Excerpt from The Palestine Sermons of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D: Delivered During His Tour of the Holy Land; For His Millions of Readers at Home and Abroad, Including Graphic Descriptions of Sacred Places; Vivid Delineations of Gospel Truths; Interesting Local Reminiscences; And Varied Miscellany On leaving America I addressed some words of fares well to my sermonic readers, and now, on my way home, 'i will write this letter of salution which will probably reach you about the Monday that will find me on the Atlantic ocean, from which I cannot reach you with the usual sermon. I have completed the journey of inspection for which I came. Others may write a life of Christ without seeing the Holy Land. I did not feel competent for such a work until I had seen with my own eyes the Sacred places, and so I left home and church and native country for amore arduous undertaking. I have Visited all the scenery connected with our Lord's history. The whole-journey has been to me a surprlse, an amazement, a grand rapture or a deep solemity. I have already sent to America my Holy. Land observations for my Life Of Christ, and they were written on horseback, on muleback, on camelback, on ship's deck, by dim candle in tent, in mud hovel of Arab village, amid the ruins of Old cities, on Mount of Be'ati tudes, on beach of Genesareth, but it will take twenty years of sermons to tell what I have seen and felt on this Journey through Palestine and Syria. 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.