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Tit Hohr Ltu.For eighteen hundrsd^ler* (he western world, in•II it* prosperous life and youthful energy, ha* looked whh reverence end hope towarda the stricken, yet honored tend of which we have taken e survey. After agea of ebecurity, at a mere province of a fallen empire, that eountry auddenly became invested with a glory till then unknown to earth. A few poor fisher* men went forth from those shores among the nations, and announced such, tidings aa changed the destiny of the world forevet. Human life become an altered state: new motives, sympathies, and principles, arose; new charities were developed; new hopes, enlarged from the grave, animated our race, ft was natural that this bright hope tnd faith should degenerate into enthusiasm. The lend of Palestine become a sort of idol; and pilgrims rushed to its shores in countless multitudes, in the hope of laying down the burden of their sins upon Its sacred soil. The spirit of all Eu -rope was warlike; and the voice of Peter the Her* mil turned its energies Into a new channel, when the cross become the emblem of devotion in the csuse of chivalry as well as religion. The summons which ha gave rent asunder every tie of love, home, and self-interest. The warriors of England, France, and Austria knew no patriotism but for Palistine— no interest but for the holy sepulchre—no love but that of glory. Then for centuries the tide of war rolled from Europe upon Asia. Batted and beaten back, or perishing there fruitlessly, men learned at length that not by human means was glory to be restored to Palestine.The crescent shone triumphantly over Calvary, as if to teach the Christian that his faith was to be spiritual, its inspiration no longer to be sought on earth, i This Holy Land, although notan object of warlike am-; bition, has lost none of the deep interest with which it once inspired the most vehement crusader. The j first impressions of childhood sre connecte d with that scenery; and infant lip*, in Ehgland’a prosperous homes, pronounce with reverence the name* of for. lorn Jerusalem and despised GuJMec. We s'ill ex. perience a sort of patio’ism for Palestine, ami feel that the scenes enacted there vvrre perfo'inetl for | the whole family of man. Narrow are its boundaries, j we hsve all s share in the possession. What a church ; is to a city, Palestine is to the world. Phcenician fleets once covered those silent waters; wealthy cities once fringed those lonely shores; during three thousand years, war has led all the nut ion* of the earth in terrible procession al ng those historic plain*; yet it is not mere history that thrills the pilgrim to the Holy Land with such leeiing* as no other spot on the wide earth inspires; but the belief that »i» yonder land the Saviour once trod with human feet, bowedii down with suffering, linked to our race by the sympathy of sorrow, bedewing our tombs with his tears, consecrating our world with his b!ood.*~[ People’s Dictionary of the Bible.
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Aurora Western Commercial
Aurora, Indiana, US
Sat, Feb 17, 1849
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