ISBN: 1235857980

[EAN: 9781235857980], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], CHARLES WILLIAM MEREDITH VELDE,ESSAYS AND TRAVELOGUES, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 140 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7… Altro …

[EAN: 9781235857980], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], CHARLES WILLIAM MEREDITH VELDE,ESSAYS AND TRAVELOGUES, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 140 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: . . . JOURNEY THROUGH SYRIA AND PALESTINE IN 1851 AND 1852. VIA MARSEILLES TO BEIRUT. Paris, October 5, 1851. My Dear Friend, --There are moments in life which find us placed in circumstances of so great and so varied an import that we feel as it were awed and overwhelmed by them--a state of mind best expressed by silence. Such are my present feelings, on my way to the Holy Land-- a stranger from a far country going to see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid on it. One who would attempt to measure this inheritance of the Lord, looking, while so doing, to the prophecy, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more f--one who believes the promise, that the old wastes shall be built, and the former desolations raised up, and the waste cities, the desolations of many generations, shall be repaired; and whose firm trust it is that the land which as yet lies desolate in his sight, as he passes Dent. xxix. 22. t Amos vii. 8. t Isaiah lxi. 4. VOL. I. A 2 PRELIMINARY REMARKS. through it, shall become as the garden of Eden--when the thought arises that I soon shall tread that ground hallowed by the footsteps of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, such places as Bethlehem, Nazareth, the shores of Galilee, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem--oh, then, the privilege appears so great, so wondrous, I scarce can believe it mine. On the other hand, I must own that feelings very opposite to these also join in increasing the anxious expectation, now filling both heart and mind. I had heard and read much, it is true, about the dangers and difficulties attendant on a journey to Palestine, but, like all other things, you must view them closely if you would rightly estimate them. Unt. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781235857980

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