Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d closeup and the stragglers hurry forward, and no one feltsecure until the Arab camp had been left far behind.How well I remember being ambushed beyond one ofthese camps. When I spoke peace, they were forwar. And then the march—the bitter cold of thenights, for we and all caravans must start before dawn;and the burning heat of the day before we reached ourhalting place. As soon as the sun was up the heatbegan; as soon as the moon arose it was bitter cold.And then the dreariness of the absolutely level plain.What a joy it was to see the hills rising before us. Inmarching from Babylonia toward the west the sightof the hills meant home, safety, comfort, things towhich we were used. But all that is pictured in thepilgrim Psalms of the Hebrews, 120-134. Each isheaded, you remember, Song of degrees,—at leastthat is the heading in the King James Version,—whichmeans song of going up, pilgrim song. Listen and see how the first of those Psalms tells ofconditions such as I have described:
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