194 GENEEAL SIR CHARLES WARREN_, G.C.M.G., F.R.S.^ ON 



the great importance whicli was attached to her. The curses of 

 these three divinities are also inscribed on the stones against any- 

 one who should move them. It thus appears that superstitious 

 belief in the power of Smaiyeh in 1882 protected the cairn, in just 

 the same way as a similar belief in the same star, then called Istar, 

 had protected the boundaries of the Babylonian farmers of thousands 

 of years ago. 



Dr. Withers Green : I should like to ask a simple question. 

 What is the geography of Palestine 1 Is the River of Egypt the 

 southern boundary of the land of Palestine 1 Then the question 

 arises : What is the Eiver of Egypt ? I asked a friend and he said 

 the Nile. It seems to me that the River of Egypt was the little 

 wadi, or rivulet dividing the land of Palestine from the land of 

 Egypt. That seems to me likely to be so because, in Isai. xix, Egypt, 

 Palestine, and Assyria are spoken of as distinct countries. If you 

 take the Nile to be the southern boundary of the promised portion 

 of Palestine, you are really going into Egypt. If one asks an 

 ordinary Christian what is the River of Egypt, he generally replies, 

 The Nile. But I fancy that is wrong. 



Colonel Alves : I will ask a question or two, and make a remark 

 or two. The first question is : When, through Abraham, Israel was 

 chosen to be the race to bear witness that Jehovah was the all- 

 powerful and only true God of the whole earth, from Whom should 

 spring the Life-giver and Deliverer from sin, why was Palestine 

 specially chosen for that nation 1 For of that country the spies 

 said : " A land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof." Secondly, 

 what is the nature of its strategic importance in the present day, 

 seeing that the greatest trouble is to fall on the Jews when settled 

 in this land as a nation — a thing impossible without the consent of 

 the Gentile powers Thirdly, what was likely to be the effect of 

 the presence of the mixed multitude in inciting the Israelites to 

 rebellion 1 



As to training (page 170), the Kaffir may display brilliant intellectual 

 qualities, but will he make the use of them that a white man will ? 

 Our Lord and Peter (see John vii, 17, and ii Peter i, 5-7) put the 

 attitude of doing before that of knowing. Here, with all respect to 

 the reader of the paper, unless it is simply a matter of terminology, 

 I must differ from him on one or two points. On page 185, line 25, 



