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Article: General Gordon's Tomb.(Letter to the editor)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- June 1, 2009
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I was extremely disappointed to see the March front cover caption describing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the place "where Jesus' body was placed before his resurrection" and to realize that the author missed what, to me, are the most precious places in the entire world: Golgotha, the place of the skull where Jesus was crucified, and the nearby Garden Tomb, the Protestant site, discovered in 1883 by the British officer Gen. Charles Gordon. Many believers consider this the biblically accurate place where Jesus was buried and rose again.
RUTH A. RUSSELL SCARBOROUGH, ONT., AND BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
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