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404 ABOUND THE WORLD.
house annoyances, and the begging proclivities of pariahs
and other lower classes in the East, all the races and tribes
with whom we had to do, Maoris and Malays, Hindoos and
Arabs, treated us with considerations of kindness and good
will.
Sitting quietly now in
my library-room, and retrospecting
the year and a half's absence consumed in this round-theworld
pilgrimage, it seems hardly possible that I've seen the
black aborigines of Australia, and the tattooed Maoris of
New Zealand ; that I've witnessed the Hindoos burning
their dead, and Persians praying in their fire-temples ; that
I've gazed upon the frowning peak of Mount Sinai, and
stood upon the summit of Cheops ; that I've conversed upon
antiquity and rehgious subjects with Chinamen in Canton,
Brahmans in Bengal, Parsees in Bombay, Arabs in Arabia,
descendants of Pyramid-builders in
Cairo, and learned rabbis
in Jerusalem ; that I've seen Greece in her shattered
splendor, Albania with its castled crags, the Cyclades with
their mantling traditions, and the Alps impearled and capped
in crystal.
The Spiritual stance that we held upon Mount Zion, in
Jerusalem, when ancient spirits
that personally knew Jesus
after the " days of Herod the king " came and conversed
with us, was to me the most consecrated hour of life. It
was the door, the very gate to heaven, and that ajar ! The
particulars and preparations for the stance, with the teachings,
the inquiries, and responses, will be written out in the
future. The time is not yet. We are living in the Second
Coming, the continuous coming of Christ, a coming in
judgment, in " "
power and great glory !
As midnight hours are hghted by starry hosts ; as grasses
and grains, fruits and yellowing harvests, first freshen, then
come to maturity through the warmth and light of the sun,
so comes the soul's salvation through Christ. " We are
saved by his life" (Rom. v. 10). Christianity—that is,
the Christ-principles enunciated by Jesus Christ — stands