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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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ite intelligible. It begins with a cry to God to be-hold the face of the anointed king, for this was aliturgy of the royal sacrifice, and then, as the worship-pers throw themselves on their faces on the ground atthe threshhold of the temple courts, the chorus ofLevites sings: For better a day in thy courts than an army.I had rather be a threshold in Gods HouseThan a fortress in the cities of the godless. The next verse indicates in a somewhat similar wayanother ritual act as the procession advances towardthe altar, viz., the purification, which takes place im-mediately before the sacrifice: God refuseth no good to those who walk in cleanness.Then with the sacrifice comes the final chorus: Lord of hosts, happy he who trusteth in Thee. I was a bit inclined to think I had gone mad; that Ihad become a visionary and was seeing things that wereunreal. I got up and went down and made the pro-cession. It was absolutely convincing, and yet whyhad no one ever seen it? How was it possible it had
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