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Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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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. A.and 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 sewerage system. TheAmerican secretary at the head of the Y. M. C. A., whohad had experience with the disease that comes from a citywhose sewage is badly handled, acted promptly, sent
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Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine (Right I, Colonel Storrs, Military Covernor of Jerusalem, and Arabs to Cairo and bought a secondhand outfit he knew of, asteam pump, sealed carts, and so on, which are still in use. If it had not been for the war we should have beenlavishly represented in the oil business. But it is astourists that we have shown an especial flair for Jeru-salem. How many of us have had our inspiration on theMount of Olives, gazing at the slopes which those wehave learned to revere used to see! We have climbed tothe^Temple Rock and seen the Mosque of Omar; wehave gone down the Street of Sorrows, passed throughthe Damascus Gate; we have perhaps felt with a freshshock, as people do ten or twenty times during theirthree score years and ten, the strangeness of this com-mon thing called life. We have felt the picturesquenessof the heterogeneous races in Jerusalem: Jews andSamaritans, Arabs and Christians of varying creeds—Jews with their pale faces and lo

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