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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: THE HOLY LAND. Of all the countries in the world which would you rather see ? Would it not be the land where Jesus lived ? He was the Son of God: He loved us and died for us. What is the land called where He lived ? Canaan was once its name: hut now Palestine, or the Holy Land. Who lives there now ? Alas ! alas ! The Jews who once lived there are cast out of it. There are some Jews there; but the Turks are the lords over the land. You know the Turks believe in Mahomet. What place in the Holy Land do you wish most to visit ? Some children will reply, Bethlehem, because Jesus was horn there; another will answer, Nazareth, because Jesus was brought up there; and another will say, " Jerusalem," because He died there." I will take you first to Bethlehem. chapter{Section 4BETHLEHEM. A good minister visited this place, accompanied by a train of servants, and camels, and asses. It is not easy to travel in Palestine, for wheels are never seen there, because the paths are too steep, and rough, and narrow for carriages. Bethlehem is on a steep hill, and a white road of chalk leads up to the gate. The traveller found the streets narrow, dark, and dirty. He lodged in a convent, kept by Spanish monks. He was shown into a large room with carpets and cushions on the floor. There he was to sleep. He was led up to the roof of the house to see the prospect. He looked, and beheld the fields below where the shepherds once watched their flocks by night: and far off he saw the rocky mountains where David once hid himself from Saul. But the monks soon showed him a more curious sight. They took him into their church, and then down some narrow stone steps into a round room beneath. " Here," said they, " Jesus was born." The floor was of white marble, and silver lam...