Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER XXV. A MEMORABLE WALK. The Via Dolorosa — Fourteen Stations on the Way to the Cross — St. Veron-ica and Her Handkerchief — Some Touching Inscriptions — Outside tli3Gates — Our Golgotha— The Green Hill Far Away. Gethsemane —The Stone of Treason — A Wonderful View — Our Lords Broken-Hearted Lament — The Russian Tower — The Dead Sea — A MarvelousMirror — Absaloms Tomb — The Fate of an Unfilial Reprobate — TI13cave of Adullam — Nebo and Its Lonely Grave—The Village of Mary andMartha—? The Gre
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER XXV. A MEMORABLE WALK. The Via Dolorosa — Fourteen Stations on the Way to the Cross — St. Veron-ica and Her Handkerchief — Some Touching Inscriptions — Outside tli3Gates — Our Golgotha— The Green Hill Far Away. Gethsemane —The Stone of Treason — A Wonderful View — Our Lords Broken-Hearted Lament — The Russian Tower — The Dead Sea — A MarvelousMirror — Absaloms Tomb — The Fate of an Unfilial Reprobate — TI13cave of Adullam — Nebo and Its Lonely Grave—The Village of Mary andMartha—? The Greatest Miracle of the Ages—? Dis Way to de Tombof Lazaroos — The Wretched Inhabitants of Modern Bethany — TheTomb of Rachel — Where Our Lord was Born — The Marble Cradle —An Impressive Sight — Wrangling Christians — Turkish Guards at OurLords Cradle — A Sad NE of the most impressive andmemorable walks that we tookwithin the Holy City led us alongthe Yia Dolorosa, through gate, thence out to theMount of Olives and Bethan}^Before we leave the sacred city,let us all take such a walk to-gether. This traditional Street ofPain seems worthy of its name,for it is a dark and gloomy road-way, arched overhead through much of its course withvaulted roofs, and reminding one at almost every footstep ofthe suffering and indignities endured by the Son of be sure, the ancient Way of the Cross, even if it fol- (469) 470 ALONG THE WAY OF THE CROSS. lowed the general line of the modern street, which is by no-means certain, must have been many feet below the surfaceof the present roadway, for the accumulated rubbish of theages and the many sieges to which Jerusalem has been sub-ject have buried the old city from ten to forty feet below themodern city1. However, from very early centuries, the way which our Lord took as He borethe cross to h
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