Days in Galilee and Scenes in Judaea: Together with Some Account of a Solitary Cycling Journey in Southern PalestineGay & Bird, 1900 - 363 pages |
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... olives down . from yonder olive trees . Across the bay glitters that town of many sieges , S. Jean d'Acre , the modern Akka . FROM A PHOTO BY THE AMERICAN COLONY . On the ... MOUNT CARMEL . PANORAMIC VIEW OF ACRE . Beyond Mount Carmel . 13.
... olives down . from yonder olive trees . Across the bay glitters that town of many sieges , S. Jean d'Acre , the modern Akka . FROM A PHOTO BY THE AMERICAN COLONY . On the ... MOUNT CARMEL . PANORAMIC VIEW OF ACRE . Beyond Mount Carmel . 13.
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... olive harvest was going forward . The Arabs were knocking the ripe olives down with long poles , or climbing up and ... Mount Carmel's heights are some villages of the Druzes . Other Druze villages are found among the hills of Galilee ...
... olive harvest was going forward . The Arabs were knocking the ripe olives down with long poles , or climbing up and ... Mount Carmel's heights are some villages of the Druzes . Other Druze villages are found among the hills of Galilee ...
Page 136
... Mount of Olives , a mere pin point in the far distance . I heard the sound of voices speaking English , and looking back I saw , for the first time in Palestine , some Europeans , as I thought , on horseback , hurrying as if to overtake ...
... Mount of Olives , a mere pin point in the far distance . I heard the sound of voices speaking English , and looking back I saw , for the first time in Palestine , some Europeans , as I thought , on horseback , hurrying as if to overtake ...
Page 138
... Mount of Olives from the pictures one has seen since childhood , and the Vale of Kedron , and the Temple area , and the " Beloved " City rising gently towards the west , and the wall circling round the northern suburb stretching along ...
... Mount of Olives from the pictures one has seen since childhood , and the Vale of Kedron , and the Temple area , and the " Beloved " City rising gently towards the west , and the wall circling round the northern suburb stretching along ...
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... Mount of Olives , with the great Russian tower on its summit . But nearer than the Mount of Olives was part of the Jerusalem wall , and just yonder , but a few hundred yards from where I stood , was the spot where my Saviour died . God ...
... Mount of Olives , with the great Russian tower on its summit . But nearer than the Mount of Olives was part of the Jerusalem wall , and just yonder , but a few hundred yards from where I stood , was the spot where my Saviour died . God ...
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Akka AMERICAN COLONY Arab bakshish Bedawîn Bedawy beneath Bethlehem Beyrout Bishop boat camels carriage Cavasse cave Christ Christian Church climbed Consul Cross cycle Damascus Dead Sea descended donkey Dragoman Druze Eastern English Esdraelon feet garden Gate Gerizim Greek Haifa Hebron Hermon hills Holy City Holy Land Holy Sepulchre horses hostelry Howaja Jaffa Jaffa Gate Jamal Jericho Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Jordan journey keffiyeh Kerak King lady lake looked Lord Mar Saba miles minaret Missionary Monastery morning Moslem Mosque Mount of Olives mountains Muhammedan Mustapha Nablus Nazareth night Olivet House Omar Palestine passed PHOTO prayer railway Ramleh road rock rode roof round Samaria Samaritans scene Sea of Galilee Shechem Shunem side Siloam slopes stone strange Syrian Temple Area Tiberias told Tomb travellers trees Turkish Vale valley village Wady wall women yonder Zion
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Page 247 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 22 - They fought from heaven; The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon.
Page 178 - And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me ; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Page 170 - The answering hills of Palestine Send back the glad reply; And greet, from all their holy heights, The day-spring from on high. 4 O'er the blue depths of Galilee There comes a holier calm, And Sharon waves, in solemn praise, Her silent groves of palm. 5 "Glory to God...
Page 17 - The face of him on whom I gazed I can never forget, though I cannot describe it. Those piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul; power and authority sat on that ample brow...
Page 37 - But there will be no gloom for her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Page 284 - And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
Page 192 - I have been crucified with Christ ; yet I live ; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Page 18 - Is not this that which Christ foretold? Yet do we see your kings and rulers lavishing their treasures more freely on means...
Page 40 - And *he began again to teach by the Sea side : and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered iiito a ship, and sat in the Sea : and the whole multitude was by the Sea on the land.