CHAPTER X.
THE THUNDER OF SILENT FIDELITY: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF LITTLE THINGS.
Schliemann, uncovering marbles upon which Phidias and his followers carved out immortality for themselves, has not wrought more effectually for the increase of knowledge than have those excavators in Egypt who have uncovered the Rosetta stone, with other manuscripts of brick and marble.

Of all these instructive tablets and tombs, none are more interesting than one picturing forth a national festival in the Jewish capital.

Upon his canvas of stone the unknown artist portrays for us Herod's temple with its outer courts and columns and its massive walls.
We see the public square crowded with merchants and traders, who have come in from the great cities of the world to this festival of the fathers.

With solemn pageantry, these Jews, who were the bankers and merchants of that far-off age, march through the streets toward the gate that is called Beautiful.

In the vast parade are men notable by their princely wealth in Ephesus and Antioch, in Alexandria and Rome.
We see one advancing with his retinue of servants, another with the train which corresponds to his wealth.