The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 45

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Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 45: January, 1910Port Said, which is at the head of the great Suez Canal. From this point, one day's sailing brings us to ancient Joppa, now called Jaffa, where dwelt Simon, the Tanner (acts and Tabitha, or Dorcas (acts 9: A small railroad runs about fifty miles from Jaffa to Jerusalem, where one can ride five miles in a carriage or on a donkey to Bethlehem, and visit the spot where our blessed Savior was born.Next to Jerusalem, no city in the world is so much revered by all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as Bethlehem, because it is the city that gave the world its Savior. The word Bethlehem means, when translated. House of bread. We find it first mentioned in Genesis 35 19, where we are told of the death of Rachel and of her burial on the way to Bethlehem. Bethlehem is famous in early Bible history as the home of Boaz and Ruth (ruth 1: 1 the native place of Samuel's father, and the birthplace of David. That it would be the birth place oi Jesus was told seven hundred years before by the prophet Micah (micah 5' 7)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.