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JERICHO.
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the Turkish Government, from the mixed motives of gain and of conciliating the Christian
powers, organized and protected the caravans, there was no longer any necessity for a perma-
nent guard, and the excessive unhealthiness of the Ghor caused the monasteries to be speedily
abandoned, and the monks were withdrawn to such healthier and safer retreats as Mar Saba
and Mar Elyas. St. Jerome, to whom, directly or indirectly, it has been the fashion to ascribe
ONE OF THE ARCHES OF AN AQUEDUCT OVER THE WADY KELT, PLAINS OF JERICHO.
The stream is popularly known as the Brook Cherith.
every religious institution in Palestine, was certainly by his example the origin of the monas-
teries of the Jordan valley in their early form, when the ascetic hermits began to group
themselves into "lauras." Yet Jerome himself was no devotee of unmeaning pilgrimages.
He declared that Heaven, may be reached from Britain as easily as from Jerusalem, that an
innumerable throng of saints never saw the holy city, and that the sacred places themselves
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the Turkish Government, from the mixed motives of gain and of conciliating the Christian
powers, organized and protected the caravans, there was no longer any necessity for a perma-
nent guard, and the excessive unhealthiness of the Ghor caused the monasteries to be speedily
abandoned, and the monks were withdrawn to such healthier and safer retreats as Mar Saba
and Mar Elyas. St. Jerome, to whom, directly or indirectly, it has been the fashion to ascribe
ONE OF THE ARCHES OF AN AQUEDUCT OVER THE WADY KELT, PLAINS OF JERICHO.
The stream is popularly known as the Brook Cherith.
every religious institution in Palestine, was certainly by his example the origin of the monas-
teries of the Jordan valley in their early form, when the ascetic hermits began to group
themselves into "lauras." Yet Jerome himself was no devotee of unmeaning pilgrimages.
He declared that Heaven, may be reached from Britain as easily as from Jerusalem, that an
innumerable throng of saints never saw the holy city, and that the sacred places themselves
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