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Show place "where Life and Immortality were brought to ligh t." Certain ly the cleepe. t cleptl1s of the emotiona l nature wa stirred and the mind was filled with pathos and exulting delight as the history o [ the land just ahead passed before us. Our ship anchored almo t a mile off . hore because there are no harbor accommodations. The same conditions obtain today that were there centuries ago when the wealth of Tyre and Sidon, and the 'edars of Lebanon entered that Port en route for jerusalem. rl he same old dangerous rocks are there that menaced the progre s of small boats in the time that Jonah is repute(! to have encountered his difficult\· with the great fish; but scarcely had our shi]) topped hcforc we were surrounded b\' scores of small row boats whose owners were- clamoringand climbine- and fio·htino· for the l)rivileo·e of u b b b taking us ashore, which we reached a few moments later. Jaffa: \\'c chose to walk from our landing place up to Cook's Office for the purpose of seeing the sights along the way; and we saw them. Our fond wish was tc, ha,·c left all dirty and filthy sights in Egypt, hut not so. Our way Icc! us along a narrow and dirty . trect among dirty people and still dirtier animals with the obligation impo. eel upon us of inkding the most filthy of odors. .t\ ncl yet th i. is where Dorcas lived and wrought so gloriously, because so unselfishly. This is where Dorcas lived and made garments with her own needle for the poor unfortunates, and the dirtiness of some of the garment there seen causes one to wonder if they ha \'e not come down from the Dorcas era. Rut thi. was also the city of imon the Tanner. on the roof of which Peter is said to Page f.'orty-fiYe |