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Title: Syria from the saddle
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942
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Publisher: New York : Silver, Burdett and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d the Temple, had perhaps thesame look to us as to some moonlight observer thou-sands of years ago. The Beautiful Gate of the Tem-ple, facing us, shone brightly as though still coveredwith gold, and for the time we forgot that it is nownothing but an unshapely mass of yellow stone andplaster. I have never since seen the Holy City as it appearedthat night. The departed glory for the moment re-turned and rested over all. Between us and the walls lay a square of ground that,even in the moonlight, was dark and sombre. Thus itmay have looked to the Master on the night He prayedthere alone, and to the three drowsy peasants, who,unable to watch for one short hour, slept without thegarden walls, only awaking in time to fly from thesoldiers. Our eyes, leaving this gloomy enclosure, wanderedonce more over the gleaming roofs of the city andstopped at the dark, skull-shaped hill that arose on theother side. Garden and hillock stood out like blots onthe white, moonlit landscape. Jerusalem has been
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SYBIA FROM THE SADDLE. 221 sacked again and again, burned, rebuilt and ruled bymen of alien faiths, until nearly every feature of thecity is so changed and degraded that only at night is itfair to look upon; but Calvary and Gethsemane havebeen overlooked by all invaders. Whatever distortionsthey have met, or will meet, have been and always willbe at the hands of Christians. Night is the only time to see these things properly,said Mr. Wallace as we started for home. In the day-time one is confronted with such a maze of facts, tradi-tions, present realities, and lepers, that every sacredassociation is lost, and we look on it all as on someordinary scene from history. CHAPTER XXIV. MOSQUE OF OMAR — CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPUL-CHRE— THE NEW CALVARY — SOLOMONS QUARRIES. HE south-east corner of Jerusalemis taken up by the grounds of theMosque of Omar. Here stoodSolomons Temple, and afterwardthat of Herod. When Mohammedconquered Syria, the place waschanged into a mosque. Permis-sion was g

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