We spoke in last chapter of _Hope's_ picture-gallery. _Memory_ has one, stranger still--filled with landscapes of imperishable interest! Who has not such a gallery in his own soul? Let Memory withdraw her folding-doors--and what do we see? The old homes of cherished infancy may be the first to crowd the walls and arrest the eye;--scenes of life's bright morning, the sun tipping with his rising beam the dim mountain-heights of the future! In the foreground, there is the murmuring brook by which we wandered, and the umbrageous tree under which we sat;--countenances glowing with smiles are haunting every walk and greeting us at every turn--the ringing laugh of childhood at some--venerable forms bending at others. But more hallowed remembrances crowd the canvas. Ebenezers and Bethel-stones appear conspicuous in the distance--mute and silent memorials, amid the gray mists of the past, which read a lesson of encouragement and comfort in a desponding and sorrowful present. David thus trod the corridors of memory. When the future was dark and louring, he surveys picture by picture, scene by scene, along the chequered gallery of his eventful life! With Jordan at his feet, the Hermon range in the distance, and some _Mizar_--some "_little hill_" (as the word means)--rising conspicuous in view, he dwells on various signal instances of God's goodness and mercy in connexion with these localities--"I will remember Thee" (as it may be rendered) "_regarding the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar_."[59] [59] "It is said by those who have visited those parts, that one remarkable effect produced is the changed aspect of the hills of Judah and Ephraim. Their monotonous character is lost; and the range, when seen as a whole, is in the highest degree diversified and impressive. And the wide openings in the western hills, as they ascend from the Jordan valley, give such extensive glimpses into the heart of the country, that not merely the general range, but particular localities can be discovered with ease.... From the castle of Rubad, north of the Jabbok, are distinctly visible Lebanon, the Sea of Galilee, Esdraelon in its full extent, Carmel, the Mediterranean, and the whole range of Judah and Ephraim. 'It is the finest view,' to use the words of another traveller, 'that I ever saw in any part of the world.'"--_Stanley's Sinai and Palestine_, p. 318.