An interdenominational pilgrimage to Palestine has been organized quietly throughout the United States during the last few months and the pilgrims embarked on the steamer Republic, of the United States Lines.
Almost 500 people are going, some of them after selling their farms to raise the minimum fare of $600.
James W. Boring, former advertising manager of the United States Lines, is directing the cruise.
The announcements stated it was worth a little self-denial “to tread the soil of the Holy Land where Jesus of Nazareth trod 2,000 years ago; to view Mount Carmel where Elijah challenged the priests of Baal; to see the Sea of Gaiilee where fish abound, as they did when Jesus perirmed the miracle of the drought of fishes; to Jericho to see the ruins of what may be the very walls which fell at the blast of Joshua’s trumpet.”
Many of the pilgrims took with them bottles which are to be filled with water at the River Jordan.
JEWS BEATEN IN VIENNA THEATRE
Jewish theatre goers are nursing bruises and John Galsworthy’s “Loyalties” has been withdrawn as a result of a riot in a theatre, an Associated Press despatch from Vienna states.
Resenting the depiction of a British aristocrat as a thief and the triumph of his Jewish victim, Nationalist students beat up all the Jews in the audience, the despatch states.
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