Jerusalem of Today

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 8, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 19.

Jerusalem of Today

The Jerusalem we see to-day is not the one that gladdened the eyes of the holy family journeying from Nazareth to worship in the temple. That city lies buried forty, fifty, sometimes over a hundred feet deep in wastage piled in the overthrow of many sieges. The crimson banner of the Moslem floats above the tower of David, used as barracks, and the Turkish sentinel, pacing his rounds, looks with ineffable scorn on the Christian. The crumbling tower of Antonia, the citadel of the temple, is occupied by the governor of Jerusalem, and if possession counts in the law, it is his right, for he held it before William the Conqueror was crowned with the Saxon's crown in Westminster Abbey.—Mrs. Lew. Wallace, in December Ladies' Home Journal.