Nor is life promised through any other means except through
a resurrection from the dead. How many precious ones are
sleeping on the hill-sides and in the valleys of Judea ! Soon
they will come forth at the call of Him who hath said, " I will
come again."

Bethany probably retains its primitive character as well as
any other town in that country. Looking at it, au}^ one would
imagine that no changes had been wrought in it for two thou-
sand years. Its houses are stone hovels of a not xdYj inviting
appearance to those accustomed to modern dwellings. Its
streets are mere lanes. The place of Lazarus's burial is pointed
out as a deep and almost inaccessible hole in the ground or
rock, but like many of the definite localities now pointed out,
it gives no satisftiction to any but the most credulous. Send-
ing our horses by the road, we took the shorter path to the
city, which passes over the top of the mount. Here, too, we
could realize that w^e were closely following the literal foot-
steps of Jesus. Though many changes have taken place in
superficial appearances, still the main outline of the country
remains the same.
The elongated height east of Jerusalem is divided by a
slight depression into Mount Scopas to the north and the
Mount of Olives to the south. The latter is also divided, for
the southern extremity is sometimes called the Mount of




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Absalom's Pillar.
