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Title: The Holy Land in the light of recent surveys and explorations. A hand book for Sunday-school teachers and Bible students
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Waterman, Henry B
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Publisher: Chicago, C. F. Rassweiler
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he Mediterranean gleam-ing in the morning sun ; seen first far in the south onthe left of Carmel ; then interrupted by that mountain ;and again appearing on its right, so as to include thewhole Bay of Accho and the coast stretching farnorth. Near by, on the north, lies one of the mostbeautiful plains of Palestine, called El Buttauf ; itruns from east to west, and its waters are drained offwestwards through a narrower valley to the Kishon atthe foot of Mount Carmel. Beyond this plain longridges running from east to west rise one higher thananother ; until the mountains of Safed overtop themall, on which that place is seen, a city set on a hill.Further towards the right is a sea of hills and mount-ains, backed by the higher ones beyond the Lake ofTiberias, and in the northeast rises majestic Her-mon with its icy crown. You see thirty miles in threedirections. It is a map of Old Testament history. In the village below the Saviour of the worldpassed his childhood. Here the Prince of Peace
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36 THE HOLY LAND. looked down upon the great plain, where the din ofbattles so oft had rolled ; and he looked out, too,upon that sea over which the swift ships were to bearthe tidings of his salvation to nations and to conti-nents then unknown. Across Esdraelon ran the roadto Jerusalem, thronged annually with pilgrims, andthe road to Egypt with its merchants going up anddown. The Midianite caravans could be watched formiles coming up from the fords of the Jordan ; andthe caravans from Damascus wound round the foot ofthat very hill. Near by was another road in sight,the highway between Accho and the Decapolis, alongwhich legions marched, and princes swept with theirretinues, and all sorts of travelers from all countrieswent to and fro. Here, then, he grew up and suffered temptation,who was tempted in all points like as we are, yetwithout sin. The perfection of his purity and patiencewas achieved not easily, as behind a wide fence whichshut the world out, but amid rumor and scandal with

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