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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
years before the building of Solomon's Temple, stood the national altar of sacrifice, where
King Solomon offered his one thousand burnt-offerings, and received in the visions of the
night the promise of wealth, honour, and long life. Past glories, indeed, are these we feel,
as we sit under one of the gnarled and contorted olive-trees which dot the slopes. Yet, bare
VIEW FROM UPPER BETH-HORON,
Looking westward, to the Mediterranean Sea, at sunset.
and uninviting as the land of Benjamin is to-day, every knoll, every hillside, ribbed and
scarred with old terraces, bears testimony to what once it was. What it may be again, when
life and property are secure from tyranny and oppression, when the olive-trees are planted
again, the cisterns cemented, and the water-courses repaired, the gorges of the Lebanon,
teeming with population and produce, unmistakably proclaim.
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
years before the building of Solomon's Temple, stood the national altar of sacrifice, where
King Solomon offered his one thousand burnt-offerings, and received in the visions of the
night the promise of wealth, honour, and long life. Past glories, indeed, are these we feel,
as we sit under one of the gnarled and contorted olive-trees which dot the slopes. Yet, bare
VIEW FROM UPPER BETH-HORON,
Looking westward, to the Mediterranean Sea, at sunset.
and uninviting as the land of Benjamin is to-day, every knoll, every hillside, ribbed and
scarred with old terraces, bears testimony to what once it was. What it may be again, when
life and property are secure from tyranny and oppression, when the olive-trees are planted
again, the cisterns cemented, and the water-courses repaired, the gorges of the Lebanon,
teeming with population and produce, unmistakably proclaim.