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ST. JOHN OH JERUSALEM.

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More than one hundred thousand Christians, saysMichaud . 1 Now then (may be well asked), couldJerusalem, in Godfrey’s time, with a handful havewithstood the immense forces of Islam? Most cer-tain is, what has from the commencement beenasserted, that without Gerard’s knights the Latinkingdom could not have stood a week. His orderwas then a natural and absolutely necessary conse-quence of the first crusade.

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1 Michaud: Hist. ii. 290.