. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . seek and save that which waslost. By the warmth of a camp-fire I sit down to write this, and looking up seethe Ouarantania, the mountain of Christs temptation. I am at the foot of that very high mountain where Christ was led by the Spirit to be on the sides of it nor on the top is there a spear of grass or a is a desert mountain. Its robber dens are here visible. Amid these inden-tations and on the cold bleak heights, and alone, save when angels came to ministerunto him, Christ stayed in that awful strug
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . seek and save that which waslost. By the warmth of a camp-fire I sit down to write this, and looking up seethe Ouarantania, the mountain of Christs temptation. I am at the foot of that very high mountain where Christ was led by the Spirit to be on the sides of it nor on the top is there a spear of grass or a is a desert mountain. Its robber dens are here visible. Amid these inden-tations and on the cold bleak heights, and alone, save when angels came to ministerunto him, Christ stayed in that awful struggle against pandemoniac cohorts whichrode up to trouble and baffle and destroy, if they could, the Son of God. Adepression on either side of the mountain seems to divide it from the otherranges so that the mountain is itself alone. And now the sun is setting, making the mountains look like balustradesand embattlements of amber and gold, and the moon just above the crests seemsto be a window of heaven through which immortals might be looking down uponthe GARDEN OF1 , IO i46 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK BAPTIZING AN AMERICAN IN THE JORDAN Yesterday, on horseback, we left Jericho, and having dipped in the DeadSea, we came with a feeling that we cannot describe upon the Jordan, a riverwhich more people have desired to see than any other. On our way we overtookan American, who requested me to baptize him by immersion in the river dismounted at the place where Joshua and his host crossed the river were near a turn in the river and not far off from where rocks and sandsare piled up in shape of cathedrals, domes and battlements. We pitched our tent,and after proper examination of the candidate for baptism, I selected portions ofthe Scripture appropriate. One of our Arab attendants had a garment not unlike
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