. 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. red glass, andquotations from the Koran are arranged around the interior ofthe dome. On the floor is a slab with a number of goldenheaded nails, one of which is taken out at the end of everyepoch. Only three and a half remain, and when they areremoved the end of the world will come. And the Mahom-medan tradition is that both Mahommed and Jesus will thencome. At their advent a li
. 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. red glass, andquotations from the Koran are arranged around the interior ofthe dome. On the floor is a slab with a number of goldenheaded nails, one of which is taken out at the end of everyepoch. Only three and a half remain, and when they areremoved the end of the world will come. And the Mahom-medan tradition is that both Mahommed and Jesus will thencome. At their advent a line, fine as a thread, will be stretchedacross the valley of Jehoshaphat, one end of which will befastened to a piece of column now built into the eastern wallof Jerusalem, and the other end fastened to the Mount ofOlives. At one end Mahommed will stand, at the other Jesus,and all who can walk over that thread will be admitted intoParadise and the others perish. Immediately under the dome is Es-Sakhrah, the is the levelled top of Mount Moriah, about sixty feet longand fifty-five broad, aud five feet above the floor of the is called the Stone of Foundation, and was the nucleus 3 o <© W o 0. 302 JERUSALEM AND ITS HOLY PLACES. according to the Talmud, around which the world wasformed. When Solomon brought the Ark from the Tabernacleon Mount Zion to the Temple, the Talmud states it was placedon the Stone of Foundation. On the south-east there are afew steps descending to a cave in the rock, above is an open-ing to the top of the Sakhrah ; below the stone floor of the caveit is hollow, and, as Dr. Thomson says, this may have been thereceptacle for the blood and other matter from the burnt-offer-ings, and which was thence washed down through subterraneanpassages to the south-east into the valley of Hinnom. TheMahommedan priests, however, inform the people that it is thedismal abode of the wicked, whose moaning can occasionally beheard, and this absurdity the gu
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