9781150512544

The Footsteps of St Paul, by the Author of 'the Morning and Night Watches'

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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. 1862. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. fjanl m Imt-alera. "Jerusalem Jerusalem Enthroned once on high, Thou favour'd home of God on earth--Thou heaven helow the sky # Till to the Saviour of mankind Thou humbly bow the knee, Jerusalem Jerusalem Our tears shall flow for thee." "And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God."--Aow xx. 22-24. T was now the lovely month of May The hills and valleys of old Palestine were clothed in their summer beauty. The husbandman saw the labours of early spring rewarded with fields of plenty. It was the time of year when good King David's pastoral song must have been on many lips--" Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness; and Thy paths drop fatness... The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing." Thousands upon thousands from all parts of Judea, and Israelites from distant lands, were assembling at the feast of Pentecost, to offer to Jehovah thanksgiving for tne bounties of harvest. Already, when the Apostle -alm lxv. 11, 13. arrived in Jerusalem, multitudes of stranger-Jews were crowding the streets; and the slopes of Mount Olivet, and the valley of the Kedron, as far as the eye could reach, were dotted over with the well-known goats'hair tents. Many a young Hebrew youth, doubtless, had come up, for the first time, from his distant home, to see the city of the Great King--his heart b...


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9781150512544

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1150512547

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0.68 Pounds

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9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In

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204 pages

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2009-12-01



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