The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . the costumes and topographicalscenes of these wonderful lands, a perpetuity andimmutability commensurate and coincident with theawful and everlasting things they are designed to com-memorate. Even the destroying Arab, as if spell-bound, dares not obliterate them. Nature has stampedher signet of security on these memorable climes;change rolls not the cycle of her mutations over them ;they are sealed memorials spared by all. The wells of Elim, protected from the moving sandsof the des
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . the costumes and topographicalscenes of these wonderful lands, a perpetuity andimmutability commensurate and coincident with theawful and everlasting things they are designed to com-memorate. Even the destroying Arab, as if spell-bound, dares not obliterate them. Nature has stampedher signet of security on these memorable climes;change rolls not the cycle of her mutations over them ;they are sealed memorials spared by all. The wells of Elim, protected from the moving sandsof the desert, and overshadowed by the corinthianfoliage of numerous palms, redolent of beauty andluxuriant in loveliness, yet remain. The waters ofMarah are as bitter now as they were before themiracle of healing. Even a trace of the manna fallsin the desert, and remains in perpetuity to attest thetruth of the sacred narrative; memorial to us, in adistant age, as was the omer of old, which wasdeposited in the golden pot. Flocks of quails stillalight in the desert, we know not whence they come,nor whither they go. 50. The Quail in tJie milderness of Sinai. The dew still falls on Hermon, as it did in the daysof the Royal minstrel. Kishon, that ancient river/supplied by the waters condensed by the cliffs ofCarmel, rolls onward^ as when the stars, in theircourses, fought against Sisera. The cloud, at first no bigger than a mans hand is still seen at intervalsemerging from the distant horizon, as when decried bythe prophet from that promontory, and it announcedthe coming rain. The excellency of Carinel, how-ever, is blighted, for it is said the top of Carmelshall wither. Abana and Pharpar still water andfertilize the plain of Damascus, as in the days of theproud and haughty Syrian; and the Jordan still rollsits stream through the plains of Esdraelon. Thebrook still wanders through the valley of Elah, wherethe hosts of the Philistines, as grasshoppers formultitude, were once encamped, and dra
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