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PARK AND CEMETERY 
THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE— WALLS OF JERUSALEM IN THE BACKGROUND. 
TKe Garden of Getlisemane. 
Tliis is the scene of so many events forever memor- 
able in the history of our race, the battle ground and 
])oint of attack alike of the Assyrians, Romans, Sar- 
acens, Crusaders and Turks. The walls of Jerusalem 
with the dome of the Mosque of ( )mar upon what is 
believed to have been the site of the Temple, form a 
pleasing background to the picture, while under the 
walls is the Mohammedan burying ground, whose tnr- 
han surmounted tombstones mark the last resting 
place of the male of this turbulent race, while that 
of the poor female is simply capped with an insignifi- 
cant ornament, the whole place bearing a look of neg- 
lect and totally devoid of trees. 
The time of day usually selected to visit this spot 
is toward evening, when the red light of the setting 
sun glances over the city, touching its domes and min- 
arets with a last dying gleam and the dreary hills are 
broken into grand masses of purple and vermilion, 
while the glen below the valley of Jehosaphat, where 
is the dry bed of the brook Kidron ; here sleep mil- 
lions of the sons of Israel almost side by side with 
their enemies, the Moslems, for both believe that the 
last judgment is to take place here, and in places it 
is fairly paved with the sepulchers of the Moslem or 
the simpler slab of the Jewish tombs. And the place of 
the sad groves which shrouded the agony of Christ 
are sinking into the shades of night. If we climb to 
the top of the hill and look eastward we see over the 
far horizon the mountains of Moab and the valley of 
the Jordan with the Dead Sea and the desert glowing 
in the sun's last rays ; this completes the indelible im- 
pression of a scene that for its association is unequaled 
in the world. 
And the picture is remarkable chiefly for these sug- 
gestions of the past, for horticulture is not encour- 
aged in the dominion of the Sultan, and only a small 
fraction of the arable land is under cultivation, owing 
to the absence of roads and the pernicious practice of 
farming out the taxes, which, in its practical workings, 
is a most ingenious and pitiless system of robbery. 
The Garden of Gethsemane has but few trees ; in the 
]iicture we recognize the cypress and the olive, two or 
three of which are very old, but as we read that Titus 
cut down all the trees about Jerusalem and that a le- 
gion encamped at the foot of the Mount of Olives, it 
would suggest that they were planted by Christian 
