The Holy Land and the Bible; . no provisionfor putting them under lock and key, he hesitated to leave them on thenaked shore. You dont need to fear, said a turbaned functionary: there is not a Christian within fifty miles ! Between the fountain and the village there is a wady in which astreamlet floAvs through a thicket of nubk and other trees, entering, atlast, the court of the old tower Avhich looks doA on the huts, andfilling its reservoir. Some large fig-trees rise here and there, and thePalma Christi, from which castor oil is extracted, is common, rising inthis locality into a large -pere
The Holy Land and the Bible; . no provisionfor putting them under lock and key, he hesitated to leave them on thenaked shore. You dont need to fear, said a turbaned functionary: there is not a Christian within fifty miles ! Between the fountain and the village there is a wady in which astreamlet floAvs through a thicket of nubk and other trees, entering, atlast, the court of the old tower Avhich looks doA on the huts, andfilling its reservoir. Some large fig-trees rise here and there, and thePalma Christi, from which castor oil is extracted, is common, rising inthis locality into a large -perennial tree, from the moist heat of theclimate. A great block of red Egyptian granite, from Assouan, lay atone spot, partly buried; the fragment of a stone which had been fromeight to ten feet long. It must have been landed at Acre or Tyre, andbrouR-ht doAvn the side of the Jordan channel, from the north—butwhen, or by whom ? The heat of the Jordan plains is very great in summer, and oppres-1 Uatt. iii. 12. 2 Deut. xxv. And as he went outof Jericho with liis dis-ciples and a great num-ber of people, blindBartiniEeus, the son ofTim 33us, sat by thehio:ln\ n side bep:f?infr. And when he heardtil it it was Jesus of Nazareth, he beg:an toci\ out, and fea}% Jesus, thou son of David,have mercy on me. . And Jesus answered and said unto wilt thou that I should do unto thee?The blind man said unto him, Lord, that Imight receive my sight. And Jesus saidunto him, Go thy way ; thy faith hathmade thee whole. And immediately he received his sight,and followed Jesus in the way.—St. MarkX. 46, 47, 51, 52. ERIILV, THE JERICHO OF TO-DAY. (See page 397.) ^^^1 THK OF JERICHO. 399 sive even in sjiring, while in uutuinn it becomes very unhealthy forstrangers. In May. the thermometer ranges from about 86° in theearly forenoon to over 100^ in the beginning of afternoon, standing,even in the shade, at over 90°. The delight of sitting under ones ownvine and fig-tree in such a la
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