. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . means only those know who have gone over the dis-tances traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two milesfrom Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles withoutfatigue, but not more than one man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany toJerusalem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must IN THE HOLY LAND 15: climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion is necessary to keepyou from falling prostrate. I, who am accustomed to walk ten or twelve mileswi
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . means only those know who have gone over the dis-tances traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two milesfrom Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles withoutfatigue, but not more than one man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany toJerusalem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must IN THE HOLY LAND 15: climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion is necessary to keepyou from falling prostrate. I, who am accustomed to walk ten or twelve mileswithout lassitude, tried part of this road over the Mount of Olives, and confessI would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon ones physicalenergies. Yet Christ walked it twice a day, in the morning from Bethany toJerusalem, and in the evening from Jerusalem to Bethany. Likewise it seems asmall thing that Christ walked from Nazareth to Jerusalem, but it takes us fourdays of hard horseback riding, sometimes on a trot and sometimes on a gallop, to. GROUP OE CHILDREN IN NAZARETH do it this week. The way is mountainous in the extreme. To those who went upto the Tip Top House, on Mount Washington, before the railroad was laid, Iwill say that this journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem is like seven such Americanjourneys. So, all up and down, and across, and recrossing Palestine, Jesuswalked. Now we are waiting for orders to mount for Cana of Galilee. We find inthe village at a Greek convent some of the water-pots, or specimens of the same 156 T. Dli WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK kind, that were used at the famous wedding where Christ turned the contents ofthem from common water into grape juice. We were surprised at the size ofthese water-jars. 1 measured them, and found them eighteen inches in width fromedge to edge, and nineteen inches in depth. What a beautiful and strange vintageat that wedding! Not a grape, not a wine press, yet six of these great jarsfilled with
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