Identifier: ramblesinbiblela00neil (find matches)
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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n the housetop, the flat,rolled, clay-mud roof that looks for a time a lovely emerald green, butin the burning heat quickly withers before it grows up; wherewith themower fills not his hand, nor he that binds the sheaves his bosom.Neither do they ivhich go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you :We bless you in the name of the Lord (Ps. cxxix. 6-8). 72 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS guard or parade the streets, may be heard shoutingaloud to intimidate the foe, Our swords are strong,and our trust is in God. ( It is so in all ; and it is this interlarding of con-versation with such extremely pious, but, for the mostpart, utterly insincere, expressions that makes one feelin Palestine as if one were actually listening to a Laban,a Joab, a Jehu, or a hypocritical Pharisee of our Lordsday, so lifelike, there, is this feature, which is naturallyfelt to be wholly unreal when read in a land like ours.1 1 Pictured Palestine, by James Neil, M.A., 4th edition, pp. 84-8(Messrs. J. Nisbet & Co.).
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THE KEDRON VALLEY THE DOME OF THE CHAIN ( TEMPLE AREA CHAPTER IV JOPPA TO JERUSALEM From Joppa we may start for Jerusalem. Passingthrough the or an ore groves 1 we emerge on the broadbrown plain of Sharon —that is, brown in the hotseason, for in the early spring-time it is one gloriousgreen of springing crops, and golden with grain in May.The soil is most fertile. The hrst town we come tois Ramleh. amid hne olive groves., remarkable for a highand beautiful tower—1 the Tower of the Forty, as it iscalled—attached to a ruin known as the White Mosque.Another mosque in the centre of the town is a veryperfect specimen pi a tweltth-century Palestine church. 74 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS Here at Ramleh you may well realize the ruin of theHoly Land, in the contrasts, everywhere presented, ofthe remains of past grandeur and of present squalor,decay, and ruin. The walls of fine stone houses areenclosed in wretched hovels of mud. Here and therean ornate Cufic or Arabic inscription is left, tell

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