Keystone View Company
1900 (or earlier)
10842-From Olivet East Over the Wilderness, Jordan Valley and Dead Sea to Moab, Palestine.
[Palestine, PL32]

Stereocard
UCR - University of California, Riverside
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold M. Gilbert, Accession Number: 1982.0045.0002.0032
 
10842. We are looking eastward from the balcony on the Russian Church on the summit of the Mount of Olives. This desolate land before us is the Wilderness of Judea, inhabited only by a few wandering Arabs, and as desolate in the days of the Bible as it is now. You see that one road, shut in by walls on either side running eastward and then turning, that is the main road to Bethany, over which Jesus and his disciples walked often, for Bethany, you remember, was his home when visiting the capital (Mark XI:2; John XII:1-3). Do you see that path winding eastward over the hills? Who knows but that over that path walked the aged Naomi and the young widow Ruth, on their way from Moab in the distance yonder to Bethlehem (Ruth I:16-19). / At either end of that rugged mountain rising above the hills is a sheet of water. From our tower, it appears to be not more than three miles distant' but it is the Dead Sea, twenty miles away. That sea brings to our mind the fate of Sodom and Gomorroh (Genesis XIX:23-28). West of this desolate country there is a strip of fertile land, where the principal towns of Judea were built. One may wonder that so powerful a tribe as Judah was contented with so poor a heritage. But those very surroundings were one influence in shaping Judah's history. It was protected from invasion by its isolation and difficulty of attaching its territory, hence its people maintained a character of their own, dwelling apart from the other tirbes; and Judah lived on in its mountain fastnesses long after Israel had passed away. / (Cutting from “Traveling in the Holy Land,” published by Underwood and Underwood.) / From Olivet east over Wilderness to Moab, Pal. / Des Oliviers ? l'est au del? du désert de Moab, Pal. / Von Olivet "stlich durch die Wildniss nach Moab, Palestina. / Desde el Oriente de Olivet hacia Moab, por sobre el desierto, Palestina. / Fran Olivet "sterut "fver Moab-vildmarken, Palestina.
 
Copyright: Underwood & Underwood
 
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