V FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA 30 VI JERUSALEM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 36 VII AROUND THE WALLS OF THE HOLY CITY 43 VIII “THE TRIBES OF GOD GO THITHER” 48 IX ON THE SITE OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE 57 X JEWS OF PALESTINE 68 XI THE EVIL EYE 78 XII EASTER IN JERUSALEM 84 XIII WASHING THE FEET OF THE APOSTLES 95 XIV A TALK WITH THE GREEK PATRIARCH 101 XV AMONG THE MONEY CHANGERS 111 XVI EXCAVATING OLD JERICHO 119 XVII THE DEAD SEA AND THE JORDAN 129 XVIII BETHLEHEM 138 XIX AMONG THE SAMARITANS 149 XX FARMING IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY 159 XXI THE COLONIES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT 169 XXII WHERE OUR SAVIOUR SPENT HIS BOYHOOD 177 XXIII ON THE SEA OF GALILEE 187 XXIV THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT 196 XXV THE WORLD’S OLDEST CITY 204 XXVI SHOPPING IN THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT 214 XXVII THE VEILED WOMEN OF DAMASCUS 223 XXVIII BAALBEK THE WONDERFUL 232 XXIX ACROSS THE LEBANON MOUNTAINS BY RAIL 242 XXX AMERICAN LEAVEN IN THE NEAR EAST 252 XXXI AT THE SHRINE OF DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS 262 XXXII ARMENIA, THE SUFFERING 271 XXXIII PALESTINE AND SYRIA UNDER NEW RULERS 280 SEEING THE WORLD 287 BIBLIOGRAPHY 289 INDEX 293 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Christians rule the Land of Christ _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Primitive water wheel in the Land of Goshen 8 Through rocky wastes to the top of Mt. Sinai 9 Egyptians toiling where the Israelites made bricks 16 We go ashore in small boats at Jaffa 17 House of Simon the Tanner 17 The men of Palestine are very strong 20 Cactus hedges are used instead of fences 21 The crude plough of Palestine 28 The children of the Holy Land 28 A sheeted Balaam and his ass 29 Fuel is scarce in the land of no woods 32 The Pool of Hezekiah 33 Airplane view of Jerusalem 36