from the city in the festivities of the day. And inevitably, on an occasion such as this, many of the folk must have gone over to the temple precincts to see what progress had been made in the restoration work. After all the ballyhoo about getting going again, the physical evidence of progress must have been slender. Only a month had passed since the work was initiated, and that single month had been disrupted, from the point of view of work, not only by the Festival of Tabernacles but also by the