. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. were reared so that there was neither hammer noraxe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was inbuilding. * One feels oppressed in that vast, silent quarry, and # 1 Kings vi. 7. 306 JERUSALEM AND ITS HOLY PLACES. in imagination, peoples it with busy workmen whose voicesand hammer strokes once echoed through this gloomyplace. The quarry is now still as a vast tomb, th
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. were reared so that there was neither hammer noraxe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was inbuilding. * One feels oppressed in that vast, silent quarry, and # 1 Kings vi. 7. 306 JERUSALEM AND ITS HOLY PLACES. in imagination, peoples it with busy workmen whose voicesand hammer strokes once echoed through this gloomyplace. The quarry is now still as a vast tomb, the cunninghands that hewed there are reduced centuries ago to dust, andthe great Temple whose glory filled the people and king withjoy has been razed, so that its foundations are scarcely to befound. Thus any one may see every day in Jerusalem, theliteral and complete fulfilment of His words. As the great whitestones reflected the sunlight, and the Temple stood out in all itssplendour, the disciples with national pride referred to it. Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here,Jesus answering said, there shall not be left one stone uponanother that shall not be thrown down. * * Mark xiii. 1, Chapter , BETHLEHEM, HEBRON, AND JERICHO. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the Mount ofOlives.—Matt. xxvi. 30,
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