. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. Missionary Herald, for September, 1836,where two original views are given—one a general view, and the othera rough representation of the so-called palace. LYDIA. 331 conversation, and by the repetition of many a precious prom-ise respecting the conversion of the whole world, and theeventual universality of Christs kingdom. It may be thatthey withdrew a little into a solitary place among these woods,to joi
. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. Missionary Herald, for September, 1836,where two original views are given—one a general view, and the othera rough representation of the so-called palace. LYDIA. 331 conversation, and by the repetition of many a precious prom-ise respecting the conversion of the whole world, and theeventual universality of Christs kingdom. It may be thatthey withdrew a little into a solitary place among these woods,to join in prayer for yonder Philippi, for all Macedonia, andfor a fallen world. iritnetl) tikek—0mtira£. LYDIA. ACTS XVI. 13-15. There was of course a good proportion of Greeks alongwith the Latin population of Philippi. A military and un-commercial town, however, had little attraction for Jews, andthey were consequently few in number at Philippi. But theyseem to have had outside the town, among the trees, uponthe banks of the river Strymon, a small place for prayer, suchas were used in the absence of synagogues and such as westill find in use among the Moslems. Or it may be, that the. meeting was in the open air, the vicinity of the river beingchosen perphaps merely as offering a secluded spot, or possiblyfrom the ideas of purity which the Jews associated with thepresence of running water, or even for facilities of ablution,as might at this day happen among the Mohammedans. It is 332 FIFTIETH WEEK SUNDAY. rare at the present day to witness worship, by a number ofpersons, under such circumstances, as they usually find otherfacilities for ablution ; but it happened to us, that the first actsof Moslem worship we ever witnessed, were thus was nearly a quarter of a century ago, in the CaucasianMountains, at the time when many Turkish prisoners of warwere kept there by the Russians. Bodies of these were con-ducted out, at the hours of prayer, under a guard of soldiers
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