The Holy Land and Syria . i /.f.^^^. For centuries the Jews have been city-dwellers and traders, but thecolonists are doing the manual labour on the lands they have taken at first they brought down on themselves the reproaches of theirneighbours by hiring Arabs WHERE OUR SAVIOUR SPENT HIS BOYHOOD or Gabriels Spring. This is undoubtedly authentic, forit is the only spring or watering place Nazareth nowpossesses or ever has possessed. It is therefore certainthat the child Jesus and the Virgin frequented it, and thatMary came here daily for water. This is a fountainrather than a well. T
The Holy Land and Syria . i /.f.^^^. For centuries the Jews have been city-dwellers and traders, but thecolonists are doing the manual labour on the lands they have taken at first they brought down on themselves the reproaches of theirneighbours by hiring Arabs WHERE OUR SAVIOUR SPENT HIS BOYHOOD or Gabriels Spring. This is undoubtedly authentic, forit is the only spring or watering place Nazareth nowpossesses or ever has possessed. It is therefore certainthat the child Jesus and the Virgin frequented it, and thatMary came here daily for water. This is a fountainrather than a well. The water gushes forth in twostreams into a stone basin, whence it flows into a stone-inclosed pool. There are always women with waterjars about it, and the scenes of to-day are probably thesame as those of Christs time. Thousands of pilgrims come to Nazareth every year tovisit the places hallowed by the Saviour, and it is also onthe main route from the mountains of Lebanon to Je-rusalem. Caravan routes from Damascus to Egypt windabo
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