Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Man\ learned Jews come to end their da\s in the Hol\- Cit\. Theraggedest man may be the greatest scholar. Some of them have returnedfrom America whence their successful sons send funds for their supportin the land of their fathers
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The Tower of David was standing here when Christ walked in Zion.Jerusalem, like other ancient cities, was surrounded by walls for its de-fence, with towers here and there along their course JEWS OF JERUSALEM the stones of the wall that separates them from what wasonce the site of Solomons Temple, and that is even nowthe holiest spot on the earth to the Jew, the genuinefeeling expressed by all and the faith they show inthus coming here week after week and year after year,are most wonderfully impressive. It is indeed one ofthe strange sights of this strangest of cities. A nationis mourned for. 77 CHAPTER XI THE EVIL EYE THE Evil Eye is abroad in the Holy Land, and aglance from it will bring you misfortune. It willlame your horse, cow, or camel, and it may causeyour child to sicken or die. It can ruin yourhealth or your business, and it may even send your soulto eternal damnation. Those who possess the evil eyeare devils incarnate, but you cannot tell who they are.They go about in the sh

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