. In His footsteps : a record of travel to and in the land of Christ : with an attempt to mark the Lord's journeyings in chronological order from His birth to His Ascension . lehem. Passing throughthe upper part of the Valley of Hinnom we cross a plain,probably the Valley of Rephaim, where P™ ^.^...^^^^^^BBM^te-——-*-?*#«iDavid met and de-feated the Philistines(2 Sam. V, 18). Alittle farther along isa cistern known as theWell of the Magi,where it is said thewise men saw the starafter their departurefrom the presence ofHerod (Matt, ii, 9).One of the most in-teresting sights on theroad between Je
. In His footsteps : a record of travel to and in the land of Christ : with an attempt to mark the Lord's journeyings in chronological order from His birth to His Ascension . lehem. Passing throughthe upper part of the Valley of Hinnom we cross a plain,probably the Valley of Rephaim, where P™ ^.^...^^^^^^BBM^te-——-*-?*#«iDavid met and de-feated the Philistines(2 Sam. V, 18). Alittle farther along isa cistern known as theWell of the Magi,where it is said thewise men saw the starafter their departurefrom the presence ofHerod (Matt, ii, 9).One of the most in-teresting sights on theroad between Jeru-salem and Bethlehemis the so-called Tombof Rachel, which issupposed to mark thescene of Rachelsdeath (Gen. xxxv, 19).The spot is equallysacred to Moham-medan, Christian, andJew. Here we turnto the left from themain road, and in less than a quarter of an hour are in the outskirts of have, at last, like those ancient worshipers from the East—the Magi—found the place where the young child wasborn. From this point our real pilgrimage begins, for weare to walk the same ground, so far as we can, which hepassed over from his birth to his BETHLEHEM—FROM THE VALLEY OFTHE SHEPHERDS. SKE TCH MAPfrom -tk. eitt^^)jClmi1
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