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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(II. Samuel, xxi.)--About the time that the events
recorded in this chapter were taking place in Palestine, away over on the coast of Asia Minor, the city of Smyrna was being
founded by the Aeolian, Ionian and Dorian colonies. Smyrna in after years was to be the seat of one of the seven churches
of Asia. It was the home of Polycarp, and this picture was taken from near the martyr's grave. There are more Jews here in
proportion to population perhaps than in any other city. Smyrna's relation to the people of God, 1000 B.C., is not geographical
but chronological. So we think it helps the mind to understand better the history of God's people to take a look occasionally
into the lands around the great blue sea that washes the shores of Palestine. It is doubtless true that the history of Palestine
was very much influenced by the ideas and movements of surrounding people." "Vol. 2" and "K' are printed beneath the text
City of Smyrna and the Mediterranean seen through an arch
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