. In brightest Asia. n spared from accident or illness, which would at least have interfered with theserenity of mind, so desirable to one who is called upon to take in so much as I have beenexpected to. I have been highly favored also, in being able to see so many of the very personsI most wished to meet on these fields. Yesterday at 2 we set sail in this superb ship, with some hundreds of pleasant passengers,including the Bishop of Lahore, Sir Charles Crossthwaite, late chief commissioner of Burma, acouple of lords and barons, Armstrong of Maulmein, MissTschirch of Bassein, Miss
. In brightest Asia. n spared from accident or illness, which would at least have interfered with theserenity of mind, so desirable to one who is called upon to take in so much as I have beenexpected to. I have been highly favored also, in being able to see so many of the very personsI most wished to meet on these fields. Yesterday at 2 we set sail in this superb ship, with some hundreds of pleasant passengers,including the Bishop of Lahore, Sir Charles Crossthwaite, late chief commissioner of Burma, acouple of lords and barons, Armstrong of Maulmein, MissTschirch of Bassein, Miss Bunn ofProme, Mrs. Cochrane of Toungoo,and we two Baptist bishops com-posed the missionary party. Asusual, we have perfection of weather,smooth seas, and we glide ontowards Aden, our first landing-place, as serenely as possible. February we found a strange, deso-late, Mohammedan sort of a rocks, which tower, rugged andbare, on every hand, are Gibraltar-like in grandeur, and fortified by SUEZ i68 In BriQ-Jitest Asia. the English to the highest pitch. We went ashore, and drove from the landing about five milesaway to the city, where we saw, amid the fastnesses of the rocks, ancient pools, said to havebeen prepared by Solomon. The whole district was alive with camels, Arabs having ostrichplumes to sell, and gamins crying backsheesh! I^ed 5ea ai;>d /T\t. Sipai. Yesterday was the Sabbath, spent on the Red Sea. In the afternoon I preached on the Event of the Crossing. (Heb. xi. 29.) It was an elevating experience, dwelling, as I did,upon the crises of life which the ancient physical miracle symbolized. There were no dull lis-teners. How could there be, in such a place, with Mt. Sinai itself almost in sight, — really soin the early morning following? /llexaQdria. Khedive Steamship Mahalla, Alexandria Harbor, February 26. We are just off for Jaffa, reversing the order, I hope, of a certain prophet of old who vainlytrusted to reach Tarshish. We came from
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