Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . w seconds, the whole church is however, never happens without fighting, and accidentsgenerally occur owing to the crush. In 1834 an awful accident occurred. Six thousand peo-ple were in the church, when the Turkish guards, thinkingthey were attacked, sprang upon the pilgrims, beat many ofthem to death, and in the scuffle that followed, three hun-dred lives were lost. Yet, with all these excrescences and unpleasant manifes-tations of religious zeal and fanaticism, it must be remem
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . w seconds, the whole church is however, never happens without fighting, and accidentsgenerally occur owing to the crush. In 1834 an awful accident occurred. Six thousand peo-ple were in the church, when the Turkish guards, thinkingthey were attacked, sprang upon the pilgrims, beat many ofthem to death, and in the scuffle that followed, three hun-dred lives were lost. Yet, with all these excrescences and unpleasant manifes-tations of religious zeal and fanaticism, it must be remem-bered that there is something intensely real to all these pil-grims in these traditional sights. People do not undergosufferings to see that which they do not believe with intense^devotion. They will not fight for that which does not appealstrongly to their faith and love, and even the disgracefulriots which have blotted the history of the Church of theHoly Sepulchre more than once, show the abiding strengthand dominating influence of the cross of Christ over the lives-of the worlds 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 Suggestion.
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