The walls of old Jerusalem! They have figured in ancient chronicles and poems. Now we ourselves are standing on the eastern wall of the hill-top city and looking east across the valley to another hill - one of the hills most famous on all this great, round earth - the Mount of Olives. That road at the left is the highway to Jericho... The two roads farther to the right both go to Bethany where Lazarus and his sisters lived. Many a time Jesus walked over those very paths. The lower road, farthest to the right, may be the one which he rode only five days before ethe crucifixion (Matt. xxi: 1-12). Over beyond the Mount of Olives, far away to the east, lie the lands of the Assyrian and Persian kings (the home of the Wise Men) and the vast regions of central Asia stretching half around the globe... But look down now, straight ahead to that walled garden where olives grow and tall dark cypress trees. That is the Garden of Gethsemane. It was down into this very valley that the Master came to pray, that last night. See: Travelling in the Holy Land, through the Stereoscope, by Jesse Lyman Hurlburt, D.D., with its "keyed" maps; published by Underwood & Underwood.
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Image caption: Garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Olives, from the eastern wall - Jerusalem, Palestine