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Title: A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jacob, Robert Urie
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to the Sepulchre, whichthey entered, two priests at a time. After this partof the ceremony was concluded the priests marchedsinging three times around the room, while a bell inthe gallery merrily clanged an accompaniment. Whenthe Armenians had withdrawn, a procession of RomanCatholics entered singing. The chanting was accom-panied softly by an organ in an adjoining chapel. Thecenser bearers waved their smoking bowls until thewhole place was fragrant with the odor of the incense.Tonsured monks with sandaled feet, in gowns of brown,girt with hempen cord; censer bearers, cross bearers,brazier bearers, and choir boys in white embroideredsurplices and skirts of scarlet; priests in black; bishopsin purple; and higher dignitaries in capes of fur andlong-trained robes,—all these marched round and round CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. 251 bearing lighted candles and chanting the ritual to thestrains of the organ, and then proceeded toward- theLatin Chapel. Our Syrian neighbor and her children
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DAVID STREET IS ONLY HALF A MILE IX LENGTH. lighted their candles and joined other worshipers withcandles in the rear of this procession, and we followedto the Chapel where all knelt for service. 252 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. Palestine appeared to us to be a land where historyand tradition were so curiously mixed that it was difficultto know where history ended and tradition began. Dur-ing our tramps around the city of Jerusalem and itsvicinity the guides pointed out the spring where theVirgin Mary washed the clothes of the infant Jesus in thesame way that we saw other women in the East washingclothes on the banks of public streams; the hill of evilcounsel where the avaricious disciple had been temptedby gold to betray his Master, and the field where thehorror-stricken traitor ended his life; the place justwithout the Gate of St. Stephen where the saintedStephen knelt and prayed for his persecutors until thestones cast by the infuriated Jews crushed out his life;the spot where the Apostle

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