CHAPTER XI.
The Brave Volunteers.
'Jerusalem, my happy home, Name ever dear to me.' So we sing, and it is the echo of the song that went up from the heart of many a Jew in olden time.
We all love our native land, our dear old England, yet none of us love it as the Jews loved Jerusalem.

We have only to open the Book of Psalms to see how dear the city of their fathers was to the heart of the Jews.
'Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King,' Psalm xlviii.

1, 2.
'Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together.