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. 1838 Excerpt: ...such a spectacle before me, what the effect must be when a storm of wind, such as often arises in the desert, has put such sand-heaps in motion. I could credit the stories which are related of entire caravans (some say armies) having been overwhelmed and destroyed by the drifting sands of the desert. I can think of no ...
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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. 1838 Excerpt: ...such a spectacle before me, what the effect must be when a storm of wind, such as often arises in the desert, has put such sand-heaps in motion. I could credit the stories which are related of entire caravans (some say armies) having been overwhelmed and destroyed by the drifting sands of the desert. I can think of no expression which describes my feelings at the moment so exactly as the graphic delineation in Deuteronomy 32, 10: it was verily "a waste howling wilderness." TERRORS Or THE DESERT. The Hebrews, on their departure from Egypt, wandered for forty years in the region between that country and Palestine. Their experience during that time left an impression on the national mind respecting the terrors of the wilderness, which was never effaced. Their vicinity to the same uncultivated, desolate tracts, after their settlement in the promised land, kept up their familiarity with the characteristics of the desert. It was to them the land over which brooded every frightful evil; where men pined with hunger and thirst; where the sun smote them by day, and the cold pained them by night; where reptiles, whose sting was death, nestled among the rocks and in holes of the earth; where sand-storms bewildered and overwhelmed the traveler; where winds swept from the south, scattering pestilence and destruction in their way. It is not surprising that the Hebrew imagination had recourse often to this ample store-house for terrific imagery. How forcible, for instance, is Jeremiah's appeal to his countrymen when he would reprove them for forgetting God's great deliverance in their behalf! "Where is Jehovah, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt--He who led us through the wilderness, Through the land of the desert and pit-falls, Through the laud of d...
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