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[Bartmess H. <du...@bi...>]

 The side of the Mount of Olives toward the west contains many tombs cut
in the rock. The central summit rises two hundred feet above Jerusalem
and presents a fine view of the city, and, indeed, of the whole region,
including the mountains of Ephraim on the north, the valley of the
Jordan on the east, a part of the Dead Sea on the south-east, and beyond
it Kerak, in the mountains of Moab. Perhaps no spot on earth unites so
fine a view with so many memorials of the most solemn and important
events. Over this hill the Saviour often climbed in his journeys to and
from the Holy City. Gethsemane lay at its foot on the west, and Bethany
on its eastern slope.'" During the reading of this description of the
Mount of Olives, Miss Harson showed the children pictures of the
different spots mentioned, and thus they were not likely soon to forget
what had been told them. "Who can repeat some words from the New
Testament about this mountain?" asked Miss Harson. "'Jesus went unto the
Mount of Olives,'" said Clara, who had learned this verse in her Sunday
lesson, "and it is the first verse of the eighth chapter of St. John."
"And the verse just before it, at the end of the seventh chapter,"
replied her governess, "says that 'every man went unto his own house,'
but 'Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives.' In another place it is said
that 'at night he went out and abode in the Mount of Olives,' and in
still another that he 'continued all night in prayer to God,' probably
on the same mountain." "And can people really go and see the very same
Mount of Olives now?" asked Malcolm, eagerly. "The very same," was the
reply, "except, as I just read to you, many of the olive trees that gave
it its name are no longer there. The Garden of G