Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 254 ITAL Y. fourteenth day in the first moon, when the liberation from Egyptian bondage is celebrated,are heard from the lips of the father of the house the words, Behold, this is the foodwhich our fathers partook of in Egypt! Let everyone that hungers come and eat. Leteveryone that sorrows come and share in our feast. This year we make the feast here,but next year we shall make it in the Land of Israel! This year we celebrate it asbondsmen, but next year as sons of freedom !. A GROUP OF HOUSES IN THE GHKITO. Thus sounded the comforting words of hope, whose
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 254 ITAL Y. fourteenth day in the first moon, when the liberation from Egyptian bondage is celebrated,are heard from the lips of the father of the house the words, Behold, this is the foodwhich our fathers partook of in Egypt! Let everyone that hungers come and eat. Leteveryone that sorrows come and share in our feast. This year we make the feast here,but next year we shall make it in the Land of Israel! This year we celebrate it asbondsmen, but next year as sons of freedom !. A GROUP OF HOUSES IN THE GHKITO. Thus sounded the comforting words of hope, whose arid buds have not yet beenquickened by the Spring. The waves of the Tiber rolled on indifferently towards thesea ; dirt and misery grew in the narrow alleys on the shore, watched narrowly by hateand covetousness ; and still the chosen people, the people of the inheritance, lived , with shame upon her brow, has graven with a bloody stylus the story of theJews upon the marble pillars of Rome. We can read it from the proud Arch of Titus tothe Portico of Octavia, a story of shame and violence. What sufferings ! What a Titanicstruggle, in a silent resistance of mingled defiance and humility, against the kings andgods of the world ! What an appallingly dreary stretch of road in the history of a nationslife lies between the Babylonian Captivity and the present time! We behold the wild
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