Charles Beery 



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As one journevs through Palestine he is frequently reminded of the truth of the sayings of 

 ' the Saviour about the shepherd and his sheep 



than earth, so that one wonders how 

 crops so good as one sometimes sees 

 can spring up. Caves are everywhere, 

 for limestone is the prevailing rock, and 

 it is the rock in which the percolation of 

 rain makes clefts and hollows and cav- 

 erns most frequent. 



HISTORIC CAVES 



Many of the incidents of Bible history 

 are associated with caverns, from the 

 cave of Machpelah. at Hebron, where 

 Abraham buried Sarah and in which he 

 is supposed to have been himself in- 

 terred, down to the sepulchre hewn in 



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