The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places . I brought away a smooth stone, which I still retain as amemorial of the battle-field, and of one of the happiest days ofmy life. Then turning from the Valley of Elah, and fromborder land, I struck up the rugged path that leads over the 220 THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES. mountains to Hebron; and thus ended my ride through theland of the Philistines. That ride, with another along adifferent route made at a later period, gave me a clearer under-standing of some of the most interesting episodes in Scripturehistory, than I could ever have obtained
The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places . I brought away a smooth stone, which I still retain as amemorial of the battle-field, and of one of the happiest days ofmy life. Then turning from the Valley of Elah, and fromborder land, I struck up the rugged path that leads over the 220 THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES. mountains to Hebron; and thus ended my ride through theland of the Philistines. That ride, with another along adifferent route made at a later period, gave me a clearer under-standing of some of the most interesting episodes in Scripturehistory, than I could ever have obtained otherwise. The earlyintercourse of the patriarchs with the Philistine lords, the cam-paign of Joshua, the restoration of the ark, the romantic storyof Samson, and the brilliant victory of David, became, whenread on the scenes of action, glowing life pictures. Nowhereelse in all my wanderings through Bible lands did the harmonybetween the Land and the Book appear more striking, moreperfect, than in the plain of Philistia. GALILEE AND THE I. Sjjanrn mttr CarnuL The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: theyshall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.—Is A. xxxv. 2. HARON and Carmel are enshrined in sacred addition to the holy associations that cluster^round 2them as scenes of Bible history, they bring up beforethe minds eye plains spangled with the rose of Sharon,meadows powdered with the lily of the valley, uplandswaving with forests, and mountains crowned with the excel-lency of Carmel. Nor are ones glowing expectations muchdisappointed when he traverses Sharon, or climbs the heights ofCarmel in early spring. The plain stretches out before him asfar as the eye can follow it, in gentle undulations of luxuriantpasture, varied here and there by a clump of old forest trees, ora thicket of canes and shrubs -round a fountain, or a grey tellstrewn with the ruins of some primeval city. And the mountainc
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