This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...of David; and a legend says, that in days of yore a chain was suspended from heaven and stood over this spot, and when any two disputants could not agree, the chain would move towards the one who had the right on his side, and so the litigation would be settled. But the Jews took a mean advantage of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...of David; and a legend says, that in days of yore a chain was suspended from heaven and stood over this spot, and when any two disputants could not agree, the chain would move towards the one who had the right on his side, and so the litigation would be settled. But the Jews took a mean advantage of the swinging of the chain in a rather trickey manner, so it was drawn up into heaven--or at all events disappeared, and has not been heard of since. It is said that this building, which has a beautiful cupola, supported by marble columns of different designs, is the model of the Dome of the Rock. And now we have before us the Mosque of Omar, the Dome of the Rock, the Sakharah--next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the most deeply interesting building in Palestine. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. 169 It stands upon the summit of Moriah; tradition says upon the very spot where Oman had his threshing-floor, where Abraham offered up Isaac, where David interceded for the plague-stricken people, and where the Jewish Temple, the glory of Israel, stood. That man must be dead to all poetry and piety, who can stand before this magnificent building, with its many-coloured marbles glistening in the sunlight as once the " goodly stones of the Temple " shone before the eyes of the disciples, and not be moved with a strong emotion. One's thoughts rush away to the past, when psalmists wrote and patriots sung of the Temple glory. Hither the tribes came up; here shone forth the light of the Shekinah; here was the centre of the religious, the poetical, and the political life of God's chosen nation. And then one thinks of the defeats and disasters, consequent upon disobedience; how glory after glory vanished, until alien powers desolated, and utterly destroyed it. One...
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