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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Genesis, xxii:3.)-- 'And Abraham rose up early
in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the
burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.' This Rock in the Temple in now inclosed by
the Mosque of Omar. It is claimed that upon this rock Abraham prepared to slay his son at God's command, and here in later
days David built his altar upon the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, where the angel of the pestilence stayed his
hand. Here stood the first temple in which Jehovah dwelt. It was at this place that God said, 'Here will I dwell, for I have
desired it.' And in the sacrificial victims which for hundreds of years were offered on this spot, there was remembrance made
of the promise of a nobler sacrifice which could alone procure the remission of sins." "Franklin Co Eng-Chi" is printed at
the bottom of the photograph
Interior of the Mosque of Omar, showing the Foundation Stone
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