lijr the American Colony at Jerusalem 



THE VILLAGE WEAVER 



In some parts of Palestine the men do the spinning in their spare time, taking the yarn 

 to the village weaver to be converted into cloth, after which the women make it into clothing. 

 European ginghams and calico are rapidlj^ replacing the native product. 



rock in which the body of Christ was 

 laid and over which the Church of the 

 Holy Sepulchre was built by Helena, the 

 mother of the Emperor Constantine. 



Tradition points out many other sacred 

 caves. It places the Annunciation by 

 the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin at Naza- 

 reth in one cavern and the birth of 

 Christ at Bethlehem in another, and as- 

 signs others to Samson, to David, to 

 Elijah, and to various prophets. x\ll 



over the country one finds tombs hewn 

 in the solid rocks and pillars or piles 

 of stone marking a burial place. Many 

 of these rock tombs may be the work of 

 races that dwelt here before Israel came. 

 In a rocky land, where natural cavities 

 are common, this becomes the obvious 

 mode of interment. Thus here, as in 

 Egypt, one seems to be in a land rather 

 of the dead than of the living. 



The impression of melancholy which 



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