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. 1881 Excerpt: ... XVIII. NAZARETH. ASOUL-THRILLING name is on our lips; in two hours we are to be in Nazareth! Often, on the plain, had my eyes been lifted to the hills on the north, embosomed in which lay hid the place where our Lord passed nine-tenths of his life on earth. Now we have left Tabor and Esdraelon behind us, and are ...
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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. 1881 Excerpt: ... XVIII. NAZARETH. ASOUL-THRILLING name is on our lips; in two hours we are to be in Nazareth! Often, on the plain, had my eyes been lifted to the hills on the north, embosomed in which lay hid the place where our Lord passed nine-tenths of his life on earth. Now we have left Tabor and Esdraelon behind us, and are ascending those Galilean mountains. At length we reach a point in the rim of enclosing hills from which we look down into a pretty vale, a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth, lying eight hundred feet above the sea-level. Near us the vale is studded with olive trees, a little farther with fruit-orchards, whilst on the rising ground beyond a town, with its lower houses in the valley, climbs the hillside, which rises behind the town to a height of four hundred feet. Its houses are fresh and white, and lie in a crescent full before us as we approach it from the east. A minaret tells of the Moslem, but Christian churches are there too. The place seems made for quiet homes, from which the busy world is shut out by the surrounding hills--for hearts that would rather look up to heaven than out upon the surging stream of this world's pursuits and conflicts. It is Nazareth. Jesus, the Christ, dwelt in this highland valley, un 25 T 289 known of men, for thirty of the thirty-three years which he spent on earth. Often during these years from infancy to manhood did he look off to these hills that sweep as an undulating rim about the vale. Often did he ascend to the mountain-top to meditate and pray. In a modest house in the town which stood where this En-Nasirah now stands he had his home. In it he dwelt as a child, "subject to his parents," as a youth and as a man. Here he wrought patiently, unassumingly, unrecognized by men, though know...
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Presbyterian Board, 1881. 2nd, Very good., Hardcover, Small octavo, 528. NOT a reprint. Original green cloth with gilt scene on front, gilt title on spine. 528 pages. Second edition. 184 maps and illustrations, including folding map at front. Short tear in margin of folding map. Light rub to extremities. Packed and shipped with care.
