. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... hear all the wordsof the Law. Divided by the centre of the vale, the tribes ofSimeon and Levi, of Judah and Issachar, of Joseph and Benja-min, were gathered around the base of Gerizim, and the tribesof Reuben and Gad, of Asher and Zebulun, of Dan and Naph-tali, were congregated over against Ebal. Standing above thepeople on these great pulpits, which the Creator had rearedfor an occasi
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... hear all the wordsof the Law. Divided by the centre of the vale, the tribes ofSimeon and Levi, of Judah and Issachar, of Joseph and Benja-min, were gathered around the base of Gerizim, and the tribesof Reuben and Gad, of Asher and Zebulun, of Dan and Naph-tali, were congregated over against Ebal. Standing above thepeople on these great pulpits, which the Creator had rearedfor an occasion so august, the priests read the LaAV, while toeach blessing and to each cursing the vast multitude respond-ed their assent.^ So firmly docs Nature retain her ancient fea-tures, and so exact is the correspondence between the inspiredaccount and the scene as it now appears, that, standing withinthis venerable church of Gods own construction, thirty centu-ries unfold their mighty scroll, and the past comes back withthe actuality of the present. Before the eye of a sublime faiththe tribes reassemble, the priests take their stand, and in son- Deut., xxvii., 11-26 ; lb., xxviii. ; Josh., viii., 30-35. i I!. ifc, I liiliil ?sfetusssap * FKUM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. 317 orous tones slowly and distinctly read, one by one, each com-mand and each prohibition, while from either side, in alternateresponses, beginning at the mountain base and rolling outwardto the centre, rises the full, deep, responsive Amen! like thesound of many waters breaking in alternations of musical thun-der against the opposite Avail of the everlasting area Avas siafficient for that grandest of human assemblies;and such is the profound silence of the vale, the human voicewas heard then, as it is heard now, from mountain to mount-ain. Viewed from this point, Gerizim is not unlike a cone withridged sides and a broken base, while Ebal seems not so highnor steep, but rougher, with its top receding with gentle
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