File:A winter pilgrimage - being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900 (1901) (14778836814).jpg

Identifier: winterpilgrimage00hagg (find matches)
Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
Subjects:
Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
is own home. Thus did the false prophet, contrary tohis intention, show them the proof not by words butby deeds. Felix mentions also, in another volume, that in hisday there was a Moslem cemetery in the valley, oppositeto the Golden Gate, to which he was not allowed toapproach. Formerly, it seems, the Latins and Armenianscelebrated an annual festival at this gate, through whichour Lord is said to have passed on the first Palm Sunday, until, at the instigation of the devil, the Saracens beganto bury their damned dead here, after which they blockedup the gate. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.Standing on that lofty wall, and looking northwards, whata picture is called up ! The wide white-tombed valley fullof dead, the naked mountains beyond choked with deadstanding rank above rank even in the empty air till theirnumber joins earth to heaven; the myriad dead of everyage and generation come hither unto judgment. Fromthe countless graves below, from the way of the sea, from
Text Appearing After Image:
THE NOBLE SANCTUARY 279 each acre of earths surface, dead, dead, nothing but dead,rushing on to judgment in the gorge of Jehoshaphat. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. Andabove, facing each other in the sick heaven, the blackballs of the sun and moon discerned by the light ofthe flaring, shivering, dying stars! Walking along the wall we came to the GoldenGate, which by some is believed to be the BeautifulGate spoken of in the Acts. No man goes through itfor it is built up. Here passed Christ, while the peoplecried Hosanna and threw palms upon His path. TheMahommedans have a belief that on a certain Friday,none know when, a Christian conqueror will enter bythis gate and hunt them from Jerusalem for ever. Per-haps that is why they wall it up. In itself the buildingis striking, but I will not attempt its detailed description.Experts say that in its present form it dates from theByzantine period. At length we had visited everything we were allowedto look at, and turned for

Note About Images