. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . HILLS AXn WALLS OF JERUSALEM. quarter miles in circumference. It is divided into three principalquarters, — the Mohammedan, the Jewish, and the Christian,— and con-tains less than twenty thousand inhabitants. Its principal points ofinterest, beyond its historic associations and antiquities, are the Churchof the Holy Sepulchre and the Mosque of Omar. The Mosque of Omar stands on the site of the ancient temple, on. THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH. 215 Mount Moriah. The p
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . HILLS AXn WALLS OF JERUSALEM. quarter miles in circumference. It is divided into three principalquarters, — the Mohammedan, the Jewish, and the Christian,— and con-tains less than twenty thousand inhabitants. Its principal points ofinterest, beyond its historic associations and antiquities, are the Churchof the Holy Sepulchre and the Mosque of Omar. The Mosque of Omar stands on the site of the ancient temple, on. THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH. 215 Mount Moriah. The place is associated, either in history or poetictradition, with the tomb of Adam, the sacrifice of Abraham, and thethrone of Melchisedec. Here the angel of the Lord appeared toDavid; here David erected an altar; here rose the temples of Solomon,Zerubbabel, and Herod; and here was the palace of Solomon. Theruined fortress of Antonia was here, and the ruins of all now lie at thebase of a Mohammedan mosque. Moriah and Zion were once beautiful, and, crowned with pinnaclesand palaces, rose above a region waving with palm groves and greenwith pastoral valleys. Their beauty is gone. The stones of the ruinsthat they hide have all been washed with human blood. Thouturnest man to destruction, and sayest. Return, ye children of men. In the day of her beauty, prophets and evangelists pictured her intheir poems as the type of the celestial city. The siege of Tituscaused the death of a million of people ; the mountains ran with bloodon the day that
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