. Six and one abroad. and a look ofpassionate devotion upon his face. How reverently he kissedthe slab; how tenderly he pressed his lips against it; how hisshock of unkempt yellow hair fell upon it and trembled withthe fervency of the adoration! While we watched curiously,this pathetic fellow drew from his long, heavy cloak a bunch ofbeads and rubbed them upon the stone, and likewise a numberof handkerchiefs, to sanctify them and absorb the virtue ofthe holy thing that he might use them in his far-off home toheal his loved ones in case of sickness. And then he drewaway regretfully to seek anot
. Six and one abroad. and a look ofpassionate devotion upon his face. How reverently he kissedthe slab; how tenderly he pressed his lips against it; how hisshock of unkempt yellow hair fell upon it and trembled withthe fervency of the adoration! While we watched curiously,this pathetic fellow drew from his long, heavy cloak a bunch ofbeads and rubbed them upon the stone, and likewise a numberof handkerchiefs, to sanctify them and absorb the virtue ofthe holy thing that he might use them in his far-off home toheal his loved ones in case of sickness. And then he drewaway regretfully to seek another object on which to spend hishigh-wrought veneration; and others came, and still they keptcoming, crowds of ignorant, superstitious pilgrims and nativesto go through the same pious routine. The rock is a fraud. About once every hundred years itwears away and is replaced; but the new one is kissed andvenerated with undiminished fervor. A few paces to the right up a slope of the floor in a dark 122 Six and One Abroad. Inside the Walls of Jerusalem, 123 apartment is the reputed place of the crucihxion. For aughtwe know it may be the real Calvary. Over this sacred groundlamps are burning and there are altars, one dedicated to Je-sus, another to ^lary. In the hilltop through the open floorare revealed three holes encased in silver wherein stood (?) 1900years ago the crosses of Christ and the thieves. In the rock,which is part of the hill, exposed to view through an openingand protected by iron grating, is a fissure alleged to have beenmade by an earthquake following the crucifixion; and throughthis crevice our guide, who believes all things, informed usthe blood of Christ ran from his pierced side upon the headof Adam who was buried directly underneath, in that waybecoming effective ex post facto upon Adams sins. A room cut from the rock in the side of this alleged Calvaryis pointed out as the place whence, as a sort of headquarters,the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, in t
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