Wanderings in Bible lands- notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine (1894) (14784494425)

Identifier: wanderingsinbibl00mill (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ble mine of interest. Here, withinand about the compass of these walls, only two and a halfmiles in extent, occurred events which have changed thehistory of the world. From amid these hills round aboutZion have gone forth influences that have wrought greaterand deeper changes upon the human race than can be fath-omed by the finite mind. We know something of the onesupreme event connected with the history of this old city,but we shall only know its full significance and its mysterywhen we shall have passed the portals of the grave. It isbecause of these influences and the deep hold they haveupon the human heart that so much interest is taken in Je-rusalem and its surroundings. But to our walks, and let the first one be to the gatesof the city The New Hotel, our Jerusalem home, standswithin a stones throw of the Jaffa Gate, the principal en-trance and thoroughfare of the Holy City. Many times wepassed in and out at the Jaffa Gate, at morning, noon and * Europe and Bible Lands, 1&84.
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WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 509 night. We have walked, stood and sat in the gate. Wehave gone there to study the Scriptural allusions to thegates of the city and have seen how clearly the conditions,even to-day, after so many changes have been made, agreewith the Bible language. Then, too, it has been a sourceof never-failing interest to take a stand near the gate andwatch those who come in and go out. Here at the JaffaGate one may stand or sit an hour or two during the busypart of the day and see people coming and going fromabout every part of the Christian and Mohammedan world,to say nothing of the Jews who come from the four quar-ters of the globe. The Jaffa Gate stands near the northwest angle of thewalls and within a short distance of the Tower of David.It is a castle-like tower built in connection with the wallsof the city and is some forty feet high and nearly as manysquare. The top of the tower serves as a lookout for thewatchman, and in the upper part a chamber was originallyb