Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — Large Audience Heard and Much Enjoyed W. H. Hammelle’s Lecture. [ARTICLE]

Large Audience Heard and Much Enjoyed W. H. Hammelle’s Lecture.

The Presbyterian church was crowded Friday night to hear Attorney W. H. Hammel le, of Monticello, deliver his illustrated lecture on “The Modern Palestine.” He visited the Holy Land two years ago. He used fourteen slides showing the most interesting spots of Jerusalem connecting the topics dead to the Biblical student as well as to Masons, under whose auspices the lecture was given. He brought forth many startling facts and showed the tomb of David and "other places mentioned in the Bible. One interesting thing brought forth was the fact that one could stand cn the Mount of Olives amid hummocks of snow and see the seething ,heat from the Dead Sea less than twenty miles distant. At the present time the city of Jerusalem is under the Moslem rule and two of Mr. Hammelle’s party were shot dead while in the mosque of Omar by some fanatic because their slippers had partly slipped from their feet. The land is actual, real and not fanciful as some people hvae been led to believe and his lecture brought ius closer to it than we have ever been before.