Syria from the saddle . F OLIVES — GETHSEMANE BETHANY — AT SUNSET. O reach the Mount of Olives and Geth-semane from Jerusalem one must godown the steep road to the right of theDamascus Gate into the valley andacross the dried Brook Kedron. Thebit of road crossing the narrow valleyis, during business ( tourist) hoursalive with beggars of all sorts. Crip-ples, blind men, and lepers predomi-nate. It is almost impossible to passhere by day without being surroundedby a filthy and imploring throng of mendicants, whomingle a few unmeaning English words they havepicked up with their professional c
Syria from the saddle . F OLIVES — GETHSEMANE BETHANY — AT SUNSET. O reach the Mount of Olives and Geth-semane from Jerusalem one must godown the steep road to the right of theDamascus Gate into the valley andacross the dried Brook Kedron. Thebit of road crossing the narrow valleyis, during business ( tourist) hoursalive with beggars of all sorts. Crip-ples, blind men, and lepers predomi-nate. It is almost impossible to passhere by day without being surroundedby a filthy and imploring throng of mendicants, whomingle a few unmeaning English words they havepicked up with their professional cant. So great a nui-sance and at such a place should. surely be abated bylaw, for not only are all sacred thoughts that would beotherwise inspired by the scene of the Masters lastnight on earth dispelled, but, from a more practicalview, traffic is seriously checked. The location of Gethsemane is a mooted Latins have enclosed one place, near the foot ofOlivet; immediately across the road the Greeks have 232.
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