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spot. One cannot help being struck by many things of 

 common sight and occurrence in a different way from 

 that in which we should look at them elsewhere. The 

 stony fields, or rather ridges of land, with the stones 

 partly cleared and so placed along the side next the 

 path or way, often encumbered with weeds, forcibly 

 brought to mind the Parable of the Sower for in such 

 a plot of ground the ordinary mode of casting the seed 

 forth would inevitably throw it upon each of the four 

 kinds of ground the wayside, among thorns, on stony 

 ground, and on good ground. So again yesterday, 

 coming up the ravine from Kolanieh, a fox ran out of 

 a hole in the rock, and made me think of our Lord's 

 saying in reference to His own worldly destitution.' 



March 20. (At the so-called c Church of the Holy 

 Sepulchre '.) c Quite enough for us, as for the Apostles 

 and their successors for 300 years, to know that all these 

 scenes of our Lord's life took place at Jerusalem, thus 

 sanctifying the whole place, and not special spots in the 

 place. ... It is a true and real pleasure to wander 

 about here, and feel quite certain that in and about 

 every part at some time or other, and specially on 

 Mt. Olivet and the way up to it, our Lord often 

 walked, and that the spots He thus hallowed are now 

 as nearly in the same state as then as the mere lapse 

 of t4me could permit while to be told as certain facts 

 about the spots in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 

 and to see unsightly buildings, tawdry ornaments and 

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