THE GARDEN TOMB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 67

THE GARDEN TOMB.

By a Banker.

In a recent number of this series some features of the ravines and valleys encircling the walls of Jerusalem were referred to, Lie exigencies of space compelling a halt at the valley of the Kddron and G-elhsemane. Continuing the exploration we now a&cend the Mount of Olives, first visiting the ancient village of B^ihany, in which the half-ruined, stone-built houses may well be the actual sites which tradition has long since assigned to them. We than walk over the rolling slopes of old Olivet, its grassy banks adorned with grape-hyacinths, cyclamens, or otheT beauty of the floral world; though, being so neao: the thickly-populated city, not growing in tnat wild and luxuriant profusion as in Galilee and the remoter parts of the Holy Land.

Here the prospect is grand and impressive. To the east the long line -yi the mountains of Moab, lofty Pisgah, whence Moses saw the outspread panorama of the Promised Land, towering high anj bold. Beneath this rugged range lies, sullen ajid torpid, the wide ex pan&s of the watery sepulchre of Sodom and Gomorrah, well named the Dead Sea ;" its waveless, heavy waters dark and dismal, and apparently unruffled by the desert wind; its shores arid and lifeless, except, perhaps, for a few "Apples of Sodom," fair to the sight, but full of repulsive ashes and rottennsss ("within. At the northern extremity of this diear and melancholy inland sea lies the beautiful and luxuriant valley of the Jordan, the sparkling river, ever pua-lmg and plashiug in its winding course amidst graceful overhanging trees and sub-tropical plants and flowers, not, however, visible from this point. Keaier, though mostly hidden from view by a spur of the mountain, 13 the old town of Jericho, still, <as of old, of evil repute; while scatter-d abotit an many sites of historic interest— G-ilgal and Micmash, Gibeon and Rnniah, ?3ethabara and Bethphage all evo\--lug memoiies of exploits of the great Israelltish leaders, of bp teles lost and wen, .or of events in the life of Him who so often trod this saci'iJl mount.

And n nv. descending, ws oross the valley of Jehoshiphat, skirt the ancient turretnfl md embattled waUs of the Holy City, and proceed towards the Damascus gate, opposite to which 'S perhaps the most intensely interesting site m the world— the "Garden tomb" —which so many of the best authorities now consider to be the actual tomb of our Lord. And wlio can. enter those gates without a throbbing heart and a bowed head as he contemplates that perhaps in that very rock-hc-wn cave once lay the human body of the mighty Creator of the universes, who, aP.er Laving oa:d the penalty due to Eternal Justice in the stead and on behalf of all who will accept that \>ardon, on the resurrection morn lose from that angel-guarded tomb, and, perhaps on rhe very spot upon which we stand, utieied those comforting words to the wcop:ng Mary. And, though, now seated on His throne in the heaven of heavens, He will he.uiho civ of all who will but come to Him for eteinal his.

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