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JERUSALEM. 
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are be¬ 
come her enemies.” 
The resident population of Jerusalem is about seventeen 
thousand; consisting chiefly of Turks, Armenians, Arabs, 
Greeks, Italians, and Jews of all nations. It is estimated 
that the average number of pilgrims who visit the Holy City 
every year is about fifteen thousand. On particular occasions 
the influx of strangers is of course much greater. Some¬ 
times, when the accommodations of the city are insufficient 
for so many pilgrims, encampments are formed outside the 
walls; and many find shelter in the Convents of Bethlehem 
and St. Saba. The uncertain tenure upon which each sect 
holds its right of worship in Jerusalem ; the mingled severity 
and laxity of the Turkish laws; the fanatical zeal with 
which all the sects are inspired, and the bigoted hatred that 
exists between them, give rise to perpetual hostility of feel¬ 
ing, and often to sanguinary feuds. It is deplorable and 
melancholy to see how profaned are the precepts of Him who 
preached peace and good-will toward all men in this very 
spot; whose voice still lingers upon Zion and the Mount of 
Olives; to witness in their Avorst form envy, hatred, and mal¬ 
ice practiced in His name, and the outward worship of God 
where sin and wickedness reign triumphant. Perhaps upon 
the whole face of the globe there could not be found a spot 
less holy than modern Jerusalem. All the fierce bad pas¬ 
sions that drive men to crime are let loose here in the strug¬ 
gle for immortality; all the better traits of human nature are 
buried in fanaticism ; all the teachings of wisdom and human¬ 
ity are violated in a brutish battle for spiritual supremacy. 
In the Holy Sepulchre the hatred between the sects is fierce 
and undying. The Greeks and Roman Catholics, the Copts, 
Armenians, and Maronites, have each a share in it, which 
they hold by sufferance of the Turkish Government; but this 
union of proprietorship, instead of producing a corresponding 
unity of feeling, occasions bitter and constant hostility. The 
Greeks and Romans, who are the twq largest sects, and in 
some sort rivals, hate each other with a ferocity unparalleled 
in the annals of religious intolerance. The less influential 
