PIIvGRIMS AT JI;rUSALI;m during the: LENTEN SEASON 



Aided by the development of transportation facilities and the low cost of travel, the number 

 of pilgrims to the Holy Land are increasing year after year (see text, page 308) 



Even the scenic conditions and whatever 

 we may call "the setting" of the parables 

 belong rather to the eastern world than 

 to Palestine. You do not feel the inci- 

 dents to be the more real because they 

 are placed in this particular part of the 

 East. 



THE ACTUAL AND THE IDEAL 



All this makes the traveler realize 

 afresh and from a new side that while 

 the Old Testament is about and for Israel, 

 as well as composed in the land of Israel, 

 the Gospel, though their narrative is 

 placed in the land and the preaching was 



delivered to the people of Israel, is ad- 

 dressed to the world. 



The Old Testament books, or at least 

 the legal and historical books, are con- 

 cerned with one people, with the words 

 and deeds of its kings and prophets and 

 warriors, whereas the New Testament is 

 concerned with the inner life of all man- 

 kind. The one is of the concrete, the 

 other of the abstract : the one of the 

 actual, the other of the ideal. The actual 

 is rooted in time and place ; the ideal is 

 independent of both. It is only in parts 

 of the poetical and prophetic books that 



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