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" But neitjier here . could he tanry a mctfnent . , " Fj } eucejfqj $ h he locked steadfastly ' on th « e teniple , bojfch whcp they < tescented to the , valley ^ a ^ d w ) tien tlie y / crossed tlie torrent , and when they ent $ re $ $ & Sheep-gatej which stood open to receive them . Thep $ he multitu ^ e wiaa suddenly ** ushed , through awe of the holy courts , but not the lesa fiercely did tliey gnash tfaeir teeth on the man whom they believed to liav « e profaned the lioly place . —On the flight of steps which led ' from tite VAiJey to the temple courts , was a Nazarene who had been a slave , but vy ^ s npw ^
freedman . By PaUiellaad lie been instructed in the faith , ^ nd esta , bUshe $ an ^ ong the brethren . HU &r&t-hom was in his trucks * and he held him ifortli $ l > at Paltiel might bless t ^ e child . JRaltiel beat Ws fap e over the face of the child , an 4 blessed him aloud Jn the name of the Lord Jesus . VVhen he loolced up , there were tears pp > his face . *< ^ Weepes ^ tliou , my friend ? ' said Sadoc . * Thou shalt shed tears no more after this hour . Tears are for us who live . '
" " * 1 ? ill Jehovah shall wipe them away , must not tears fall even in heaven over the sorrows of our people }* said Paltiel . * I mourn for this child , and for others who will gather together at Bethany at sunrise , and will fin ^ rne not . Strengthen them , Sadoc , for the tribulation to come . ' " * Even as thou hast strengthened me , my friend Paltiel . But how appeareth death unto thee ? Speak , that I may jnedita ^ e hereafter on thy words . '
*' Even as when we have spoken together in the night seasons ; even as vvjien we saw the Lord Jesus in the cloua and desired earnestly to depart also . Men of old had faith ; but we have knowledge , and there is no place for fear » If thou wilt know more , ask of Lazarus . ' " The people , who were enraged when joy kindled in his eye , fell upon him , and drag-ged him to the summit of Moriah , where was a precipice of five hundred feet to the valley below . From the windows pf Ithe prjests * apartments some looked forth ; but they shrank back when they met the glance of Paltiel .
" When the girdle which bound him was unloosed , he leaped upon the battlement , and east one look down the precipice . He turned to the people , and spread bis arms over them as the High Priest when he gives the blessing , and , in an instant , lay asleep on the turf of the valley . * ' In the stillness of noon a voice mingled with the murmurs of Kedron , sighing forth , " * Alas ! for the brethren ! Alas ! for the widow and the fatherless ! Alas ! for me ; for thou art dead , my brother Paltiel L ' " When the evening star had risen , the funeral chaunt of the Nazarenes
was heard among the tombs of Bethany . "—Pp . 131—134 . Of this disciple , as of his great Master , it might be said , that " while he blessed them he was parted from them . " The skill with which the common places of martyrdom are avoided , and yet all its spirit preserved ,
renepts great credit on the writer . Our other extract , from "Alas ! that mighty City ! " will include the departure of the phristians from Jerusalem * in obedience to their Lord ' s prophetip injunction : ; an event which , notwitHsfcandihg its peculiar interest , we do not remember to have seen made th § subject of descriptive effort ; anfl the fall of the hqly city , one qf \ he trUesibf themes . Miss Martineau is alike successful in . exploring a new pa | ty and in pursuing her career along jth , e beaten road .
** ffc was the day of preparation for the Passover ; and there w $ s gladness in all th& Holy City . Music sounded from afar , as companies who came up to the fe ^ st entered at sun-rise by the several gates . A clqud of duet ivus raised to war Afs Hebron , as the feet of pilgrims tro < l the ro < i <( to JerqsalejNAs tlie mists drew off from the valley of Ajalon , it was seen that the tent *
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526 Traditions of Palestine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/22/
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