Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-04-22

From the Boston Journal.
ROUND THE WORLD.
a Rersrie on the Mount Of Olices.


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Once more we are upon the Mount of
Olives the sky clear-the air serene
jerusalem before us--the Kedron at our
feet---the hills of Bethlehem in full view
six miles south--Bethany l.ehind us on
the other side of Olivet. In imagina-
tion 60 back 1868 years to the birth of
Jesus Christ. The legions Of Rome have
been here under Pompey and Mark An
tony. Palestine is kingdom, with He
rod upon the throne, owing allegiance to
Rome Hcrod has been lavish Of his
wealth to make Jerusalem a kingly city.
reared a gorgeous temple and maguif-
cent palace. Beholding with the minds
eye the city as it was then, we see the
Temple on the site now occupied by the
Mosque of Omar Great the contrast be-
tween the two-the temple rectaDglc,
three hundred and sixty feet long. two
hundred and seventy vide, with lofty
walls of white marble roof adorned with
gold, and surrounding courts an colona-
des. Solomon's porch is six hundred
feet in length, with double rows of Corin-
THAN columns higher by two feet than
the granite pillars of the Boston Custom
House. There is an avenue Of columns
along the four sides Of the area. Mid
way the porch of Solomon. rises the
garndcst of all the gateways, of design SO
elaborate and proportions so magnif cent
that it is renowned as the Beautiful
Gate.,' ...
In contrast we now look down upon an
eight.sided structure, with a Cat roof
surmoun'ed by dome modelled after the
small end of hen's egg, in appearance
quite like railway engine house
Bt forgetting what is, and thinking on
ly of what was. we sec, at the northwest
c1ruer of the temple area, strong castle
cllled Antopia. At the southwest corner
We walk over the lofty bridge, which
leads from the temple across the Chee--
emouger's valley to Herod's palace on
III 'unt Zion, directly west, standing where
Solomon's palace stood. The city is more
thriving than it has been at any time
since the days of Solomon North Of
Herod's place-not far from the prescn,
northwest corner of the city, outside o1
the wallis the place where murderers
robbers. pirates and ruifians of all so'ts
are publicly executed So many have
suffered the penalty of the law at tina,
p ace that it is commonly talked Of as the
"place of skull .......
Herod has made his way to the throne
through a sea of blood. Rivals. his
own wife Marianne, his wife's mothtr,
his own sons and hundreds of men have
been killed that he might make his
throne secure. We zee him, and old
man. his body eaten with ulcers, his
mind tortured with rcmorse for The mur.
der of his Queen Marianne, yet ordering
the sons of the chief families Of the king
dom to be shut up in the hippodromc Of
Jericho, to he put to Death as soon as the
breath Of life has left his own body, that
his funeral may not lack for inourncrs
THE JEWISH NATION.
Great changes have taken place in the
nation during the $50 years which have
rolled away since the return of the cap
tvcs from Babylon. There is no longer
an ark or a covenant in the temple. sy-
nagogues or meeting houses have been
esta blished in every town. The Office Of
the priest has given place in great de.
gree to that Of the scribe--a man learned
in the oral law That law is the reputed
sayings of Moses They have been writ
ting out by the scibes in the book
Mishns, the law book of the Scribes aud
Pbarisees, which they endeavor to force
upon the people. They consider the oral
law to be of greater force than the writ
ten. The doctors of law are great men.
entitled to the chief places at feasts and
public assemblies The Pharisees look
upon themselves as being very holy. he
cause of their observance of the oral law.
They consider it a sin to eat with un-
washed hands. The lawyers have given
decisions on the manner Of washing. The
water must reach as far al the wrist; it
must be pure water; there must be enough
of it, and not too much; it must never
have been used for any other purpose it
must be in dish end not in brook or
cistern. TO use too much is as sinful as
TO use none OF all. Having washed, he
cannot eat food that has not been proper
/ ly tithed--which has not paid an inter