Identifier: withchildrenonsu00stal (find matches)
Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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m every quarter of the landcame up to Jerusalem, as was the custom at the three annual feasts,some provision had to be made for their entertainment. At the Feast of the Passover all the Jews living in Jerusalemhad to throw open their homes, and entertain under the cover oftheir own roofs, all who came to them. They could not decline toreceive the thousands of worshipers who came up to the Feast, butwere required to afford them a place of shelter in their homes.Therefore it was that before the Feast of the Passover Jesus senttwo of His disciples, and told them to go into the city, and theywould find a man bearing a pitcher of water; they should followhim and ask him to direct them to a room in his house, where Jesusmight eat the Passover with His disciples. (Matt, xxvi: 17; Markxiv: 13.) At the Feast of Tabernacles, which occurred in the fall of theyear, after the harvest and the fruit of the vines and the trees hadall been gathered in, it was very different. At this Feast, when the234
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-CMB<IF3. Building Booths at Feast of Tabernacles. 235 236 PINE BRANCH. Israelites came up to Jerusalem, not only those who came from adistance, but even those who lived regularly in the city, wererequired to tent or live in booths made by simply placing some polesin the ground, with other poles reaching across the top, so as to forma roof or covering. This roof was not shingled, but was formedby laying branches of trees upon the sticks which had been laidacross from one pole to the other. (Neh. viii: 14, 15.) You now see why to-day I have chosen this branch of a tree toshow you in connection with this sermon. I have chosen this toimpress upon your mind the character of the arbors used at the Feastof Tabernacles; the tops or roofs of which were formed or made ofolive, and willow and pine, myrtle and palm branches. Thesebooths or arbors were to remind the Children of Israel of the journeyof their forefathers through the desert, when for forty long yearsthey did not live within the w

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