. On Nazareth hill. Es-draelon, with all its scenes and its memories, rolls outlike a magic carpet at your feet. Heavenly is theonly way to describe the long morning the writer spenton the roof of this little shrine — heavenly the cobalt ofthe sky, heavenly the fresh breeze from the coastsof Tyre and Sidon, heavenly the ever-shifting patternof color woven by the cloud-shadows on the gorgeousloom of the plain. The spirit of Elijah is surely below is the road from Jezreel up which droveAhab and his priests to the contest. Around us therocks are dense with witnesses. We hear the shouts
. On Nazareth hill. Es-draelon, with all its scenes and its memories, rolls outlike a magic carpet at your feet. Heavenly is theonly way to describe the long morning the writer spenton the roof of this little shrine — heavenly the cobalt ofthe sky, heavenly the fresh breeze from the coastsof Tyre and Sidon, heavenly the ever-shifting patternof color woven by the cloud-shadows on the gorgeousloom of the plain. The spirit of Elijah is surely below is the road from Jezreel up which droveAhab and his priests to the contest. Around us therocks are dense with witnesses. We hear the shoutsof prayer that batter at Baals gates; we see the bloodflow. There is the spring from which Elijah draws hiswater. The fire of Jehovah falls! The frenzied peoplerush upon the vanquished and drive them down theprecipitous slope beneath us to the silver thread ofKishon. And there to the north-west is the roundedsummit of Carmel up which the servant runs to beholdthe sea and the cloud no bigger than a mans hand. [62]. Photo by S. U. Mitman, THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE s MARYS FOUNTAIN, NAZARETH OMEWHERE within a mile of every village inPalestine is a spring to which a well-worn path and morning, and as often as necessary in be-tween, the women and girls of the household walk tothe spring and return with their heavy water-jarsbalanced jauntily on their heads. A mile walk underthese conditions would tax the strength of even anAmerican woman! It was to such a spring in Nazareth that Mary camedaily. Since Nazareth has only one spring, there is nodoubt of its authenticity. The only question is whetherin Marys day the water was taken at the spring itselfor at some conveniently arranged spout or trough atsome distance from the spring. At the present day thelatter method is used. This picture shows the placewhere for centuries the women and children have filledtheir jars. There is a platform, approached from theroad by a couple of stone steps; a shallow arch of stone,under w
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