. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . e, about the kings whoare buried here. Then referring to memorials like the Wesleys, headded: I wish some one would write a book about the benefactorswhose names are here, and w^ho crowned themselves kings of men bythe struggles of their own lives. I am more impressed by these me-niorials than by anything else I have seen. The tombs of the kingsin comparison seem to me to be only stone, dust, and rubbish. Deeds are the true crown of life, said Mr. Leland. Let us f
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . e, about the kings whoare buried here. Then referring to memorials like the Wesleys, headded: I wish some one would write a book about the benefactorswhose names are here, and w^ho crowned themselves kings of men bythe struggles of their own lives. I am more impressed by these me-niorials than by anything else I have seen. The tombs of the kingsin comparison seem to me to be only stone, dust, and rubbish. Deeds are the true crown of life, said Mr. Leland. Let us fjo and look ac^ain at the Coronation Stone, saidCharlie. The stone was set into the frame of the throne chair. Mr. Lelandand Charlie stood looking upon it with the doubt with which mostAmericans are accustomed to view legendary relics. A light, slowfootstep was heard on the stone floor, and the sound betrayed theapproach of the odd Oriental figure that they had met before. The old man said to a custodian,— IIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllM at TkLi * _a! J y I • ^_ ^. * J»i; ^ .» ^ i(. EGYPTIAN GARDEN AND TEMPLE. OLD ALI BEDAIR. 23 Jacobs ? The doughty custodian bobbed his head. A beautiful Hght came into the old mans face. Adams ? The doughty Englishman shook his head with an expression ofdisgust. Jacobs ead laid on that stone when he dreamed of the ladder ofangels, said the custodian. That stone was twelve stones once, said the old man. Thetwelve stones were the altar of Adam. Adam ! said the amazed custodian, having never before heardsuch a great antiquity attributed to the relic. Abel offered his sacrifice upon them, said the old man. And, he added, Abraham made his altar of them. Look ere! you are a Jew! said the fat little Englishman. My conscience is not quite easy when I tell people that that is thestone where Jacob saw the vision, he said to Mr. Leland; and erecomes a man who says the stone is as old as Adam^ The twelve stones
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