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Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in this spot is curious in the extreme. Men and women, chil-dren and tlie very old, ))riests and laymen from every country, repeatthe spectacle and the Babel-like confusion of tongues seen and heardof old in this very city on the day of Pentecost.^ The only entranceto the church is on the southern side, and it was shut when I reachedit, but a gift to the doorkeeper having turned the key, I entered. 0)ieach side of the quadrangle are chapels, Armenian, Coptic, and Greek,the last pretending to be the place where Abraham was about to ofterup Isaac. The front of the great chuicli itself is impressive from itsevident antiquity. There were originally two round-arched gate-ways,but that on the right is built up, as is also the upper jmrt of the other.Above these gateways are two arches of the same size and style,deeply sunk, in which, within receding masonry, once elegantly carved,are two round-topped windows of comparatively small size.^ On a ledgeI Acts ii. 8—11. 2 About ten feet by six,
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Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. (See page 294.) XXI.1 JERUSALEM. 295 below them, where tlie pillars of the arches begin, some tasteful monkhad pat various pots of flowers, the short, rough hulcler by which hehad descended from the window-sill remaining where he left it. Hehad forgotten the poor blossoms, however, and want of water had toldsadly on them. Over the two window-arches, which, with their orna-mentation, reach nearly to the top of the church wall, is a squarerailing, enclosing the dome, which, itself, may well be regarded as worthlooking at, since a dispute as to its repair was the ostensible cause ofthe Crimean War, and, thus, of the death of many thousands of menwho never heard of the church in their lives. A window, as large asthe others and on the same line, but without the imposing arch, dis-figured moreover by a frame of thick iron cross-bars, stands at theright, outside the central fagade; these three, about forty feet abovethe ground, being the only win

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