Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . d were indeed beholding the sun rise in the land of the prophets. After breakfast we took a stroll in the narrow, ill-paved streets, which were dark andfilthy, and crowded with a motley assemblage of people, and ])urchased some souvenirs ofour visit. During the forenoon we changed our quarters to the Cazenovia or Latin Convent,where we found pleasant apartments, and after a call at the consuls in the afternoon with asmall party, we visited the Mosque of Omar, built ove
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . d were indeed beholding the sun rise in the land of the prophets. After breakfast we took a stroll in the narrow, ill-paved streets, which were dark andfilthy, and crowded with a motley assemblage of people, and ])urchased some souvenirs ofour visit. During the forenoon we changed our quarters to the Cazenovia or Latin Convent,where we found pleasant apartments, and after a call at the consuls in the afternoon with asmall party, we visited the Mosque of Omar, built over the ruins of King Solomons temple,and inclosing the ground where God tested the faith of Abraham to the point of offering hisonly son for sacrifice. The mosque is a beautiful structure, and with its grounds occupiesnearly one-fifth the area of the city; but its intense interest to us was because of its hallowedassociations. Near the golden gate we mounted the walls of the city, from which we couldsee more iirominently that Jerusalem was situated on an elevation, with the higher peaks of /.V :. 107. T)iE MOSQfE OF OMAR. Jiulca rising in tlie distance: but we fixed our earnest gaze down the valley of Jehoshaphatto the garden of (Jethsemane. a small patch of ground covering ]ierhaps half an acre enclosedby a stone wall eight or ten feet high. Some of the olive-trees here are supposed to l)e onethousand years old, and some claim them to be the identical trees which grew here in thetime of our Savior. The olive-treeoften periJetuates it-self by sending upshoots from the dy-ing parent stem,which in time formsa new tree. It may,therefore, be possi-ble that some ofthese trees sprangup from the veryones under whichJesus and his dis-ciples reclined. When viewingold Jerusalem fromthese turreted bat-tienunts. the oldhymn came whis-pering to me breath-ing of the New Je-rusalem, a city notmade with hands,eternal in the heav- ^^S : (iAKDKN •^ .HMSEMANK.
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