The New Jerusalem

Rev. Theodore S. Cuyler, writing to the New Evangelist, says: New ideas are working into Palestino. A new cil y is going up on the west side of Jerusalem, outside of the gates. Along the turnpike to Jaffa runs the telegraph wire and on the plain of Sharon stands thelarge "Jewish Agricultural College," surrounded by a model farm and thrlfty nurseries. Bethlehem is a tliriving town- largely it is nominally Christian- a:.d it carries on extensivo manufactures in niother-of-pearl. The Bethlehemites brought back from our Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia about $70,000 as the net profit of the sale of their beautiiul wares. If I alestino were only delivered from the tyranny of the Sultan, or were ruled bv BUCh a man as the Pasha Koulff (the Governor of Jerusalem), it would nse rapidly into a new era of economie prog.ess. The Sultan's touch and tread are death.