The Villages of the Bible: Descriptive, Traditional, and Memorable; Sabbath Evening Lectures in Brighton (Classic Reprint)

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These Lectures are familiar conversations with my old congregation at Brighton on the Sabbath even ings of the winter of 1872. They are an attempt to realize, -so far as the brief time permitted to a Sabbath evening service, and the superficial character of public speech would permit the realization, - of some of the village scenes of the Holy Land. One of the most luminous works on Sacred Geography is the production of a stay'at-home traveller; I may there fore plead a good example for my temerity in at tempting to familiarize the minds of my hearers with scenes I have never witnessed, and it is most probable now, never shall witness, - I scarcely desire to do so I The nineteenth century dispels the illusions of the past and perhaps I have a better idea of the country of Abraham and Jacob, of David and our Saviour, in the mere exercise of the imagination on the scenes described by the old travellers; than if I loitered along highways, whose romantic solitudes have now vanished before the spirit of the age, and its perpetually-renewed exodus of excursionists.

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