Things seen in Palestine . s, vhich aremassed about the ancient church, which 239 Things Seen in Palestine covers the cave-stable where Jesus Christ wasborn. Here we find churches and hospices,Latin, Greek, Armenian, and Syrian. This disfigurement does not stand alone,although it is that which the eye especiallyresents. Outside the little town arehospitals, convents, and schools, RomanCatholic and German ; the one English in-stitution, a school for girls, is well out ofsight, and little noticeable ; moreover, thepeople of Bethlehem, industrious and enter-prising, have grown rich by trading abr
Things seen in Palestine . s, vhich aremassed about the ancient church, which 239 Things Seen in Palestine covers the cave-stable where Jesus Christ wasborn. Here we find churches and hospices,Latin, Greek, Armenian, and Syrian. This disfigurement does not stand alone,although it is that which the eye especiallyresents. Outside the little town arehospitals, convents, and schools, RomanCatholic and German ; the one English in-stitution, a school for girls, is well out ofsight, and little noticeable ; moreover, thepeople of Bethlehem, industrious and enter-prising, have grown rich by trading abroad,and are building new houses of the suburbanvilla variety. All, however, is forgotten when we enterthe Church of the Nativity. It is said byexperts to be, of all churches contemporarywith the triumph of Christianity erected onthe famous sites of Palestine, the only onewhich remains to us in any great destructive conquerors ofJerusalem, who again and again destroyed,in whole or part, the monuments of 240. American Cohny Jerusalem. THE BROOK KISHON AND MOUNT CARMEL. Moslem and Jew alike have confidence in the therapeutic qualities of a cavein Mount Carmel which is associated with Elijah. Holy Places Christianity, seemed to have passed Beth-lehem by, and we may look upon columnsof Constantine and apses of Justinian withas much certainty as upon the rough wallsof the humble cave-stable which theyshelter and commemorate. On the hillsidewe are shown the fields of Boaz, and theacres which entitled Joseph to count him-self a citizen of Bethlehem. In the plainbelow, lie the Shepherds Fields, the ruinsof an early Christian church still visible nearthe cave which may have given shelter whenthey kept their flocks by night, andfurther down the valley toward the DeadSea stands out the conical hill whenceHerods castle frowned down upon theroyal city when the Child Jesus came todwell among men. Less modernized is the little town ofHebron. Its lack of New-Testamentassociatio
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