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Show The Holy Land 239 I believe in no any part in any crusade against these people other part of the world is there as good a feeling in the hearts .... of mankind towards the Jewish people as among the Latter-day Saints.:" He added: "There would be no ill-will in the heart of any true Latter-day Saint toward the Jewish people."lo Third, whatever the politics, whatever the theology, whatev er others had said and written, Madelyn left the Holy Land with a feeling of reverence for the land and for the children of God who had lived there-for Old Testament Prophets, for Jesus and His disciples, for Paul and his missionary work. In one of her talks about the trip, Madelyn repeated a prayer from Psalms (122:6-7): Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. The last sentence in this part of her trip-diary, written as she left the Jerusalem wall, was, "All peace must come beyond walls, beyond barriers, beyond our individual selves." Madelyn also wrote in her trip-diary that she had gained an understand ing of the symbolism of wells, water, stones, homes, and stables in the Bible. Some persons have remarked that the experience of seeing where Jesus walked, taught, and interacted with his disciples emphasized his humanity-weakened the sense of his divinity. To Madelyn, however, where he first eternal spoke words, performed mira des, were interesting, but this immersion in his personal life and environment did not take away from Madelyn her reverential where he chastized the unrighteous, where he wonder-what she knew and believed about the Christ-her discipleship. Strangely, we have found no poems that Madelyn wrote while she was in the Holy Land. There are poems that others wrote that she in from the talks she quoted gave about her experiences there-poems about sacred events, sacred places, and sacred thoughts. Were there others that she wrote in her true |
