Excerpt from A Domine in Bible Lands

HY another book on Bible Lands? It may be asked of one who rashly ventures to inflict it on a reading public, already in pos session Of a varied and copious literature on the subject. There are books of solid instruction by distinguished Biblical scholars and careful explorers, and books of charming description and word-painting, or of travel and adventure pleasantly told - books for the student and books for the popular taste - is there any room for more, unless to relate new discoveries or to present the impressions of one who already holds the ear of the public? And what place is there for a book that professes to Offer nothing new in the way of scholarly investigation, and cannot make its appeal to the curiosity which desires to know what a great man thinks about the things he has seen?

These are pertinent questions that occurred to the author when partial friends proposed to him to publish the narrative of his sight-seeing in Egypt and the Holy Land. It had not been his purpose to do this. He can truly say, to adapt the language of St. Paul, if any minister ever went to Egypt and the Holy Land without expectation of making a book on his return, I more. But after his return, in order to Share with his congregation the pleasure and profit derived from the trip, he delivered a series of Sunday evening discourses in his own church, going over the ground so often traversed, that his people might see with his eyes and Obtain his views of those lands of universal interest. These lectures were received so kindly, and their author was so strongly urged to put them before a larger audience through the press, that he yielded to persuasion; in hope that what had proved useful at home might prove not less useful elsewhere.

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