This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...and reverentially gazing on Jerusalem; and to my youthful mind it seemed so solemn a sight that it reminded me of a death-cham. ber, when for the first time I confronted death. Breathless with attention, I listened to our guide, as he pointed out to us the scenes of interest around Jerusalem. Never shall I forget the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...and reverentially gazing on Jerusalem; and to my youthful mind it seemed so solemn a sight that it reminded me of a death-cham. ber, when for the first time I confronted death. Breathless with attention, I listened to our guide, as he pointed out to us the scenes of interest around Jerusalem. Never shall I forget the marked reverence with which we crowded around him; it seemed to me as if we were in a church, listening to some funeral sermon. No orator, however eloquent or telling, has since then touched my inmost core so feelingly or so deeply. I wept as he pointed to us the various memorials of a dying Saviour. Stretching itself, on our left, and only divided from Jerusalem by the valley of J ehoshaphat, was the Mount, called Olivet, unto which Jesus often repaired; and from which He finally ascended into heaven, leading captivity captive. With deeper interest we gazed on the garden of Gethsemane; that scene of agony and suffering; and THE JEWS rumsnnn. ' 171 thought of that night when He was betrayed. There, beneath, was the brook Kedron, over which He must have crossed on that memorable night, and there was Jerusalem, the scene of His labours of love; and where He was tried before a perjured court---beaten on the facecondemned--scourged--a crown of thorns put on his head--crucified amid the shouts of a maddened populace, " Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" and the jeers of Roman soldiers, who presented Him with vinegar for water; and where, finally, for our sake, for my sake I then thought, He bowed His head, and yielded up the ghost. 0 ye stiffnecked generation! Ye who were His own and unto whom He came, but ye who would not receive Him, well have ye deserved the righteous indignation of heaven; behold your city...
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