luded, the party going to the Dead Sea filed off with their armed attendants; each individual traveller making as brave a show as he could, and personally accoutred with warlike swords and pistols. The picturesque crowds, and the Arabs Maillot SS Lazio Pas CHer and the horsemen, in the sunshine; the noble old convent, and the grey-bearded priests, with their feast; and Ostaa Halpa Nike Free 4.0 the church, and its pictures and columns, and incense; the wide brown hills spreading round the village; with the accidents of the road — flocks and shepherds, wells and West Ham United Barn funerals, and camel-trains — have left on my mind a brilliant, romantic, and cheerful picture. But you, dear M-, without visiting the place, have imagined one far finer; and Bethlehem, where Karim Benzema Tröja the Holy Child was born, and the angels sang, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and goodwill Minnesota Vikings Tröjor towards men,” is the most sacred and beautiful Los Angeles Rams spot in the earth to you.
By far the most comfortable quarters in Jerusalem are those of the Armenians, in their convent of St. James. Wherever we have been, these Eastern quakers look grave, and jolly, and sleek. Their convent at Mount Zion is big enough to contain two or three thousand of their faithful; and their church is ornamented by the most rich and hideous gifts ever devised by uncouth piety. Instead of a bell, the fat monks of the convent beat huge noises on a board, and drub the faithful in to prayers. I never saw men more lazy and rosy than these reverend fathers, kneeling in their comfortable matted church, or sitting in easy devotion. Pictures, images, gilding, tinsel, wax candles, twinkle all over the place; and ten thousand ostrichs’ eggs (or any lesser number you may allot) dangle from the vaulted ceiling. There were great numbers of people at worship in this gorgeous church: they went on their knees, kissing the walls with much fervour, and paying reverence to the most precious relic of the convent — the chair of St. James, their patron, the first Bishop of Jerusalem.
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