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Show u CITY WAITS TO BE CLOTHED Jerusalem Far From Being Restored to the Glory That Has Been Promised Her. The view of Jerusalem as ono leaves the Garden of Gethsemano draws the heart with sympathy. Tho walla rise severely nbovo baro slopes where nothing grows, for It Is outaldo of the city proper thnt Biblical prophecies of tho dcsolntlon of Jerusalem seem to be fulfilled. . Today tho city atnnds midway between be-tween tho horrors of tho Turkish rcglmo and tho promised good of the British mandatory rule. Nothing bns been dono as yet In a public way to beautify tho city. North and west tho houses stragglo outsldo tho walls; on the south forbidding slopes border tho road to Bethlehem, and on the enst lies tho tcrrlblo Valley of Jchosha-phat Jchosha-phat a valloy of dry bonea, William D. McCracken writes In AbIo Magazine. Maga-zine. Seventeen times destroyed bitterly hated, anxiously Bought how despor-ato despor-ato a history since Nebuchadnezzar captured It more than 25 centuries ago I Bcdcemcd today, but In her nakedness, naked-ness, Jerusalem walta to bo clothed. Sho has aa yet no grace; no covering for hor ugly wounds. Sorno day her sides will glisten with the brightness of a heavenly radiance; sho will bo washed nnd anointed Ilka a bride waiting for tho bridegroom. |