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 Jaffa . 



Jerusalem 



Bethleherft 



Hebron 



as the Sea of Galilee, the river falls 689 feet, 

 so many rapids and whirlpools are formed, 

 making navigation impossible; along the rest 

 of its zig-zag journey the water is not more 

 than two or three 

 feet deep, except 

 at the flood sea- 

 son in March. 

 Then the melting 

 snows from 

 Mount Hermon 

 often flood the 

 little river valley, 

 called the Zor, 

 which is from 

 one-half to two 

 miles wide and 

 lies in the center 

 of the larger val- 

 ley. Two bridges, 

 one below Lake 

 Merom, over 

 which the road 

 passes from Da- 

 mascus to Gali- 

 lee, and the other 

 below the Lake 

 of Tiberias, have COURSE OF THE JORDAN 

 been built across the stream. 



The Jordan was the river over which Joshua 

 led the Children of Israel into the Promised 

 Land (see Joshua III, 1-17), and in its waters 

 Christ was baptized by John the Baptist. To- 

 day thousands of pilgrims, chiefly Russians, 

 journey every year from their own country to 

 bathe in its waters and carry away their bath- 

 ing garments to be buried in. 



JORDAN, DAVID STARR (1851- ), American 

 educator, naturalist and advocate of world 

 peace, was born at Gainesville, N. Y. He 

 entered Cornell University in 1868, and before 

 his graduation in 1872 served for a year as 

 instructor in botany at that institution. He 

 taught biology successively at Lombard Uni- 

 versity, the Indianapolis high school and But- 

 ler University, and in 1879 became professor of 

 zoology at Indiana University, of which he was 

 made president in 1885. In 1891 he resigned 

 to accept the presidency of the newly estab- 

 lished Leland Stanford Jr. University at Palo 

 Alto, Ca. T ., which under his administration at- 

 tained high rank among American institutions 

 of higher learning. He resigned the active 

 presidency in 1913, and was made chancellor, 

 that he might devote time to teaching the 

 world the horrors and economic waste of war. 



DAVID STARR JORDAN 



From 1910 he was chief director of the World 

 Peace Foundation, and in furtherance of its 

 plans was in Europe at the time of th out- 

 break of the War 

 of the Nations in 

 1914. In 1917 he 

 exerted himself 

 to the utmost to 

 prevent a decla- 

 ration of war on 

 the part of the 

 United States 

 against Germany. 



M ean whil e, 

 from 1877 to 1891 

 and from 1894 to 

 1909, he had been 

 assistant to the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, and had served as United States commis- 

 sioner in charge of the fur seal and salmon 

 investigations in 1901 and 1903. His works, 

 which are numerous and of great importance, 

 include A Manual of Vertebrate Animals of the 

 Northern United States, Fishes of North and 

 Middle America} Footnotes to Evolution, The 

 Story of Matka, The Blood of the Nation, 

 Food and Game Fishes of North America, 

 Fishes and The Stability of Truth. 



JOSEPH, jo'zej (1700-1590 B.C., Biblical 

 chronology), the Hebrew lad who was sold into 

 Egypt by his brethren and became the great 

 prime minister of Pharaoh. The story of 

 Joseph is one of the most interesting story- 

 dramas of all time, and is powerfully told in 

 the book of Genesis. He was the eleventh of 

 the twelve sons of Jacob, who was ninety years 

 of age when the boy Joseph, destined for great 

 things, was born. To the aged father this son 

 was the dearest of all his children, dearer even 

 than the youngest, Benjamin. As the years 

 passed by Joseph made a practice of going 

 with his elder brothers into the fields to help 

 them tend the flocks. One day, when he was 

 seventeen years old, he appeared among them 

 in a coat of many colors, the gift of his father. 

 Now in those days such a garment was a mark 

 of distinction, and the hearts of the older 

 brothers were filled with bitterness and jealousy 

 that so young a lad should be thus honored in 

 preference to one of them. 



Then something happened which turned their 

 jealousy into hatred. Joseph told them about 

 two wonderful dreams of his prophetic visions 

 of his future power as a great ruler. He said 

 he dreamed that he was binding wheat in a 

 field with his brothers, when suddenly his sheaf 



