ARRIVAL AT THE LATIN CONVENT, JERUSALEM. 241 hath foundations, whose maker and builder is God. While standing at the gate, ruminating on the past, and thinking how improbable it appeared, twelve months before, that my feet should ever tread Immanuel's land, it was really difficult to realize the fact—that I, separated for a season from the duties of my beloved charge, was then actually on the scene of my adorable Saviour's triumphs. My own personal iden tity I could not question; and yet a surmise just passed through my mind—may it not be all a dream? A sort of quarantine had been established at Jerusalem for fear of plague; and we were not permitted to enter till the medical officer had seen us. After a short delay, during which we were waited on, outside the walls, by Mr. Johns, the pro-Consul, who showed us every polite attention, the official personage made his appearance; who, having received an explanation as to the Desert-route which we had taken from Cairo, and being assured that there was no plague in that place when we left it, just required us to submit to a slight fumigation with brimstone, in a tent pitched near the gate, as the ground of a claim for a few piastres, and admitted us at once-having previously suffered our baggage and servants to pass without any fumigation whatever. We proceeded direct to the Latin Franciscan Convent, where we resolved to take up our abode during our stay in the Holy City. A tolerable sized room, with whitewashed walls, and a small coarse bed at each end, was set apart for our use; and soon, with a little activity on the part of our faithful servants, we felt ourselves at home, with a prospect of three weeks delightful sojourn in Jerusalem. Rest, after the dreary wanderings through which we had passed, would have been delightful in any place-under almost any circumstances; but, rest in "the city of the Great King"-I felt it was far beyond my deserving. I could almost have said-Hore let me rest forever; but I remembered-I had left my flock in the wilderness of an evil world, and the earthly Jerusalem must be no home for me. CHAPTER VII. JERUSALEM. Prophetical Portraiture of Jerusalem-Jerusalem-The Jews-Sacred Localities→→ The Church of the Holy Sepulchre-View of the City from the Seraglio-Site of the Temple-Exterior of Jerusalem-Mount Zion-The Valley of Hinnom-Field of Blood-Tophet-The Valley of Jehoshaphat-Tombs in the Valley of Jehoshaphat-Gethsemane-The Mount of Olives-Bethany-The Road to EmmausTombs of the Kings-A Lunatic-The Pool of Bethesda-My first Sabbath in Je rusalem-The New Jerusalem-The Jews in Palestine-The Church in Jerusa lem-Jewish Custom-My Second Sabbath in Jerusalem-Future Movements. "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity, because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors took her between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her, for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed; her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. Jerusalem remembered in the day of her affliction, and of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, the PROPHETICAL PORTRAITURE OF JERUSALEM. 243 and did mock at her Sabbaths. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her, de spise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction for the enemy hath magnified himself. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fall; the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men. the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press. For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him. . . . . . The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. I called for my lovers, but they deceived me my priests and |