. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. w streets were filled with theslain. Over heaps of the dead and dying the Crusaders chasedthe enemy. Dead bodies in thousands lay in the July sun,infecting the air with pestilence. Ten thousand fell withinthe area on which the temple stood, in places the blood is saidto have reached the horses bridles. Jerusalem was againbaptized in blood, and her sacred places defiled with dead
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. w streets were filled with theslain. Over heaps of the dead and dying the Crusaders chasedthe enemy. Dead bodies in thousands lay in the July sun,infecting the air with pestilence. Ten thousand fell withinthe area on which the temple stood, in places the blood is saidto have reached the horses bridles. Jerusalem was againbaptized in blood, and her sacred places defiled with 136 , Hadrian, who had ploughed the foundations of 280 JAFFA TO JERUSALEM. the temple, named the city iElia Capitolina, and Christiansand pagans only were allowed to reside within the from this time lay in ruins till the time of Constan-tine, who did much to rescue it from its utter desolation. Forcenturies it experienced the terrible calamities of war, until1517 , when Sultan Selim I. conquered it and plantedthe Turkish flag on its towers, the symbol that yet it was tobe trodden under foot of the basest of the Gentiles, that yetit had not atoned for the crucifixion of the Son of JERUSALEM. Chapter AND ITS HOLY PLACES. There are such outlines, strongly drawn and ineffaceable, whichmake it absolutely certain that we have the Holy City, with all its inter-esting localities before us.—The Land and the Book, p. 627. HE present walls, built in 1545 , are fromtwenty to forty feet high, and from ten to fifteenfeet thick, and are nearly two miles and a half incircumference. Some of the stones of the lower«iks tiers, at the south-east corner, and on the brow of Mount Zion, and also near to the Damascus Gateare ancient, and measure from fifteen to twenty feet in length,and probably belong to the time of Herod and Christ. Oneregards them with a feeling akin to veneration, for on thesevery stones the apostles and the Lord Himself may ha
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