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Show that means only those know who hare gone over the distance traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to read that Bethany Beth-any ia two railea from Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles without fatigue, but not more than one man ont of thousand caa walk from Bethany to Jerusalem without with-out exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion ex-ertion ia necessary to keep you from falling fall-ing prostrate. I, who am accustomed to walk ten or twelve miles without lassitude, lassi-tude, tried part of this road over the Mount of Olives, and confess I would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon one's physical energies. Vet Christ walked it twice a day, in the morning from Bethany to JortiHalem, in I the evening from Jerusalem to Bethany. ! Likewise it seems a small thing that Christ walked from Nazareth to Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, but it takes us four days of hard horseback riding, sometimes on a trot and sometimes on a gallop, to doit. Th way is mountainous in the extreme. To those who went to the Tip-Top house on Mount Washington before the railroad rail-road was laid I will say that this journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem is like seven such American journeys. SSo, all up and down und across and recroasiug Palestine Pales-tine Jesus walked. Herod rode. Ahali rode. Suladiu rode. Solomon rode. Antony An-tony rode. But Jesus walked. With : swollen ankles and sore muscles of the ' legs, anil bruised liet-J and stiff joints, and I panting lungs and faint head, along tlm roads and where there were no roads al I nil, Jesus walked. i WalKIng In Palestine. In traveling along the roads of Palestine, Pales-tine, suvs Rev. T. De Witt Talmage in Frank Leslie's .Monthly, I am impressed as I could not otherwise have been with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot. We find him occasionally on a boat, and once riding in a triumphal procession, as it is sometimes called, 1- though it seems to me that tlie hosannas of the crowd could not have made a r!da on a Mubborn, unimpressive arid funny creature like that wiiieh pattered with him into Jerusalem very much of a tri- ' utnph. But we are made to understand , that generally he walked. IIow ucl |