The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-09-25

| the cycl0men, COuvolVuiIs and frarr,nt berb
abounded. soon after noon new scene q
Pened upon us. On our left hand Law wild
deep basin among the hills. full of VINEYARD
ana oiVe-grounds, where the stones from TN
/ soll We're built up into fences. and i'm alnos
/ every plot rose garden house. This was
sure sign that we were near n town: and ~
we rounded the hill on our rigbt. we cpne !,
sight Of the two eminences on which Hebron
Is NUN. There stood the town where JOIN
the bnpust was born. and here were IN,
scenes which he must many time have talk
Ell OF with his cousin, in their bovsh meet
Ings at Jerusalem for the ieasts Hebron
too. Is only twenty miles from BethIehem;uu
~ twenty-siN from Jerusalem; and in those
days, when large amount Of yearly travel
ing was soIem religious duty incumbent nm.
on every family, it IS scarcely possible but
llat relatives must have often visited each 9th
er, and THAT Jesus and his parents must have
come to Hebron.
The Cave Of Macpheah is there: and the
huriaI-pIace OF Abraham and his family was
n sacred ocaIity, and an object of piIgrimage
10 Jews all ages As we inquired for il.
and walked round the Enclosure, which the
hHhommedauS now permit no Christian 10
enter, could not but think who might have
been before us in the same quest.
li-BETiiLEIiEM-ZION-JERUSA-
LEM.
As sat on a tomb in the Turkish ccmetc-
ry the next morning March Bon Watching the
preparations tor our departure / almost
dreaded the interest which every day would
now brlug, after the calm and guict weeks
we had spent in the Desert. Our epcaluD-
Wcnt looked much the same as it had done
every morning fora month past; the Arab
servants busy in taking down and hacking
the tents, and n noisy Quarrel going on in the
lhdst-Dlls morning about a pistol having
peen stolen from one of the tcnts:l-and the
differences were only that there were suecra-
'nrs standing by, and that our camels had
gwen place 10 horses and asses Bur. in
stead OF the rocks and sands OF the desert
Hebron was before my eyes. and the hills
where Abraham spread his hocks. and the
spot where he and his family lay buried
Ahd before night, | should see the Mace
"herc David was born and lived his ,hep-
nerd life, and where Jesus was born. We
1au only twenty miles TO travel this dny 10
bethlehem; bat It was quite enough. for we
we're eager about every old tree, and well and
lIll-top. Ihc shrubs grew finer, and the
"'Id mowers more abundant, The whole way:
though the hills OF Judah werc wild and
stony IN parts and no longer fit for past,!ring
'uch nocks as covered them. or when the He
lreWs drove lntheir cattle from the Desert. or
Nhcn David ~ his hoyhoOd amused himself
Nuh singing smooth stones from the brool,
WINE ms fathers sheep were feeding on the
slopes. We sat down to rest 5Iuder The
shade Ola rock and spreading tree: and for
ne Huhdrcdtl time since We left Egypt it .
occurred To me now little we in England can
inter- INTO the meaning OF David when in his
uyine songs,he speaks ofthe shade of rocks.
nd OF The beauty ot'"U tree planted by rivers
II water" and all such cool images. When
ne has been slowly pacing on. hour after
our, over giurug sands or heated rocks. un-
Ter "a sun which makes every biz Otlcather or
METAL, ana even ones outer clOthing feel
corchng hot, and expressing ones very
'rcafhug. The sight OF patch OF dari, shade
s welcome beyond relief: and when one has
.Smountcd and felt the GOODNESS of the rocky
vail aud OF the ground beneath il, and gath-
rcd The fresh weeds which cluster i'm its
rerireS, phrase after phrase OF the Psalms
nj prophecies comes over ones mind, with
life and freshness us sweet as the blossoms
u ones lap.
Oar first sight of Bethlehem was beautiful.
We came upon it suddenly just when the
elbow sunset was richest Bethlehem, WINS
II the rising ground on our right massive
)okng las all the villages of Palestine arc
nj shadow, as the last sun ravs passed over
TO gd the western hills * another village
"'CH '.lHTc Jay Hgh up, cmbOsOmCd i'm ,
9 ana olive orchards. The valley between
ne OF which we were rising, lay in shadow.
eIore us, pcrched on lofty ridge. which :
)sc between us ard Jerusalem,was the Con-
ent of -. Elias, which we were to pass to-
borrow. was sorry to turn away from this
eW but we had 10 take the rght-hand road.
al rae through the narrow streets of the
Iage to the great convent, built over the
DOT where Jesus is believed by the friars 10 !
ave been born. c
1t was too late this evening to see anv of y
&c sacred localities: but it was quite enough u
have the moonlight streaming IN during
e whole night through the window of 20
y lofty convent chamber, and to think that
! this bill took place the greatest event in ;
e history Of the world: and that in the a
Ed near, the gentle Ruth went about her "
little dreaming, in these davs of her
lVerty, that from her meeting with BOnZ IL
ong TIE reapers ofhis harvests, would IL n
Sc sdch events to the human race: that the "
cpherd grandchild, whose divine sonrs
ere to soothe her old age, should be the Il
lghtY KING he was, and the father Of Il vet
lighter, who should build the great Tenple D
the Lord: and that more distant descend
It should make these gIOries appear rs !,
hldlsh toys in the presence of His greater Il
vereignty over the universal human soul.
wise man Of a late century has noblv said u
Prosperity Is the promise ofthe Old Tesla
ent and Adversely that of the New On W
is hull was born the prosperity of the Old al
spensatlon; and on this hill was born the d
an of Sorrows who knew the secret of true -
ace, and taught it in the saying that it prof. >
not Il man to gain the whole world if he I!
Sc his own soul. IL
In the morning we went into the church .,
I ~ I Eel, a.