A SUNSET AT JERUSALEM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9130, 11 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SUNSET AT JERUSALEM.

— o Aft km a stormy day the clouds at eventide gathered in dense masses near the Mount of Olives, not resting on tlte mountain but hanging over it. The light of the setting sun struck the clouds and imparted to them the highest colouring imaginable. Thus they formed, as it were, a gorgeous canopy and emblazoned standard over the sacred summit.. The mountain itself has lost the forbidding aspect which it often has under the hot glare of a cloudless noon. Under lie atmospheric conditions of this moment it is aglow with a fiery light, and is suffused with Crimson hues. Under this pervading blush are hidden the dull details of the bare hillside. Thus Olivet seemed for a time to be ethereal. On the southern shoulder we just discern the road coming from Bethany and leading to Gethsemane, along which our Lord rode on the first Palm Sunday. Beyond Olivet the mountain range of Moab appears deep blue in the distance on the other side of the Dead Sea. Such is the scenery which displays Jerusalem as a jewel set in a casket. Though the mountains are close round about the city, they yet seem to stand quite apart, majestically veiled in their airy garb.—Sir R. Temple.