ANCIENT AND MODERN JERUSALEM.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1578, 25 February 1887, Page 3

ANCIENT AND MODERN JERUSALEM.

DISCOVERIES BY SIR CHARLES WARREN.

Net? things are continually being found in Jerusalem—e.g., the ancient wall discovered this very year, which may very likely turn out to be the Second Wall; new discoveries connected with the old walls, with the Temple, and with the various occupied portions of the city; but it is certain that nothing will ever be done in the fut* ure to compare with what was done by Warren. Before he dug there, the ancient city was measured by the modern—" The sleepy little Jebubsite town," as it has been called. The proud words of Josephus, the passionate love of the Jews for their city, and their praise of its ancient glorieß seemed exaggerated and absurd in presence of those grey trails and those narrow limits. It was Warren who restored the ancient city to the world;

he it was who stripped the rubbish from the rocks, and showed the glorious temple etanding within its walls, 1000 feet long and 200 feet high, of mighty masonry; he it was who laid open the valleys now covered up and hidden ; he who opened the secret passages, the ancient aqueducts, the bridge connecting Temple and town. Whatever else may be done in the future, his nam<* will always be associated with the Holy City which he fi-st recovered. Many questions, it is trae, still remain unanswered ; many gaps in our knowledge have to be filled up; but in the main features those who have followed Warren and Conder in their statement of facts and their conclusions, and who agree with th«m, have no longer any doubt as to the position of the Temple and real builders of the Kabbet-oa-Sakhara—Pales-tine EiDloration Fund—Twenty-ore Years' Work.