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Rh ; it is just the distance of a 'sabbath-day's journey' from Jerusalem." So now we were for the first time approaching the scene of the Saviour's converse with the disciples when about to leave our world, and in a few minutes we should be treading the very road which had been pressed by His footsteps. I felt that the place was to me holy ground.

We recollect Cowper's lines:—

Full of such thoughts we pressed onwards along the rugged road towards the sacred city, and entered its gates just before sunset.