Identifier: oldworldpalestin00free (find matches)
Title: The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Freese, Jacob R., 1826-1885
Subjects: Personal Narratives Physicians
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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in which the monks take shelter, in stormy weather,while in the garden. At each of our visits the old monkin attendance kindly gathers for Lily a beautiful bouquetof flowers, and on our last visit he presents her with somebulbous roots from the garden for transplanting inAmerican soil. Should we succeed in having flowers inour home garden from roots taken from the sacred soilof Gethsemane, it will be one of the most interestingsouvenirs of our visit to Palestine. Outside the wall, about ten paces from the doorway,the places are designated where Jesus, John, and Judasstood at the moment of betrayal. This, of course, ismerely conjectural, though the faith of some is shown inthe fact that when they approach the place they kneel andkiss the central stone, which is supposed to mark the ex-act spot where the Saviour stood when he said, Judas,betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss ? That these walls enclose a portion of the ground whichwas known in the days of our Saviour as the Garden of
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In and About Jerusalem. 69 Gethsemane, and that these olive trees have grown upfrom the roots of the very ones under which he prayed,and where his sweat was as it were great drops of bloodfalling down to the ground, we have no doubt. Mr.Wild, a scientific observer, thinks there is nothing un-reasonable in imputing an existence of nineteen centuriesto these trees. Tradition and history have always beenuniform in fixing this as the identical place ; and thoughthe Greeks have an enclosure on the other side of theroad which they claim (in opposition to the Latins) asthe garden, none but themselves give the least credenceto the claim. This garden of Gethsemane occupies the very spotones eyes would turn to, looking up from the page ofScripture. It was very near one of the most throngedand busy parts of Jerusalem, and yet it lies so low in theValley of Jehoshaphat that not a sound from the busyhum of life could have reached its profound depth. Onthe west, the city walls and the high battleme

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