. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . bout in the air, and sup-pose that when they are reading Jews, they must understandGentiles; and when they read Jerusalem, they must under-stand the church; and if it said earth, it means sky; and forthe coming of the Lord they must understand the progress ofthe missionary societies; and going up to the mountain ofthe Lords house, signifies a grand class-meeting of Methodists. During the twenty-four years from 1821 to 1845, Wolfftraveled extensively: in Africa, visiting Egypt and Abys-sinia; in Asia, traversin
. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . bout in the air, and sup-pose that when they are reading Jews, they must understandGentiles; and when they read Jerusalem, they must under-stand the church; and if it said earth, it means sky; and forthe coming of the Lord they must understand the progress ofthe missionary societies; and going up to the mountain ofthe Lords house, signifies a grand class-meeting of Methodists. During the twenty-four years from 1821 to 1845, Wolfftraveled extensively: in Africa, visiting Egypt and Abys-sinia; in Asia, traversing Palestine, Syria, Persia, Bokhara,and India. He also visited the United States, on the jour-ney thither preaching on the island of St. Helena. Hearrived in New York in August, 1837; and after speaking inthat city, he preached in Philadelphia and Baltimore, andfinally proceeded to Washington. Here, he says, on amotion brought forward by the ex-President, John QuincyAdams, in one of the houses of Congress, the House unani-mously granted me the use of the Congress Hall for a lect-. JOSEPH WOLFF AMONG THE ARABS. .1 GREA T RELIGIOUS AWAKENING. 361 tire, which I delivered on a Saturday, honored with the pres-ence of all the members of Congrejs, and also of the bishopof Virginia, and the clergy and citizens of same honor was granted to me by the members of theGovernment of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in whose pres-ence I delivered lectures on my researches in Asia, and alsoon the personal reign of Jesus Christ. Dr. Wolff traveled in the most barbarous countries, with-out the protection of any European authority, enduringmany hardships, and surrounded with countless perils. Hewas bastinadoed and starved, sold as a slave, and three timescondemned to death. He was beset by robbers, and some-times nearly perished from thirst. Once he was strippedof all that he possessed, and left to travel hundreds ofmiles on foot through the mountains, the snow beating inhis face, and h
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