The Brook Kedron and the valley of Jehoshaphat are each near, and
are amongst the places to be visited by the Kaiser and the Kaiserin
on that special Sunday. But as interesting as any event of the day
will be an open-air service to be held on the Mount, attended by
their Majesties, the whole of the personages forming the expedition,
and the German settlement in Jerusalem. The bands of the royal yacht
and the escorting squadron, which will have journeyed up from Haifa
for the purpose, will perform the musical part of the service.
[Illustration: DR. BARKHAUSEN OF BERLIN.
(_Organiser of the Tour_.)
(Photo: Johannes Hülsen, Berlin.)]
The next day--Monday, the 31st--the consecration of the Church
of the Redeemer in the Mâristân will take place; the ceremony
will be somewhat imposing, as a large number of clergy and
distinguished personages will be taking part in it. The list of
representatives who will be present reads as follows:--The members
of the Evangelical Church Council specially formed for the
Jerusalem expedition; the representatives of the German Evangelical
Ecclesiastical Governments; the invited Foreign Church Corporations;
the Knights of the Order of St. John; the invited representatives
of the missionary societies who are working in Palestine and
Syria; the Gustave Adolf Society; the whole of the Evangelical
Church in Jerusalem; their Imperial Majesties and suite. I may say
that everyone present who has gone out from Germany will wear a
decoration that has been specially designed, known as the Jerusalem
cross; these, in fact, will be worn the whole route of the journey.
The military element will be in the minority, consisting only of
about sixteen men, eight of them belonging to the Imperial Body
Gendarmerie, and eight to the Kaiserin's bodyguard; these, however,
will not travel up with the Imperial party, having gone out from
Berlin some little time beforehand to accustom themselves to the
habits of the country.
[Illustration: THE NEW LUTHERAN CHURCH, JERUSALEM.]
Immediately subsequent to the ceremony at the church the Kaiser and
Kaiserin will start for a two or three days' visit to places of
interest around Jerusalem, commencing by riding to Jericho, which
will take about six hours. The Imperial party will halt there for
the night, camping at the foot of Jebel Harantel.
On the succeeding day visits will be paid to the Dead Sea and the
Jordan, the latter one of the most wonderful rivers of the world,
with a history running through the entire Bible. Various other
places of much interest will be seen, and then their Majesties
return to Jerusalem, going back to the coast by train, and taking
ship again at Jaffa for Haifa.
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