. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... ed with low doorways and grated windows — itsrude arcade, excluding the sunlight and casting a deejier gloomwithin, sadden the mind, and are in keeping with the monkishlegends that have given to it universal notoriety. Along thisdreary walk, amid its shadows and solemn memories, a wound-ed spirit finds companionship. As the industrious shrine-mak-ers of this and of other ages, the monk
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... ed with low doorways and grated windows — itsrude arcade, excluding the sunlight and casting a deejier gloomwithin, sadden the mind, and are in keeping with the monkishlegends that have given to it universal notoriety. Along thisdreary walk, amid its shadows and solemn memories, a wound-ed spirit finds companionship. As the industrious shrine-mak-ers of this and of other ages, the monks have consecrated eightstations in this narrow street, commemorative of as manyevents in our Lords journey from the dungeons of Antonia tothe site of Calvary. In the northern Avail of the Temple areaare the two arches, noAV Availed up, Avhere stood Pilates stair-case, down Avhich our Lord descended after his sentence Avaspronounced, and directly opposite is the Church of Flagella-tion, marking the place where he Avas scourged. Not manypaces tc) the Avest is the Ecce Homo arch, Avhere Pilate ex-claimed to the infuriated mob, Behold the man! At the Matt.,xxvii., 51. == lb., xxvii., 52. ^ joi,^ ^ix., FEOM DAN TO BEEESHEBA. \ bottom of a gentle descent tlie lane turns to the left, and thto the right. Beyond this angle is shown a deep the solid stone wall, made by the shoulder of Jesus whenhe leaned against it at the time he fainted. Near it is thehouse of St. Veronica, the illustrious woman who presented theSavior with a handkerchief to wipe his bleeding brow. Fromher residence to the terminus of the street the gloom and si-lence are painful; and at well-apportioned intervals are indica-ted, by broken columns, the places where Simon was compelledto bear the Redeemers cross, where Jesus addressed theweeping daughters of Jerusalem, and where his tragical deathoccurred. Throughout Good Friday groups of pious pilgrims werethreading the Via Dolorosa and offering th
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