. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... Mighty. Less than half thehill is included within the present walls, occupied by the Cita-del, the English Church, the American Consulate, the Post-of-fice, the Prussian Hospital, the Church of St. James, the Jew-ish Synagogue, private residences, and the Lepers Quarters;Avhile beyond the walls are the Diocesan school-house, the Ar- Book v., chap, iv., p. 528. = Jer., xxvi., 18. FKOM D
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... Mighty. Less than half thehill is included within the present walls, occupied by the Cita-del, the English Church, the American Consulate, the Post-of-fice, the Prussian Hospital, the Church of St. James, the Jew-ish Synagogue, private residences, and the Lepers Quarters;Avhile beyond the walls are the Diocesan school-house, the Ar- Book v., chap, iv., p. 528. = Jer., xxvi., 18. FKOM DAN TO BEEESHEBA. 47 menian Convent, the Tomb of David, and the Protestant Cem-etery. Emotions of joy and sadness are awakened as one standsTipon the site of those great historic events which have filledthe world with their renown, and impressed their inevitableresults, for weal or woe, upon the opinions and actions ofmankind. As the religious sensibilities of our nature are mostsusceptible of excitement, so no spot on earth excites the mindto the same degree as where the events of sacred history oc-curred. Around Mount Zion cluster memories of humanshame and glory. Here the defiant words of the Jebusites. ilOL^T ZION AND TOWEE CI UIPPICUS. kindled the martial soul of David, who, summoning all his mil-itary skill and courage for the attack, captured the strong-hold of Jebus. Here he reigned for thirty-three years in un-rivaled wealth and glory, and here he penned many of his sub-lime psalms. Here the ruder palace of the father gave way to 48 FEOM DAN TO BEEESHEBA. the grander palace of the son. Here, in regal magnificence,uneqiialed in the annals of kings, Solomon held his court, dis-playing a wisdom as vast as his wealth was exhaustless, andachieving for himself a name that was borne to the uttermostparts of the earth in accents of praise and gladness. Here, fora thousand years, their descendants reigned in power and glo-ry; and here, on the very summit of their pleasures and g
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