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Show ]ORDA\" R fV 1:;:R SCE!'\ E is called ~tr aio· ht, into which .\nania s wa told to enter ,tnd in which he found Saul f Tarsus praying . .\nd while the jews threatened hi life, Paul was let down from his hiding place, by nigh t, in a basket, and escaped his persecu tors by flee ing lo j crusalem and joining; himself to the dis ci ples of Christ. Our travels took us from Damascus to Baalhek , :\la rch 28th, via Rcyak. The latter named plan: was reached about eleven o'clock and a most en jovahle lunch \\'as had there. Three o'clock tl;at afternoon found us located in our hotel at 1\aalbek and read.'· to visit the ruins of tile g reatest Temple ever ercctecl. Thi s Temple seems to have been us eel for the worship oi all the a ncient gods. 1\ssyrian s and Egyptian. worshipped na·al here and unto him erected the origin al Temple. The Creeks poured out their devotion to their sun-god, 11 elios, and the Roma ns followed them by ex a! t i 11 o· Jupiter and ).l ercur)· and \ ·enus. .\ description of thi Temple i impossible here. It suggests, howc, ·er, that men must worship, that men becom' like the object or person \vhom they worship. Little the vvondcr thai clrunkennes. and ,·icc dominated the li,·es of those hy whom those old Temples were erectccl. The next morning, :\[arch 20th, was snowy and stormy. but the train does not wait for clear weather there, nor docs it seem to hurry. The ride from naalhek to lkirut was inclcecl exciting because the road led o\·cr the ever hi sto ric ::\lounlains of Lebanon. and further hecause the r eport was coming from en:ry station that the train was likely to become snow-hound and then Beirut could not be reached for seve ral clay s. The tra,·e ler must learn to accept things as they come, to be thankful when they come Page Seventy-nine |