Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — TOWER OF FORTY MARTYRS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOWER OF FORTY MARTYRS.

Marks the Scene of Persecution of Christians by Mohammedans. Twenty-four miles northwest of Jerusalem, in one of the richest and loveliest districts of Palestine, stands the ancient town of Ramleh, a city of perhaps 5,000 inhabitants. It is principally interesting to travelers from the fact that the Tower of the Forty Martyrs, which tradition declares to mark the scene of the sacrifice of many noble Christian lives to the fury of Mohammedan persecution, is situated here. A spiral stairway leads to the top of the tower, where a magnificent view is afforded, the delighted eye ranging across the plain of Sharon from the low Judasan hills and the peaks of Samaria to the blue Mediterranean beyond, and on the other side from bleak Carmel to the'-deserts of Philistia. This superb landscape is dotted here and

there by white villages or shadowed by the cool mountains. It is a matter of regret that the names of the faithful forty have not been preserved.

TO WEB OF THE FORTY MARTYRS.