Identifier: homeofgodspeople00gage (find matches)
Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rum ; and even the beautiful Arch of Titus owes as muchof its charm to the sculptured representation of the conquer-ing hero leading away the Jews from Jerusalem, with the sa-cred vessels from the temple in their hands, as it does to therecord of other triumphs. The Catacombs which wind theirdark way beneath the city, would be much more highly andgenerally enjoyed, were they accessible, than are the proudestmonuments of heathen art which have come down to us; andall the dim and faded stories of the early martyrs of Romehave conferred on the Eternal City a renown which, in theeyes of most readers and travelers, is far hner than the proud-est legends of the classic era. It were greatly to be desiredthat a volume be prepared which should place our great read-ing public in possession of the monuments of what may becalled the Christian Rome of Antiquity; such a work wouldshow us that that beautiful city.derives a large part of itsgreat interest from its connection with the Christian Faith.
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RUINS OF THE PALACE OF THE CESARS. 472 NEW TESTAMENT GEOGRAPHY. Aside from the book of Acts and the story of our Lord,there remains but little in the New Testament whicli requiresgeof!jrapIiieal elucidation. The book grows more and morespiritual from first to last, and we who wish and demand toknow what and where were Bethlehem and Nazareth, growmore and more indifferent to places as we advance. Theplaces to which those epistles were directed do indeed awakena little curiosity, but the story of St. Pauls life and wanderingsgenerally places us in possession of that slight geographicalknowledge which is needed to understand his letters. Theold Jerusalem gives place to the New Jerusalem; and althoughits geography is so fully dehneated in the Apocalypse of St.John, yet it requires no aid from our maps of what we callHoly Land. But from Eden to Patmos, there is no placewhere we imperatively require the aid of human travel andobservation but it has been given us. Where the Bible is itsown i

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