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Title: The pathways and abiding places of our Lord;
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company Philadelphia, G. S. Appleton
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of the farm, when he appeared, was armed with gun and sword,a necessary precaution against the plundering Arabs. Had our sober host beenan admirer of the Mantuan, he might have exclaimed, as he showed us thenecessity for armed laborers : Impius haec tarn culta novalia miles habebit 1Barbaras has segetes % en qu6 discordia civesPerduxit miseros! en queis consevimus agros ! On our return we passed through Bethlehem again, approaching it upon theside opposite to our former entrance. The principal employment of theinhabitants is the manufacture of the shell of the pearl oyster into crucifixesand other ornaments, largely purchased by pilgrims, and looked upon by themwith a superstitious reverence. Some of these trinkets are quite pretty. Thesurface of the shell is smoothed, and carved with designs from Scripture history,e. g. the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Yisit of the Magi, the Flight intoEgypt, and the Last Supper. The afternoon we devoted to the Mosque of Omar. Admittance to it, or
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MOSQUE OF OMAE. 135 even to the beautiful enclosure in which it stands, was indeed impossible; butby the kind intervention of the British Consul, to whose ready services andattentions we had before been indebted, we obtained, in company with ourEnglish friends, an order for admission to the Governors palace: the building,as I have before mentioned, being on the supposed site of the residence of PontiusPilate. Its rear walls forming part of the line of the enclosed space thatsurrounds the Mosque, its roof affords a commanding view of the noble buildingand of the whole area, which is about fifteen hundred feet in length, by about onethousand in breadth. A single view embraced its numerous places of prayer,its shady trees, and the line of cloistered buildings on the western boundary,containing schools for boys, and the habitations of the Dervishes and Santons ofthe Mosque. We had before contemplated this spot, held in the highest rever-ence by the Muslim, from the Mount of Olives; and a

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