The Holy Land and Syria . Christmas is long drawn out at Bethlehem. First come the Latinceremonies on December 25; fourteen days later the Greek Church cele-brates; and thirteen days later comes the Armenian feast. Young women in Bethlehem proudly wear their dowries—necklacesand fillets of coins, and beautifully embroidered shawls, which ma\ meanover a year of painstaking needlework BETHLEHEM to Mount Moriah. Along it came the Wise Men of theEast following the Star on their way to the stable whereJesus was born. They had called upon crafty KingHerod at Jerusalem to ask about the King of the Je
The Holy Land and Syria . Christmas is long drawn out at Bethlehem. First come the Latinceremonies on December 25; fourteen days later the Greek Church cele-brates; and thirteen days later comes the Armenian feast. Young women in Bethlehem proudly wear their dowries—necklacesand fillets of coins, and beautifully embroidered shawls, which ma\ meanover a year of painstaking needlework BETHLEHEM to Mount Moriah. Along it came the Wise Men of theEast following the Star on their way to the stable whereJesus was born. They had called upon crafty KingHerod at Jerusalem to ask about the King of the had told them to find where He was born, that hemight come and worship Him. The road goes by a wellwhere it is said these Wise Men stopped to drink. It isknown as the Well of the Magi, and is near an olivegrove on the east side of the road. It is covered with amarble slab as big around as a cart wheel with a holecut in the centre through which the water is raised by abucket and rope. The stone is polished by the kissesof pilgrims. The story is that the Wise Men as they trudged alongin the gathering twilight sat down by this well to they stooped forward to draw some water todrink, they saw
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