Garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Olives

Underwood & Underwood · (c) 1903

We are standing by the eastern wall of the hill-top city and looking east across the valley to another hill - one of the hills most famous on all on this great round earth - the Mount of Olives. That road at the left is the highway to Jericho... the two roads farther to the right both go to Bethany, where Lazarus and his sisters lived... The summit of the hill is believed to have been the place of His Ascension (Luke xxiv. 50-51) Beyond the Mount of Olives, far away at the east, lie the lands of the Assyrian and Persian kings (the home of the Wise Men) and the vast region of central Asia... But look down now, straight ahead, to that walled space, planted with olives and tall cypress tree, the Garden of Gethsemane. In that last spot the Master went to pray, after the Last Supper. There He was seized by the Roman soldiers. (See Hurlbut's Traveling in the Holy Land, through the Stereoscope, also Forbush's Travel Lessons on the Life of Jesus and Travel Lessons on the Old Testament, published by Underwood & Underwood.) - From Notes of Travel, No. 31, Copyright 1905, by Underwood & Underwood.