Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on horses, asses, or camels, butthe great majority on foot; j^oung and old, men and women, rich andpoor, in all the parti-colored brightness of Oriental costume; for attwelve on the sacred day the gates are shut for an hour, and all thefaithful think it right to hurry at that time to the Temple area, to praybefore the Mosque of Omar, the holiest spot in the Mahommedanworld, except the Kaabah at Mecca. Just so it must have been inancient times, at nine each morning, and at three each afternoon, thehour of morning and evening prayer among the ancient Jews, wlienmen went up into the temple, to pray.^ And just as, in our time, aMahommedan stops and prays wherever the fixed moment for doing somay find him, his face towards Mecca, so the Jew, if unable to get tothe Tem)ile Hill before the horns of the Levites, now superseded bythe cry of the muezzin, summoned him to devotion, turned his facetowards the Holy of Holies, wherever he might be, and repeated the J Matt. xiii. 43. 2 Luke xviii. 10
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X^VT.) JERUSALEM AND BETHANY. 867 prescribed prayers, still heard in the synagogues, for, even then, formsof prayer were universally used by the Chosen People. The shuttingof the city gate has its origin in a belief among the Moslem that theChristians would, at some time, take the Holy City during the greathour of i^rayer, if this precaution were neglected. Except the JoppaGate, all the entrances to Jerusalem are, further, closed each night atsunset: a custom as old, at least, as the days of Joshua, for Raliabtells the King of Jerico that the two Jewish spies went out of the cityabout the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark.^ To realize the daily life of ancient Jerusalem, it is necessary to havebefore us not only the character of the streets, narrow, rough, andsometimes sunk in the middle at once for a gutter and a track for ani-mals; the flat-roofed houses, with their balloon swellings to cover thestone arches of the rooms; the strange, dark-arched bazaars, like longnarro

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