The Holy Land and Syria . and holds the titles to themost valuable of the buildings about the Jaffa Gate andDavids Tower, including the Grand New Hotel building. The native monks say that the Greek priests who havecome in from Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna, the Isle ofSamos, and other places now hold all the fat jobs, and thatthey themselves are compelled to work for only a few dol-lars a month. They do the pastoral work of the villagesand act as the priests of the towns. On the other hand,the outsiders have amassed fortunes. They pretend tobe hermits and devoted to fasting and prayer, but th
The Holy Land and Syria . and holds the titles to themost valuable of the buildings about the Jaffa Gate andDavids Tower, including the Grand New Hotel building. The native monks say that the Greek priests who havecome in from Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna, the Isle ofSamos, and other places now hold all the fat jobs, and thatthey themselves are compelled to work for only a few dol-lars a month. They do the pastoral work of the villagesand act as the priests of the towns. On the other hand,the outsiders have amassed fortunes. They pretend tobe hermits and devoted to fasting and prayer, but theyare accused of living luxuriously and of keeping estab-lishments by no means as good as they should be. Indeed, the fights among the warring Christians havesometimes been so bad that the Mohammedan soldiershere had to use whips to keep them in order. I haveseen Moslem soldiers in the Church of the Holy Sepulchreat Easter time whipping the quarrelling Greeks, Ar-menians, and Copts in order to separate them. It is not 108. Outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, candle sellers, rosary pedlars,and hawkers of relics trade on the holiness of the Holy City
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