Book Description

Excerpt from Palestine and the Bible Its life to-day is the life of Bible times. Visit that land, and if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you will be able to throw yourself back in imagination to the times of Abraham, David, or our Lord. Moreover, there is another important consideration. The natives of the land to-day are chiefly Arabs, descendants of Ismael and Esau. They know nothing of the Scriptures. They do not choose their mode of life, their habits, their dress. They simply live this primitive life because their parents and grandparents for a hundred generations have lived the same life. They are therefore unconsciously living the life of Scripture, and are a daily witness to its truth. Undesigned witnesses are always the most valuable ones. This little book is, therefore, no record of a visit to Palestine. We have far too many such books already. Many of them form very pleasant but rather useless reading. They describe ad nauseam the same little episode of the landing at Jaffa, the first attempt to mount the Arab steed, the obstinate donkey, &c., &c. We then have the very beautiful but very stale sentimental talk about Bethlehem and Nazareth, Tabor and Olivet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.