Show the jerusalem or of today to day the holy city looked very prosperous and beautiful from this point mount olivet and the wind in the olives made a rl tIca Lasant sant sound so we stood and looked and the sacred teachings from all oui lives camo came up about us whole and fair as they had been before we saw the jerusalem of today to day A rough field lay all about us with scanty soil whore where the gnarled old olives standing apart looked as if they had fought hard bard for life and all over the place wherever nature predominated over the slight cultivation there grew a low bush they call il i chaparral parral in texas it is all thorns and gray at least the leaves had not yet appeared everywhere they grew thea low thorny bushes so it was not fai they had bad to seek the masters asters 31 crown on top of tile the mount there are a few dirty hovels and a mosque with a high minaret from the top of which we had r beautiful view the dead sea lying blue and still low down among its dur eless hills the course of the jordar outlined in green jerusalem Bet bethany liany and all about the white roads winding it away among the curving 0 him hills another view we ha had d which equaled equale this it was from a hill top on the doai roa to bethlehem from this we saw the dead sea and olivet jerusalem and liz pali bethlehem ard and all the fair green plains where still the shepherds green watch their flocks by the time one makes the journey to bethlehem however one has become dull and unenthusiastic the town is dirty and the guide talks on incessantly the manger a neatly finished marble box the altar of the star the altar of the innocents innocent the tomb of st jerome and the tomb of st paula seem all to be of equal value in the eyes of the franciscan brother who shows them to you courier journal |