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New Paths through Old Palestine

Chapter 3: I GO UP TO JERUSALEM
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A traveler's series of pilgrimage sketches recounts journeys across Palestine, blending sensory descriptions of landscape, ruins, and local customs with observations of modern changes such as railroads, motor vehicles, and aeroplanes. Each chapter visits a holy site—Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Bethany, the Mount of Olives, the Garden, and crossings into Egypt and the Dead Sea region—pairing biblical memory with wartime scars and everyday rural life. The narrative contrasts ancient traditions and sacred geography with technological progress and reflects on possibilities for the land's social and spiritual future.

I GO UP TO JERUSALEM

Our feet are standing
Within thy gates, O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, that art builded
As a city that is compact together.—
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Peace be within thy walls,
And prosperity within thy palaces.
Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem;
Praise thy God, O Zion,
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates;
He hath blessed thy children within thee.
He maketh peace in thy borders.
Psalms 122, 147.