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Title: Holy Land, with glimpes of Europe and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Phelps, S(ylvanus) D(ryden), 1816-1895. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (8th ed.) New Haven, C. C. Chatfield & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d ready, if Jesus werethere, to say as did their ancestors, Away withhim ; crucify him ! Not far from here, in the Tyropcean, at the base ofan ancient wall, the western boundary of the Templearea, is the Wailing-Place of the Jews, where theycome every Friday afternoon, to lament over the ruinsof their Temple. It is an old custom, and a piteousspectacle, to see them with mournful prayers andsolemn wailings, pressing their foreheads and lips tothose venerable stones, that might once have been inthe foundation of their ancient Sanctuary. Theytake up the prayer of Isaiah, and in their Hebrewtongue pour it out in sad strains : Be not wrothvery sore, O Lord! neither remember iniquity for-ever ; behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thypeople. Thy holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is awilderness ; Jerusalem is a desolation. Our holy andour beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, isburned up with fire; and all our pleasant things arelaid waste. Large numbers of men and women, and
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RELICS Off Att ARCH—JEWS* QUARTER. 2S9 wandering Jews from all the earth, come and droptbeir tears at this place of wailing. It was raining andmuddy when I was there, and only a few were pre-sent. Oh! weep for those that wept by Babels stream ;Whose shrines are desolate, whose lands a dream ;Weep for the harp of Judahs broken shell;Mourn—where their God hath dwelt the godless dwell. A little south of this spot, and in a portion of thesame ancient wall, there is a remarkable ruin, discov-ered and described some years ago by Dr. Robinson.It is the spring of a great arch, composed of immensehewn stones, and supposed to be a portion of thegrand bridge over the Tyropoean, connecting MountZion with the Temple. May not this wonderful bridgehave been the ascent by which Solomon went up tothe house of the Lord, and which so excited theastonishment of the queen of Sheba ? A personalinspection of these prodigious stones convinces youof their great antiquity and of the sublime vastnessof the

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