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CITY OF PROPHETS AND APOSTLES. 341
Oh, here with his fldck the sad Wanderer came
These hills he toiled over in grief are the same ;
The founts where he drank by the wayside still flow
And the same airs are blowing which breathed on his brow."
"WHY DID KOT CONTEMPORARY GREEKS AND ROMANS
REFER TO JESUS ?
This inquiry has little force. Why did not contemporary
Hindoo historians choose to notice the presence of Alexander
the Great in India ? Why do prominent European
writers deny the existence of the Grecian Pythagoras
alleging, among other reasons, that the name is traceable to
the Sanscrit Pitha-gura^ the schoolmaster? Why did not
Homer, the contemporaiy of Solomon, make mention of
him or of the Hebrews ? Why do the writings of Thales,
Solon, Democritus, Plato, Herodotus, Xenophon, and others,
contain no references whatever to the Jews? Do such
omissions prove the non-existence of patriarchs and prophets
? It should be remembered that those were not the eras
of a world-wide toleration and appreciation, nor of special
telegrams and morning newspapers.
Saviors are fated to non-recognition by their fellows.
Prophets have never had where to lay their heads. The
proud and the erudite do not notice them. Thorns leave crimson
kisses upon their pale foreheads. Jesus " the Galilean "
was of this number. Neither rabbi nor Roman helped him
to " bear the cross." But Greek, and Roman writers of
the second century make direct mention of him and the
" superstitious vagaries " of the Christians. Historians of
the coming century may deign to make records of the
present exponents of the Spiritual philosophy.
SOLOMON'S POOLS.
These, by the winding road we went, are ten miles from
Jerusalem. The place is called El Burak. The dilapidated
old castle here standing was built upon Masonic principles.