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Title: Through Bible lands : notes of travel in Egypt, the desert, and Palestine
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Publisher: New York : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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-verted German Jew) and his disputed Moab antiquities,and the instructive models of Jerusalem, the Tabernacle,and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, made by ConradSchick, who kindly explained them to me. I became ac-quainted with Bishop Gobat and family. Rev. Messrs.Heffter, Friedlander, Klein and Reinke, Dr. Chaplin,Mr. Frutiger, and other Pre cant residents who are en-gaged in Christian work, and enabled me to learn morein a few days than I could otherwise in as many weeks.I stayed in the Mediterranean Hotel near the Jaffa gate,kept by a converted Jew (Moses Hornstein), and fromthe top of it I looked every morning over the dome-shaped roofs of the houses to Mount Olivet and into thePool of Hezekiah. I met around the table every day theGerman consul (Baron von Munchhausen), the lateAmerican consul (Dr. De Hass), and an interesting va-riety of strangers from England, Scotland, America, Ger-many, and Holland, Catholics, Presbyterians, Episcopa-lians, Methodists, Baptists, and Lutherans.
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JAFFA. JERUSALEM. 239 From the multiplicity of objects which engaged myattention during this sojourn, I can only select a few forspecial description. The number of works on Jerusalem,ancient and modern, is so large that almost any new de-scription is a work of supererogation. Let us first turnour attention to the present state of religion in the cityas far as it came under my observation. 240 BIBLE LANDS. CHAPTER XXIV. RELIGION IN yER US ALE M. The Easter Festivities—The Wooden Christ—SevenSermons in Seven Languages—Feet-washing—The Greek Fire—The Greek Church-The LatinChureli—Oriental Sects—The Protestant Church-es and Institutions The Anglo-Prussian Bish-opric—Bishop Gobat—The Jewish Missionary So-ciety—The German Colony—Chrischona and Kai-serswerth—Talitha Kumi—The Jews. EASTER FESTIVITIES. I WITNESSED in the Church of the Holy Sepulchrethe solemnities of the Latin and Greek Easter festivals,which in 1877 were divided by one week, the formerfalling on Apri

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