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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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d not live within the walls or under the roof of any house, butdwelt only in booths. I am sure that you and I would like to have looked in uponJerusalem at the time when one of these Harvest Home festivals wasbeing celebrated. We would like to have seen the booths on thetops of the houses and along the side of the hills, outside of thewalls of the city, and sloping down through the valleys and crowd-ing far out into the country upon the Mount of Olives and beyond.We would like to have seen the bright faces of the happy throngsof people as they moved in procession through the streets, wavingtheir palm branches; and to have listened to the music of the trum-peters of the Temple, as they sounded their trumpets twice everyhour throughout the entire day. I am sure we would have beendelighted to look down upon the festive crowd at night, when,instead of waving palm branches as they did during the day, theycarried bright flaming torches, amid the clashing of cymbals andthe blast of trumpets.
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15 He Bore it Aloft as He Ascended the Stairs. 237 238 PINE BRANCH. This Feast lasted for eight days. The first day and the lastwere especially sacred. And now I want to call your attention tothis second object which I have; namely, this water, and I want totell you how it was related to and used at this Feast of Tabernacles.On the morning of each day, while the smoke of the morning sac-rifice was ascending in beautiful wreaths in the still air, a priestbearing a large golden bowl, and followed by a long processionof boys and girls waving palm branches, descended the side of thehill to the pool of Siloam, which was in a quiet recess at the foot ofMount Moriah, on the summit of which the Temple was built.When the priest had filled the golden bowl with water from thisclear pool, he held it above his head and bore it aloft as he ascendedthe stairs. As the procession entered the Court of the Temple, thetrumpets sounded, and all the throngs of people gathered within itswalls took up the wo

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