The great pyramid passages and chambers

418 Dr. Schick made large models of these Temples. Brother Cotton, Morton, Jack and I visited Mrs. Schoenecke yesterday, and spent about a couple of hours examining the models. After Mrs. Schoenecke had explained the structure of the tabernacle, I questioned her as to what it signified, but she did not know. I therefore described briefly the explanation of it given by C. T. Russell in Tabernacle Shadows, and she said that it was very reasonable. We procured several excellent photographs of the models (Plates C & CI), which are constructed of wood, and consist of many pieces, made toa scale of 1: 200. When assembled they form two quadrangles, each measuring about nine feet long, five and a half feet wide, and (without the stand) twenty inches high. The photographs of Solomon’s and Herod’s Temples (Plates C & CI) were taken with the camera erected at the south-east corner, looking toward the north-west.

419 At present Grace and Brother Cotton are on a visit with Mr. Jamal to the American Colony to the north of the City—Plate LXXXV. As 4th July was a Sunday, the Americans are celebrating Independence Day to-day. They call themselves the ** Overcomers,”’ I understand, and believe in the near return of the Lord.

420 I asked Mr. Jamal if any of the Jews would attend the lecture, but he said they would not dare todoso. If their Rabbis knew of their going to a Christian meeting, they would ostracise them at once, and this would mean the loss of all means of suvport, for they are dependent on the bounty of individuals or societies in Europe and America.

421 Wednesday, 7th July. Yesterday morning, Stanley was somewhat better, and as Brother Cotton was driving to the railway terminus Stanley and I accompanied him. I spent the afternoon writing letters, and in the evening, Grace and I had a walk round the outside of the west and south walls of Jerusalem, that is to say, round Mount Zion. It is now known that the ancient city wall extended further south than the present one. At one place, on the south side of Mount Zion, we saw a portion of the old wall which has been laid bare by excavation—Plate LKXXV. In a line with this, also outside the present city wall, at the south-west angle, where the valley of Hinnom makes its sharp bend, a Church Missionary Society School, founded in 1853, includes in its walls portions of old buildings, steps, etc. The tomb of David is at this part, not far from the school.

422 George Adam Smith and many others believe that the traditional Mount Zion, which is higher than Mount Moriah on which the Temple stood, is not the Scriptural one, but that the true Mount Zion is directly south of the Temple Area on a lower level than Mount Moriah, and situated between the Tyropceon Valley on the west, and the Valley of Jehoshaphat on the east. Dr. Schick and others have stated their belief that Solomon’s palace was erected here. In 2 Sam. 24:18, we read of going up to the Temple from the City of David,—a term frequently used in the Scriptures as synonymous with Zion—2 Sam. 5:7; 1 Kings 8:1. This seems to be the chief argument in favour of the view.

423 On our return, Grace and I thought we might walk through a part of the city. Accordingly, we entered by Zion Gate, but instead of turning to the left in order to pass through the clean Armenian quarter, which consists mostly of synagogues and cloisters, we turned by mistake to the right, and walked into the Jews’ quarter with its narrow,

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