Identifier: holylandwithglim00phel (find matches)
Title: Holy Land, with glimpes of Europe and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Phelps, S(ylvanus) D(ryden), 1816-1895. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (8th ed.) New Haven, C. C. Chatfield & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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He is the son of a
clergyman of the Established Church, and his age, I
think, is thirty-six. He is not tall, but solid in form,
is in robust health and vigor, and of manly appear-
ance. May he long hold forth the word of life with
power and success.
A letter of introduction gave us a very pleasant
interview with Rev. Dr. Raffles, now in the fiftieth
year of his ministry. He received us with the great-
est cordiality and affability. I had made a suggestion
of going to the place where his immediate predecessor,
the youthful and eloquent Thomas Spencer, was
drowned. Dr. Raffles showed us a manuscript note-
book, in which Spencer had recorded his texts from
the time he began to preach. He spoke of the recent
American edition of his Life of Spencer, and of the
handsome style in which Messrs. Sheldon & Co. had
issued it. The day of this interview we went to London,
and the first news we heard from home, was the
death of Kingman Nott, so like that of Spencer. It
was a sad shock and heavy grief to us, for we knew
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BUNYAN'S COTTAGE AT ELSTOW
BEDFORD AND ELSTOW—BUNYAN. 31
our young brother well, and loved him, how much!
Other well known brethren in the ministry had fin-
ished their work also—
in so short a time had deathplucked a goodly cluster.
Our next excursion was to several deeply interesting
places once hallowed by the presence and deeds of the
great and good. First we went to Bedford, leaving
London early in the morning, July 27th. As we en-
tered the town, and were crossing the bridge over the
Ouse, with what intense interest we gazed on the spot
where stood the jail in which Bunyan was a prisoner
so long, and where the immortal allegory had its birth !
The little river flows on as when he saw it from his
grated window, but not a vestige of the jail remains.
It was at that corner of the street, said our guide,
as we passed along, that Bunyan heard the pious
women talking of religion. This was before his con-
version. We went to the house of worship, a large
and substantial one, which occupies the site of that in
which Bunyan preached

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