The Pine-tree coast . rilE CARUYINc; PLACE. perity to make itself felt — is that little one of Jonesport, lying up behindMooseabec Reach. Let us look in at Jonesport. We find a sober, ])l<)(lding, undemonstrative people, engaged in fishing, shi])-l)uilding, lobster-canning, and the like humdrum occupations. A more unprom-ising soil to nourish delusions in one could scarce imagine. Yet it was fiomt his very i)lace, and under this same cold sky of Maine, that a colony of relig-ious enthusiasts, whose zeal outran their worldly wisdom, set out for the Holyijand, some twenty-five years ago. with
The Pine-tree coast . rilE CARUYINc; PLACE. perity to make itself felt — is that little one of Jonesport, lying up behindMooseabec Reach. Let us look in at Jonesport. We find a sober, ])l<)(lding, undemonstrative people, engaged in fishing, shi])-l)uilding, lobster-canning, and the like humdrum occupations. A more unprom-ising soil to nourish delusions in one could scarce imagine. Yet it was fiomt his very i)lace, and under this same cold sky of Maine, that a colony of relig-ious enthusiasts, whose zeal outran their worldly wisdom, set out for the Holyijand, some twenty-five years ago. with the avowed object of raising up a newPalestine on the decrepit civilization of the benighted Moslem. Tliey were tobe the vanguard of a reflux movement toward the hoary East. These people.
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