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Source:
Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee, p. 134. |
Family Traveling in
Galilee
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As we made our way through Galilee, in the month of May, 1894, we met on the
road a family as you see in the picture. A box is strapped on each side of the
mule; a woman holding an umbrella is in one box and two bright-faced little
children are in the other. The husband rides sidewise upon a donkey, holding to
the mule by a line made up of chain and rope. This family probably belongs to
the higher classes among the peasantry of the country. One of our editors,
passing through this region in 1887, saw another family riding southward with
camel and horses, the woman riding aloft and swaying from side to side on their
"ship of the desert." It was in the days of Christ that families journeyed in
this way from one end of the land to the other. (Source:
Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee, p.
134.) |
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An Example of a Peasant's Home, with Its
Manger, in a Village of Palestine |
Source: Picturesque Palestine, vol. 1,
p. 129. |
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The Chapel of the Manger [in the Church of
the Nativity, not pictured here] appears to
have been a rude grotto hewn out of the side
of the rock, and may once have been connected
with a dwelling-house or a stable, or had some
access for cattle, though the whole site has
been so altered in shape by building that it
is difficult to form any decided opinion. Very
often in the ruined cities of the hill country
we find several rooms hewn out of the side of
the hill, and a large open cavern adjoining,
evidently intended for the cattle. In some, as
at Tekoa, and across Jordan, near Arak el
Emir, the mangers still existing leave no
doubt as to their use. (Source: Picturesque Palestine, vol. 1, pp. 124-125.) |
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Source:
Jerusalem, Bethany, and Bethlehem, p. 119. |
The Shepherds' Fields,
Bethlehem |
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Beyond them, one of the reverend fathers will
point out the spot, on the border of the
wilderness, where the shepherds were abiding
with their flocks by night, when "the angel of
the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the
Lord shone round about them…And the angel said
unto them, Behold, I bring you good tidings of
great joy, which shall be to all the people."
From that spot the "good tidings"-the God
spell, the GOSPEL-were borne far and wide,
until, in our day, they sweep round the Earth.
In Bethlehem, looking out on that upland
plain, we seem to realize the first outburst
of the heavenly message, and to feel more
intensely its inspiring power. (Source:
Jerusalem, Bethany, and Bethlehem, p. 119.) |
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Road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem |
Source:
Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee, p. 33. |
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The Wise Men arrived in Jerusalem from the
Far East asking the question which was strange
and startling tidings to Herod and to the
people of Jerusalem . . . .And "when they had
heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the
star, which they saw in the East, went before
them, till it came and stood over where the
young child was." Our view above of the
present road to Bethlehem is very fine, as it
presents the present appearance of the highway
from the Jaffa gate to the gate of Bethlehem.
. . . The picture looks toward the south. We
stand just outside the Jaffa gate on the west.
Beyond us are the hills of Judea. (Source:
Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee, p.
33.) |
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See Good
Samaritan,
Psalm 23,
Bethlehem,
Bethlehem Church,
or
Rachel's
Tomb |
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