"'As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth even for ever,'" said Mr. Stanley to Evelyn and to me, as he rode between us.
"If we could only remember that," said Evelyn, "how happy it would make us!"
"Yes," said Mr. Stanley, "it would indeed; but is it not a comfort to know that He is round us, whether we remember it or not? The mountains do not remove, even though the clouds hide them from our sight."
"I shall never forget this ride," said Evelyn, after a pause.
"I am sure I shall never forget it!" said Mr. Stanley.
"But I thought—" said Evelyn.
"What did you think, Miss Trafford?"
"I thought that it would not seem quite the same to you as it does to us. I thought you would have become so accustomed to it that you would not enjoy it so much."
"Oh, I never feel 'that' about the Mount of Olives," said Mr. Stanley; "other places in Jerusalem, I grant, have somewhat lost their sacredness in my eyes, but the Mount of Olives always seems holy ground. I think we can never forget that this was the last place our Lord's feet touched before He left us, and that it will be the very first place they will touch when He comes again; for 'His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east.'
"And then," he added, after a pause, "I have enjoyed it specially to-day."