The Holy Land and SyriaCarpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
Religion
The Holy Land and Syria
Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
Palestine -- Description and travel; Syria -- Description and travel
Gilead, compared with Bible times, 32.
Gomorrah and Sodom, sites of, 137.
Good Samaritan Inn, the, 125.
Gordon, General, site of Calvary located by, 46;
believed Place of the Skull the scene of the Crucifixion, 154.
Goshen, in Joseph’s time and now, 4;
a land of gardens, 6.
Graveyard marriages, superstition regarding, 82.
Great Mosque, the, at Damascus, 207.
Greek Church, a great factor in the religious life of the Holy Land,
53;
strength of, 101, 109.
Hadassah Medical Organization, work of, in Palestine, 202.
Hamlin, Rev. Cyrus, organizer of Robert College, Constantinople, 254.
Hardegg, American hotel keeper at Jaffa, 19.
Hebrew art, revival of, 201.
Herzl, Dr. Theodore, founder of Zionist movement, 198.
Hezekiah, Pool of, 35, 36.
Holy Family, route of, into Egypt, 10.
Holy fire, “miracle” of the, 98.
Holy Land, returned to Christian and Jew, 1.
Holy Sepulchre, Church of the, 48, 88.
Holy Week, in Jerusalem, 48, 55, 84.
Huleh, Lake, 131.
Irrigation, in Mesopotamia, British plans for, 248;
in the Land of Goshen, 6.
Jacob’s Daughters, Bridge of, 131.
Jacob’s Well, 152.
Jaffa, the city of Jonah, 14;
one of the world’s worst harbours, 16;
lumber for Solomon’s Temple landed at, 17, 66, 241.
Jaffa-Jerusalem railroad, the, 26.
Jaffa to Jerusalem, the journey from, 32.
Jehoshaphat, Valley of, 44.
Jeremiah, Lamentations of, where written, 46;
chanting of, 76.
Jericho, excavations at, 119;
arriving at, 123.
Jerusalem, growth of the city, 37;
materials used in house construction in, 38;
the mecca of millions, 40;
the building of the walls, 45;
pilgrimage city of the world, 48;
Jews barred from, 68;
mean temperature of, 130;
increase in population under the British, 282.
Jesus’s Spring, in Nazareth, 180.
Jewellery, manufacture of, in Damascus, 221.
Jewels bestowed by pilgrims to Jerusalem, 50.
Jewish Colonies, development of, 169.
Jews, coming into their own, 68;
classes of, in Palestine, 69;
dress and customs of, 71;
superstitions of, 78.
Jonah, story of, 16.
Jonah’s city, Jaffa, 14.
Jordan River, long and crooked, 30;
the blessing of the water, 55;
baptisms in, 56;
travels along the, 129;
source of, 130.
Jordan Valley, the, 129;
mean temperature of, 130.
Judas’s betrayal of Christ, spot of, 128.
Judea, via the railway, 23.
Juneau, tuberculosis hospital at, 260.
Kaiserin Augusta, hospice on Mount of Olives in honour of, 249.
Kedron, gardens of, 44.
Kedron, Valley of, 154.
Kersting, Father, excavations in Nazareth, 180.
Lake Huleh, 131.
Lamentations of Jeremiah, where written, 46;
chanting of the, 76.
Lazarus, tomb of, 123.
Law of Moses, Samaritan parchment of the, 150.
Lebanon, cedars of, 240.
Lebanon Mountains, scantily forested, 240.
Livestock in the Land of Goshen, 6.
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