MAHOMETANS.

And now a word for the followers of the prophet. We can learn at least one lesson from the Mahometan, he is not ashamed of his religious faith; he is not ashamed to be seen reading his Bible or saying his prayers, even during business hours in his bureau—like alas! too many good Christians are. Mahomet is better obeyed by a Mahometan, even the most ragged one, than Christ is by many a highly respectable Christian. We may mention here that Christ is venerated by the Mahometans, who believe as we do that He will judge the world at the last day. This judgment according to them is to take place outside Jerusalem. A thin rope will be stretched from the minaret of the Temple Mosque on Mount Moriah to the Mount of Olives opposite. All will have to cross on this tight rope. The righteous will accomplish the journey in safety; but the wicked will fall off into the Valley of Hinnom below. Mahomet, originally a heathen idolater, made up his religion from the Christian and Jewish sacred books, grafting it upon the old heathen customs, in the same way as did many of the Roman church missionaries in the dark ages, when they mixed up Christianity with Paganism, and allowed their converts to retain their idol images, only re-christening Jupiter St. Peter, Juno and Luna Diana, Lady Mary, &c., throwing in the Saints as minor deities.

We now conclude the account of our “Ride through Syria.” We have shown, we think, that it is not a very difficult matter now-a-days to make a pilgrimage to the once distant Holy Land and be back again to work in a few weeks within the compass, in fact, of an ordinary vacation. Taken as a temporary change of scene only, it is a glorious one, but looked at in a more serious light, it is a tour never to be forgotten, and affords food for reflection for the whole of an after lifetime. The Bible henceforth becomes a more and more interesting book as we learn better to understand it. We can follow the footsteps of Christ with rather more than the eye of faith after we have trod the very paths He trod, sailed on the lake waters over which He walked, and climbed up the mountain from which He ascended into Heaven. We journeyed alone with a dragoman without tents, putting up at the peasants’ huts and monasteries, and so saw the inner life of the country, but anyone wanting to travel luxuriously in the Holy Land had better take tents and avoid all trouble or risk by confiding himself to the fatherly care of tourist agents like Cook and Gaze, whose arrangements appear to be as perfect as possible. We hope in a future volume to give an account of our travels in Asia Minor to the sites of “The Seven Churches of Asia.”

Finis.

Index.

Abana, or Barada, [27], [32], [37], [41]
Abel’s Tomb and Abila, [38]
Abner and Asahel, [55]
Abraham, [41], [45]
Acis and Galatea, [54]
Anti-Lebanon, [36], [42]
Arabi, [20]
Arabian Nights, [20]
Baal, [15], [24]
Baalbec, [42], [45]
Baalath, [46]
Baal-Gad, [20], [42]
Banias (Baalath), [16], [46]
Barak, [7], [13]
Bedaween, [5], [55]
Bethsaida and the Lake Cities, [11]
Beyrût (Berytus), [52]
Bludàn, [41]
Bukâa, or Cœlesyria, [42], [45], [49]
Cæsarea Philippi (Banias), [16]
Cana of Galilee, [8]
Cain, [38]
Calfolatry, [15], [21]
Capernaum, [10]
Carmel, [7], [9], [25], [38]
Cyprus, [52]
Damascus, [28] to [35], [44]
Dan, [15]
Druses, [15], [19], [21], [23], [39]
Eden, Garden of, [41]
Elijah, [7], [38]
Esdraelon, Plain of, [7]
Eve, [41]
Fellaheen, [57]
General Gordon, [52]
Hasbêya, (Baa-lgad), [19]
Hermon, [23]
Hibberiyeh, [18]
Hiram of Tyre, [46]
Hunin (Beth-rehob), [14]
Jaffa, or Joppa, [5]
Jordan, [14], [15], [16], [21]
Kenites and Kedes, [7], [13]
Land Tenure, [58]
Mahometans, [59]
Maronites, [38]
Merom, Waters of (Lake Huleh), [12], [13], [21]
Naaman the Syrian, [33]
Naples, [4]
Napoleon, [8], [9]
Noah, [36], [50]
Overland Route, [42], [50]
Palmyra, [46]
Pharpar and Abana, [27], [28], [32]
Phœnicians, [18]
Rasheya, [22]
Saracens and Saladin, [6], [7], [8], [32], [49]
Safed, the City on a Hill, [10], [12]
Seth, [42]
Sharon, Plain of, [6]
Shenir and Sirion (Hermon), [24]
Sisera, [7], [12]
Solomon, [46]
St. Paul, [18], [33], [53]
Street called Straight, [32], [44]
Syracuse, [53]
Taormina, [54]
The Transfiguration, [26]
Tiberias, [9], [10], [26]
Trilithon Temple (Baalbec), [47]
Wine Press, [41]
Zahleh, [57]
Zebedâni, [38], [39]

A CATALOGUE

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Some ⸫ Old ⸫ Books ⸫ Published

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OLD POST HOUSE, MIDDLE TEMPLE GATE.

THE DEVOUT CHRISTIAN’S COMPANION, BY Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Kenn, &c. 1709

THEOPHRASTUS, from the Greek—M de la Bruyère 1709

A GENERAL COLLECTION OF TREATYS, DECLARATIONS OF WAR, and other PUBLIC PAPERS 1710

MEMORIAL OF THE ENGLISH AFFAIRS, &c., BY Sir B. Whitlock.

SHAKESPEAR’S PLAYS, Vol. 7; Venus and Adonis; Tarquin and Lucrece, and Miscellaneous Poems.

THE WORKS OF EARLS ROCHESTER AND ROSCOMMON, Edited by M. St. Egrement.

THE MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL HOUSE of SAVOY.

PHILIPPIC ORATIONS, to incite the English against the French 1710

SENSUS COMMUNIS—An Essay.

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS—Translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange 1709

A GENERAL HISTORY OF ALL VOYAGES, from the French of M. de Perrier, Academician.

Transcriber’s Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.