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Title: Juvenile Instructor
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: George Quayle Cannon 1827 – 1901 Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971)
Subjects: Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971) -- Periodicals Church periodicals
Publisher: Salt Lake City George Q. Cannon Deseret Sunday School Union 1866-1929
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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city oftraders and speculators. At times wealthpoured into the lap of Damascus infabulous streams. In the seventh centuryit became the capital of the Moham- 428 THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. medan world, and from it the decreesof its rulers carried with them authorityfrom the Atlantic on the west, to theBay of Bengal on the east; but itspolitical supremacy did not long survive.It is a commercial city and always hasbeen one rather than a city of politicalpower. Today Damascus consists of narrowand dirty streets, mud walls, rock andadobe he uses, and some 248 mosques. as it was in the days of Sauls con-version. The bazars and market placesare quaint and oriental, but the bazarsare not so fine as those at Constantinople.Its streets are the most uninteresting ofall the great cities of the oriental world;but when a stranger has the opportunityof penetrating some of the old mudwalls that line them, he may be privilegedto see an oriental palace in which thereare beautiful mosaic floors, gurgling
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DAMASCUS. one of the greatest of the Mohammedanworld. The Arabs converted the churchof St. John the Baptist into a mosqueof some 650 feet in length, by 150 feetin width. Since 1889 gas and streetrailways have been introduced, and therailroad running up from Beyrut toDamascus has introduced into theancient city some of the spirit of moderncommerce. Straight Street is still there fountains, marble walks, tropical plants,and oriental statuary. It seems almostincomprehensible that oriental grandeurand such magnificent displays of wealthshould lie hidden within such wretchedsurroundings with an aspect so forbid-ding. The contrasts of the ugly andthe beautiful were never more striking. Damascus is chiefly Arab. Of itsone hundred and eighty thousand DAMASCUS. 429 inhabitants, perhaps not more than onefourth are Christians, these chieflyGreek. There are a lew thousandJews. But the Arab loves Damascus.From it he pictures a heavenly paradisewhich he hopes some day to inhabit.>Jothing soundsjuvenileinstruct3814geor

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