ANCIENT ARMAGEDDON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17284, 27 September 1916, Page 8

ANCIENT ARMAGEDDON.

The locality meant by Armageddon sS Har Megiddo called Megiddo in profane history and the Old Testament It was in the heart of Palestine, and yet, separated only by a narrow boundary of hills and streams, Phoenicia, Syria, Arabia, Babylonia and Egypt lay close at hand. To the north, jult beneath the square, flat-roofed houses of Nazareth, lay the fertile plain of Asochis. From this arose the forestcrowned hills of Naphtali. Conspicuous on one was Safed, referred to by Christ as the city set upon a hill. Beyond these, on the far horizon, Hernion upheaved into the blue the huge,, splendid mass of his colossal shoulder, white with eternal snow. Eastward rose the green, rounded summit of Tabor, clothed with terebinth and oak. To , the west one gazed through that diaphanous air on the purple of Camel, and the dazzling Une of white sand which fringes the waves of the Mediterranean. - -: • Nazareth \s described as a uanorul of pearls in a goblet of the most wonder-, ful emerald. There is a email church, a good school, the massive buildings of a convent, the tall minaret of a and a clear, abundant fountain. The: houses are of white stone, with gardens scattered among them, on a small scale like Damascus in the large. The seen? is unbrageous with figs and olives, rich in the season with white and scarlet blossoms of the orange and pome-. granate. . . .