. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. Quaresimus calls it a roseset sweet within the green leaves of its encirclinghills; but that is pious flattery. It is a poor,small, whitewashed collection of mean, flat-toppedhouses, with tiny domes, and one steep, dirty, ill-keptstreet; yet is it nevertheless a spiritual metropolisof the earth, as you must feel when you stand insidethe Church of the Annunciation and read the go
. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. Quaresimus calls it a roseset sweet within the green leaves of its encirclinghills; but that is pious flattery. It is a poor,small, whitewashed collection of mean, flat-toppedhouses, with tiny domes, and one steep, dirty, ill-keptstreet; yet is it nevertheless a spiritual metropolisof the earth, as you must feel when you stand insidethe Church of the Annunciation and read the goldenletters on the rock in the cave, Hie Verbum CaroFactus Est—Here the Word was made can hardly be a passage of travel so long orsurely remembered as when, evening after evening,you walk down from the hill where the old citystood, to the Well, and know that you are treadingin the daily steps of the Carpenters Son. WhenI was at Nazareth I purchased the seven acres ofwild rock and ruins on that hill—the exact andcertain spot where our Lord opened the Book andread—hoping to found a small hospital there;and at first my humble enterprise prospered. Butthe Greek and Latin monks quarrelled about it;. CI CO IN THE HOLY LAND 83 difficulties intervened, the sailing ship which carriedthe beds, fittings, and inscription-stone went downat sea. The project had to be abandoned. Latterly,however, it has been revived, with new hopes andefforts ; and just before leaving England last year, Iagreed to make over the Sultans firman, which Istill held, to those who are again endeavouring toestablish the Katharine Arnold Hospital. Then, onward from Nazareth, with Mount Carmelstill towering on the right and standing grandlyup from the sea, this intensely absorbing and un-equalled journey leads the traveller down the ruggedslope from His native city into the plain of Es-draelon, over the brook Kishon, with such remarkableplaces as Nain, Shunem, Chesulloth, Megiddo occur-ring by the wa
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