ith thine hand, as it is this day.

"Now therefore, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David
my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, 'There shall not
fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only
thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast
walked before me.' Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I
pray thee, be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David
my father. But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold,
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less
this house that I have builded!

"Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer
which thy servant prayeth before thee this day: that thine eyes may be
open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof
thou hast said, 'My name shall be there': to hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant shall pray toward this place. And hearken thou to
the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they
shall pray toward this place: yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

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[Illustration]
JERUSALEM, FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES

From an old photograph in the possession of the Springfield Public
Library and used by kind permission.

The view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives in the days of the
city's glory, was one of splendor. Of this view in the time of
Christ a writer says, referring especially to the temple, "In the
setting even more than the rising sun, must the vast proportions,
the symmetry, and the sparkling sheen of this mass of snowy marble
and gold have stood out gloriously."
[End illustration]

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"If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to
cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this
house: then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and
justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

"When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they
have sinned against thee; if they turn again to thee, and confess thy
name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house: then
hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and
bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto