The Site of the Temple
The Site of the Temple We have here the best general view of the temple plateau that it has ever been our privilege to see and study. It was not taken by the artist of this expedition, but furnished to one of our editors by the American consul in Jerusalem. It was taken from a housetop in the neighborhood. and we get nothing except a comprehensive view of the temple site with the mountains round about Jerusalem. We see in the picture the mosque of Omar, and beyond us to the southwest, with its smaller dome, the mosque El-Aksa. We see little prayer niches and recesses, walls, stairways, trees casting their dark shadows, the smaller domes and the distant hills. We are able to form a very satisfactory idea of the area on which stood the temple of Solomon a thousand years before Christ , and on which stood the temple of Herod, into which our Savior entered at the time of the royal reception which they gave Him . What memories crowd upon us as we look at these sacred precinct...
