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Title: Beauties of sacred literature ..
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Wyatt, Thomas, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Bible stories, English Religious poetry, American. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Charlestown, Ladies New-England art union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ored me when I fell;I love thee. Lord, thou knowst it well. JERUSALEM. BY REV. S. H. CALHOUIf, MISSIONARY TO SYRIA. I VISITED Jerusalem for the first time in 1839.We had prolonged our stay at Bethlehem, six milessouth, waiting for the re-opening of the gates ofthe Holy City, which had been for some time closedby reason of the plague. Desirous, however, ofbeing as near as possible to the ancient Zion, wedetermined to remove our encampment to the Mountof Olives. Leaving Bethlehem, therefore, a littlebefore sunset, (it was a pleasant evening in March,)and sending forward our tents and luggage oncamels, we pursued our way on foot, and approachedJerusalem just at nightfall. As we descended intothe valley of the Son of Hinnom, which passes alongthe southern border of the city, and wended our waythrough it to its junction with the Cedron, whichcomes down from the north along the eastern sides,and thence turning up this latter valley, and cross-ing an old bridge near the ancient Gethsemane, y
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liillll JERUSALEM. 117 ascended the Mount of Olives to near its summit, —all seemed like familiar ground. Though it was in the dusk of evening, one hardlyfelt the need of a guide. I could easily imagine thatI had been there before. In my boyish days Canaanhad been to me as a fairy land. I used to think, asI read the Bible, that though Jerusalem, and Bethle-hem, and Nazareth, and the Mount of Olives, mightonce have been upon earth, surely they could notnow be found — if one would search for them, hemust go to the Mount Zion above. As a result of thestudy of after years, however, I had come to form, asI now found, tolerably accurate ideas of the generalfeatures of the scenery, especially around Jerusalem.The Mount of Olives, and the neighboring valleys,were in most respects as I expected to find them. And it is this fact which, in my apprehension,gives the chief interest to a visit in Palestine. All is in such perfect correspondence with thedetails of Scripture. One knows, as he wan

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