. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . S. The Koran commends sprang into existence differentorders of Mohammedan monks, knownas dervishes. They are supposed tolive in poverty, and to practise self-denial. One of their peculiar religiousceremonies is dancing, and in such amanner as to produce an ecstatic frenzy,which they regard as a very high orderof devotion. Some of the old dervishes do veryremarkable things. In their ecstatic de-votions they eat scorpions, handle cobras,and pierce thei
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . S. The Koran commends sprang into existence differentorders of Mohammedan monks, knownas dervishes. They are supposed tolive in poverty, and to practise self-denial. One of their peculiar religiousceremonies is dancing, and in such amanner as to produce an ecstatic frenzy,which they regard as a very high orderof devotion. Some of the old dervishes do veryremarkable things. In their ecstatic de-votions they eat scorpions, handle cobras,and pierce their cheeks with long punish the flesh in many ways,and without seeming injury. In Cairo the dervishes are particu-larly numerous. The convents of thebrotherhood in Egypt are many, andrichly endowed. Ri^ One may often hear their night K^chants at Cairo, as they go to visit thetomb of some saint of their order. Their devotions do not produce spir-itual faces or spiritual beauty of any kind. They are for the most partill-favored and repulsive. The fruits of their devotions are the oppo-site of those of Christian 190 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. One of their most remarkable ceremonies in Cairo is the riding ofa cliief dervish on a horse over a road paved with Hving bodies. Mi >. V) ?•\r ^\
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