Far Off, Or, Asia Described - Softcover

Mortimer, Favell Lee

9780217211475: Far Off, Or, Asia Described

Softcover

ISBN 10: 021721147X ISBN 13: 9780217211475

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2009

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mount just before He was caught up into heaven. His feet shall stand there again, and every eye shall see the Saviour in His glory. But will every eye be glad to see Him? Oh no; there will be bitter tears then flowing from many eyes! Mount of Olives. And what kind of a city is Jerusalem ? It is a sad and silent city. The houses are dark and dirty, the streets are narrow, and the pavement rough. There are a great many very old Jews there. Jews come from all countries when they are old to Jerusalem, that they may die and be buried there. Their reason is that they think that all Jews who are buried in their burial-ground at Jerusalemwill be raised first at the last day, and will be happy for ever. Most of the old Jews are very poor: though money is sent to them every year from the Jews in Europe. There are also a great many sick Jews in Jerusalem, because of their bad unhealthy habits, and because of the horrible smells near their houses. They are beginning to improve, and are now building some new houses outside the town. Good English Christians have sent a doctor to Jerusalem to cure the poor sick people. One little girl of eleven years old came among the rest—all in rags and with bare feet: she was an orphan, and she lived with a Jewish washerwoman. The doctor went to see the child in her home. Where was it ? It was near the mosque, and the way to it was down a narrow, dark passage, leading to a small close yard. The old woman lived in one room with her grandchildren and the orphan: there was a divan at each end—that is, the floor was raised for people to sleep on. The orphan was not allowed to sleep on the divans, but she had a heap of rags for her bed in another part. The child's eyes glistened with delight at the sight of her kind friend the doctor. He asked her ...

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