Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the RevWilliam Morley Punshon . But none of these has the interest of a visit toPompeii, the city of the dead. The excursion is by Sketches of Travel. ;6i. train. You pay an admission fee of two francs, andare furnished with a guide, who conducts you over the city. What astrange feelingcomes over youon entering thestreets of a citywhich was in thefull tide of itspride and glorywhen the blessedSaviour was onthe earth, whichpassed out of ex-istence when thebeloved disciple,John, was stilll
Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the RevWilliam Morley Punshon . But none of these has the interest of a visit toPompeii, the city of the dead. The excursion is by Sketches of Travel. ;6i. train. You pay an admission fee of two francs, andare furnished with a guide, who conducts you over the city. What astrange feelingcomes over youon entering thestreets of a citywhich was in thefull tide of itspride and glorywhen the blessedSaviour was onthe earth, whichpassed out of ex-istence when thebeloved disciple,John, was stillliving in Ephe-sus, and which,after eighteencenturies, hasbeen disen-tombed. We en-tered by the sea-gate, for Pompeiiwas built uponthe shore of thesea, which hasSteps at Capri. now retired to a ?62 Toward the Sunrise : or^ a distance of at least two miles. How impressive towander up and down through temples, baths, theatres,to tread its narrow, roughly-paved roads, on which wesee the very ruts worn by the wheels of wagons thatrolled along 1,800 years before ; to feel the corpse-likestillness of the empty homes ; to see the floors inlaidwith beautiful mosaics and read the warning OaveGanem, or the welcome Salve!; the walls adorned withfrescoes of exquisit
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