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. 1915 Excerpt: ...but there was a constant coming and going until late in the night. Everyone was anxious to hear the latest news from Akka and also of the work in the West. My companion, who spoke the language of the country, was kept quite busy talking. Not speaking Persian, my conversation was limited to the few who spoke English and ...
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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. 1915 Excerpt: ...but there was a constant coming and going until late in the night. Everyone was anxious to hear the latest news from Akka and also of the work in the West. My companion, who spoke the language of the country, was kept quite busy talking. Not speaking Persian, my conversation was limited to the few who spoke English and French. However, this was not without its advantages, for not being occupied in talking, I had an opportunity for observing many things which otherwise might have escaped me. After dinner, which was served between ten and eleven o'clock at night, we mounted to a balcony overlooking the neighboring houses and gardens, where coffee was served. Here we sat talking of the cause until a late hour. The stillness of the nights in the Orient is impressive. Here we were in the heart of a large city, yet save for the occasional cry of a night watchman, or a singer chanting, or the tinkling of the bells of a caravan passing in the distance, there was nothing to break the silence. This, with the brilliancy of the firmament and the refreshing breezes of the night in contrast with the parching heat of the day, makes the night the time when the Oriental people really live. Under such climatic conditions it is not surprising that the Oriental has turned his attention from things material to things immaterial, from the practical to the poetic, and from the outer world of nature to the inner world of the spirit. Things spiritual have always had their first fruition and growth in the Orient and from there they have found their way to the West, where they have become the moving factor in our lives and the basis of our civilization. It was in Persia that the wise men of old read from the heavens of the approaching birth of Jesus, The Christ, before they went west...
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