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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t the gates of cities, or atthose of the houses of the rich, or in front of placesof worship. No system similar to our poor-law relief,and no institutions or asylums for the sick, crippled,or poor, either have, or ever had, any place in Palestinelife. This accounts most naturally for the three beggarswe read of in the New Testament being all good men :the man born blind,1 Bartimaeus,2 and Lazarus in theparable.3 Jerusalem is accounted by the Jews one of the four holy cities of Palestine (the others being Hebron,Tiberias, and Safed), at which lepers are allowed tolive. No sadder sight can be imagined than that ofthese poor afflicted creatures sitting by the roadside inthe dust,4 which so largely accumulates in the summer,or on the 1 dunghill, as beggars, some with eyes,nose, and cheeks eaten away in frightful disfigurement. 1 John ix. 8, 9. 2 Mark x 46. 3 Luke xvi. 20-5. 4 1 Sam. ii. 8 ; 1 Kings xvi. 2 ; Job x. 9, xvi. 15, xlii. 6 ; Ps. vii. 5,cxiii. 7 ; Isa. xxvi. 19, xlvii. 1, Hi. 2.
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FOUNTAIN IN JERUSALEM, NEAR THE sTEMPLE AREA 156 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS They will hold up to you in supplication the stumps oftheir handless arms, unearthly sounds gurgling throughmouths from which the palates have rotted away, rattlingtheir tin mugs placed to receive your alms. They areseparated from all their fellow men, as they wereformerly by the law of Moses. No healthy personwill touch them, eat with them, or use any of theirclothes or utensils with reason. As one gazes ontheir awful ulcerous sores, they speak with eloquenceof the faith of one who, though in such a case, couldsay, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean,and the strong sovereign might of Him who with atouch could give perfect and instantaneous deliverancefrom so foul and fatal a disease.1 In the corn-market at Jerusalem may be witnessedthe deeply interesting practice of measuring out thewheat and barley, when a purchase takes place. Mr.James Neil says : Each year in July or August allthe dwellers in Eastern

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