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Title: A Californian circling the globe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fuller, Henry. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Nazarene publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of apostles,kings, popes and saints. We walked into the largest andcostliest church on earth, costing over $200,000,000. Let megive you the size inside, 835 feet long, 330 feet wide, and 447feet high. There are no stained windows, yet the gilt andgold with precious stones and alabaster columns, togetherwith its vast size, awaken a feeling of wonder. The costlyaltars with their lights burning and worshipers before themcontinually during the day is an impressive sight. Down alittle short stairway, where lights are perpetually kept burn-ing, is Peters tomb, in the center of the church. Many ofthe faithful go down this stairway, an attendant opens thedoor and they look in and cross themselves. There amongthe two dozen or more lights there is at the foot of the stair-way two alabaster columns supporting two lights, and I no-ticed that the attendant struck a match for each party andhad them look through the alabaster towards the match.Transparent alabaster is very rare and expensive. An at-
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REBUILDING RUINS, KARNAK, EGYPT. FROM ROME TO SMYRNA. 103 tendant took us into some chapels and the cardinals roomand pulled away some curtains on the walls, showing us someof the grandest paintings in the world by Raphael. Biblescenes looking as real as life. Marble floors, mosaic pave-ments and great carved statues on pedestals or in niches inthe walls, illustrating the history of the Catholic church,greeted us everywhere. We gave this attendant one francand told him, who understood our language a little, wewanted to climb to the top of the dome. He called anotherattendant, who took us to the stairway and said a few wordsto its keeper, who showed us that permission to ascend thedome must be obtained. We turned to go out but he wavedus back with his hand and we climbed to the top of the domefrom the inside, then by a door to the outside. A littlemoney opens doors without formal permission. Below us, onand about its seven hills, so signally mentioned in prophecy,lay the modern city of

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