Letters From Egypt And Palestine PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...the Dead Sea silver bright in the morning sunlight. Then to the Temple enclosure, where we spent most of the morning. It hurts to see it all in Moslem hands, and to be obliged to take off our shoes and shuffle in the mis-matched slippers. It was easy to see what a glorious place it had been, for even the degenerate present is full of majesty and beauty. Nothing is surer in Jerusalem than that great expanse of bare rock, on which the great Altar of Sacrifice must have stood, where Abraham saw Christ's day and was glad. No Mosque except Sophia, at Constantinople, is more beautiful than this of Omar guarding the rock. This and the Mosque El-Aksa, a church going back to Justinian, were both filled with beautiful rugs by the Sultan, in honor of the visit of the German Emperor. I have never enjoyed the thought of that visit. It seemed bad business, on the heels of the Armenian atrocities, for the Kaiser to be kissing hands with the unspeakable and unrepentant Turk. It was not far from what school-boys would have called boot-licking. Under the Temple enclosure are the wronderful sub-structures, some of them dating back to Herod's times. They are called Solomon's Stables, and it is plain to see where horses were tied and fed, but I suspect it was the horses of the Crusaders. From the walls we could look deep down into the valley of the Kidron, though it has filled up over eighty feet, and its bottom is thirty-five feet east of its old bed. In the open courts of the Temple some boys were playing hop-scotch, and thoughts flew to Him who had watched the children playing their games. How often He was here Here the boy asked the Doctors of the Law questions that astonished them. Here He was at the Feast of Dedication. Here, on the great...