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3091. We have taken our stand on an old building the heart of Jerusalem, and are looking eastward the ancient tiled housetops and past the city wall [Bethlehem] is six miles away at our right; Nazareth is between 60 and 70 miles distant at our left. Far off beyond the horizon lie the lands of the Wise Men of the East.

Yonder is the Mount of Olives, crowned by a modern Russian tower. How plainly we can trace those three paths climbing the hill. By one of those, certainly -- more likely by all of them at different times -- your Saviour and mine walked over the Mount of Olives to Bethany, which lies on the other side of the mountain.

Now let us look at the City below us. There on the left is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which millions of the Christian world believe-- although scholars disagree about it-- covers the site of the Cross and the Tomb of Jesus Christ. As we look across the city, we see a mass of small domes around a large domed building. That is the Dome of the Rock, the site of Solomon's Temple, and covers the traditional rock where Abraham made ready his offering and David built his altar.

Farther to the right is the new, pointed tower of the Church of St. John, the headquarters of the Knights of St. John in the crusading ages. It now belongs to the German Government.

(From Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope, by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, D. D., with special "keyed" maps; published by Underwood & Underwood.)

Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, East from the Latin Hospice.

Jérusalem et le Mont des Oliviers à l'Est de l'Hospice Latin.

Jerusalem und der Ölberg, östlich von lateinischen Hospicium.

Jerusalem y Monte de los Olivos al Este del Hospicio Latino.

Jerusalem och Oliveberget, från östra sidan af Latin Hospicium.

Iерусалим и Масличная гора, Ha востокѢ отъ Датмискаго Странно-прiинмиаго дома.

Transcription Notes:
åъ Ђ – this letter was available on Word