. The Saturday evening post. ould be done for the native women. Jerusalem the Golden AS WE strolled through the market I knew she was long--J- ing to lay her hands on the babies and show their moth-rs how to care for them. When we set off on our journeygain we were both regretful at going and both a littlereamy perhaps, because it had all been very romantic. Once on the road, romance fled from me very promptly,fever have I feltuch heat ornown such blaz-lg sunshine. Ourin can had to»p, so the suneat on us unim-eded. I wore aopee, but my•iend wore only layer of strawver her head and veil across
. The Saturday evening post. ould be done for the native women. Jerusalem the Golden AS WE strolled through the market I knew she was long--J- ing to lay her hands on the babies and show their moth-rs how to care for them. When we set off on our journeygain we were both regretful at going and both a littlereamy perhaps, because it had all been very romantic. Once on the road, romance fled from me very promptly,fever have I feltuch heat ornown such blaz-lg sunshine. Ourin can had to»p, so the suneat on us unim-eded. I wore aopee, but my•iend wore only layer of strawver her head and veil across herice. The her veil andinned her faceid blistered hera*. The dustvirled in on usid choked us. he hills were one lare of gray,iaring rock and ant grass. Don-lijrs and camels[?pt getting in our(ay, and more;ian once we werem danger — or iought so —ofliving a load of rniture shunted f a camels back >on our heads. y friends face st its tender ftness and stif- ned itself to en- jtre. She closed r lips hard; she. A Sheik of the Temple Area, Jerusalem looked with growing distaste at everything she saw; andat last, after two or three hours, she said tensely: I canunderstand how people would be willing to live in almostany part of the United States, but as to this country—well,anyone can have it, so far as Im concerned. It might be hard for the average American to adoptPalestine as a permanent home, yet as Christians we havean interest in it, especially in Jerusalem. Indeed Jerusalemto-day shows signs of American enterprise. There is theAmerican colony, a religious cooperative community,which does a great deal of good with its shops and storesand charities. There is the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. the Near East Relief, all of which have made theirmark on the city. The sewerage system in Jerusalem is due to the AmericanY. M. C. A. When the city was occupied neither theBritish military nor the civil organizations saw their wayto appropriating money for a sewera
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