The second thing that I would have you find here is the deepened sense that Jesus Himself is the great, the imperishable miracle. His words are spirit and life. His character is the revelation of the Perfect Love. This was the something new and wonderful and welcome that came to me in Palestine: a simpler, clearer, surer view of the human life of God. HENRY VAN DYKE. Avalon, June 10, 1908. CONTENTS I. _Travellers' Joy_ 1 II. _Going up to Jerusalem_ 23 III. _The Gates of Zion_ 45 IV. _Mizpah and the Mount of Olives_ 67 V. _An Excursion to Bethlehem and Hebron_ 83 VI. _The Temple and the Sepulchre_ 105 VII. _Jericho and Jordan_ 125 VIII. _A Journey to Jerash_ 151 IX. _The Mountains of Samaria_ 191 X. _Galilee and the Lake_ 217 XI. _The Springs of Jordan_ 259 XII. _The Road to Damascus_ 291 ILLUSTRATIONS _The Gate of David, Jerusalem_ Frontispiece _Jaffa_ Facing page 14 _The port where King Solomon landed his cedar beams from Lebanon for the building of the Temple_ _The Tall Tower of the Forty Martyrs at Ramleh_ 28 _A Street in Jerusalem_ 60 _A Street in Bethlehem_ 86 _The Market-place, Bethlehem_ 90 _Great Monastery of St. George_ 136 _Ruins of Jerash, Looking West_ 184 _Propyloeum and Temple terrace_ _The Virgin's Fountain, Nazareth_ 232 _The Approach to Baniyas_ 276 _Bridge Over the River Litani_ 282 _A Small Bazaar in Damascus_ 316 I TRAVELLERS' JOY I INVITATION Who would not go to Palestine? To look upon that little stage where the drama of humanity has centred in such unforgetable scenes; to trace the rugged paths and ancient highways along which so many heroic and pathetic figures have travelled; above all, to see with the eyes as well as with the heart "Those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, nineteen hundred years ago, were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross"-- for the sake of these things who would not travel far and endure many hardships?