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Title: The book and the land
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Van Schoick, R(obert) W(illiam), 1843- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hell and ofdeath. Yes, they are dead which sought the 184 THE BOOK AND THE LAND young childs life. Out of Egypt comesthis message to all men, for all time; and iffor no other reason the friends of Jesus mayrejoice that no form of persecution, howevercruel or protracted, can destroy their Lord.In the words of the psalm the Lords peoplemay say: Why do the heathen rage, andthe people imagine a vain thing? Thekings of the earth set themselves, and therulers take counsel together, against theLord and against his Anointed, saying, Letus break their bands asunder, and cast awaytheir cords from us. He that sitteth in theheavens shall laugh; the Lord shall havethem in derision. So let all thine ene-mies perish, O Lord: but let them that lovehim be as the sun when he goeth forth in hismight. According to the plan of our itinerary weshould have landed in Alexandria April 22,to remain in Egypt five days and six hours;but we reached the city a day sooner andtook the train for Cairo, as the bubonic
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Cairo.—Mosque of Mohammed Ali, or Alabaster Mosque. ArabWoman. Ezbekiyeh Gardens. EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO 187 plague was raging in Alexandria. Whilewe were disappointed in not being drivenabout the city founded 332 years beforeChrist in honor of Alexander the Great;where the Septuagint was made, and wherethe only monument we saw was the famousPompeys Pillar—we were not sorry to getaway from the pestilence as quickly aspossible. An Alexandria daily paper whichI purchased stated that of the 426 strickenwith it to that date, April 21, 368 had died—a sadly large percentage of fatalities. We arrived in Cairo on Thursday eveningin time for dinner. The distance fromAlexandria is one hundred and thirty-threemiles. The cars were the best we had seensince we left America, as most of the serviceelsewhere had seemed quite behind the age.It fell to me to be assigned to the GrandContinental Hotel, one of the largest andbest in the city, and by far the best atwhich I have stopped thus far on

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