A BAPTIST ABROAD
OR
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES
IN
EUROPE AND ALL BIBLE LANDS
BY
REV. WALTER ANDREW WHITTLE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
HON. J. L. M. CURRY, LL.D.
WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.
“Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;
Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;
Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,
He had the passion and the power to roam;
The desert, forest, cavern, breaker’s foam,
Were unto him companionship; they spake
A mutual language, clearer than the tome
Of his land’s tongue, which he would oft forsake
For Nature’s page glassed by sunbeams on the lake.”
Childe Harold
NEW YORK:
J. A. HILL & CO.,
UNION SQUARE,
1890.
COPYRIGHT, 1890.
By J. A. HILL & COMPANY.
All rights reserved.
MOTHER
WILL READ THIS BOOK
THROUGH
TWO PAIRS OF SPECTACLES.
ONE PAIR
WILL MAGNIFY ITS VIRTUES
WHILE THE OTHER
WILL DIMINISH ITS DEFECTS.
THEREFORE IT
IS AFFECTIONATELY AND LOVINGLY
DEDICATED TO
MOTHER.
INTRODUCTION.
Next to seeing a foreign land with one’s owneyes is seeing it through the eyes of an intelligent,appreciative countryman. The word is purposelychosen, because one wishes to know what isobserved and thought by a person who has tastes,sympathies and views in common with himself.A thousand things in a strange country areinteresting and in different degrees. One studieshistorically, another socially, another politically,another ecclesiastically, while unfortunately not afew rush pell-mell bringing back the most superficialand indistinct impressions. Some find mostsatisfaction in architecture, while others havetheir chiefest enjoyment in sculpture, in painting,in natural scenery, in costumes and customs. Notwo have precisely the same fancies, and yet anobservant, cultivated countryman is more likelyto please us by what he likes and describes thanis a foreigner whose point of view and whosemental habitudes are so different from our own.What is most pleasing in a book of travels is wideand varied observation, is an account of several[iv]countries inhabited by different races and distinguishedby marked peculiarities.
This volume embraces a wide extent of travel,and includes an account of visits to Great Britain,Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Palestine,