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tine surveyors naturally looked to the exact Avords of 

 Scripture and they knew from the Bible, as if they had 

 been under marching orders, how they were to march 

 north and then turn eastward and then take the line to- 

 Avards the village Labona, and stop short of that and look 

 for Shiloli. Those directions Avere just as simple as any 

 directions you Avould get in asking your Avay about the 

 streets of London. But people did not go to Scripture for 

 their knowledge, and they searched about in their oAvn 

 indiscriminate Avay. At last somebody did it, and sure 

 enough they found it. No other side of Palestine fulfils 

 the description required of the city of Shiloh. It required 

 a loAver plateau where the Avhole nation might encamp — 

 people Avho would attend the Annual FestiA^al of the Jews, 

 where many thousands of persons might encamp and in the 

 middle of that is a Ioav hill — a plateau on Avhich Avould be 

 placed the Ark of the Tabernacle Avhere the priests Avould 

 be. This site of Shiloh exactly ansAvers it. There are the 

 plateaux. Can you find stronger confirmation of your belief 

 in Scripture than that? You are told again in the book of 

 Joshua that when the Jcavs began to be organised, Joshua 

 determined to have the Divine Commandments read to all 

 the people. They Avere to be read on the side of the A-alley 

 (between Gerizim and Ebal) and on the other side the people 

 Avere to giA^e their responses, and the laAv was read. The 

 question arose could you do that in that particular locality 

 — could you place the priests on one side and the people on 

 the other side and be able to hear the word and be able to 

 ansAver ? You can ! I have tried it myself. On one side 

 the A^ery Avords Avere read out in the English translation and 

 you could hear the response. Noav I ask cultured persons, 

 is not this an astonishing proof of the narrative? 



Take another case, the case of the river Kishon. EA^ery- 

 one remembers the story of Barak and Deborah. Many may 

 have an indistinct impression hoAV the catastrophe occurred. 

 But hoAv did the battle begin, and hoAV does the iiarratiA^e 

 fit in Avith the locality, I should say average people hardly 

 knoAv. But Avould you be surprised to hear that if you go 

 to the spot you can folloAv out the whole details of it ? 

 There the JeAvish infantry Avere placed on the top of Tabor 

 in front of you, thence charged down upon the loosely- 

 organised host of Sisera, just as Scripture says. Then there 

 folloAved the catastrophe, for there came a tremendous 

 hailstorm at the time of the battle, Avhich made Kishon 



