PETRA! - David Jon Hill - October 1963

David Jon Hill

Here is an eyewitness report on Petra. The facts and pictures you've been wanting to know and see. But MOST IMPORTANT, an understanding of what your attitude toward a place of safety should be. "WE'RE BACK in Jerusalem again - we go across the border tomorrow, early. From Petra to here is even more arid than Arizona-and yet people manage to live in scattered groups. The goats seem to be eating the very dirt - camels crossing the road caused us to stop several times. We picked up a little Arab boy a little older than Jonathan [eight years old]. He had walked all the way from Petra [30 or more kilometers] where his father worked. He was on his way to see his mother, traveling across the desert, alone!" This is what I wrote to my wife from Jerusalem just before crossing into the Israeli sector. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library