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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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ve looked uponthem, and recall the histories they awaken, withoutfeeling that there are sermons in stones. In the deep valley below, between Moriah andOlivet, are the remarkable and massive tombs ofZachariah, St. James and Absalom. They are notproperly excavations, but large monuments, havingvaults within, and from which the surrounding rockhas been hewn away. The Pillar of Absalom hasconsiderable architectural beauty, marred somewhathowever by the natives throwing stones upon it incontempt of the rebel son. Adjoining this is the tombof Jehoshaphat. Above these sepulchral monumentsthat have probably not materially changed since thedays of our Saviour, an extensive Jewish Cemeteryoccupies a portion of the slope of Olivet. The gravesare marked by flat stones laid over them. For manycenturies the eons of Abraham have sought this spotas their last resting-place. Many of them have jour-neyed from the ends of the earth that they might diein the Holy City and have their dust laid here in the
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GOLDEN GATE—ENGLISH CHUKCH. 247 valley of Jehoshaphat, where they believe the Mes-siah will stand and summon the dead in the resurrec-tion. Then those who sleep here will rise at once,while those who have been elsewhere buried can onlyreach this favored spot by a painful under-groundjourney. The Moslems have appropriated this tradi-tion, and point to a projecting stone, in the city walleast of their great mosque and near their own cemetery,on which Mohammed is to sit and participate in theevents of the final day. Back of the Jewish burying-ground and further up the slope of Olivet, aie theTombs of the Prophets. A circular, cistern-like en-trance leads down to the various subterranean pas-sages and vaults. Again we are under the eastern wall of the city,and lingering at the Golden Gate once leading to theTemple area and perhaps to Solomons porch. It isnow solidly closed with stone, but its ornately sculp-tured abutments and beautiful arches remain, andcannot fail to attract special a

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