Romantic Finds in Mizpah Excavations Archmology, stripped of dry for-inula, and packed with interest. was utilized as the medium. through which Biblical history was drawn into sharp relief by Dr. W. F. Bade, whose address on his excavation of Mizpan, 7% miles from Jerusalem, Grew a large audience on Monday (Jan. 26) to the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. He delighted his listeners with a lecture brightened with humour and anecdote ud copiously Illustrated by exceptionally fine slides.
It was.no more than a copy of an aerial photograph taken by a Ger man aviator during the Great War which gave Dr. Bade is first clue the "Mizpah of Benjonin, "ly-not from Tel-en-Nas-'Bade is now re five, places of the same name, "mizpah," referred to In the Bible, but the site in question has been proved unquestionably to be that stormed by Sennacherib In 701 BE., and described in Judges Chapters 19-21, Human interest was not lacking, for there were revealed the breaches made by Assyrian wai Fors. as well as the "Judgment seats within the gates;" huge dual gates, Which are indicated again and again in the Old Testament. Scholars Were baled that the word always was in the plural, but the only com= pletely excavated Biblical city in the World to-day reveals that the prophets spoke of facts, for a double kate' protected all within, the city, The Jong slot where rested the huge bar locking the gate against invaders still to be seen, while the lock stone and pivot stone, on which the ponderous doors swung. were dis~ covered within the walls, carefully placed by Tong dead defenders who eft them, unquestionably with the hope of sharily resuming peaceful occupation in a few short days, In~ Head. Dr. Bade and his men were @estined to find them, and it them into their proper places,
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