. Christian herald and signs of our times . DEAF 828 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES NOV. 4, i&. A Rich Damascus Home/ FROM the outside it looked like adozen other houses in the narrow,winding street: the front havinga dingy, ill-kept air. We knockedat the low door, and were ad-mitted by a gorgeously liveried porter,who ushered us into a small, dark on this corridor were severallittle rooms, with the usual sleeping-maton the floor. These rooms were used assleeping places for servants and for suchmessengers from a distance as wereobliged to stav in town all night. I
. Christian herald and signs of our times . DEAF 828 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES NOV. 4, i&. A Rich Damascus Home/ FROM the outside it looked like adozen other houses in the narrow,winding street: the front havinga dingy, ill-kept air. We knockedat the low door, and were ad-mitted by a gorgeously liveried porter,who ushered us into a small, dark on this corridor were severallittle rooms, with the usual sleeping-maton the floor. These rooms were used assleeping places for servants and for suchmessengers from a distance as wereobliged to stav in town all night. It was. doubtless, in some such lodgingthat the Hittite captain lay. when, recalledfrom the held, he foolishly slept at thedoor of the kings house with all theservants of his lord, and went not down tohis house; an act of fidelity that costhim his life. Crossing the corridor, we came into thecourt around which the house was , for the first time (except at Turkishbaths). I saw the fabled Oriental magnifi-cence. The court in which we foundourselves was paved with white marbleand surrounded by wal
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