| Show gethsemane by night 1 I wanted to visit gethsemane seen from a distance only so thither we directed our steps and I 1 wished for silence hence for the first time in my life I 1 was about to enter oh so that place placa the name of which men cloned at a distance had bad so profoundly moved me and I 1 had not nol foreseen all these people the crowd attracted hither ss as it if for foi a spectacle we entered the grotto called that of the agony now becomes a chapel with ork ok for a dome which for sixteen centuries had bad been considered the place in which josua jesus passed through that awful agony bet protho arre arrest s t other places have deen been disputed and questioned but concerning gethsemane there Is universal agreement the little altars very old and simple do not net disfigure this grotto which does not seem to have hare changed in mine teon hun hundred drea years it was waa in such a spring night as this as cold as ours promised promis edlo to be that the apostles slept here their eyes weighted down with fatigue and anguish while jesus went away from them into tho the garden a stones throw to pray for strength here jesus came to awaken them three times and here amid tho the flash of torches was he this rocky vault stood there thera and heard and saw cholle things but it Is mute chrls tian herald |
