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Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
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BOOKS BY HENRY VAN DYKE PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS THE RULING PASSION. Illustrated in color. $1.50 THE BLUE FLOWER. Illustrated in color. $1.50 OUTDOORS IN THE HOLY LAND. Illustrated in
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[Illustration: The Gate of David, Jerusalem.]
OUT OF DOORS IN THE HOLY LAND Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by HENRY VAN DYKE Illustrated New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
MDCCCCVIII Copyright, 1908, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Published November, 1908 To HOWARD CROSBY BUTLER MASTER OF MERWICK PROFESSOR OF ART AND ARCHÆOLOGY WHO WAS A FRIEND TO THIS JOURNEY THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
For a long time, in the hopefulness and confidence of youth, I dreamed
of going to Palestine. But that dream was denied, for want of money and
leisure. Then, for a long time, in the hardening strain of early manhood, I was
afraid to go to Palestine, lest the journey should prove a
disenchantment, and some of my religious beliefs be rudely shaken,
perhaps destroyed. But that fear was removed by a little voyage to the
gates of death, where it was made clear to me that no belief is worth
keeping unless it can bear the touch of reality. In that year of pain and sorrow, through a full surrender to the Divine
Will, the hopefulness and confidence of youth came back to me. Since
then it has been possible once more to wake in the morning with the
feeling that the day might bring something new and wonderful and
welcome, and to travel into the future with a whole and happy heart. This is what I call growing younger; though the years increase, yet the
burden of them is lessened, and the fear that life will some day lead
into an empty prison house has been cast out by the incoming of the
Perfect Love. So it came to pass that when a friend offered me, at last, the
opportunity of going to Palestine if I would give him my impressions of
travel for his magazine, I was glad to go. Partly because there was a
piece of work, a drama whose scene lies in Damascus and among the
mountains of Samaria, that I wanted to finish there; partly because of
the expectancy that on such a journey any of the days might indeed bring
something new and wonderful and welcome; but most of all because I
greatly desired to live for a little while in the country of Jesus,
hoping to learn more of the meaning of His life in the land where it was
spent, and lost, and forever saved. Here, then, you have the history of this little book, reader: and if it
pleases you to look further into its pages, you can see for yourself how
far my dreams and hopes were realised. It is the record of a long journey in the spirit and a short voyage in
the body. If you find here impressions that are lighter, mingled with
those that are deeper, that is because life itself is really woven of
such contrasted threads. Even on a pilgrimage small adventures happen.
Of the elders of Israel on Sinai it is written, "They saw God and did
eat and drink"; and the Apostle Paul was not too much engrossed with his
mission to send for the cloak and books and parchments that he left
behind at Troas... Continue reading book >>
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