. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . Alpinian andSierra Nevadian in grandeur. The hills are amphitheatres, piled-up galleries ofgray rock, with intervals of soil brown and maroon, until the eye and head andheart surrender, and the lips, that for a long time were exclamatory, becomespeechless. Before sundown we will see Jerusalem. I never had such expectationsof seeing any place as of seeing the Holy City. I found myself singing Jeru-salem, my happy home, while dressing myself this morning. I think my feel-ings may be slightlv akin to that of the Christian just about
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . Alpinian andSierra Nevadian in grandeur. The hills are amphitheatres, piled-up galleries ofgray rock, with intervals of soil brown and maroon, until the eye and head andheart surrender, and the lips, that for a long time were exclamatory, becomespeechless. Before sundown we will see Jerusalem. I never had such expectationsof seeing any place as of seeing the Holy City. I found myself singing Jeru-salem, my happy home, while dressing myself this morning. I think my feel-ings may be slightlv akin to that of the Christian just about to enter theBeavenly Jerusalem. My ideas regarding the earthly Jerusalem arc bewil-dering. Have I not seen pictures of it? Oh, yes, but they have only increasedthe bewilderment. They were taken from a variety of standpoints. If twentyartists attempt to picture Brooklyn or New York, they will plant their camerasat different places and take as many different pictures. I must see the city withmy own eyes. I must walk around about it, and tell the towers
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