. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . will bring liim to his knees,and then, settling back up-on his heels, he will mumble over various small petitions,with sundry grunts and exclamations, according to t;istc andhabit. He has now gone through one regular Rekah; and,standing up as at the first, and on exactly the same spot, hewill perform a second, and even a third, if specially devout,with precisely the same genuflections. They seem to be wholly absorbed in their devotions,and manifest a power of isolat
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . will bring liim to his knees,and then, settling back up-on his heels, he will mumble over various small petitions,with sundry grunts and exclamations, according to t;istc andhabit. He has now gone through one regular Rekah; and,standing up as at the first, and on exactly the same spot, hewill perform a second, and even a third, if specially devout,with precisely the same genuflections. They seem to be wholly absorbed in their devotions,and manifest a power of isolation and abstraction quite sur-prising. That is the result of habit and education; small chil-dren imitate it to perfection. There is certainly an air ofgreat solemnity in their mode of worship, and, when per-formed by a large assembly in the mosques, or by a detach-ment of soldiers in concert, guided in their genuflections byan imaum or dervish, who sings the service, it is quite im-pressive. I have seen it admirably enacted by moonlight,on the wild banks of the Orontes, in the plain of Ilamath,and the scene was something m
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