. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . BETHLEHEM. Hard by this simple but long-enduring sepulchre, Jacobs tentswere pitched at the time of Rachels death. Moses tells us that thesepulchre was standing when the children of Jacob were restored tothe land of their ancestry, and Samuel speaks of Rachels sepulchre n I iliiiiiii. KH EVEN UNTO BETHLEHEM: 243 in the border of Benjamin. Josephus alludes to it as over againstEphrath (Bethlehem). The Jews have recently succeeded in pur-chasinsf from the Moslems th
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . BETHLEHEM. Hard by this simple but long-enduring sepulchre, Jacobs tentswere pitched at the time of Rachels death. Moses tells us that thesepulchre was standing when the children of Jacob were restored tothe land of their ancestry, and Samuel speaks of Rachels sepulchre n I iliiiiiii. KH EVEN UNTO BETHLEHEM: 243 in the border of Benjamin. Josephus alludes to it as over againstEphrath (Bethlehem). The Jews have recently succeeded in pur-chasinsf from the Moslems this shrine of their common mother. Bethlehem! As they drew near the venerable city, whose historydates back to almost the first records of the human race, the pastseemed to start into living reality. Here dwelt Christs ancestry inthe f^esh; here in the far past Jacob pitched his pastoral tent, breathedthe scented airs of these flowery plains, and gazed upon the stars thatshone upon the path of the Magi, and that still set their fadelessdiadems in the evening sky. From this place Naomi went forth to the land of Moab, and re-turned at the beginning of the barley harvest, bringing Ruth with her. Time passed on. Jacob sleeps with his fathers. Naomi and Ruthand Obed are gone, and Jesse dwells in Bethlehem. On the neigh-boring hills David tends his sheep. Here the Spirit of God visits thesimple shepherd-boy, and
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