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| Encampment In Desert of Mount Sinai by John Frederick Lewis. |
Now we leave Jerusalem for the long journey north through Palestine. A little way out we got on a hill and took the last look at Jerusalem, and I felt and remarked it was the last look at that sacred city on earth, and the next Jerusalem we shall see will be the heavenly. We went on within sight of Mizpah and Gibeon, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still; on by Rama, connected with Samuel's history; on by the traditional village where the parents of Christ missed their boy, about three and a half miles from Jerusalem. This is the road over which Jesus came and went from Jerusalem to Nazareth. Tonight we encamp at Bethel, where was once a school of the prophets, a theological seminary. Elijah and f&isha were here. Near this Abraham and Lot divided the land. Here Jacob, pillowed on a stone, saw the ladder used by angels' feet, and he set up a stone and consecrated it. To-night the heavens were full of ladders, first a ladder of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and all up and down the heavens are the angels of beauty, angels of consolation, angels of God ascending and descending. "Surely God is in this place," said Jacob, "and I knew it not." But to-night God is in this place and I know it.
The next night we encamp on the ruins of Ahab's ivory palace and within sight of the pillars of one of Herod's temples. But this place is more distinguished for Elijah's vision and the equipage of fire. The place is girt with a blue sash of mountains. The next day we saw the tomb of Joseph. His bones were brought up from Egypt. Gentile and Jew, Protestant and Catholic, and Mohammedan, agree that this is the place of that Prime Minister's burial. What a funeral it must have been and what a procession from Egypt to Canaan!
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