MISS VON PINKELSTEIN'S LECTURE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 240, 11 October 1888, Page 2

MISS VON PINKELSTEIN'S LECTURE.

A very able and certainly most instructive address was delivered by Miss von JTinkelstein last night to a large audience, the subject being " Life in Jerusalem," on which for a couple of hourß she discoursed most pleasantly, very graphically depicting the manners and customs of the residents in that ancient city. The description of the city itself with its population of 60,000 was admirably given, and it was explained that on the great wall which surrounded it were placed a number of watch towers, and any . one not resident within the walls was deßoribed as dwelling 1 in the wilderness. At intervals in the wall were postern gates, to which the name was given of the il eye of the needle," and it was evidently to this that the Saviour mado reference in hit Baying*, "It is easier* for a camel to pass through the eye of a. needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." The camel before passing through the " eye " or gate had to kneel in order that its load and trappings might be taken off, and so with the rich man, he must divest himself of worldly pride and belongings before it was possible for him to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In a very pleasant chatty manner she shed OfUch light upon the ourioua family customs of ibQ people, describing with conßid-rablo skill a marrioge ceremony, a wedding protea3ion, the ceremony of washing tho feet und bands and so on. It was difficnlt to believe at the clos3 of the lecture that io bad occupied a couple of hours eh quickly had the time passed away, A rather happy hit was mode ia contrasting the European with tho Oriental Labis in ;b.i matter of female at^ir?, the leorureßs asserting that iv PaL sine the women adorn* d thfimselvia wi'h a view to pleasing their fathers, brothers, or bustande, and not for the jip« proval or admiration of stranger.*,