Identifier: winterpilgrimage00hagg (find matches)
Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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heyhave perished here by tens and twenties of thousands.The voice of Christ has echoed here. The shouts of thevictors, the screams of the conquered, the moans of thedying, the solemn sounds of sacrifice, the blare of cere-monial trumpets, the daily whisper of a peoples reverentprayer—it has heard them all in turn. Here stoodSolomon in his glory, and all the congregation of Israelbefore the Ark of the Lord, in which was nothing u savethe two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb.Here u the cloud filled the House of the Lord, andSolomon said, I have surely built thee a house todwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.Here he prayed that thine eyes may be openedtowards this house night and day. Here, too, camethe answer when Jehovah appeared to the king asecond time, that his petition should be fulfilled whilethe men of Israel and their children remain faithful.But if not, then will I cut off Israel out of the landwhich I have given them; and this house, which I
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wXH faO w p,*5 wH fa SH faO HCO JAFFA 271 have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of mysight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by-wordamong all people: And at this house, which is high,every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shallhiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thusunto this land, and to this house ? Are they not astonished, and do not the nations ofthe earth speak thus to-day when the high home of Godhas become a chief tabernacle of the false prophet, wherethe Christian is admitted under guard and on sufferance,and the Jew, whose heritage it is, may not so much asset his foot ? CHAPTER XIX THE NOBLE SANCTUARY, THE POOLS OF SOLOMON AND BETHLEHEM The Mosque of the Rock, known as the Noble Sanc-tuary, where once stood the Temple of the Jews, is abeautiful building, even to those who, like myself, donot particularly admire the oriental style of architecture;also it is already ancient. At its door a Mahommedanpriest received us, and rough wrappings of

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