largest wine cellar in the world. 
 
86 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 The cellar contains 104 large vats, each of 
 which holds nearly sixty thousand pints of 
 liquor. The latest returns show an annual 
 output of over six hundred thousand gallons 
 of wine. The colony possesses an hotel, 
 synagogue, good shops, and up-to-date 
 schools ; also a large stock of horses, cows, 
 camels, sheep and poultry. The place has 
 been truly termed 
 
 “A Lovely Garden City.” 
 
 Our friend, John Foster Fraser, the author 
 of The Conquering Jew, opens his eyes with 
 surprise at a certain unnamed optimistic 
 American diplomat, for having reported after a 
 recent tour of inspection of the Jewish Colonies: 
 “ I was transported with joy at the sight of 
 the colonies. One must go to Palestine 
 to acquire a correct impression of the Jewish 
 people. One must see the land admirably 
 cultivated, the gardens filled with flowers, 
 
A Lovely Garden City. 87 
 
 the well-planted vines, the pretty avenues, 
 and the well-kept roads. Hundreds of Jews 
 are at work in making the land fertile, and they 
 have the satisfaction of knowing that success 
 attends their efforts. One cannot but be 
 struck by the Russian girls (Jewesses), who 
 soon after their arrival in Palestine are 
 transformed into bright young women.” 
 
 Yes, one must go to Palestine to realise 
 the Movement. The diplomat just quoted 
 evidently possessed the eyes of a Joshua 
 and a Caleb ; and it is only the faith and 
 spirit of such optimists that ever accomplish 
 great things. If a pessimistic visitor, after a 
 leisurely visit to such Jewish Colonies as Tel 
 Abib, Petach Tikvah, and Rischon-le-Zion, 
 remains a pessimist still, then we venture to 
 label him past praying for. 
 
 These colonies are all well within reach 
 of Jaffa, and have much to do with the 
 
88 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 tremendous increase of the imports and 
 exports of that place. 
 
 We admit that these three colonies are to 
 be ranked as the pick of the Jewish settle¬ 
 ments in the Land, but there are scores of 
 others equally important in their way in 
 other parts of the country, of which we shall 
 write later on, especially in the Holy City, of 
 which it is written in Psalm lxxxvii. 5, 6 :— 
 
 " This and that man was born in 
 her, and the Highest himself shall 
 establish her. The Lord shall count 
 when He writeth up the people, that 
 this man was born there/' 
 
 Educational Establishments. 
 
 A very important feature in these unwalled 
 villages is that of education. Jewish schools 
 are springing up with great rapidity, which 
 compare most favourably with Gentile edu¬ 
 cational establishments. 
 
Jewish Educational Establishments. 89 
 
 At Tel Abib there is the Gymnasia Ibrith, 
 or Higher Grade College for boys and girls, 
 over seven hundred of whom are being edu¬ 
 cated there, under the principalship of Dr. 
 B. Mossinsohn. The headmaster is Dr. 
 Joseph Greher, whose wholeheartedness in 
 his work was most manifest as he conducted 
 us through the numerous class rooms of the 
 magnificent building; up-to-date in every 
 respect, from its kindergarten class to a 
 well-equipped chemical laboratory. 
 
 We next visited the Tachkemoni School, 
 at the same Jaffa suburb. Formerly under 
 the care of Dr. Schlesinger, it is now con¬ 
 ducted by Dr. T. Engel, from Frankfort. 
 It is a school with a very pronounced orthodox 
 Mosaic flavour. Biblical Hebrew is the 
 language used. In fact, we noticed the 
 pupils were using the writings of Moses and 
 the Prophets as class books. Worship of the 
 
9 ° Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Deity and reverence for elders are marked 
 features. 
 
 While at Jaffa we spent some time at the 
 “ Higher Grade School for Girls,” of the 
 Odessa Committee, the principal of which is 
 Dr. Turoff. Four hundred girls are being 
 trained there. Dr. Turoff, in conducting 
 us round, was particular in reminding us it 
 was entirely Jewish—“Only one Gentile girl 
 in the whole school, and her father is a 
 proselyte. This Odessa Committee is known 
 generally as the “ Choevevi Zion ” (“ Lovers 
 of Zion ”). 
 
 At Jerusalem there are quite a number of 
 Jewish schools of no mean repute in the way 
 of results. 
 
 The Ratisbonne Institute. 
 
 This was the only “ Jewish ” establishment 
 that was a failure. It is a huge building, 
 erected and maintained with the money of 
 
The Batisbonne Institute. 91 
 
 one Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Strasburg Jew, 
 a banker. He was converted to Roman 
 Catholicism by a vision of the Virgin Mary, 
 and as a result founded this Institute to train 
 100 young Jews in various trades, but in the 
 Papal religion ! We found only three Jews 
 in the whole establishment. No wonder! 
 How could it be expected that any intelligent 
 Jew could ever renounce the One Jehovah of 
 the Bible for the triune deity of a corrupt and 
 apostate " Christendom ” ? If our Jewish 
 reader would but read a book entitled 
 Christendom Astray , by Robert Roberts, and 
 which is to be found in over 600 of our 
 Free Libraries, he would see what an injustice 
 he does those two Jews, Jesus and Paul, in 
 alleging that they ever renounced the One 
 God for the pagan trinity worshipped by 
 “ Christendom/’ falsely so-called. Our 
 esteemed friend, Mr. Herbert Loewe, of 
 
9 2 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Oxford, the pleasure of whose company we 
 had both on the Mediterranean and in the 
 Holy Land, has truly asked, in his excellent 
 essay on " The Orthodox Position ” : " If 
 
 it is hard to believe in a Unity, how much 
 harder must it be to believe in a Trinity ? ” 
 When, however, we pointed out that the 
 contention of Jesus was : “ The Lord our 
 God is one Lord ” (Mark xii. 29) ; and that 
 the contention of Paul was : “ To us there 
 is but one God ” (1 Cor. viii. 6), he, with his 
 characteristic frankness and * honour, wrote, 
 I am very sorry that I have overlooked 
 your brotherhood, not only in my pamphlet 
 but in my article, ' Judaism/ in Hastings 1 
 Encyclopedia of Religion . I quite see your 
 point that many Jewish objections to ‘ Chris¬ 
 tianity ' fall to the ground in your case. I 
 will never again in writing, or in speaking, 
 omit to draw attention to this point. The 
 
Unity not Trinity. 93 
 
 difference in our view of Jesus would probably 
 be one of degree, and not of principle . . . 
 In the meanwhile, please be assured of my 
 sincere regret that I made such inaccurate 
 statements.” 
 
 Jesus and his apostles are as clear and 
 emphatic as are Moses and the Prophets 
 in their doctrine as to the Unity of the God¬ 
 head. But we can quite see that the blame for 
 our friend's inaccurate statements lies at the 
 door of those professing, albeit false followers 
 of Jesus who have added, and still retain, 
 the abominable Athanasian Creed. Individ¬ 
 ually, however, they are rightly getting more 
 and more ashamed of, and disgusted with, 
 such a creed. " Christendom,” as generally 
 known, is astray from the teaching and 
 religion of that Jew of Jews—Jesus of Nazar¬ 
 eth. The God-fearing and Bible-loving 
 reader will soon discover that to be so by 
 perusing the book already referred to, entitled 
 
94 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Christendom Astray. Nowhere in the Bible is 
 Jesus said to be “ God the Son,” but always 
 " The Son of God.” 
 
 The Lamel Settlement. 
 
 There is the Lamel School, worked under 
 the control of the “ Hilfsverein ” (‘‘Help 
 Society ”) of German Jews, founded by 
 Freifrau von Lamel. Its moving spirit is 
 Mr. David Yellin, who wields an immediate 
 and telling influence over more than seventeen 
 hundred Israelites. In connection therewith 
 there are sundry technical, sewing, singing, 
 and other classes for these German Jews and 
 Jewesses. In connection with this Lamel 
 Settlement, and the influence it has generally 
 in Jerusalem, we might mention that at a 
 recent election for a councillor for the Muni¬ 
 cipality of Jerusalem, Mr. David Yellin was 
 elected as one of the honoured ten councillors 
 who govern the city. A most telling fact 
 
Other Jewish Institutions. 
 
 95 
 
 that, when we remember that for seventeen 
 centuries the Jew has been an outcast. 
 
 Then there is the " Evelina de Rothschild 
 School for Girls,” at which are educated over 
 seven hundred pupils, under the principalship 
 of Miss Annie Landau. We were sorry to hear 
 of the prevalency of eye disease among the 
 scholars, which, of course, is not peculiar to 
 this school. Miss Landau is adopting up-to- 
 date measures to stamp out the evil. We 
 personally witnessed the good work she is 
 doing in this and many other directions. And 
 we must not forget the boys’ and girls’ day 
 schools, run by the " London Jews’Society,” 
 as well as the boarding school of the same 
 organisation. The French Jews also have 
 their schools—the “ Alliance Israelite Uni- 
 verselle.” 
 
 Other Jewish Institutions. 
 
 As to other Jewish institutions which have 
 sprung into existence, it is utterly impossible 
 to enumerate them all, much less to describe 
 
96 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 them in detail. We can but mention a few 
 typical ones. Not the least noteworthy is 
 the " Bezalel Institute of Arts and Crafts/' 
 It was founded by, and is under the manage¬ 
 ment of, Professor Boris Schatz, with the 
 object of utilising Jewish talent for Jewish 
 ends. The professor is one of the most ener¬ 
 getic Jews we ever met. Never so pleased, 
 apparently, as when he has two things to 
 do at the same time. He did not found the 
 Institute until 1905, and yet already finds 
 
 employment for some six or seven hundred 
 Jews and Jewesses. The annual turnover 
 now runs into five figures sterling. 
 
 Abraham’s Vineyard. 
 
 Another good institution is that founded 
 by Mrs. E. A. Finn, widow of a late British 
 Consul, on a plot of desolate land north¬ 
 west of Jerusalem. It is known as Abraham's 
 Vineyard, and is managed by Mr. W. H. Dunn 
 
Evelina de Rothschild School For Girls, Jerusalem. 
 

 
 
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The Bezalel Institute of Arts and Crafts,” Jerusalem. 
 
Abraham’s Vineyard. 97 
 
 (son of the late Admiral Dunn), whose love 
 for the poor willing Jew is equalled by his 
 tact in managing such a motley crew as we 
 saw there from time to time. If a Jew is 
 hard up, wants work, and is willing to work, 
 Mr. Dunn will oblige him. If he is ill and 
 cannot work, Mr. Dunn will send him to one 
 of the Jewish hospitals. If he is well and won't 
 work, Mr. Dunn will send him about his 
 business. Employment is sometimes found 
 for over a hundred Jews—cistern digging, 
 soap making, wall building, and garden work. 
 We enquired the nationality of the Jews then 
 at work, and found all sorts—Russian, 
 German, Spanish, American, Roumanian, 
 Persian, Egyptian, Yemenite—all in keeping 
 with Jeremiah xxxii. 37 •— 
 
 " Behold, I will gather them out of 
 all countries, whither I have driven 
 them in mine anger, and in my fury, 
 and in great wrath ; and I will bring 
 
9 8 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 them again unto this place, and I will 
 cause them to dwell safely.” 
 
 “ Neither Bars nor Gates.” 
 
 To one well versed in the writings of " Moses 
 and the Prophets it is impossible to walk 
 about Zion and the other Holy Places without 
 some text or other coming prominently into 
 mind, and the fact of some prophecy or 
 other being fulfilled coming into evidence 
 before one's very eyes. For instance, while 
 roaming about that remarkable colony called 
 Meah Shearim, with its three thousand 
 inhabitants (all Jews), and which was founded 
 in i860 (see page 34), we were forcibly struck 
 by the fact that between some of the houses— 
 which are part and parcel of the colony, 
 and form, as it were, a wall thereto—removed 
 gates were lying against the side walls of 
 the end houses; gates which had once been 
 hanging in position, so as to be shut at night, 
 
99 
 
 “Neither Bars nor Gates.” 
 
 and thus close the colony against all outsiders. 
 The sockets were still intact in the brick 
 walls of the houses. We enquired of our 
 guide and companion, Dr. Maurice Franklin, 
 why they were not still in position, and thus 
 answering their evident object. It appears 
 that when this colony was founded, the 
 gates of Jerusalem were always shut between 
 sunset and sunrise for safety's sake, and 
 when Meah Shearim was built, it likewise 
 was made to accommodate itself to such 
 conditions. A year or so, however, before 
 our visit, the Turkish soldiers, acting on 
 instructions from the authorities, came one 
 night and removed all the gates from their 
 sockets or hinges, and placed them where 
 they now stand. At once our mind reverted 
 to Ezekiel xxxviii. n, where we read of 
 certain villages 
 
 “ That are at rest, that dwell 
 safely, all of them dwelling without 
 
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 walls, and having neither bars nor 
 gates.” 
 
 A coincidence, merely ! 
 
 Nay, surely something more than that. 
 Here was a walled village, with bars and 
 gates—the only Jewish Colony which was 
 not in keeping with the letter of the text above 
 cited—now taking its place with the other 
 " unwalled villages,” and “ having neither 
 bars nor gates.” 
 
 Blood Ritual. 
 
 While engaged in our investigations, we 
 had ample opportunity of discovering how 
 false the “ Blood accusation ” is. It is a 
 wicked charge, for which the Russians are 
 mainly responsible, and for which there will 
 be a terrible reckoning by-and-bye with the 
 God of Israel, who has said, “ Cursed is he 
 that curseth thee ” (Numbers xxiv. 9). The 
 odious charge is always associated with the 
 
Blood Ritual. 
 
 IOI 
 
 Passover Feast, and so we took the oppor¬ 
 tunity of catching unawares the Jewish bakers 
 in preparing for it. Space would not allow 
 us, even did the purpose of writing this book 
 warrant it, to enter into details of all we 
 saw, but such would have convinced the most 
 sceptical of the groundlessness of the abomin¬ 
 able charge of mixing Gentile blood with the 
 Passover bread. 
 
 Just a Foretaste. 
 
 Of course, the complete fulfilment of the 
 gracious promise to “ restore again the 
 Kingdom to Israel ” will not be till their 
 Messiah appears, when will be realised by 
 the whole House of Israel that of which the 
 present partial return and colonization is 
 but an earnest or foretaste. Ezekiel, in 
 chapter xxxvii., verse 21, thus vividly foretells 
 it : — 
 
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 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 “ Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, 
 I will take the children of Israel from 
 among the heathen, whither they be 
 gone, and will gather them on every 
 side, and bring them into their own 
 land : 
 
 “ And I will make them one nation 
 in the land upon the mountains of 
 Israel; and one king shall be king to 
 them all: and they shall be no more 
 two nations, neither shall they be 
 divided into two kingdoms any more 
 at all.” 
 
 Then there are in Jerusalem eleven Jewish 
 hospitals and clinics entirely confined to 
 the treatment of Jews and Jewesses. There 
 are also six Jewish orphanages or homes. 
 Likewise a “ House of Industry,” where Jews 
 are employed by the “ London Jews' Society,” 
 making Holy Land mementoes of olive wood 
 from the Mount of Olives. 
 
Jewish Monopoly. 103 
 
 At Jaffa there is the " Fabrique de ter,” 
 an institution where young Jews are taught 
 to work in iron, and make gates, safes, ploughs, 
 and other useful goods. Although this work¬ 
 shop has only been in existence about six 
 years, the master has already turned out 
 several competent workmen who are in receipt 
 of the full pay received by skilled craftsmen. 
 
 The business of Jerusalem is clearly in the 
 hands of the Jews. 
 
 Wherever one looks Jewish names stand out 
 prominently over the various stores and 
 bazaars. On every hand we note the names— 
 Isaac, David, Abraham, Joel, Israel, etc. 
 And it doesn't matter what kind of shop or 
 business, they seem able to adapt themselves 
 to anything and everything. Everything 
 becomes grist to the mill of the Jew. They 
 are tailors, drapers, shoemakers, fruiterers, 
 grocers, blacksmiths, printers, carpenters and 
 
104 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 hotel-keepers. The hotel owned and managed 
 by Mr. Kaminitz we recommend to Zionists, 
 especially those who can speak Yiddish. 
 
 Jew versus Gentile. 
 
 Canon S. A. Barnett, the President of the 
 Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, London, E., who 
 lived in the very heart of East-end Jewry, 
 was right when he wrote “ The poor Jew is, 
 as a rule, more capable than the poor Gentile. 
 He can shape an ideal in his mind with some¬ 
 thing of a poet's power. Hence he is able to 
 work with intelligence, and a success which 
 does not always follow mere technical edu¬ 
 cation. He has dreams which he can enjoy 
 in his hours of leisure without being driven 
 to seek dreams through drunkenness. He 
 has a sense of equality which gives him self- 
 confidence, and enables him easily to take the 
 place he gains in the world. He is very per¬ 
 sistent. He endures hardships, and faces 
 
The Jewish Colonial Trust. 105 
 
 opposition, with a courageous perseverance. 
 He takes up a new pursuit ; he enters new con¬ 
 ditions of life ; he begins again and again after 
 failures, with an energy and resourcefulness, 
 if not greater, certainly more patient than 
 that of the Anglo-Saxon/' 
 
 The Jewish Colonial Trust. 
 
 We must not forget the many offshoots 
 of the great “ Jewish Colonial Trust," with 
 its capital of two million sterling. Evidently 
 the fact of being able to show scrip testifying 
 that we were among its earliest shareholders, 
 was a kind of open sesame to Jewish institu¬ 
 tions that would otherwise have been closed 
 to us as mere ordinary Gentiles. Among 
 the “ Trust's " offshoots, we would particu¬ 
 larly mention “ The Anglo-Palestine Com¬ 
 pany," “ The National Fund," “ The Pales¬ 
 tine Land Development Company," “ The 
 Land Donation Fund," “ The Palestine Plant- 
 
106 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 ing Association," " The Olive Tree Fund/' 
 “ The Palestine Industries Syndicate/' " The 
 Culture Fund," " The Hygienic Institute," 
 “ The Central Library in Jerusalem " ; these 
 are all lively institutions, and members of a 
 family which is rapidly increasing. 
 
 And note, this movement is not confined 
 to Jaffa and Jerusalem, it extends through¬ 
 out the Land. 
 
 Jewish Colonies in Galilee. 
 
 If we travel north to the Galilean districts, 
 there, at Safed, we find no fewer than twelve 
 thousand five hundred Jews in that rapidly 
 growing Palestine city. If we wend our way 
 into the very heart of the country, to Tiberias, 
 there we find, in a population of less than 
 ten thousand, no fewer than eight thousand 
 Jews. At the port of Haifa, too, we come 
 across more than three thousand Jews. 
 Elsewhere, among the plains of Galilee, there 
 
Jewish Colonies in Galilee. 107 
 
 are sixteen Jewish agricultural colonies, 
 including Rosh Pina, a charming settlement of 
 over eight hundred Jews. We shall never 
 forget our horse-ride through that flourishing 
 place. 
 
 Then, too, in this Galilean province, we 
 might particularly mention Yamma and 
 Begden, founded in 1902, and possessing 
 about seven thousand acres of land, and 
 between four and five thousand Jewish 
 inhabitants ; Sedjerah, established in 1899, 
 with nearly five thousand acres, and over 
 two hundred inhabitants ; Metulah, founded 
 by Baron de Rothschild in 1896, and having 
 about three thousand five hundred acres, 
 and over three hundred inhabitants. Tobacco 
 and wheat are the chief products of this 
 colony. Yessod-Hammalah, established in 
 1883, owning two thousand five hundred 
 acres, and three hundred inhabitants. In good 
 
108 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 repute for its inexhaustible supply of water 
 from Lake Huleh. Milhamie, founded in 
 1902, with over three thousand acres, and 
 about one hundred and fifty inhabitants. 
 Mescha, founded in 1902, having about two 
 thousand five hundred acres, and two hundred 
 inhabitants. Mishmar Hayardin, founded 
 in 1890, with a thousand acres, and a popula¬ 
 tion of over one hundred. Then there are the 
 smaller colonies or settlements of Dailaika, 
 or Dajania, Chinnereth, Mahanaim, Mer- 
 chavia, Migdol, Mizpah, Poria, and others. 
 
 The Technicum. 
 
 In approaching Haifa from the sea, one’s 
 attention is immediately called to an imposing 
 building of attractive elevation. It stands 
 out more prominently than aught else in 
 the district. What is it ? It is a Jewish 
 Technical College, the foundation stone of 
 which was laid in 1912, known as the Tech- 
 
The Technicum at Haifa. 109 
 
 nicum. The site comprises no fewer than 
 50,000 square yards. Towards its cost, £50,000 
 was raised with very little trouble. 
 
 Herr A. Finklestein, the Director-in-Charge, 
 to whom we had a letter of introduction, 
 kindly showed us over the whole establish¬ 
 ment, including its many workshops, and 
 main school and class rooms. Its estimated 
 cost is over £100,000. They have sunk a 
 well through the solid rock over 300 feet deep. 
 The only fear the promoters have is that the 
 University will be able to turn out yearly 
 more teachers and skilled artisans than 
 Palestine will be able to find employment 
 for, and that emigration will result, which is 
 not the desire of Zionists. 
 
 By-the-way, we might here mention the 
 fact that the influence of the Zionists with 
 the powers-that-be is seen in the fact that 
 while the war was raging between Turkey and 
 
no 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Italy, and dynamite was contraband, the Jews 
 were able to get it through to Haifa, and 
 proceed with their blasting operations. 
 
 Considerable indignation has been aroused 
 in Jewry of Britain, America, France, and 
 Russia, at the fact of German Jewry taking 
 advantage of a war-created situation to 
 buv the entire Technicum, “ lock, stock, and 
 barrel ” as the Jewish Chronicle calls it, at 
 the " knock-out price of £11,000,” not a sixth 
 of its cost; but, from our standpoint, the inci¬ 
 dent is merely an incident, although very 
 confirmatory of what we have already written 
 and shall write on German intentions in 
 Palestine. 
 
 Jewish Colonies in Samaria. 
 
 Coming southward to the Samarian districts, 
 we find ten colonies, owning among them 
 forty thousand acres of land, included in 
 which is the well-known colony of Zichron 
 
Jewish Colonies in Samaria. iii 
 
 Jacob, founded in 1882, comprising five 
 thousand acres of land, and a population of 
 over eleven hundred Jews ; Chedera, estab¬ 
 lished in 1891, with about seven thousand 
 acres of land, and two hundred inhabitants ; 
 Kefar Saba, established in 1894, with about 
 one thousand five hundred acres, and thirty- 
 five inhabitants ; Athlit, established in 1897, 
 with nearly one thousand two hundred acres, 
 and fifty inhabitants ; Chefzibah, established 
 in 1905, with five hundred acres and one or 
 two families; Zichron Jacob, already 
 referred to, or Zammarine, as it is known to 
 the Turks and map students, is one of the 
 very few agricultural colonies. It was founded 
 over thirty years ago by Roumanian Jews, 
 helped, or rather subsidised, by Baron de 
 Rothschild, and is a really charming place; 
 although, when the Jews first settled there 
 in 1882, the district was so unhealthy that 
 
112 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the natives shunned it. Among the first 
 public buildings to be erected by the new 
 owners was an isolation annexe to the Com¬ 
 munal Hospital, wherein to locate infectious 
 diseases. That it has never once been used 
 during the whole of those more than thirty 
 years speaks eloquently for the constitution 
 of the Jews. We spent a very happy time 
 there, “ doing ” the place thoroughly under 
 the guidance of Herr Graff, the Zionist pro¬ 
 prietor of the Hotel of the Colony. The posi¬ 
 tion of the settlement from a picturesque 
 point of view is very fine, and Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lange, the well-known friends of Zionism, 
 made no bad choice in the cliff on which they 
 have erected their charming villa, command¬ 
 ing, as it does, a vista of the whole coast from 
 Acre to Caesarea. The Colony of Zichron 
 Jacob is replete with every necessary require¬ 
 ment. 
 
Other Jewish Colonies. 113 
 
 More southward still, among the hills of 
 Judea, to say nothing of the fifty-seven 
 ghettoes or colonies already referred to on 
 pages 33 to 48, there are at least fifteen 
 agricultural colonies, comprising fifteen 
 thousand acres of land, and of which the 
 Jew is making full use. 
 
 Other Jewish Colonies. 
 
 Perhaps it will be as well to mention the 
 names and localities of some of these other 
 Jewish Colonies. 
 
 Round about Judea there are quite a number 
 of small ones. There is Ain Ganim, with a 
 population of over one hundred, mostly 
 refugees from the Caucasian Mountains. It 
 was founded by the Odessa Committee in the 
 year 1908. Between Jaffa and Jerusalem 
 there are about twenty Jewish colonies, nearly 
 all agricultural. True, some of them are 
 very small, but they are like the thin end of 
 
114 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the proverbial wedge—a wedge being driven 
 in by the force of circumstances, which includes 
 the cruel persecutions in Russia and other 
 countries. Artuf was founded by Bulgarian 
 Jews, in 1896. Beth Arif has two colonies, 
 one being a settlement of the Athid Oil 
 Works, established in 1906; and the other 
 an estate of the Jewish National Fund, with 
 olive and other fruit tree plantations. Bir 
 Jacob was founded in 1909, by the Odessa 
 Committee, for workmen, mainly Caucasian 
 Mountain Jews. Ekron was founded by 
 Baron de Rothschild in 1884, for agricul¬ 
 turists from the south of Russia. Ezra was 
 founded in 1883 by a handful of Jews from 
 Petach Tikvah. Kafa Saba also comprises 
 detachments from Petach Tikvah. Kastinie, 
 or Kastinjeh, was established by the Odessa 
 Committee between 1888 and 1896. Katra 
 was founded by students expelled from 
 
Jewish Agricultural Establishments. 115 
 
 Russia in 1882. Mozah was founded by the 
 Independent Order of B'nei Brith (Jerusalem 
 Branch) in 1890. The Cologne Colonization 
 Society also helped in the formation of this 
 colony. Rechoboth is an important colony 
 of about six hundred, and was founded in 
 1890 by rich Russian Zionists. Wadi Chanin, 
 or Vadi-el-Chanin, is situated near Rischon- 
 le-Zion, and was founded in 1882-7, and 
 numbers about two hundred. 
 
 Agricultural Establishments. 
 
 We must not forget, too, that farming 
 is taught the rising generation of Jews on 
 up-to-date lines. There is the Jewish Agri¬ 
 cultural Experiment Station, near Haifa, 
 founded in 1910, the managing director of 
 which is Mr. Aaron Aaronson ; and there is 
 the much older Agricultural School at Mikveh 
 Israel, not far from Jaffa, the principal of 
 which is M. Loupo, of the Alliance Israelite 
 
n6 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Universelle. It was founded in 1868, with 
 
 land given by the Turkish Government—about 
 
 six hundred acres. Pupils from the school 
 are to be found in many of the newly-formed 
 Jewish colonies. 
 
 As regards newspapers, Jerusalem can 
 boast of one daily and four weekly; and 
 Jaffa one weekly. There are also three bi¬ 
 weeklies. All these papers are printed in 
 Hebrew. 
 
 We must, however, call a halt in our recital 
 of the work being done by Jews in Palestine, 
 or we shall make a much bigger volume than 
 we intend ; for it would be easy to fill hundreds 
 of pages with information concerning Jewish 
 institutions which have sprung into existence 
 during the last few years, and which we have 
 personally inspected. 
 
 But, do not misunderstand us. We do 
 not mean to suggest that this movement 
 
The Meaning of Zionism. 117 
 
 on the part of the jew to the Land of his 
 forefathers—the Land of Promise-vast 
 movement as it is, is by any means a complete 
 fulfilment of the prophetic promises referred 
 to in the foregoing pages. It would, indeed, 
 be a poor sequel to the past twenty-five 
 centuries' history of the Jew if it were 
 so. Nevertheless, we do contend that the 
 migration of the Jews to Canaan, which has 
 been, and is still, going on, is an absolute 
 fulfilment of those prophecies concerning the 
 Jew and his land just prior to the return to 
 the earth of his Messiah, and which Time 
 is so frequently spoken of by the prophets 
 of Israel as “ The Time of the End," “ The 
 Latter Years," and " The Latter Days." 
 
 The Meaning of Zionism. 
 
 Not only is this partial return of the Jews 
 to Palestine an earnest; it is a foretaste of 
 
n8 Palestine and the Powers* 
 
 what is to be in the near future, when, as 
 God says :— 
 
 “ Behold, I will take the children of 
 Israel from among the heathen, whither 
 they be gone, and will gather them on 
 every side, and bring them into their 
 own land : And I will make them 
 one nation in the Land upon the moun¬ 
 tains of Israel; and one king shall 
 be king to them all : and they shall be 
 no more two nations, neither shall 
 they be divided into two kingdoms 
 any more at all ” (Ezek. xxxvii. 21-22). 
 
 And when, as regards the Land itself, God 
 says:— 
 
 " And the desolate land shall be 
 tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the 
 sight of all that passed by. And they 
 shall say, This land that was desolate is 
 become like the garden of Eden; and 
 the waste and desolate and ruined 
 cities are become fenced, and are 
 inhabited. Then the heathen that are 
 
Russia’s Greed. 
 
 119 
 
 left round about you shall know that 
 I the Lord build the ruined places, and 
 plant that which was desolate : I the 
 Lord have spoken it, and I will do 
 it ” (Ezek. xxxvi. 34-36). 
 
 Russia’s Greed. 
 
 Meanwhile, and until that glorious time 
 comes, all that is required is that sufficient 
 colonisation shall have taken place to arouse 
 the cupidity of the invading Power referred 
 to as “ Thou ” in Ezekiel xxxviii. n-12, 
 which reads thus :— 
 
 “ And thou shalt say, 1 will go up 
 to the land of unwalled villages ; I will 
 go to them that are at rest, that 
 dwell safely, all of them dwelling 
 without walls, and having neither bars 
 nor gates, to take a spoil and to take a 
 prey ; to turn thine hand upon the 
 desolate places that are now inhabited, 
 and upon the people that are gathered 
 
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 out of the nations, which have gotten 
 cattle and goods, that dwell in the 
 midst of the Land/' 
 
 The question, the interesting and important 
 question, then arises—What Power is there 
 addressed as “ Thou/’ whose greed is bent 
 on the Holy Places ? God has not left us to 
 speculate on the matter, for, in verse 2, He 
 fully answers the question. That verse runs 
 thus 
 
 “ Son of Man, set thy face against 
 Gog, the land of Magog, Prince of Rosh. 
 Meshech and Tubal /' 
 
 The Authorised Version renders it, “ chief 
 prince of Meshech/' etc., but it should read 
 as given in the Revised Version, " Prince of 
 Rosh/’ Now, Rosh we have no difficulty in 
 identifying with Russia. In 1640, Bochart, 
 the eminent Orientalist, declared that Rosh 
 was the most ancient form under which 
 
Bible Prophecies o! Russia. 121 
 
 history makes mention of the name of Russia. 
 And, he goes on to say, " It is credible that 
 from Rhos and Mesech (that is the Rhosci 
 and Moschi) of whom Ezekiel speaks, 
 descended the Russians and Muscovites/’ 
 Gesenius, the well-known lexicographer 
 (quoted by Dr. Smith, in his Bible Dictionary ), 
 authoritatively says, <f Undoubtedly the 
 Russians/' And Bayer, in 1726 (also quoted 
 by Dr. Smith), said : 
 
 “ Mention of the Russians under 
 the name of Rosh is found in a Latin 
 Chronicle under the year 839 a.d.” 
 
 To cut a long history short, but to further 
 clinch this identification, we would call atten¬ 
 tion to Dean Stanley’s corroboration in his 
 affirmation that " Russia is the only modern 
 nation mentioned in the Scriptures.” 
 
 " Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal’ 
 clearly points to the Autocrat of the Russians, 
 
122 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Muscovites and Siberians; in modem language; 
 “ All the Russias.” 
 
 Russia’s Preparations. 
 
 But is Russia likely to engage in such 
 an invasion? Is there any apparent attempt 
 or undertaking on her part in The Land to 
 lead us to conclude that she has any intention 
 of acting in the way described in Ezekiel 
 xxxviii. 11-13 ? Yes, there is evidence, 
 overwhelming to such an extent that it beggars 
 description. The achievements of Russia in 
 and around Jerusalem alone can only be ade¬ 
 quately appreciated by those who have 
 personally surveyed what she has done and is 
 doing. On the west side of the city, not 
 far away from the principal gates, she has 
 obtained over forty acres of ground, surrounded 
 it with huge walls and gates, and erected 
 within the enclosure quite a number of 
 buildings. In addition to what the Russians 
 
Russia’s Preparations in Palestine. 123 
 
 are pleased to describe as “ accommodation 
 for pilgrims/’ but which we, who have 
 learnt to “call a spade a spade,” consider 
 far more suitable for barracks capable of 
 housing some ten thousands of troops, she 
 has there the Imperial Consulate and offices, 
 a large hospital, a cathedral, several schools, 
 a market, a post office of her own, and shops 
 where any and every article of everyday 
 requirement can be purchased. This Govern- 
 mental settlement, known as the “ Russian 
 Quadrangle,” covers more ground than the 
 whole of the Temple area. 
 
 But that is not all. As we stood upon the 
 outer edge of the east side of the Russian 
 Quadrangle—from thence we had an unin¬ 
 terrupted view of the whole of Jerusalem 
 below us, and of the Mount of Olives beyond 
 and above—there, right up on the top of that 
 Mount, stood, in bold relief against the sky- 
 
l2 4 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 line, a huge and high tower, which also belongs 
 to the Russians. 
 
 The Russian Tower. 
 
 This tower, known as the * Belvidere 
 Tower/’ is over one hundred and sixty feet 
 high, which, in view of the fact that the 
 Mount is two hundred feet above Jerusalem, 
 means that any sentry on duty at the top of 
 the Tower would have a most commanding 
 view of everything going on in the streets of 
 the city, and all around. From that Tower 
 signalling could be carried on with a fleet in 
 the Mediterranean off Jaffa ; in fact, during 
 our last stay there, searchlight practice was 
 carried on during the night. In addition to 
 Tie Tower, there has been much building 
 carried on by the Russians in the immediate 
 vicinity, on land also owned by them. The 
 property is walled in with up-to-date stone 
 
Russia the Colossus. 125 
 
 and brick walls, and all is kept in the most 
 perfect condition. 
 
 Russia the Colossus. 
 
 Very few people really know Russia. Until 
 we visited it we had no idea as to its colossal 
 magnitude and greatness. It occupied quite 
 a second rate place in our estimation ; and 
 as to Poland, it practically stood nowhere. 
 The best and most picturesque, as well as the 
 tersest description of Russia, is that of Mr. 
 Stephen Graham, in his racy and instructive 
 volume, Russia and the World, in which he 
 makes a comparison of Britain, Germany, 
 and Russia. He says, “ As nations go, Britain 
 is like a man of forty-five ; Germany like 
 a man of thirty ; but Russia like a genius who 
 is just eighteen.” And, again, the same writer 
 remarks, “ Russia, the silent one, silent for 
 twenty-five years, and then silent for ten 
 
126 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 yeais more, is speaking now, or about to 
 
 speak. The spirit moves mysteriously in 
 
 her. She begins to know that a new time 
 is at hand/' 
 
 It is a remarkable fact that Russia, too, 
 in relation to the Jews is colossal. That 
 country still contains more of the descendants 
 of Israel than all the rest of the world put 
 together. Out of twelve millions of Jews 
 in the earth, between six and seven millions 
 are under the sway of the Czar. It is remark¬ 
 able too, that more Russian pilgrims visit 
 
 the Holy Places annually than from any other 
 country. 
 
 But in the near future, not Russian pilgrims 
 
 but Russian soldiers—Cossacks and others_ 
 
 will go to these places, and among the others 
 (as we shall presently show) will be Germans 
 under the leadership of Russia, for there is 
 not the slightest doubt that whatever may 
 
Germany and Palestine. 127 
 
 be the details of the terms of peace and the 
 division of spoil at the end of the European 
 upheaval, Russia and the Allies will come 
 to the top, and Russia will be the head, and at 
 her beck and call will be ultimately every 
 power, except that of the British Lion and all 
 his " young lions/’ 
 
 Germany's Finger in the Pie. 
 
 It will be noticed by the careful Bible 
 student that God, through Ezekiel, also speaks 
 of “ Rosh ” as " Gog, of the land of Magog/’ 
 So we are confronted with the question, “ Who 
 is Magog ? A clue to the right answering of 
 that question is found in the writings of so 
 ancient an authority as Josephus, who informs 
 us that " Magog founded the Magogae, or 
 Scy thae,'' which Diodorus Siculus said inhabited 
 the north of Gaul. That clearly suggests that 
 the territory occupied by the Germans is the 
 
J 28 Palestine and the Powers* 
 
 land of Magog ” ; so that in this remarkable 
 prophecy of Ezekiel concerning “ the Latter 
 Years,” we have evidence that Russia and 
 Germany will be jointly interested, and will 
 act shoulder to shoulder in an invasion of the 
 Mountains of Israel, and a capturing of the 
 unwalled villages, till then “ dwelling safely 
 all of them.” 
 
 Naturally, the interested reader will be 
 constrained to ask, " Is it at all likely that 
 Germany will play ‘ second fiddle ’ to Russia ?” 
 In that matter we shall do well to keep in 
 mmd the old German Emperor’s dying 
 advice to his grandson, William II. : " Treat 
 Russia with the greatest possible consideration 
 when you come to the throne.” And the effect 
 of that advice upon the movements of Ger¬ 
 many with regard to Palestine, our intimate 
 acquaintance with the "lay of the Land” 
 obtained first hand on the spot, has made 
 

m 
 
 Meah Shaarim Gates. 
 
Germany’s Preparations. 129 
 
 manifest that the continual aim of Germany 
 is to worm itself into things Palestinic, side 
 by side with Russia. 
 
 Germany’s Preparations. 
 
 A little to the north of the Russian settle¬ 
 ment on the Mount of Olives, the German 
 Government have bought a large tract of 
 land, and erected thereon buildings, known as 
 “ The Victoria Augusta Settlement,” not the 
 least significant erection being a very high 
 tower similar to the Russian tower already 
 referred to. It is situated about midway 
 between the Russian Tower and the beauti¬ 
 fully situated estate of the late Englishman, 
 Sir John Gray-Hill. 
 
 And, further, with regard to the position 
 taken up by Germany around the Holy Places, 
 let us here quote from an article which recently 
 
130 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 appeared in a Jerusalem newspaper, from the 
 pen of a well-known Jewish writer :— 
 
 “ The German Emperor, with his 
 wonderful enterprise and enthusiasm, 
 has recently caused four very large and 
 imposing German buildings to be 
 erected in and about Jerusalem : a large 
 Protestant Church within the city; 
 a great and massive Roman Catholic 
 Church outside the walls to the south : 
 an immense Roman Catholic Hospice 
 outside the Damascus gate ; and the 
 fourth, a Protestant Hospice on the 
 Mount of Olives ; the latter, a very 
 large and imposing erection, and beau¬ 
 tifully decorated within. Round the 
 latter extensive planting has been 
 made, and is being continued. Part of 
 the very large piece of land surrounding 
 it consisted of a bed of flint, and this 
 has been cleared away at great expense 
 for the purpose of planting.” 
 
Germany’s Intentions. 131 
 
 Then, too, we learnt that the German 
 Emperor had borne the expense of com¬ 
 pleting a good road from the Jerusalem 
 railway station at the south-west of the 
 city to his " Victoria Augusta Settlement ” 
 on the north-east, to which we have already 
 referred, and which Settlement could easily 
 be used for military purposes whenever 
 occasion requires. 
 
 Germany’s Intentions. 
 
 Then, too, the designs and aims of Germany 
 are most apparent in another channel. I 
 refer to what has become known as “ The 
 Language Question.” It arose out of the 
 founding of the Technicum at Haifa, and which 
 we have dealt with on pages 108-10. The 
 German Curators of the Technicum resolved 
 that German should be the official language 
 of the Institute, and not Hebrew, which the 
 Zionists as a whole desired. The decision 
 
132 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 of the Curatorium aroused the whole of 
 Jewry outside of Germany. Meetings of 
 protest were held everywhere. The Jews of 
 the United States were especially wrathful, 
 and enormous meetings were held everywhere. 
 In New York, Boston, Baltimore, Rochester, 
 
 and Philadelphia, meeting after meeting was 
 convened. 
 
 The Russian Jews were also against the 
 German decision ; and even went so far as 
 to establish at Moscow a publishing house 
 for the purpose of issuing text books in Hebrew 
 for general use at the Haifa University. Meet¬ 
 ings of protest were also held at Jerusalem, 
 Jaffa, and other centres of Zionism in the 
 Holy Land. Likewise the Jews of Britain 
 were equally opposed to the German demands. 
 Large protest meetings were held at Man¬ 
 chester, London, Leeds, Sunderland, Notting¬ 
 ham, Glasgow, and Dublin. 
 
Russia’s other Allies. 
 
 i33 
 
 We are not concerned with the pros of 
 this language question ; and only mention 
 it here as showing the trend of German desires 
 and aims in relation to movements in and 
 around the Holy Places. 
 
 We must also add here that the great 
 majority of the one hundred thousand Jews 
 now in Palestine speak the German dialect. 
 
 Russia’s other Allies. 
 
 The other Powers besides Germany on the 
 
 v' 
 
 side of Russia are mentioned in the 5th and 6th 
 verses of Ezekiel xxxviii., thus :— 
 
 “ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya 
 with them ; all of them with shield 
 and helmet; Corner and all his bands ; 
 the house of Togarmah of the north 
 quarters, and all his bands ; and many 
 people with thee.” 
 
 And, in verse 7, Russia is addressed in 
 these words :— 
 
134 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 " Be thou prepared, and prepare 
 for thyself, thou and all thy company 
 that are assembled unto thee, and be 
 thou a guard unto them/' 
 
 1 here is no more trouble in identifying 
 this company than there is in identifying 
 Rosh as Russia. 
 
 Persia we all know. And the eye, if not 
 the thumb, which Russia has on Persia we 
 also know. We could fill a volume with 
 articles from independent sources as to the 
 mind and desire of Russia in the direction 
 named. Here is just a sample, quite sufficient 
 ior our purpose, from the Daily News, Decem¬ 
 ber 6th, 1911 :— 
 
 The greatest uneasiness prevails 
 in official quarters in Constantinople 
 over Russian action in Persia. Turkey 
 has many and great interests in Persia, 
 and takes the line that the Porte must 
 be taken into account by Russia, in 
 
Russia and Persia. 
 
 i35 
 
 any discussion affecting the fate of 
 Persia." 
 
 And the Daily News some time ago, stated 
 
 “ A secret alliance actually exists 
 between Persia and Russia, and has 
 done since 1878/’ 
 
 At the end of the year 1912, too, when 
 M. Sazonoff, the Russian foreign minister, 
 visited England, to be present at a conference 
 on the problem of Persia, he met with a very 
 much mixed reception on his arrival in London, 
 all in consequence of the known Russian 
 policy in Persia. The whole of the Russian 
 press, it was reported, had taken for granted 
 that in any partition of Persia, Russia would 
 have the lion's share, or, as one witty editor 
 truly put it—‘ the bear's share," including 
 its capital city, Teheran. 
 
 Ethiopia, we are informed by no less an 
 authority than Professor Sayce, “ corresponds 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 with the modern Soudan, now possessed by 
 Britain, as the result of the brilliant exploits 
 of Lord Kitchener, that now is. As to the 
 fate of the Soudan and other Egyptian 
 provinces over which Britain has a protector¬ 
 ate, when Russia comes with “ all his bands," 
 we must leave that for a later chapter; suffice 
 it to say Egypt will succumb to the King of 
 the North. 
 
 Libya, or Phut, as it reads in the margin of 
 the A.V., has been identified with Tunis 
 and Algiers, and it so appears on a very old 
 map now before us. This is now possessed 
 by France, which, under the name of Gomer, 
 is said to be also under the guardianship of 
 Russia at the time of the end. 
 
 Gomer, like Magog, was a son of Japheth. 
 Josephus informs us that Gomer founded the 
 Gomari, whom the Greeks called Galatae. 
 Strabo says all the Galatae were called Galli 
 
Russia and France. 137 
 
 by the Latins. It is common knowledge 
 that from Galli comes Gaul, the former name 
 of France. 
 
 Lastly, as an ally of Russia in this overflow¬ 
 ing of Palestine and Egypt is mentioned 
 Togarmah, of the North quarters. Here again, 
 on looking at any ancient map, we shall see 
 Togarmah marked on territory north-east 
 of the Euphrates, fast falling under the rule 
 of the Czar, as have Kars and Batoum. 
 
 There we have the Latter-day Confederac}' 
 which is to march against the Holy Land and 
 Egypt, and be met en route by antagonistic 
 and defiant Britain. With the single excep¬ 
 tion of Germany, it is easy to see them all 
 getting into the grasp and lead of Russia. 
 And as to Germany, we shall, in a subsequent 
 chapter, show how she can, quite naturally, 
 fall into line with the rest at the required 
 moment. 
 
i3« 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Britain’s Intervention. 
 
 Now arises another question—as important 
 as it is interesting—it is this : In the event 
 of a Russo-German invasion of the Holy Places, 
 would the Confederacy be allowed a “ walk¬ 
 over ; or will some Power come forward 
 and exclaim “ Hands Off ! ” Even that ques¬ 
 tion God has not left unanswered. He 
 has distinctly answered it in the same chapter 
 (xxxviii.) of Ezekiel, at verse 13, which 
 reads :— 
 
 “ Sheba, and Dedan, and the mer¬ 
 chants of Tarshish, with all the young 
 lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art 
 thou come to take a spoil ? Hast thou 
 gathered thy company to take a prey ? 
 to carry away silver and gold, to take 
 away cattle and goods, to take a great 
 spoil ? ” 
 
 Who is Sheba ? 
 Who is Dedan ? 
 
Merchants oi Tarshish. 139 
 
 Who are the merchants of Tarshish ? 
 
 Who are all the young lions thereof ? 
 
 The reply is Great Britain and her Colonies. 
 That conclusion is forced upon us beyond all 
 doubt, when we look at the evidence. 
 
 As to Sheba, which all authorities tell us 
 is Aden ; it has been in the possession of Great 
 Britain since the year 1839, as a result 
 of unfulfilled promises of the Sultan of Turkey 
 to compensate us for an unwarranted attack 
 and plunder of a British warship in 1836. 
 
 As to Dedan, which all authorities agree 
 is Muscat, there has been a Treaty with 
 Great Britain since 1839 ; and during the 
 rebellion of 1883 the latter showed her claim 
 to its submission by shelling it ! 
 
 Merchants of Tarshish. 
 
 As to Tarshish, although the interpretations 
 have been various, all of them point to Britain. 
 One set of interpreters claims Tarshish to be 
 
140 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Tartessus, which, under the name of Gibraltar, 
 was ceded to England, by the Treaty of Utrecht, 
 in 1713. Others assert that it was India, 
 the English history of which is known to 
 every schoolboy. Then again, others said 
 that certain Bible statements warranted us 
 
 in saying Tarshish was none other than 
 * hittim, or, as we call it now, Cyprus. That 
 came into our possession in 1878, under the 
 Anglo-Turkish Convention at the Treaty of 
 Berlin. Tarshish has also been identified 
 with Britain because “ the products of 
 1 arshish that enriched the Tyrian fairs 
 (Ezekiel xxvii. 12) include the minerals that 
 Britain produces, the source of which was 
 known to the Phoenicians, whose Barath-anak 
 (land of tin) gives us, through the Greek, the 
 name of Britain, the Cassiterides, or tin 
 islands, alluded to by Herodotus (iii. 115).” 
 
 Regarding the phrase, " Merchants of 
 1 arshish ” ; if Britain be not pre-eminently 
 
The Young Lions of Tarshish. 141 
 
 a merchant power, where shall we find one ? 
 She is proverbially known as "a nation of 
 shopkeepers/’ 
 
 The Young Lions. 
 
 “ And all the young lions thereof.” Why 
 it would be impossible to find a more appro¬ 
 priate or striking symbol of the Colonies of 
 the United Empire than that of “ young 
 lions.” Of that fact we have proof in our 
 very coinage and royal standard. We believe 
 the lion was first used by England as a 
 symbol by Richard I., when at war in the 
 Holy Land—hence Richard f< cceur de lion.” 
 The mother lion is seen in every Imperial 
 coat of arms. Almost every time the question 
 
 of an international war comes up, and is 
 discussed in our daily papers, our Colonies 
 are referred to as " young lions,” ready at 
 hand to help the Old Mother with Dread¬ 
 noughts and what not. 
 
142 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 And we have not the slightest doubt that 
 in due course the United States will take 
 her place among the Young Lions. What 
 more becoming than to see the English-speak¬ 
 ing races of the world one great and united 
 family ? All we saw and heard during our 
 visit to the States confirm this opinion. 
 
 The symbolism is complete in every detail, 
 and says, as plainly as symbols can say, 
 that Great Britain and her Colonies will, at 
 all costs, antagonise any interference with 
 the unwalled villages of the Holy Land on the 
 part of any Russo-Germanic host and com¬ 
 pany. 
 
 This conclusion is in keeping with all we 
 know of the sympathies and temper of the 
 British nation. Where can we find a political 
 party—Conservative, Liberal, or Socialist— 
 that would sit quietly by while Russia and 
 Germany—or any other Powers, for the matter 
 
Great Britain to Stand Alone. 143 
 
 of that—invaded the Holy Land ? And that, 
 too, in order to spoil the Jew ! Or for a still 
 more ulterior reason, to use the Holy Land 
 as the road to Egypt and the Suez Canal, in 
 order to blockade the latter, and thus cripple 
 “ the mistress of the seas ”—Britain, who 
 “ rules the waves/' 
 
 Britain an Outsider. 
 
 Britain has been, and is still, the friend of 
 the Jews, in spite of the fact that her tangible 
 assets in the Land of Palestine are nil. We 
 speak what we do know ; and were it not that 
 we are assured it is all right, inasmuch as it 
 
 is in keeping with the divine programme, as 
 contained in the Holy Scriptures, we should 
 grieve at the cold shoulder which our country 
 gives to the Holy Land, and the pitiable fashion 
 in which she has allowed all the Powers, weak 
 and strong, to worm their way into the 
 country and business of the Land of Promise. 
 
144 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 In 1912, when we were staying in Jerusalem, 
 we got into conversation with one “ in the 
 know” ; one in close touch with things diplo¬ 
 matic. He assured us that for many a decade 
 our Consul’s instructions in general were: 
 “ See all, hear all, report all, and promise 
 nothing.” And he might have well added, 
 “ And do nothing.” 
 
 But, as we have said, it is all right. Just 
 as it should be, as we shall see directly ; for, 
 although we have no actual assets or foot¬ 
 hold in Palestine itself, we are not far off. 
 We own a little island not far away from its 
 coast. We refer to Cyprus. 
 
 Cyprus and its Secret. 
 
 When Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, in 1878, went 
 to Berlin to take part in the Convention that 
 had been arranged to deal with Turkish 
 troubles, no one dreamt he would return 
 therefrom with anything in the shape of back- 
 
Great Britain and Cyprus. 145 
 
 sheesh, or a bribe ; and yet that is what he 
 did come back to England with. In spite of 
 all the nonsensical talk about “ Peace with 
 honour/’ he returned to Westminster with 
 his pocket bulging out with the Island of 
 Cyprus as a gift for Queen Victoria. What was 
 the explanation ? for surely some explanation 
 was needed, just as much so as if a friend 
 had succeeded in settling a quarrel between two 
 other friends, and had accepted a bribe from 
 one of them. For some time it remained a 
 secret why Mr. Disraeli had accepted Cyprus 
 as a present for his Queen and Country ; but 
 
 the secret did come out, and is now public 
 property. 
 
 Mr. Justin McCarthy, the historian of the 
 century, in his comprehensive work, History 
 of Our Own Times , in volume III., page 90, 
 savs :— 
 
 sJ 
 
 “ Another secret engagement was 
 that entered into with Turkey. The 
 English Government undertook to 
 
146 Palestine and the Powers, 
 
 guarantee to Turkey her Asiatic pos¬ 
 sessions against all invasion on con¬ 
 dition that Turkey handed over to 
 England the Island of Cyprus for her 
 occupation/' 
 
 In the New International Encyclopedia 
 we read, in volume V., page 714 :— 
 
 "By a secret Treaty between the 
 British Government and the Ottoman 
 Empire, June 4th, 1878, the former 
 promised to defend Asiatic Turkey 
 against further aggression by Russia 
 in return for permission to occupy 
 Cyprus." 
 
 In Chamber s’ Encyclopedia , on page 644 of 
 volume III., we read :— 
 
 ' On the 10th July, 1878, Cyprus 
 was occupied by the British, under the 
 provision of the celebrated Turkish 
 Convention, by the terms of which the 
 island is to be occupied by Great 
 Britain until Batoum and Kars are 
 restored to Turkey by Russia 
 
 (Until !) 
 
Beaconsfield or Gladstone. 
 
 *47 
 
 In his History of Our Own Times , volume 
 III., page 97, Mr. McCarthy further says 
 
 " Lord Beaconsfield now declared 
 it to be the cardinal principle of his 
 policy that specially England, above 
 all, was concerned to maintain the 
 integrity and the independence of the 
 Turkish Empire ; that, in fact, the 
 security of Turkey was as much part of 
 the duty of English statesmanship as 
 the security of the Channel Islands or 
 of Malta/' 
 
 Beaconsfield or Gladstone P 
 
 Naturally, the Treaty and bargain gave 
 rise to much comment in political circles, 
 and many leading articles and letters appeared 
 in the world's Press. Such comment and 
 discussion are well summed up by Mr. 
 McCarthy in volume IV. of the History of 
 Our Own Times , on page 267, where he 
 says :— 
 
148 Palestine and the Powers, 
 
 " The London newspapers, with 
 the conspicuous exception of The Daily 
 News , were entirely on the side of Lord 
 Beaconsfield. . . . There was no 
 
 London paper of any literary name, 
 no daily papers lying on club tables, 
 which had not declared themselves 
 emphatically in support of Lord 
 Beaconsfield against Mr. Gladstone." 
 
 But why Cyprus ? 
 
 That question received a very cogent and 
 adequate reply in a speech which Lord 
 Beaconsfield delivered some time afterwards in 
 the City of London. Mr. McCarthy neatly 
 expresses it thus, in volume IV., page 265 : 
 
 ‘ ‘ Lord Beaconsfield afterwards ex¬ 
 plained that Cyprus was to be used as 
 ‘ a place of arms ' ; in other words, 
 England had now formally pledged 
 herself to defend and secure Turkey 
 against all invasion or aggression, and 
 occupied Cyprus in order to have a 
 
Mr. Asquith on The Holy Places. 
 
 149 
 
 more effectual vantage ground from 
 which to carry on this project/' 
 
 We have said that no English Government 
 would ever allow any interference with the 
 Holy Land—Conservative, Liberal, Radical, 
 or Socialist. The Daily News might protest, 
 as it did, but the nation would be against 
 it, even though supported by a second 
 Gladstone. 
 
 Mr. Asquith. 
 
 Our Present Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), 
 Radical as he is, is determined to stand by 
 Lord Reaconsfield’s bargain ; for at the Lord 
 Mayor's Banquet, at the Guildhall, London, 
 he used the following ominous words (No¬ 
 vember 10th, 1913):— 
 
 “ There is one other matter—and 
 I fear only one—in these recent troubles 
 in the East, which gives us cause for 
 satisfaction. It is that the Asiatic 
 
150 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Provinces of Turkey have not been 
 involved in the conflict. It is the desire 
 of His Majesty's Government that the 
 integrity of these dominions should not 
 be infringed. (Hear, hear.) We could 
 not see without lively concern anything 
 that threatened the Holy Places. . . 
 We wish to see no invasion of the 
 territorial integrity of Asiatic Turkey. 
 
 . We, in Great Britain, gladly 
 offer any help which the Turkish 
 Government may ask in the prosecu¬ 
 tion of that direction. (Hear, hear.) ” 
 
 But, it may be asked, in fact, we were 
 frequently asked during our lecturing tour 
 through the United States and Canada: " How 
 can that sort of talk—how can those assur¬ 
 ances be reconciled with Britain going to war 
 against Turkey, and taking the offensive in 
 regard to the present Mussulman possession 
 of the Holy Places ? ” 
 
Alliances and Ententes. 151 
 
 In reply, we would remind the interrogator 
 of Mr. Asquith's words at the Lord Mayor's 
 Banquet, Guildhall, just after we had entered 
 into war with Turkey. He then said : “ It 
 is the Ottoman Empire, and not we, who 
 have rung the death-knell of the Ottoman 
 dominion." 
 
 The situation can well be illustrated by 
 an imaginary case of two friends, Brown and 
 Jones. Brown assures his friend Jones that 
 he can rest assured of his help and protection 
 in the event of his ever being attacked by his 
 enemy, Robinson, and that he will never stand 
 idly by and see him robbed. But supposing 
 Brown sees his former friend Jones losing his 
 reason, and playing into the hands of the 
 thief Robinson, a man who has shown himself 
 totally devoid of all honour, good faith, and 
 common humanity. If Brown then interferes 
 and takes charge of, or assumes a protectorate 
 
152 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 over all Jones’ possessions, would any sane 
 man charge Brown with breaking his word, 
 or running counter to his pledge, or assur¬ 
 ances, or guarantees ? That is a very fair 
 illustration of the attitude of Great Britain 
 toward the demented Turk, and his swollen- 
 headed political advisers, and “ blood and 
 iron ” instigators. 
 
 On looking at the map of the Mediterranean 
 and the Holy Land, we cannot fail to see the 
 foresight of Mr. Benjamin Disraeli in selecting 
 Cyprus. It occupies a position just off the 
 coast of Syria that enables her to act as a. 
 sentry and protector of the Holy Land against 
 all unfriendly, avaricious intenders upon the 
 country covenanted by God to the Jews. 
 
 Beaconsfield a Tool of Providence. 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) 
 was a Jew ! 
 
Cyprus a Place of Arms. 
 
 i53 
 
 He may not have known that he was being 
 used by a divine hand to carry out the 
 programme set out in the books of Ezekiel and 
 Revelation, but the fact remains. And it was 
 not the first time that God used a ruler to carry 
 out His will against the ruler's knowledge or 
 intention ; for of a certain king of Assyria 
 it is recorded that, although he fulfilled God's 
 purpose, 
 
 “ He meaneth not so, neither doth 
 his heart think so ” (Isaiah x. 7). 
 
 Now, although Great Britain has no effective 
 standing in Palestine itself, Cyprus is the 
 next best place as a suitable base ; or, as Lord 
 Beaconsfield termed it, " Place of Arms ” ; 
 and now, as the result of the Turks throwing 
 in their lot with Germany, Britain has occupied 
 Cyprus, and turned it into a veritable arsenal 
 and powder magazine, ready to cope with 
 any movement or action on the part of Russia 
 
154 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 or Germany, who, as we have seen, are both 
 well-placed to carry out any designs of invasion 
 they may have. 
 
 Russia and Germany. 
 
 Yes, in spite of all appearances to the 
 contrary, Russia and Germany will, by some 
 means or other, ultimately meet, come to 
 an understanding with each other, and row in 
 the same boat. Not the least unlikely reason 
 for their so doing being their mutual hatred 
 of any Power except themselves being mis¬ 
 tress of the seas, which, beyond all doubt, 
 Britain is, and will continue to be, until her 
 ships are broken by Him (see Psa. xlviii. 7), 
 who, even in the days of His weakness had 
 power over the waves (Mark iv. 39), and to 
 whom “ all power has been given ” (Matt, 
 xxviii. 18) by Him “ Who hath measured 
 the waters in the hollow of His hand ” (Isa. 
 xl. 12). 
 
Britain--Mistress of the Seas. 155 
 
 In view of the fact that “ Britain rules 
 the waves ” and that, while she does so it 
 will be utterly impossible for any power to 
 reach the Holy Land from the Mediterranean, 
 it is evident that the only chance of Russia 
 and Germany to get there will be from the 
 north, overland, which is quite in keeping 
 with what a prophet of Israel was inspired 
 to foreshow ; for the confederacy “ Gog of 
 the land of Magog ” (or, as we have seen, 
 Russia and Germany), is thus addressed in 
 Ezek. xxxviii. 15, 16 
 
 “ Thou shalt come from thy place 
 out of the north parts, thou, and many 
 people with thee, all of them riding 
 upon horses, a great company, and 
 a mighty army : and thou shalt come 
 up against my people of Israel, as a 
 cloud to cover the land ; it shall be in 
 the latter days, and I will bring thee 
 against my land/’ 
 
t 56 Palestine and the Powers, 
 
 The Suez Canal. 
 
 But there will be another, an ulterior 
 reason for their invasion of the Holy Land, 
 and that is the desire and expectation of 
 getting to the Suez Canal, Britain's highway 
 to her Indian and other possessions. Close 
 that vital waterway and Britain's sea suprem¬ 
 acy will have been crippled. To prevent such, 
 Britain must safeguard all approaches to the 
 Suez Canal. At present that is not done, as 
 we can personally testify. Both on the north 
 and on the east, the Canal is open to the 
 attack of the enemy, hence Britain must, of 
 necessity obtain a protectorate of Palestine, 
 which has been long looked for by students 
 of the writings of Israel’s prophets. Being- 
 in possession of the Holy Places as the natural 
 sequence of such protectorate, Britain, as 
 the modern I arshish, with all the young 
 lions thereof," will be in a position to say to 
 
British Procrastination. 157 
 
 Russia and Germany, as the modern " Gog 
 of Magog :— 
 
 Art thou come to take a spoil ? 
 Hast thou gathered thy company to 
 take a prey ? to carry away silver 
 and gold, to take away cattle and 
 goods, to take a great spoil ? ” (Ezek. 
 xxxviii. 13). 
 
 Britain s Unpreparedness—God’s Opportunity, 
 
 Hence, unless Great Britain wakes up to 
 the situation, Russia and Germany will be 
 irresistible ; and that Britain will not wake 
 up until too late is certain from what we 
 find stated in the divine programme. There 
 we are told that, as the result of the Roshian 
 or Gogian supremacy (in other words, the 
 invincibility of Russia, Germany and Com¬ 
 pany), Britain will be utterly powerless to 
 stay the invasion, and, as a consequence, 
 
J 58 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Jerusalem will fall. Note the words in the 
 prophetic programme :— 
 
 “ Behold, the day of the Lord 
 cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided 
 in the midst of thee. For, I will gather 
 all nations against Jerusalem to battle ; 
 and the city shall be taken, and the 
 houses rifled, and the women ravished: 
 and half the city shall go forth into 
 captivity, and the residue of the people 
 shall not be cut off from the city ” 
 (Zech. xiv. 1-2). 
 
 Why Britain will Fail. 
 
 Not only will Britain be defeated in the 
 region of the Holy Places, as we see from the 
 foregoing testimony, but she will also be 
 defeated by the same King of the North in 
 Egypt, in spite of all she may accomplish as 
 the result of the great European war. 
 Although at first, under the Gladstonian 
 administration, Britain was unwillingly drawn 
 
Britain to lose Egypt. 159 
 
 into Egypt, and, finally, willingly and 
 inextricably identified with her, yet beyond 
 doubt Egypt will be wrested from her pro¬ 
 tector, for Israel’s prophet tells us that 
 
 “ At the time of the end shall the 
 King of the South (that is south of the 
 Holy Land, namely, Egypt) push at 
 him, and the King of the North (Russia, 
 the latter day Assyrian, now in posses¬ 
 sion of Constantinople and all it repre¬ 
 sents) shall come against him like a 
 whirlwind, with chariots, and with 
 horsemen, and with many ships, and he 
 shall enter into the countries, and 
 shall overflow and pass over.” 
 
 And the prophet then goes on to say :— 
 
 “ He shall enter also into the 
 glorious land, (and to Israel’s prophets 
 there was only one land glorious— 
 the Land) and many countries shall be 
 overthrown ; but these shall escape out 
 of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the chief of the children of Ammon " 
 (Dan. xi. 40, 41). 
 
 Palestine Protectorate. 
 
 Britain, in assuming a protectorate over 
 Palestine, must of necessity, in safeguarding 
 hei Suez Canal interests, possess Ammon, 
 Moab, and Edom, and these latter lands will 
 remain in her possession when she is driven 
 out of Judea (at the fall of Jerusalem), and 
 when she is dispossessed, as we have seen, of 
 Cod has a unique reason for allowing 
 the land of Moab and its adjoining vicinity 
 to remain in Britain's occupation, and that 
 reason is unmistakably manifest in the pro¬ 
 phecies of Isaiah, that prophet predicts _ 
 
 That, as a wandering bird cast 
 out of the nest, so the daughters of 
 Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon " 
 (Isa. xvi. 2). 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zichron Jacob—Main Street 
 
Britain—The Latter-Day Moab. 161 
 
 Arnon, where is that river ? In Moab. 
 And who are the daughters of Moab ? The 
 people who possess that country. Those 
 we have seen in the “ time of the end ” are 
 the British. And the prophet goes on to tell 
 us why God will not allow the British to lose 
 Moab. When, as we have seen, as the result 
 of defeat in Egypt and Judea, the British 
 fall back to Moab, Edom, and Ammon, and 
 as a consequence, the Jews are at the mercy 
 of the invaders from the north, then God 
 issues His decree :— 
 
 “ Let mine outcasts dwell with 
 thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them 
 from the face of the spoiler ” (Isa. 
 xvi. 4). 
 
 But why is it that the God of Israel will 
 permit all this to happen ? How is it that 
 
 Great Britain, when she goes to the aid of 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 162 
 
 Jerusalem as against the greedy and grasping 
 invaders, will be allowed to suffer defeat, 
 when the Scriptures so emphatically declare 
 that They shall prosper that love thee ” 
 (Psa. cxxii. 6) ; and, on the other hand, that 
 “ No weapon that is formed against thee 
 shall prosper ” (Isa. liv. 17) ? The reason why 
 (rod will not allow the British to deliver 
 Jerusalem is because He is determined to do 
 the work Himself, and thus cause Himself 
 to be sanctified and magnified in the eyes of 
 the whole world. That declaration is con¬ 
 tained in the same chapter as that in which 
 Ezekiel details the Russian invasion of the 
 “unwalled villages” of Palestine, chapter 
 xxxviii., verse 23 :— 
 
 Thus will I magnify myself, and 
 sanctify myself; and I will be known 
 in the eyes of many nations, and thev 
 
 v- 
 
 shall know that I am the Lord.” 
 
Britain’s Defeat—God’s Opportunity. 163 
 
 God Glorified—Not Man. 
 
 That end, the glory of God, would not be 
 attained were He to allow Britain to do the 
 work, and come off victorious. We all very 
 well know what happens at the termination 
 of a victorious war. It happened at the end of 
 the South African war. It was a case of 
 British flags and bunting ; the Royal Standard 
 and the Union Jack. The inscriptions and 
 mottoes were, “ Bravo, Bobs,” and ” Well 
 Done, Kitchener.” And that is just what 
 the God of Israel has determined shall not 
 be. His decree on the matter is thus vividly 
 expressed by His prophet, Isaiah (ii. 2, 11) :— 
 “ It shall come to pass in the last 
 days, that the mountain of the Lord's 
 house shall be established . . . and 
 shall be exalted above the hills ; and 
 all nations shall flow unto it. . . , The 
 lofty looks of man shall be humbled, 
 and the haughtiness of men shall be 
 
164 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 bowed down, and the Lord alone shall 
 be exalted in that day.” 
 
 Jerusalem Delivered. 
 
 that ” (hat Day ” is yet future is evident 
 from verse 4, where we read that the Lord 
 
 ” Will judge among the nations, 
 and shall rebuke many people : and 
 they shall beat their swords into 
 ploughshares, and their spears into 
 pruning hooks : nation shall not lift 
 up sword against nation, neither shall 
 they learn war any more.” 
 
 But, let us return to prostrate Jerusalem ; 
 let us enquire further about Russia, the victor, 
 and Britain, the defeated. What will be the 
 end of it all ? Again, we are not left to specu¬ 
 late, for God's prophet tells us :— 
 
 ” Then shall the Lord go forth, 
 and fight against those nations, as when 
 He fought in the day of battle ” 
 (Zech. xiv. 3). 
 
Israel’s Redemption. 165 
 
 And the same prophet gives further details 
 in chapter xii. There we read : 
 
 “ The Lord also shall save the tents 
 of Judah first. . . . In that day 
 
 shall the Lord defend the inhabitants 
 of Jerusalem. . . . And it shall come 
 to pass in that day, that I will seek 
 to destroy all the nations that come 
 against Jerusalem. And I will pour 
 upon the house of David, and, the 
 inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit 
 of grace and of supplications” (verses 
 7-10) :— 
 
 Jacob’s Trouble. 
 
 Yes, Britain's unpreparedness,* and the 
 Jews' extremity, or " Jacob's trouble," as 
 Jeremiah terms it (xxx. 7), will be God’s 
 opportunity. " He will send Jesus " (Acts 
 iii. 20), and the besieged inhabitants of 
 
 * Psalm xlviii. 7 ; Isaiah ii. 16. 
 
166 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Jerusalem, relieved by Him, will then do as 
 Christ predicted, exclaim 
 
 “ Blessed is he that cometh in the 
 name of the Lord: Blessed be the 
 kingdom of our father David, that 
 cometh in the name of the Lord : Ho¬ 
 sanna in the highest ” (Mark xi. 9). 
 
 The reason for their conversion, Zechariah 
 tells us plainly, chapter xii., verse 10 :— 
 
 They shall look upon me whom 
 they have pierced, and they shall 
 mourn for him, as one mourneth for his 
 only son, and shall be in bitterness for 
 him, as one that is in bitterness for his 
 firstborn. In that day shall there be 
 great mourning in Jerusalem 
 
 1 hen will they remember his words, as 
 recorded by Matthew (xxiii. 39) :— 
 
 “Ye shall not see me henceforth, 
 till ye shall say, ' Blessed is he that 
 cometh in the name of the Lord.' ” 
 
Britain’s Navy Doomed. 167 
 
 Their repentant cry of welcome will be that 
 predicted by the Psalmist :— 
 
 “ Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; 
 and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ; 
 and the king of glory shall come in. 
 Who is this king of glory ? The Lord 
 strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in 
 battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; 
 even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; 
 and the king of glory shall come in. 
 Who is this king of glory ? The Lord 
 of hosts, he is the king of glory ” 
 (Psa. xxiv. 7-10). 
 
 Britain's Navy Doomed. 
 
 In a later portion of chapter 2 of Isaiah, 
 the further humiliation of Great Britain is 
 clearly foretold in the utter destruction of 
 her naval fleet. It says 
 
 “ The day of the Lord of hosts shall 
 be upon everyone that is proud, and 
 lofty, and upon every one that is 
 
j 68 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 lifted up ; and he shall be brought low: 
 
 And upon all the ships of 
 Tarshish ” (Isa. ii., 12, 16). 
 
 1 arshish we have already (on pages 139 to 
 142) identified with Britain, and further light 
 regarding the future of her fleet is provided 
 in Psa. xlviii. 7, where we read :— 
 
 Thou breakest the ships of Tar¬ 
 shish with an east wind.” 
 
 Hie context of this verse clearly shows 
 it to be a prophecy yet to be fulfilled. It is 
 connected with " the Great King ” taking up 
 position in Zion, now to become “ the joy of 
 the whole earth.” 
 
 Prior to this, as we shall see directly, there 
 will have been the hasty and ignominious 
 retreat of the Gogian, or Russian, hosts in the 
 day of vengeance,” at the appearance of 
 Him who ” speaks in righteousness, mighty 
 to save,” the day of whose redeemed will 
 
Britain’s Merchantmen Requisitioned. rbg 
 
 have come. We can quite see how, at the 
 galling intelligence of the fall of Jerusalem, 
 Britain will hastily mobilise reinforcements 
 and hurry the transports with fresh troops 
 along the Mediterranean to the ports of the 
 Holy Land—ports, however, which they will 
 never reach. The “ locker of Davy Jones ” 
 will be their destination. 
 
 But Britain is evidently to learn her lesson 
 aright, and humbly bow herself before the 
 decrees of Providence, judging by further 
 Bible statements. 
 
 Britain's Merchant Service. 
 
 God has ever been mindful of humble 
 submission, and it will be so in the case of 
 Britain. He will recognise and reward her 
 contrition by according her the privilege of 
 transporting scattered Israel from all quarters 
 of the globe back to the Promised Land. 
 
170 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 What else can we make of what the prophet 
 Isaiah says ? 
 
 “ Ho to the land shadowing with 
 wings, which is beyond the rivers of 
 Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors 
 by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes 
 upon the waters. Go ye swift messen¬ 
 gers to a nation scattered and peeled, 
 to a people terrible from their beginning 
 hitherto ; a nation meted out and 
 trodden down, whose land the rivers 
 have spoiled ” (xviii. i, 2). 
 
 And in verse 7 it says these once scattered 
 people will be brought 
 
 “ To the place of the name of the 
 Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion/' 
 
 Who can this power be with “ shadowing 
 wings ” (vast colonies) and “ vessels of bul¬ 
 rushes ” (or vessels “ drinking up water ” as 
 it has been rendered), and which are further 
 described by the prophet as “ swift messen- 
 
God’s Work for Britain. 17 r 
 
 gers " ? The answer is found in what was 
 written by Dr. John Thomas, over sixty years 
 ago: “ The text shows that the overshadowing 
 land is a maritime power. It is neither Austria, 
 Russia, nor Turkey, because they do not corre¬ 
 spond with their possessions by sea ; neither 
 is it France, nor the United States, because 
 their wings do not stretch . . . beyond the 
 Tigris and Euphrates. It can be no other 
 power than the British, whose wings stretch 
 from Burmah to the land of Sheba, and west 
 of the Indus." 
 
 And then to place our contention beyond 
 all doubt we have that clear prophetical 
 declaration of Isaiah in chapter lx., verse 9, 
 which reads :— 
 
 “ Surely the isles shall wait for me, 
 and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring 
 thy sons from far, their silver and their 
 gold with them, unto the name of the 
 
i? 2 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Lord thy God, and to the Holy One 
 of Israel, because lie hath glorified 
 thee.” 
 
 Armageddon. 
 
 t he nations are fast getting ready for this 
 unparalleled and sanguinary scramble upon 
 the mountains of Israel. The strange thing 
 about it all is that, although those nations 
 profess to be Christian, and to have the God 
 of the Bible on their side, they are in total 
 ignorance of His programme, and have not 
 the slightest idea that their ceaseless piling up 
 of armaments is most graphically set forth in 
 the Holy vScriptures. Listen to how Joel 
 foretold it in chapter iii., in verses 9-12 :— 
 
 Proclaim ye this among the 
 Gentiles ; prepare war, wake up the 
 mighty men, let all the men of war draw 
 near ; let them come up ; Beat your 
 ploughshares into swords, and your 
 pruning hooks into spears ; let the weak 
 
War of Armageddon. 173 
 
 say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, 
 and come near, all ye heathen, and 
 gather yourselves together round about: 
 thither cause thy mighty ones to come 
 down, O Lord. Let the heathen be 
 wakened, and come up to the Valley of 
 Jehoshaphat * : for there will I sit to 
 judge all the heathen round about." 
 
 The climax of all this stir among the nations, 
 and their war preparations, will be what the 
 Lord Jesus has termed the “ War of Arma¬ 
 geddon " (Rev. xvi. 16), an expression which 
 has been repeatedly used by some of the 
 world's leading statesmen. Even that peace¬ 
 ful London paper, The Daily News, regards 
 the terrible and international “ Armageddon " 
 as inevitable ; for only a short while ago it 
 wrote :•— 
 
 " It requires a very slight spark to 
 set this powder magazine in a blaze. 
 
 * Immediately below the east wall of Jerusalem. 
 
i74 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 . . . So great is the burden on the 
 
 nations of Europe, that some statesmen 
 doubt whether it would not be cheaper 
 to settle the matter once for all in one 
 great Armageddon.' ' 
 
 Armageddon not in Europe. 
 
 Armageddon is not, as most people errone¬ 
 ously suppose, a conflict between Britain and 
 some other great Power or Powers in Europe ; 
 but a great war in which the Almighty God, 
 manifested in the Messiah of Israel and the 
 glorified worthies of all ages, will take a 
 prominent part, hence the divinely inspired 
 description thereof : “ The Great Day of God 
 Almighty ” (Rev. xvi. 14). 
 
 That will be Armageddon ! 
 
 No doubt, when Jerusalem has fallen, the 
 Russo-Germanic invaders (Zech. xiv. 2) will 
 then be frightened by " tidings out of the 
 East ” (Dan. xi. 44) in the shape of a vast 
 
War o! Armageddon. 175 
 
 multitude whom no man can number, the 
 redeemed of all nations and kindreds and 
 peoples and tongues (Rev. vii. 9), whose reward 
 it will have been to be made immortal—the 
 possessors of everlasting life (Dan. xii. 2), and 
 over whom, therefore, death will no longer 
 have any dominion. Let us imagine this 
 multitude led by One who claims to be 
 “ Lord of lords and King of kings ” (Rev. 
 xvii. 14), on the march from Edom and 
 then through Bozrah (Isa. Ixiii. 1), and in 
 reply to enquiries as to who he is, saying it is 
 “ I that speak in righteousness, mighty to 
 save . . . The day of vengeance is in mine 
 heart, and the year of my redeemed is come ” 
 (Isa. Ixiii. 4). 
 
 The vast multitudes march on, and in due 
 course reach that portion of the mountains 
 of Israel known as the Mount of Olives. 
 
176 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 Another of the prophets of Israel foretold 
 that event in the following words :— 
 
 His feet shall stand in that day 
 upon the Mount of Olives, which is 
 before Jerusalem on the east ” (Zech. 
 xiv. 4). 
 
 This to be followed by 
 
 A Convulsion of Nature. 
 
 The prophet goes on to say :— 
 
 “ The Mount of Olives shall cleave 
 in the midst thereof toward the east 
 and toward the west, and there shall 
 be a very great valley ; and half of 
 the mountain shall remove toward 
 the north, and half of it toward the 
 south ” (Zech. xiv. 4). 
 
 But there have been earthquakes before. 
 It is not the first mount that has quaked and 
 quivered and rent. And so the Russo- 
 German invaders and possessors of Jerusa- 
 
Godless Socialists. 
 
 1 77 
 
 lem on the west will doubtless regard the event 
 as one of the fortunes or misfortunes of war, 
 and will prepare to meet the approaching 
 army with shot and shell. But what avail 
 will shot and shell be against an army whose 
 battalions are composed of immortal and 
 incorruptible beings ? (i Cor. xv. 52, 53). 
 
 Godless Socialists. 
 
 Perhaps some of our readers will smile at 
 such a picture, and put it down to the sweet 
 innocence, or overstrung imagination, of a 
 deluded enthusiast. But we are not recording 
 and writing these things for those who have 
 no belief or faith in the God of the Hebrews, 
 or the writings of Moses and the prophets. 
 We are not concerned for the Robert Blatch- 
 ford type, who, at the age of fifty years, 
 repudiates both God and “ Moses and the 
 prophets,” and describes the “ God of Abra¬ 
 ham, Isaac, and Jacob ” as a “red-handed 
 
178 Palestine and the Powers* 
 
 and black-hearted fiend.’' This type of man 
 knows no God but self, and to quote the 
 sublime truths of Holy Writ to such is as 
 casting pearls before swine. 
 
 Neither are we writing for those who doubt 
 everything that does not accord with their 
 own limited experience. No, we are talking 
 to those who believe in the God of the 
 Hebrews ; who believe the Bible to be the 
 revelation of the mind and will of that God ; 
 and who have not lost faith in Israel's prophets. 
 Our message is to those who believe that in 
 days gone by this same God destroyed in 
 one night 185,000 of the Assyrian troops. 
 Who by His unaided power drowned the 
 Egyptian hosts in the Red Sea; Who 
 prolonged a day and shortened a night for 
 His people Israel's sake. 
 
 Yes, we are writing these things for those 
 who believe many other wonderful things, 
 
Something about Angels. 
 
 179 
 
 simply because they are contained in the 
 writings of Moses and the prophets, and 
 who therefore believe in the existence of 
 those corporeal beings termed in those Mosaic 
 writings 
 
 Angels. 
 
 Such, for instance, as those who met with 
 Abraham, and whom, on account of their out¬ 
 ward form and appearance, he mistook for 
 three men (Gen. xviii. 2). They had feet 
 that could be washed (Gen. xix. 1, 2). They 
 could lie down and rest, and like ordinary 
 mortals could eat unleavened bread (Gen. 
 xix. 3). Angels can be touched and handled 
 (Gen. xxxii. 24), and yet, by reason of being 
 partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. i. 4), are 
 not able to die any more (Rom. vi. 9). This 
 desirable condition of things all comes about 
 as the result of having their natural bodies 
 changed (Phil. iii. 21) ; the mortal putting on 
 
180 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 immortality (i Cor. xv. 53), and this corrup¬ 
 tible putting on incorruption (1 Cor. xv. 54). 
 The redeemed will then in every respect be 
 “ made equal unto the angels ” (Luke xx. 36) 
 in 
 
 The Great Day of Judgment. 
 
 In the great day of account, when the 
 Judge will have before him the responsible 
 of all ages, the dead being raised and the 
 living gathered together to the judgment 
 Seat, those who are found worthy of “ ever¬ 
 lasting life (Dan. xii. 2) will be given 
 “ power over the nations” (Rev. ii. 26), with 
 the view of bringing about " Glory to God 
 
 in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill 
 among men ” (Luke ii. 14). 
 
 just imagine such an army of immortal, 
 incorruptible beings approaching Jerusalem ! 
 How futile will be shot and shell, bombs and 
 shrapnel. Often, as we have stood on that 
 
An Invincible Army. 181 
 
 east wall of the city overlooking the valley 
 of Jehoshaphat with the Mount of Olives in 
 1 he near distance, could we picture the Russians 
 and the Germans manning the guns on that 
 wall and pouring out therefrom charge after 
 charge. But such, on those possessing angelic 
 nature, would do no more harm than the 
 proverbial peas aimed at the Rock of Gibraltar ; 
 
 but that the Confederacy will need to learn 
 by experience. 
 
 As Christ himself has told us in the Apoca¬ 
 lyptic programme since his ascension to 
 Heaven, the then holders of Jerusalem will 
 make war against him, but he 
 
 Shall overcome them ; for he is 
 Lord of lords, and King of kings: and 
 they that are with him are called, and 
 chosen, and faithful ” (Rev. xvii. 14). 
 
 Overcome ! Of course ! 
 
 What a scene then in the valley of Jehosha¬ 
 phat, which has always separated Jerusalem 
 
182 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 from the Mount of Olives. Another prophet 
 of Israel thus pictures it :— 
 
 “ For, behold, in those days, and 
 in that time, when I shall bring again 
 the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 
 I will also gather all nations, and will 
 bring them down into the valley of 
 Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them 
 there for my people and for my heritage 
 Israel, whom they have scattered among 
 the nations, and parted my Land " 
 (Joel iii. i, 2). 
 
 What consternation among the allied armies 
 encamped in the Holy City, but what 
 
 Joy lor the Jews. 
 
 Aye, and what a surprise for the Jews when 
 they realise who is their Deliverer and Saviour. 
 Another prophet depicts the scene very graphi¬ 
 cally thus:— 
 
 It shall come to pass in that 
 day, that I will seek to destroy all the 
 
The Jews’ Reception ol Messiah, 183 
 
 nations that come against Jerusalem. 
 And I will pour upon the inhabitants 
 of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of 
 supplications : and they shall look 
 upon me whom they have pierced, and 
 they shall mourn for him, as one 
 mourneth for his only son, and shall 
 be in bitterness for him, as one that 
 is in bitterness for his firstborn ” (Zech. 
 xii. 9, 10). 
 
 This pathetic scene of recognition was also 
 foretold by Jesus Christ himself when 
 reproaching his kinsmen for their unbelief :— 
 
 “ Ye shall not see me henceforth, 
 till ye shall say, Blessed is he that 
 cometh in the name of the Lord ” 
 (Matt, xxiii. 39). 
 
 But how about the overpowered and 
 routed Russo-German hosts, not only in 
 Jerusalem, but encamped all over the Holy 
 Land ? The prophet Daniel predicted their 
 fate when, in speaking of the latter-day 
 invaders, he said 
 
184 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 “ He shall enter also into the glori¬ 
 ous land, and many shall be over¬ 
 thrown . . . And he shall plant 
 
 the tabernacles of his palace between 
 the seas in the glorious holy mountain ; 
 yet he shall come to his end, and none 
 shall help him ” (Dan. xi. 41, 45). 
 
 In their retreat, what helter-skelter there 
 will be to get to some place of safety ! What 
 a taking to their heels ! How they will run ! 
 No doubt they will call it a military retire¬ 
 ment; or more likely still, they will term it 
 
 A Strategic Retreat. 
 
 The strategy, however, will not be on their 
 part, but on that of the God of Israel, who has 
 a lesson to teach them, and all other dese- 
 crators of the Land, concerning which His 
 prophet says :— 
 
 “ He that toucheth you touchetli 
 the apple of his eye ” (Zech. ii. 8). 
 
The Invaders’ Retreat from Jerusalem. 185 
 
 And again :— 
 
 “ In that day I will make Jerusa¬ 
 lem a burdensome stone for all people : 
 all that burden themselves with it 
 shall be cut in pieces, though all the 
 people of the earth be gathered together 
 against it ” (Zech. xii. 3). 
 
 Another of the prophets of Israel describes 
 God's mind of His land and people thus :— 
 
 “No weapon that is formed against 
 thee shall prosper : and every tongue 
 that shall rise against thee in judg¬ 
 ment thou shall condemn ” (Isa. liv. 
 17 ). 
 
 The Gog confederacy will hasten away from 
 Jerusalem, very possibly for the purpose of 
 getting reinforcements. In any case they 
 will not go in the direction of Jaffa, for no 
 reinforcements will be found there. Although 
 Jaffa is the port for Jerusalem, the ways and 
 means of that seaport are far too limited for 
 
x86 Palestine and the Powers, 
 
 it ever to be used for transport of either 
 troops or guns. No deep draught boats can 
 get anywhere near the shore. 
 
 Off Jaffa. 
 
 Not only is the Mediterranean here very 
 shallow, but the coast-line abounds with 
 very dangerous rocks or reefs, through which 
 only small boats can be steered. There is 
 no harbour, nor is there likely to be, in spite 
 of the concessions made or promised from 
 time to time by the Turkish authorities. 
 Therefore, anything in the way of transports 
 must be carried out at either Haifa or Beyrout, 
 at both of which places there is ample provision 
 for embarking or disembarking troops in large 
 numbers. 
 
 Now let us look at the map of Palestine, 
 and we see that whichever of those two ports 
 they make for, they will have to cross the 
 plain of Esdraelon or Megiddo, as it is termed 
 
Lord Kitchener and Armageddon. 187 
 
 in Scripture. And what of that ? Let us 
 here repeat something said by Lord Kitchener 
 before the Geographical Section of the British 
 Association and Palestine Exploration Fund 
 Committee. 
 
 Lord Kitchener. 
 
 He said : “ Looking down on the broad 
 
 plain of Esdraelon stretched out from our 
 feet it is impossible not to remember that 
 this is the greatest battlefield of the world, 
 from the days of Joshua and the defeat of the 
 mighty host of Sisera, till, almost in our own 
 days, Napoleon the Great fought the battle 
 
 of Mount Tabor. Here also is the ancient 
 Megiddo where the last great Battle of Arma¬ 
 geddon is to be fought/’ 
 
 There is not the slightest doubt but that 
 Lord Kitchener is right in identifying the 
 plain of Esdraelon or Megiddo as the Arma¬ 
 geddon of the Holy Scriptures. Every 
 
188 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 authority of any note agrees therewith, 
 including Sir Charles Wilson, Dean Stanley, 
 Dr. Ellicott, Dr. Hastings, Cunningham 
 Geikie, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Black, Dr. Kitto, and 
 Dr. Albert Barnes. 
 
 As to Lord Kitchener, there is something 
 m his career remarkably out of the ordinary. 
 Born in 1850, he entered the Royal Engineers 
 at 21, after passing through the Royal Military 
 ( ollege at Woolwich. Five years he did 
 arduous survey work in the Holy Land, and 
 about the same time in Cyprus. He then 
 spent sixteen years in Egypt, and after an 
 interval of some years returned thither Lord 
 Kitchener of Khartoum, in the capacity of 
 Britain's chief representative in Egypt. In 
 July, 1914, he paid a brief visit to Britain, and 
 was about to return to his duties when the 
 great European war broke out; in fact, he 
 was actually on the way when a telegram 
 
Colonel Conder and Armageddon. i 8 g 
 
 summoned him back, the only man in whom 
 the whole of Britain had absolute confidence, 
 the man that knows the Holy Land, Cyprus 
 and Egypt better than any one. Combine 
 all these facts, and who can fail to see that 
 his career is specially fitted for the outworking 
 
 of the divine plan. This is the man who sees 
 in the plain of Esdraelon the scene of Arma¬ 
 geddon. The Irish Question or Belgian neu¬ 
 trality never troubled him. 
 
 Colonel Conder. 
 
 This gentleman (then Major Conder), who 
 was Lord Kitchener’s fellow surveyor in Pales¬ 
 tine for the Ordnance Survey, also heartily 
 supports the verdict of Lord Kitchener 
 respecting Esdraelon. He has written :— 
 
 " If another campaign should ever 
 occur in Palestine, the Megiddo is said 
 by military men to be the most likely 
 spot for a battle, its position being so 
 important.” 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 190 
 
 Keeping in view all the foregoing inspired 
 and uninspired evidence, can we not plainly 
 see that the retreating Russians and Germans 
 will be allowed to reach the plain of Esdraelon, 
 in other words, Armageddon, and will then 
 be overtaken by Christ and his mighty hosts ? 
 In this connection we remember his words 
 to Pilate nearly nineteen centuries ago 
 
 " If my kingdom were of this 
 world, (kosmos—world, as in verse 20) 
 then would my servants fight ” (Jno. 
 xviii. 36). 
 
 Now will have arrived the time for his 
 servants to fight, as it is so unmistakably 
 put in the Psalms :— 
 
 “ To execute vengeance upon the 
 nations, and punishments upon the 
 people ; to bind their kings with chains 
 and their nobles with fetters of iron ; 
 to execute upon them the vengeance 
 written: This honour have all his 
 saints” (Psa. cxlix. 7-9). 
 
God’s Judgments in the Earth. 
 
 I 9 I 
 
 A Punitive Expedition. 
 
 There is no other means by which the 
 world can be made to learn righteousness. 
 Preaching cannot do it ; never has done it, 
 and never will. God has instituted preaching 
 for a very different purpose, namely to take 
 out of the nations " a people for His name 
 (Acts xv. 14). The world will be taught right 
 thinking and right doing in quite a different 
 way. The God of Israel and the Bible says 
 so. The prophet says :— 
 
 “ When thy judgments are in the 
 earth, the inhabitants of the world 
 will learn righteousnes ” (Isa. xxvi. 9). 
 
 And Jesus, in his Apocalyptic programme, 
 in speaking of that era, says :— 
 
 “ Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, 
 and glorify thy name ? For thou only 
 art holy : for all nations shall come 
 and worship before thee; for thy 
 judgments are made manifest ” (Rev. 
 xv. 4) 
 
192 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 It will mean a terrible time for the world 
 at large, such trouble as the world has never 
 previously experienced ; not even the unparal¬ 
 leled European war of our day will compare 
 
 with it. The prophet " greatly beloved ' 
 speaks of it thus :— 
 
 " There shall be a time of trouble, 
 such as never was since there was a 
 nation even to that same time : and 
 at that time thy people shall be 
 delivered ” (Dan. xii. i). 
 
 So far reaching will the trouble be that 
 
 " The slain of the Lord shall be 
 at that day from one end of the earth 
 even unto the other end of the earth : 
 they shall not be lamented, neither 
 gathered, nor buried ; they shall be 
 dung upon the ground ” (Jer. xxv. 33). 
 
 That may be terrible reading, but any 
 revulsion of feeling, caused thereby, vanishes 
 when we are made aware of the character of 
 
The Russian Tower on the Mount of Olives. 
 
 See page 124. 
 
 To face page 192 
 

Jerusalem, from the Russian Tower, Mount of Olives. 
 
God’s Judgments in the Earth. 
 
 193 
 
 the slain of the Loyd We are told in verse 
 31 of the same chapter :— 
 
 “ A noise shall come even to the 
 ends of the earth ; for the Lord hath 
 a controversy with the nations, he will 
 plead with all flesh ; he will give them 
 that are wicked to the sword 
 
 God s Ways. 
 
 There will be no half measures then. 
 God tells us so. He will then say :— 
 
 “ I have long time holden my 
 peace ; I have been still and refrained 
 myself : now will I cry like a travailing 
 woman * I will destroy and devour 
 at once ” (Isa. xlii. 14). 
 
 The cause and effect are unique :— 
 
 " The Lord hath a controversy 
 with the nations . . . Evil shall 
 
 go forth from nation to nation, and a 
 great whirlwind shall be raised up 
 
 from the coasts of the earth ” (Jer. 
 xxv. 31, 32). 
 
194 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 The Psalms vividly depict how the earth 
 will appear at that awful juncture ; here is 
 a sample :— 
 
 " Come, behold the works of the 
 Lord, what desolations he hath made 
 in the earth ” (Psa. xlvi. 8). 
 
 If this be your first introduction to these 
 things, we can read your thoughts. You are 
 thinking it a sorry picture, one you have no 
 sympathy with, no desire nor place for. Yes ; 
 and that is just what the mind of a child 
 would be on being shown an operating theatre 
 where a surgeon was engaged in removing 
 some malignant growths from a human being. 
 In all things, however, we want to “ consider 
 the end,” and the Psalmist proceeds to tell 
 us what after the desolations :— 
 
 “ He maketh wars to cease unto 
 the end of the earth ; He breaketh the 
 bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; 
 He burneth the chariot in the fire. 
 
An Ideal King. I( ^ 
 
 Be still and know that I am God ; 
 I will be exalted among the nations, 
 I will be exalted in the earth ” (Psalm 
 xlvi. 9, io). 
 
 An Ideal King. 
 
 " Immanuel ”—"God with us ” in the person 
 of the Messiah. David sang of Him when 
 with a prophet's eye he could see him as 
 King in " Immanuel’s Land.” He said 
 
 “ He shall come down like rain 
 upon the mown grass : as showers that 
 water the earth . . . Men shall be 
 
 blessed in him : all nations shall call 
 him blessed ” (Psa. lxxii. 6, 17). 
 
 As was truly said by another lover of Israel 
 and Israel s Land, this time of Restitution 
 
 " God hath spoken of by the 
 mouth of all his holy prophets since 
 the world began ” (Acts in. 21). 
 
 We could well fill volume upon volume 
 with extracts from those writings of the 
 
196 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 prophets. Not a prophet of Israel is there 
 
 who has not in some way or other referred to 
 
 that happy time when there will be 
 
 “ Glory to God in the highest, 
 
 And on Earth Peace, 
 
 Goodwill towards men '' 
 
 (Luke ii. 14). 
 
 But space forbids that we should do more 
 than take the writings of a specimen prophet. 
 Which shall we take ? We do not think we 
 can do better than take that prophet whose 
 writings are more often quoted than any 
 other. We refer to Isaiah, to whom both 
 Jew and Gentile is constrained to listen— 
 for was he not a Jew ? A patriot in every 
 sense of the word ? And with his patriotism 
 was blended a religious fervour well nigh 
 unique. We note it in that vow of his :— 
 
 “ For Zion's sake will I not hold 
 my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake 
 I will not rest until the righteousness 
 
A Good Time Coming. 197 
 
 thereof go forth as brightness, and 
 the salvation thereof as a lamp that 
 burneth ” (Isa. lxii. 1). 
 
 But his patriotism was divine. It was 
 blended with unbounded sympathies. Being 
 divine they took in Gentile as well as Jew. 
 He saw the time when the wall of partition 
 would be thrown down, and he rejoiced at its 
 removal. 
 
 In presenting word pictures from the pro¬ 
 phets' writings, we would beg our friends—Jew 
 and Gentile—to personally ask as they read 
 
 these glorious promises one by one, “Is this 
 promise part of my religion ? If not, why 
 not ? " 
 
 A Good Time Coming. 
 
 In examining Isaiah for details of the “ Good 
 Time Coming," our difficulty is what to leave 
 unquoted, there being so many. Isaiah 
 furnishes us with pictures to be realised, 
 
198 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 never dreamed of, even by Idealists. Let 
 us proceed to prove that in the very words 
 of Isaiah, preceded by propositions supported 
 bv such. 
 
 Isaiah's Glowing Pictures. 
 
 The Earth for the People : 
 
 “ Thus saith the Lord that created 
 the heavens ; God himself that formed 
 the earth and made it ; he hath estab¬ 
 lished it, he created it not in vain, 
 he formed it to be inhabited." a 
 
 Land-Grabbers Doomed : 
 
 “ Woe unto them that join house 
 to house, that lay field to field, till 
 there be no place, that they may be 
 placed alone in the earth." 6 
 
 An All-wise and All-good King Promised : 
 
 “ The government shall be upon 
 his shoulder : and his name shall be 
 
 a Isaiah xlv. 18 : & v. 8. 
 
An All-Wise and All-Good'King. 199 
 
 called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, 
 The Prince of Peace. Of the increase 
 of his government and peace there shall 
 be no end, upon the throne of David, 
 and upon his kingdom to order it, and 
 to establish it with judgment, and with 
 justice from henceforth even for ever. 
 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will 
 perform this.”" 
 
 Just Administrators : 
 
 “ A king shall reign in righteous¬ 
 ness, and princes shall rule in judg¬ 
 ment.” 6 
 
 A Desirable Vengeance : 
 
 "To proclaim the acceptable year 
 of the Lord, and the day of vengeance 
 of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ; 
 to appoint unto them that mourn in 
 Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, 
 
 b 
 
 a Isaiah ix. 6, 7 ; 
 
 XXXll. I. 
 
200 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the oil of joy for mourning, the garment 
 of praise for the spirit of heaviness." fl 
 
 How it will be Accomplished : 
 
 " Behold, the name of the Lord 
 cometh from far, burning with his anger, 
 and the burden thereof is heavy: his 
 lips are full of indignation, and his tongue 
 
 as a devouring fire. And his breath 
 
 _ % 
 
 as an overflowing stream, shall reach 
 to the midst of the neck, to sift the 
 nations with the sieve of vanity." 6 
 
 Sequel to the Judgments : 
 
 " When thy judgments are in the 
 earth, the inhabitants of the world 
 will learn righteousness." c 
 
 War to be ended : 
 
 " He shall judge among the 
 nations, and shall rebuke many people : 
 and they shall beat their swords into 
 ploughshares, and their spears into 
 
 a Isaiah Ixi. 2, 3 ; b xxx. 27, 28 ; c xxvi. 9. 
 
Unerring Justice. 
 
 201 
 
 pruninghooks: nation shall not lift 
 up sword against nation, neither shall 
 they learn war any more/' fl 
 
 Unerring Justice : 
 
 " The spirit of the Lord shall rest 
 upon him, the spirit of wisdom and 
 understanding, the spirit of counsel 
 and might, the spirit of knowledge and 
 of the fear of the Lord; and shall make 
 him of quick understanding in the 
 fear of the Lord ; and he shall not 
 judge after the sight of his eyes, neither 
 reprove after the hearing of his ears : 
 but with righteousness shall he judge 
 the poor, and reprove with equity for 
 the meek of the earth. ” b 
 
 Villainy Unmasked : 
 
 " The vile person shall no more 
 be called liberal, nor the churl said to 
 be bountiful. For the vile person 
 will speak villainy, and his heart will 
 
 a Isaiah ii. 4 ; xi. 2, 3, and 4. 
 
202 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, 
 and to utter error against the Lord.” a 
 
 Darkness Dispelled : 
 
 “ He will destroy in this mountain 
 the face of the covering cast over all 
 people, and the veil that is spread over 
 all nations.” 6 
 
 Ignorance no More : 
 
 “ And wisdom and knowledge shall 
 be the stability of thy times, and 
 strength of salvation.” c 
 
 Prisons Obsolete : 
 
 “ I the Lord have called thee in 
 righteousness, and will hold thine hand, 
 and will keep thee, and give thee for 
 a covenant of the people, for a light 
 of the Gentiles ; to open the blind 
 eyes, to bring out the prisoners from 
 the prison, and them that sit in dark¬ 
 ness out of the prison house.” d 
 
 * Isaiah xxxii. 5, 6 ; b xxv. 7 ; c xxxiii. 6; d xlii. 6, 7. 
 
203 
 
 Unparalleled Blessings, 
 
 Drink Traffic Arrested : 
 
 “ Woe unto them that rise up 
 early in the morning, that they may 
 follow strong drink; that continue 
 unto night, till wine inflame them/' * 
 
 The Poor Cared For : 
 
 " With righteousness shall he 
 judge the poor, and reprove with equity 
 for the meek of the earth/' 6 
 
 No More Cripples : 
 
 “ Then the eyes of the blind shall 
 be opened, and the ears of the deaf 
 shall be unstopped. Then shall the 
 lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue 
 of the dumb sing." c 
 
 Sorrow Ended : 
 
 The Lord God will wipe away 
 tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke 
 of his people shall he take away from 
 off all the earth ; for the Lord hath 
 spoken it." d 
 
 « Isaiah v. n ; * xi. 4 ; « xxxv. 5, 6 ; * xxv. 8. 
 
Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 204 
 
 Infantile Mortality Stayed: 
 
 " There shall be no more thence 
 an infant of days, nor an old man that 
 hath not filled his days : for the child 
 shall die a hundred years old.” 0 
 
 Senile Decay Arrested : 
 
 " They that wait upon the Lord 
 shall renew their strength ; they shall 
 mount up with wings as eagles ; they 
 shall run, and not be weary ; and they 
 shall walk, and not faint.” b 
 
 Good-Bye to Death : 
 
 “ He will swallow up death in 
 victory.” c 
 
 The Persecuted Jew Restored : 
 
 “ For a small moment have I for¬ 
 saken thee ; but with great mercies 
 will I gather thee. In a little wrath 
 I hid my face from thee for a moment; 
 but with everlasting kindness will I 
 
 a Isaiah lxv. 20 ; 6 xl. 31 ; c xxv. 8. 
 
No more Thorns and Thistles. 
 
 205 
 
 have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy 
 Redeemer/' a 
 
 Barren Lands Reclaimed : 
 
 “ The wilderness and the solitary 
 place shall be glad for them ; and the 
 desert shall rejoice, and blossom as 
 the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, 
 and rejoice even with joy and singing ." b 
 
 No More Thorns and Thistles : 
 
 "Instead of the thorn shall come up 
 the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall 
 come up the myrtle tree : and it shall 
 be to the Lord a name, and for an ever¬ 
 lasting sign that shall not be cut off." c 
 
 The Brute Creation at Rest : 
 
 “ The wolf also shall dwell with 
 the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down 
 with the kid ; and the calf and the 
 young lion and the fatling together ; 
 and a little child shall lead them. And 
 
 a Isaiah liv. 7, 8 ; 6 xxxv. 1,2; c lv. 13. 
 
206 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the cow and the bear shall feed ; their 
 young ones shall lie down together : 
 and the lion shall eat straw like the 
 ox. And the sucking child shall play 
 on the hole of the asp, and the weaned 
 child shall put his hand on the cocka¬ 
 trice' den.'' a 
 
 Peace with Honour : 
 
 “ The work of righteousness shall 
 be peace ; and the effect of righteous¬ 
 ness quietness and assurance for ever. 
 And my people shall dwell in a peace¬ 
 able habitation, and in sure dwellings, 
 and in quiet resting places /' b 
 
 Universal Blessings : 
 
 “ In this mountain shall the Lord 
 of hosts make unto all people a feast 
 of fat things, a feast of wines on the 
 lees, of fat things full of marrow, of 
 wines on the lees well refined/' 0 
 
 a Isaiah xi. 6 ; b xxxii. 17, 18 ; c xxv. 6. 
 
20 7 
 
 World-Wide Rejoicings. 
 
 Unbounded Happiness : 
 
 “ The ransomed of the Lord shall 
 return and come unto Zion with songs 
 and everlasting joy upon their heads : 
 they shall obtain joy and gladness, and 
 sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” a 
 
 World-Wide Rejoicings : 
 
 For as the earth bringeth forth 
 her bud, and as the garden causeth 
 the things that are sown in it to spring 
 forth . so the Lord God shall cause 
 righteousness and praise to spring 
 forth before all nations.” 6 
 
 The Author of it all : 
 
 The Lord will enter into judg¬ 
 ment with the ancients of his people, and 
 the princes thereof : for ye have eaten 
 up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor 
 is in your houses. What mean ye that 
 ye beat my people to pieces, and grind 
 
 a Isaiah xxxv. io; 6 lxi. u. 
 
208 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 the faces of the poor ? saith the Lord 
 God of hosts.” 
 
 His Glory Everywhere then : 
 
 “ The earth shall be full of the 
 knowledge of the Lord, as the waters 
 cover the deep.” b 
 
 Too Good for Words : 
 
 For since the beginning of the 
 world men have not heard, nor 
 perceived by the ear, neither hath the 
 eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he 
 hath prepared for him that waiteth 
 for him.” c 
 
 Dr. John Thomas and Egypt. 
 
 Not only did the late Dr. John Thomas, 
 quoted in the foregoing pages, accurately 
 forecast from the prophetic Scriptures the 
 pre-adventual colonisation of Palestine, and 
 the establishment there of thriving colonies 
 
 ° Isaiah iii. 14, 15 ; & xi. 9 ; c lxiv. 4. 
 
The German Tower on Mount of Olives. 
 
 (Taken from the Russian Tower.) See page 129. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cyprus in relation to the Holy Places. 
 
 To face page 209. 
 
 See page 152 
 
Realised Anticipations. 209 
 
 by the Jews; but, forty years before the 
 event, he was also able to point out that 
 
 the same Scriptures taught that Great Britain 
 would simultaneously occupy Egypt. We 
 quote his very words, written nearly seventy 
 years ago, and then published in a work, 
 
 entitled Elfiis Israel, which now lies before 
 
 • _ 
 
 us. There, on pages 395 and onwards, we 
 read :— 
 
 " I know not whether the men 
 who, at the present (1848), contrive 
 the foreign policy of Britain, entertain 
 the idea of assuming the sovereignty 
 of the Holy Land, and of promoting 
 its colonisation by the Jews; their 
 present intentions, however, are of 
 no importance one way or the other, 
 because they will be compelled, by 
 events soon to happen, to do what, 
 under existing circumstances, heaven 
 and earth combined could not move 
 them to accomplish. . . . The 
 
 finger of God has indicated a course to 
 
210 
 
 Palestine and the Powers. 
 
 be pursued by Britain which cannot 
 be evaded, and which her counsellors 
 will not only be willing, but eager, to 
 adopt when the crisis comes upon 
 them. The decree has long gone forth 
 which calls upon the Lion of Tarshish 
 to protect the Jews ... God, who 
 rules the world, and marks out the 
 
 bounds of habitation for the nations, 
 will make Britain a gainer by the 
 transaction. He will bring her to see 
 the desirableness of Egypt, Ethiopia, 
 and Seba, which she will be induced 
 by the force of circumstances, probably, 
 to take possession of. The 
 
 possession or ascendancy of Britain 
 in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba, will 
 naturally lead to the colonization of 
 Palestine by the Jews/' 
 
 Events have fully borne out these expecta¬ 
 tions, for all the world knows that in January, 
 Egypt obtained complete independence 
 with her own Sultan, but under the protection 
 of Great Britain. 
 
Elpis Israel. 
 
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Index. 
 
 217 
 
 COMPREHENSIVE INDEX. 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Aaronson, Mr. Aaron ... ... ... ... 115 
 
 Abraham’s Vineyard ... ... ... ... 96 
 
 Achavah Colony ... ... ... ... ... 46 
 
 Acts iii. 20 ... ... ... ... 15, 165 
 
 >> >> 2i ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 195 
 
 )> xv*14 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 191 
 
 Agricultural Experiment Station ... ... 115 
 
 Agudath Shelomoh Miland Colony ... ... 42 
 
 Alliance Israelite Universelle ... ... 43,46,95,115 
 
 Allies, Russia's ... ... ... ... ' ... 133 
 
 Algiers ... ... ... ... ... ... 136 
 
 Ain Ganim Colony ... ... ... ... 113 
 
 America, United States of ... ... ... 142 
 
 American Zionists ... ... ... ... 132 
 
 Angels ... ... ... ... ... ... 179 
 
 Anglo-Palestine Company ... ... ... 105 
 
 Anglo-Turkish Convention ... ... ... 140 
 
 Annual Register... ... ... ... ... 12 
 
 Armageddon ... ... ... 172, 175, 187, 190 
 
 Arms, Cyprus a Place of ... ... ... ... 148 
 
 Army of Immortal Soldiers ... ... ... 180 
 
 Arnim Colony ... ... ... ... ... 78 
 
 Artuf Colony ... ... ... ... ... 114 
 
 Asiatic Turkey ... ... ... ... ... 150 
 
 Asquith, Right Hon. H. H. ... ... ... 149 
 
2 l8 
 
 Index, 
 
 Athanasian Creed 
 Athlit Colony 
 
 pages 
 
 93 
 
 hi 
 
 Bar-cochba 
 Barnett, Canon S. A. 
 
 Basle Programme 
 
 Battei Dov Hornstein Colony 
 
 Battei Ezrath Niddachim Colony 
 
 Battei Kolel Minsk Colony 
 
 Battei Kolel Zebenberger Colony 
 
 Battei Mendel Rand Colony 
 
 Battei Mosheh Menahem Vodner Colony... 
 
 Battei Mosheh Colony 
 
 Battei Nathan Colony 
 
 Battei Shimon Colony 
 
 * • • • • 
 
 Battei Yaakob Badodah Colony ... 
 
 Bayer on Rosh ... 
 
 Beaconsfield, Lord 
 
 ' • • • • 
 
 Begden Colony ... 
 
 Belvidere Tower 
 Benei Mosheh Colony 
 Beth Abraham Colony 
 
 • • • • 
 
 Beth Arif Colony 
 Berlin, Treaty of 
 Beth David Colony 
 Beth Israel Colony 
 
 « • • • 
 
 Beth Yaakob Colony 
 
 Bezalel Institute of Arts and Crafts 
 
 Bir Jacob Colony 
 
 Birket-Mamilla 
 
 • • • • • • • 
 
 Blatchford, Mr. Robert ... 
 
 ... 6, 31 
 
 104 
 30 
 48 
 38 
 
 45 
 
 47 
 
 47 
 
 44 
 
 40 
 
 44 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 121 
 
 144, 147, 152 
 107 
 124 
 ... 40 
 
 42 
 114 
 144 
 
 35 
 37 
 
 36 
 96 
 
 114 
 
 34 
 
 177 
 
Index 
 
 219 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Blood Ritual ... ... ... ... ... 100 
 
 Bochart on Rosh... ... ... ... ... 120 
 
 Bonhomme, S. ... ... ... ... ... 77 
 
 Box Colonies, Jewish ... ... ... ... 50 
 
 Britain an Outsider ... ... ... ... 143 
 
 Britain Humiliated ... ... ... ... 158 
 
 Britain to Antagonise Russia ... ... 138, 157, 160 
 
 Britain’s Pledge to Turkey ... ... ... 151 
 
 Britain’s Unpreparedness ... ... ... 157 
 
 British Lion, The ... ... ... ... 141 
 
 British Merchant Service ... ... ... 169 
 
 British Navy Doomed ... ... ... ... 167 
 
 British Protectorate of Palestine ... 136, 160 
 
 British Zionists ... ... ... ... ... 132 
 
 Canerim, Count ... ... ... ... ... 78 
 
 Caucasian Mountain Jews ... ... ... 113 
 
 Chedera Colony ... ... ... ... m 
 
 Chefzibah Colony ... ... ... ... xii 
 
 Chinnereth Colony ... ... ... ... 108 
 
 Choevevi Zion ... ... ... ... ... 90 
 
 Christ, Jesus described ... ... ... ... 1 
 
 “ Christadelphian, The ” ... ... ... ... 31 
 
 Christendom Astray from the Bible ... ... 91, 94 
 
 Christian Quarter of Jerusalem ... ... ... 64 
 
 Cologne Colonization Society ... ... ... 115 
 
 Conder, Colonel ... ... ... ... 189 
 
 Conquering Jew, The ... ... ... ... 28, 77 
 
 Constantinople ... ... ... ... ... 139 
 
 Cook, Thos. and Son ... ... ... ... 80 
 
 Corinthians (i Epistle viii. 6 ) ... ... ... 92 
 
 (1 Epistle xv. 52-54) ... ... 177,180 
 
 > } 
 
220 
 
 Index 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Culture Fund, The ... ... ... ... I0 6 
 
 Cyprus ... ... ... ... ... 140, 144, 152 
 
 Dailaika, or Dajania Colony 
 “Daily News, The ” 
 
 Dameshek Eliezer Colony 
 Daniel xi. 40, 41 
 
 »> j> 44 • • • • • • 
 
 I g ^>11 • I » » . • . » 
 
 tf 9t ^ ••• ••• 
 
 Death Rate, Jewish 
 
 Deuteronomy xxviii. 15, 25, 37 
 
 Diodorus Siculus 
 
 Disraeli, Mr. Benjamin 
 
 Dry Bones 
 
 Dunn, Mr. W. H. ... 
 
 ... ... 108 
 
 134, 148, 173 
 
 • • • • • • ^j.2 
 
 ... 160,184 
 
 •.. ... 174 
 
 ... ... 192 
 
 ... ... 180 
 
 ... ... 76 
 
 ... ... 6 
 
 127 
 
 ... 20 
 ... ... 96 
 
 Eben Israel Colony 
 Eben Yoshua Colony 
 Edom and Moab 
 Educational Establishments 
 Egypt, British Occupation of 
 Egypt, Britain to Lose 
 Egypt, Dr. John Thomas on 
 Egypt, Jews in 
 Ekron Colony 
 Elpis Israel 
 Engel, Dr. T. 
 
 Esdraelon 
 
 Eshel Abraham Colony ... 
 Ethiopia 
 
 Euphrates, Dry up of 
 
 36 
 
 41 
 
 159 
 
 88 
 
 49, 208 
 159 
 208 
 50 
 114 
 16, 209 
 89 
 
 186, 189 
 46 
 
 135 
 
 11 
 
Index 
 
 221 
 
 Evelina de Rothschild School 
 
 
 
 PAGES 
 
 95 
 
 Experiment Station at 
 
 Haifa 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 115 
 
 Ezekiel xxxvi. 1-35 
 
 • • • 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 19 
 
 ,, XXXVII. II 
 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 20 
 
 „ „ 21-22 
 
 
 
 
 IOI, 
 
 118 
 
 „ XXXVIII. 2 
 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 120 
 
 „ „ 5» 6, 7 
 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 133 
 
 ,, M 8 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 17 
 
 „ „ 11, 12 
 
 
 
 
 16, 99 , 
 
 119 
 
 „ 13 
 
 
 
 
 122, 138, 
 
 157 
 
 ,, „ 1 5 > 16 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 155 
 
 „ „ 23 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 162 
 
 Ezra ii. 60 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 40 
 
 Ezra Colony 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 114 
 
 Ezrath Israel Colony 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 4 i 
 
 Fables concerning Palestine, Standard 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 Fabrique de Fer ... 
 
 . .. 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 103 
 
 Finklestein, Herr A. 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 109 
 
 Finn, Mrs. E. A. ... 
 
 • . . 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 96 
 
 France ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 136 
 
 Franklin, Dr. Maurice 
 
 • • • 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 99 
 
 Fraser, Mr. Foster 
 
 ... 
 
 
 
 28, 77, 86 
 
 Galilee, Jewish Colonies in 
 
 
 
 ... ' 
 
 106 
 
 Gaul ... ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 127 
 
 Genesis xviii. 2 
 
 • • • 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 179 
 
 ,, xix. 1-3 ... 
 
 ... 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 179 
 
 ,, xxxii. 24 
 
 • # • 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 179 
 
 German Emperor, The (Wm. II.). 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 27 
 
 German Emperor’s Advice (Wm. I.). 
 
 
 ... 
 
 128 
 
222 
 
 Index 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Germany in Jerusalem ... ... ... ... 129 
 
 Germany, the Bible Magog ... ... ... 12.7 
 
 Gesenius on Rosh ... ... ... ... 121 
 
 Gibeath Shaul Colony ... ... ... ... 47 
 
 Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E. ... ... 55, 147 
 
 Godless Socialists ... ... ... ... 177 
 
 Gog, The Russian Clay ... ... ... ... 120 
 
 Gomer ... ... ... ... ... ... 136 
 
 Good Time Coming ... ... ... ... 197 
 
 God’s Judgments ... ... ... ... 191 
 
 Graff, Herr ... ... ... ... ... n 2 
 
 Graham, Rev. S. F. ... ... ... ... 58 
 
 Graham, Mr. Stephen ... ... ... 23, 66, 125 
 
 Gray-Hill, Sir John ... ... ... ... 129 
 
 Greher, Dr. Joseph ... ... ... ... 89 
 
 Hadrian’s Edict ... ... ... ... 9, 18 
 
 Hadrian’s Invasion ... ... ... ... 8 
 
 Haifa, Jews in ... ... ... ... ... 106 
 
 Hardegg’s Hotel at Jaffa ... ... ... 80 
 
 Hastings’ Encyclopaedia ... ... ... ... 92 
 
 Hatchwell, Mr. E. ... ... ... ... x . 
 
 Hebrew versus Yiddish ... ... ... ... 83 
 
 Hensman, Mr. and Mrs. ... ... ... ... 68 
 
 Herzl, Dr. Theodore ... ... ... ... 25, 29 
 
 Hilfsverein, The German ... ... ... ... 94 
 
 Hirsch, Mr. T. ... ... ... ... ... x . 
 
 Hoffman of Berlin ... ... ... ... 76 
 
 Holy Places and Britain ... ... ... 150 
 
 Hospitals, Jewish ... ... ... ... 102 
 
 House of Industry, Jerusalem ... ... ... 102 
 
Index, 
 
 
 Index. 
 
 
 
 
 223 
 
 
 
 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Hungary, Jews from 
 
 
 ... 
 
 ... 
 
 ... 
 
 44 
 
 Ibrith Gymnasium 
 
 • . • 
 
 
 
 . . • 
 
 89 
 
 Immanuel and Immanuel's Land 
 
 
 
 . . . 
 
 195 
 
 Ir Shalem Colony 
 
 ... 
 
 
 
 . . . 
 
 39 
 
 Isaacs, Sir Rufus (Lord Reading) 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 23 
 
 Isaiah’s Glowing Pictures 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 198 
 
 Isaiah ii. 4 
 
 
 
 
 164, 
 
 201 
 
 „ „ 2, 11 
 
 
 
 
 . . . 
 
 163 
 
 » »> 12,16 ... 
 
 
 
 
 165, 
 
 168 
 
 „ hi. 14, 15 ... 
 
 
 
 
 
 208 
 
 ,, v. 8 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 198 
 
 „ „ 11 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 203 
 
 „ ix. 6, 7 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 199 
 
 „ x. 7 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 153 
 
 „ xi. 2, 4, 6 
 
 
 
 
 201, 203, 
 
 206 
 
 »» »j 9 • • • 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 208 
 
 „ „ 11 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 50 
 
 „ XVI. 2, 4 ... 
 
 
 
 
 160, 
 
 161 
 
 „ XVIII. 1, 2, 7 
 
 
 
 
 ••• 
 
 170 
 
 ,, xxv. 6 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 206 
 
 > > > > y • • • 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 202 
 
 ,, >> 8 
 
 
 
 
 . . • 
 
 203 
 
 „ xxvi. 9 
 
 
 
 
 191, 
 
 200 
 
 ,, xxx. 27, 28 
 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 200 
 
 ,, XXXII. I 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 199 
 
 11 11 5 i ^ 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 202 
 
 00 
 
 H 
 
 M 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 206 
 
 „ xxxiii. 6 ... 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 202 
 
 ,, XXXV. 1, 2 ... 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 205 
 
 a a 5 i 6 ••• 
 
 
 
 
 ... 
 
 203 
 
224 
 
 Index 
 
 Isaiah xxxv. io ... 
 
 n XL. 31 ••• 
 
 t> a 12 ... 
 
 ,, XLI. 27 
 
 »> xlii. 6, 7 ••• 
 
 »> >> 14 
 
 ,, XLV. 18 
 
 „ XLIX. 6 
 
 >> » 22, 23 
 
 „ LIV. 7, 8 ... 
 
 >> >> 17 • • • 
 
 ,, LV. 13 
 
 ,, LX. 3, IO, 12, 14 
 
 >1 11 9 ... 
 
 ,, LXI. II 
 
 >1 11 2, 3 
 
 ,, LXII. I 
 
 ,, LXIII. I, 4 ... 
 
 „ LXIV. 4 
 
 ,, LXV. 20 
 
 Italy, King of 
 
 Italy’s War with Turkey 
 
 pages 
 207 
 ... 204 
 
 154 
 85 
 202 
 193 
 198 
 72 
 72 
 205 
 162, 185 
 205 
 72 
 
 ... 171 
 
 207 
 200 
 197 
 
 175 
 
 208 
 204 
 
 27 
 
 ... 48 
 
 Jacob’s Trouble 
 Jaffa 
 
 Jehoshaphat, Valley of 
 Jeremiah xxv. 31, 33 
 „ xxx. 7 ... 
 
 „ xxxii. 37 
 
 Jerusalem a City of Jews 
 Jerusalem Romanised 
 
 165 
 79i 185 
 181 
 192 
 165 
 
 97 
 
 64 
 
 8 
 
Index 
 
 225 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Jerusalem Taken by Russia ... ... ... 158 
 
 Jerusalem Delivered by Christ ... ... 164 
 
 “Jewish Chronicle, The ” ... ... 24, no 
 
 Jewish Colonial Trust, The ... ... ... 105 
 
 Jewish Colonies around Jerusalem ... ... 33 
 
 Jewish Colonisation Fund, The ... ... ... 25 
 
 Jewish Institutions ... ... ... ... 95 
 
 Jewish Population ... ... ... ... 32 
 
 Jewish Shopkeepers and Tradesmen ... ... 103 
 
 Jewish Sympathy... ... ... ... ... 66 
 
 Jewish Territorial Organisation, The ... ... 27, 29 
 
 Jews Acknowledge Christ ... ... ... 183 
 
 Joel hi. i, 2 ... ... ... ... ... 182 
 
 ,, ,, 9 _ 12 ... ... ... ... ... 172 
 
 John xiv. 3 ... ... ... ... ... 15,62 
 
 ,, xviii. 36 ... ... ... ... ... 190 
 
 Josephus on Gomer ... ... ... ... 136 
 
 Judea, Jewish Colonies in ... ... ... 113 
 
 Judgment, The Great ... ... ... ... 180 
 
 JURET EL ENAV COLONY ... ... ... ... 44 
 
 Kafa Saba Colony ... ... ... ... 114 
 
 Kaminitz Hotels ... ... ... 80, 104 
 
 Kastinie, or Kastinjeh Colony ... ... ... 114 
 
 Katra Colony ... ... ... ... ... 114 
 
 Kefar Saba Colony ... ... ... ... in 
 
 Kenesseth Israel Colony ... ... ... 43 
 
 Kerem Shelomoh Colony ... ... ... ... 41 
 
 Kitchener, Lord ... ... ... 136, 163, 187 
 
 King of the North ... ... ... ... 158 
 
226 
 
 Index 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Lamel Settlement, The ... ... ... ... 94 
 
 Landau, Miss Annie ... ... ... ... 95 
 
 Land Donation Fund, The ... ... ... 105 
 
 Lange, Mr. and Mrs. ... ... ... ... II2 
 
 Language Question, The ... ... ... i 3I 
 
 Levontin, Mr. D. ... ... ... ... 81 
 
 Library, The Central Jerusalem ... ... 106 
 
 Libya, or Phut ... ... ... ... ... I3 6 
 
 Lion, The British ... ... ... ... I4I 
 
 Loewe, Mr. Herbert ... ... ... ... 9I 
 
 London Jews’ Society, The ... ... 95, 102 
 
 Lord Chief Justice on Zionism ... ... ... 23 
 
 Loupo, M. ... ... ... ... ... II5 
 
 Luke 11. 14 ... ... ... ... 180,196 
 
 ,, xix. 41-46 ... ... ... ... ... 5 
 
 ,, XX. 36 ... ... ... ... I75, x8o 
 
 „ xxi. 24 ... ... ... ... ... 8 
 
 Machaneh Yehudah Colony ... ... ... 38 
 
 Magog, The Land of ... ... ... ... 
 
 Mahanaim Colony ... ... ... ... io 8 
 
 Mark iv. 39 ... ... ... ... ... I54 
 
 ,, xi. 9 • •• ... ... ... ... 166 
 
 ,, xii. 29 ... ... ... ... ... 92 
 
 Masterman, Dr. E. W. G. ... ... ... x . 
 
 Matthew xxiii. 39 ... ... ... 166,183 
 
 ,, xxviii. 18 ... ... ... 62, 154 
 
 Max Nordau ... ... ... ... ... 3,74 
 
 Mazkereth Mosheh Colony ... ... ... 36 
 
 McCarthy, Mr. Justin ... ... ... ... I45 
 
 Meah Shaarim Colony ... ... ... ... 34, 98 
 
Index. 
 
 
 
 227 
 
 
 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Meah Shaarim Gates 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 98 
 
 Megiddo 
 
 ... 
 
 
 l86 
 
 Mendazibil, Count 
 
 • • • 
 
 ... 
 
 78 
 
 Merchavia Colony 
 
 
 
 108 
 
 Merchants of Tarshish ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 139 
 
 Metula Colony ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 IO7 
 
 Mescha Colony ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 
 108 
 
 Meshech and Tubal 
 
 ... 
 
 
 121 
 
 Migdol Colony 
 
 
 
 108 
 
 Mikveh Israel Agricultural School 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 115 
 
 Milhamie Colony 
 
 ... 
 
 ... 
 
 108 
 
 Mishkenoth Israel Colony 
 
 ... 
 
 ... 
 
 35 
 
 Mishkenoth Shaananim Colony 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 33 
 
 Mishmar Hayardin Colony 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 108 
 
 Mizpah Colony 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 108 
 
 Moab, Jews Escape to 
 
 • • • 
 
 159 , 161 
 
 Montefiore, Sir Moses 
 
 • • • 
 
 9 , 24, 
 
 32 , 77 
 
 Mossinsohn, Dr. B. 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 89 
 
 Mount of Olives rent in two 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 176 
 
 Mozaii Colony 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 115 
 
 Muscat ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 . . . 
 
 139 
 
 Nahalath Shebah Colony... 
 
 ... 
 
 • t • 
 
 34 
 
 Nahalath Shimon Colony 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 4 i 
 
 Nahalath Tzevi Colony ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 39 
 
 Nahalath Yaakob Colony 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 44 
 
 Nahalath Zion Colony 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 43 
 
 Napoleon the Great 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 187 
 
 National Fund, The Jewish 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • . 
 
 105 
 
 Newspapers, Jewish 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 116 
 
 Nissenbaum, Mr. Isaac 
 
 • • • 
 
 • . • 
 
 68 
 
 Numbers xxiv. 9 ... 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • • 
 
 100 
 
228 
 
 Index 
 
 Odessa Committee, The 
 Ohel Isaac Colony ... 
 
 Ohel Shelomoh Colony 
 Ohel Simchah Colony 
 Olive Tree Fund, The 
 Olivet House, Jerusalem 
 Orphanages, Jewish 
 
 Palestine Industries Syndicate, The 
 Palestine Land Development Company, The 
 Palestine Planting Association, The 
 Parc Hotel, Jaffa 
 Paskievitch, Prince 
 Persia 
 
 Petach Tikvah 
 Peters, Mr. Madison 
 Peter (2 Epistle) 1, 4 
 Philippians III. 21 
 Poland 
 
 * ••• ••• ••• 
 
 Pope of Rome 
 Poria Colony 
 Prisons, Turkish 
 Protectorate over Palestine 
 Psalm xxiv. 7-10 ... 
 
 „ xlvi. 8 
 
 >> 9 » 10 ••• ... ... 
 
 „ XLVIII. 7 ... 
 
 „ lxxii. 6, 17 
 „ LXXXVII. 5, 6 
 „ cxxn. 6 
 
 ,, CXXXIII. I ... 
 
 „ cxlix. 7-9 ... 
 
 pages 
 90, 113 
 
 41 
 
 42 
 
 43 
 106 
 
 68 
 
 102 
 
 106 
 
 105 
 
 105 
 
 80 
 
 77 
 
 134 
 
 83 
 
 74 
 
 179 
 
 179 
 
 125 
 
 27 
 
 108 
 
 5 i 
 
 160 
 
 167 
 
 194 
 
 195 
 
 I 54> 165, 
 
 168 
 
 195 
 
 88 
 
 162 
 
 43 
 
 190 
 
Index 
 
 229 
 
 Queen Victoria ... 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 PAGES 
 
 ... I45 
 
 Ratisbonne Institute 
 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 Reading, Lord 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 Rechoboth Colony 
 
 
 
 
 115 
 
 Rehoboth Colony 
 
 
 
 
 43 
 
 Renwick, Mr. F. ... 
 
 
 
 
 X. 
 
 Revelation 1. 18 
 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 ,, 11. 26 
 
 
 
 
 180 
 
 ,, VII. 9 
 
 
 
 
 175 
 
 ,, xi. 15 
 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 „ XV. 4 
 
 
 
 
 191 
 
 ,, XVI. 12 
 
 
 
 
 ... 11, 63 
 
 *> >> 16 
 
 
 
 
 173 
 
 „ XVII. 14 
 
 
 
 
 175. 181 
 
 Richard I., “ Cceur de Lion " 
 
 »»• 
 
 • • • 
 
 141 
 
 Rischon Le Zion 
 
 
 
 
 8 4 
 
 Roberts, Lord 
 
 
 
 
 163 
 
 Roberts, Mr. Robert 
 
 
 
 
 91 
 
 Romans vi. 9 
 
 
 
 
 179 
 
 Romans ix. 3, 4 
 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 „ xi. 15 
 
 
 
 
 65 
 
 Rosh Pina 
 
 
 
 
 107 
 
 Rosh, Prince of ... 
 
 
 
 
 120 
 
 Rothschild, Baron 
 
 
 
 
 85, 107, 114 
 
 Rothschild, House of 
 
 
 
 
 ••• 23, 77 
 
 Rozanoff 
 
 
 
 
 69 
 
 Ruppin, Dr. Arthur 
 
 
 
 
 ... 51, 82 
 
 Russia and Dr. Herzl 
 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 Russia and Germany 
 
 
 
 
 ... 154 
 
 Russia and the World 
 
 
 
 
 66, 125 
 
 Russian Army Routed 
 
 
 
 
 ... 184 
 
230 
 
 Index. 
 
 Russian Quadrangle 
 Russian Tower on Olivet 
 Russia's Allies ... 
 
 Safed Jews 
 
 Samaria, Jewish Work in 
 Samuel (ist Book) xv. 34 
 Sault, Marshal ... 
 
 Sayce, Professor... 
 
 Sazonoff, M. 
 
 Schatz, Professor Boris ... 
 Schlesinger, Dr. 
 
 Sedjerah Colony... 
 
 Shaah Hapinah Colony 
 Shaarei Yerushalaim Colony 
 Shaarei Hesed Colony 
 Shaarei Tzedek Colony ... 
 Sheba and Dedan 
 Shebeth Achim Colony 
 Shebeth Tzedek Colony 
 Shekonath Hatemanim Colony 
 Shekonath Rabbi Tzadok Colony 
 Simon, Mr. Leon ... 
 
 Solomon’s Pools 
 Soudan, The 
 
 "Standard” Newspaper Fables 
 Stanley, Dean ... 
 
 Statistics, Jewish Health 
 Strabo ... 
 
 Strauss ... 
 
 Suez Canal 
 
Index 
 
 231 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Sukkath Shalom Colony ... ... ... ... 35 
 
 Sultan of Turkey ... ... ... ... 18,27 
 
 Tachkemoni Institute ... ... ... ... 89 
 
 Tarshish, Merchants of ... ... ... ... 139 
 
 Technicum at Haifa ... ... ... 108, 131 
 
 Tel Abib... ... ... ... ... ... 80 
 
 Territorial Scheme ... ... ... ... 27 
 
 Thomas, Dr. John ... ... ... 14, 171, 208 
 
 Tiberias, Jews in ... ... ... ... 106 
 
 Tiberius, Emperor, Letter to ... ... ... 1 
 
 Tin Colonies ... ... ... ... ... 50 
 
 Titus and Vespasian Invasion ... ... ... 5, 8 
 
 Togarmah ... ... ... ... ... 137 
 
 Trinity, Doctrine of the ... ... ... 92 
 
 Tunis ... ... ... ... ... ... 136 
 
 Turkey, Decay of ... ... ... ... 11 
 
 Turko-Italian War ... ... ... ... 48 
 
 Turoff, Dr. ... ... ... ... ... 90 
 
 United States of America ... ... ... 142 
 
 Unwalled Villages ... ... ... ... 16 
 
 Vadi-el-Chanim Colony ... ... ... ... 115 
 
 Victoria-Augusta Settlement ... ... 129, 131 
 
 Wadi-el-Chanim Colony ... ... ... ... 115 
 
 Walker, Mr. C. C. ... ... ... ... 31 
 
 War, The Great European ... ... ... 48 
 
 Wars to Cease ... ... ... ... 194, 200 
 
 Water Supply, Jerusalem ... ... ... 58 
 
232 
 
 Index. 
 
 Whitechapel Jews 
 Whitty, Dr. John 
 
 Yamin Mosheh Colony 
 Yamma Colony ... 
 
 Yegia Kapaim Colony 
 Yellin, Mr. David 
 Young Lions of Tarshish 
 Yessod-Hammalah Colony 
 
 Zammarine Colony 
 Zangwill, Mr. Israel 
 Zechariah ii. 8 
 
 ,, vi. 10 ... 
 
 ,, viii. 23 
 
 j , xii .3*** • • • 
 
 »» >> ... 
 
 „ XIV. 1-3 
 
 >> >> 4 
 
 Zephaniah hi. 20 ... 
 
 Zichron Jacob Colony 
 Zichron Mosheh Colony 
 Zichron Tobiah Colony 
 Zionist Movement, Meaning of 
 “ Zionist, The ” ... 
 
 
 PAGES 
 
 75 
 
 ... 
 
 60 
 
 . • • 
 
 37 
 
 ... 
 
 107 
 
 ... 
 
 47 
 
 ... 
 
 5 L 94 
 
 ... 
 
 141 
 
 ... 
 
 107 
 
 ... 
 
 hi 
 
 ... 
 
 27, 29 
 
 ... 
 
 184 
 
 ... 
 
 40 
 
 ... 
 
 73 
 
 ... 
 
 185 
 
 165,183 
 
 158, 164, 174 
 
 
 176 
 
 
 7 i 
 
 
 no 
 
 
 45 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 117 
 
 
 XII.