. Christian herald and signs of our times. AND SIGNS GMOTR TIMES VOLUME 18. Copyright 1395. by Louis Klopsch. NUMBER 1. REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. , Bible House, New York. NEW YORK, JANUARY 2. 1S95. PRICK, 5 Subscription. $ S7 F an artist, in the search for the pict-uresque, should look the whole worldover, he would probably accord to the/|\ East the palm of pre-eminence, no lessfor the grandeur of its natural scenery,and the weird, ghostlike, antiquity of itscities, hoary with centuries, than for the pe-culiar personality of its people, in the mat-ter of dr
. Christian herald and signs of our times. AND SIGNS GMOTR TIMES VOLUME 18. Copyright 1395. by Louis Klopsch. NUMBER 1. REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. , Bible House, New York. NEW YORK, JANUARY 2. 1S95. PRICK, 5 Subscription. $ S7 F an artist, in the search for the pict-uresque, should look the whole worldover, he would probably accord to the/|\ East the palm of pre-eminence, no lessfor the grandeur of its natural scenery,and the weird, ghostlike, antiquity of itscities, hoary with centuries, than for the pe-culiar personality of its people, in the mat-ter of dress, facial expression and socialsurroundings. While all else, and es-pecially the West, have progressed with thepassing generations, the East has stoodstill; and throughout a verylarge part of those countriesthat are comprehensively de-scribed as The Orient,the same general picturegreets the traveler to-day asthat which was presentedpossibly a thousand yearsago. This is true in detail ofalmost everything that per-tains to the social life
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