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Preparations--A Prayer and a Benediction--An Impatient Horse and a Run for Eternity--Strange Sceptre and Despotic Sway--Beauty in White Robes--Approaching the Metropolis--Business Heart of the New World--A Bright Face and a Cordial Greeting--An Hour with the President--More for a Shilling and Less for a Pound--A Stranger Dies in the Author's Arms--Namesake--Prospects of Becoming a Great Man--A Confused College Student--The Hour of Departure--Native Land. Page, 23

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

A Difficulty with the Officers of the Ship--A Parting Scene--Danger on the Atlantic--A Parallel Drawn--Liberty Enlightening the World--Life on the Ocean Wave--Friends for the Journey--The Ship a Little World--A Clown and his Partner--Birds of a Feather--Whales--Brain Food--Storm at Sea--A Frightened Preacher--Storm Rages--A Sea of Glory--Richard Himself Again--Land in Sight--Scene Described--Historic Castle--Voyage Ended--Two Irishmen. Page, 29

THE LAND OF BURNS.

English Railway Coaches--Millionaires, Crowned Heads, and Fools--A Conductor Caught on a Cow-catcher--Last Rose of Summer--Off on Foot to the Land of Burns--Appearance of Country and Condition of People--Destination Reached--Doctor Whitsitt and Oliver Twist--The Ploughman Poet--His Cottage--His Relics--His Work and Worth--His Grave and Monument--A Broad View of Life. Page, 38

EDINBURGH.

A Jolly Party of Americans--Dim-Eyed Pilgrim--Young Goslings--An American Goose Ranch--Birthplace of Robert Pollok and Mary Queen of Scots--The Boston of Europe--Home of Illustrious Men--A Monument to the Author--Monument to Sir Walter Scott--Edinburgh Castle--Murdered and Head Placed on the Wall--Cromwell's Siege--Stones of Power--A Dazzling Diadem--A Golden Collar--Baptized in Blood--Meeting American Friends. Page, 47

A TRAMP-TRIP THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS.

His Royal Highness and a Demand for Fresh Air--A Boy in his Father's Clothes--Among the Common People--Nature's Stronghold--Treason Found in Trust--Body Quartered and Exposed on Iron Spikes--Receiving a Royal Salute--Following no Road but a Winding River--Sleeveless Dresses and Dyed Hands--Obelisk to a Novelist and Poet--On the Scotch Lakes--Eyes to See but See Not--A Night of Rest and a Morning of Surprise--A Terrestrial Heaven--A Poetic Inspiration--A Deceptive Mountain--A Glittering Crown--Hard to Climb--An Adventure and a Narrow Escape--Johnson Gives Out--Put to Bed on the Mountain Side--On and Up--A Summit at Last--Niagara Petrified--Overtaken by the Night--Johnson Lost in the Mountains--A Fruitless Search--Bewildered--Exhausted--Sick. Page, 57

A GENERAL VIEW OF SCOTLAND.

Highlands and Lowlands--Locked up for Fifteen Days--The Need of a Good Sole--A Soft Side of a Rock--The Charm of Reading on the Spot--A Fearful Experience--Bit and Bridle--Thunder-Riven--Volcanic Eruption--Dangerous Pits--An Hundred-Eyed Devil--Gloomy Dens--Meeting an Enemy--Eyes Like Balls of Fire--Voice Like Rolling Thunder--A Speedy Departure--Leaping from Rock to Rock--Silver Thread among the Mountains--Imperishable Tablets--The Cave of Rob Roy and the land of the MacGregors--Lady of the Lake and Ellen's Isle--Lodging with Peasants and with Gentlemen--Rising in Mutiny--Strange Fuel--Character of Scotch People--Scotch Baptists--Sunrise at Two O'Clock in the Morning. Page, 67

FROM DUNDEE TO MANCHESTER.

Scotch Presbyterians in Convention--Their Character and Bearing--On the Footpath to Abbotsford--The Home of Scott--Five Miles through the Fields--Melrose Abbey and the Heart of Bruce--Hospitality of a Baptist Preacher--Adieu to Scotland--Merry England--Manchester--Exposition and Prince of Wales--Manchester and Cotton Manufacturers--A ,000,000 Scheme--Dr. Alexander Maclaren--His Appearance--The Force of his Thought--The Witchery of his Eloquence--His Hospitality Enjoyed--A Promise Made. Page, 75

BAPTIST CENTENNIAL.

Three Baptist Associations--Centennial Year and Jubilee Year--Baptists Seen at their Best--Doctor Alexander Maclaren--Matchless Eloquence--Hon. John Bright Delivers an Address--Boundless Enthusiasm--English Hospitality--A Home with the Mayor. Page, 84

A SOJOURN IN ENGLAND AND ON TO WALES.

Arrested and Imprisoned--Released without a Trial--Nottingham--Dwellers in Caves--Seven Hundred Years Old--Forests of Ivanhoe and Robin Hood--Birthplace of Henry Kirk White--Home of the Pilgrim Fathers--Home of Thomas Cranmer--A Guide's Information--Home of Lord Byron--Wild Beasts from the Dark Continent--A Sad Epitaph--Byron's Grave--A Wedding Scene--Marriage Customs--Wales and Sea-Bathing--Among the Mountains--Welsh Baptists--A Tottering Establishment. Page, 90

LONDON.

Entering London--The Great City Crowded--Six Million Five Hundred Thousand People Together--Lost in London--A Human Niagara--A Policeman and a Lockup--The Jubilee and the Golden Wedding--"God Save the Queen." and God Save the People--Amid England's Shouts and Ireland's Groans Heard. Page, 98

SIGHTS OF LONDON.

Traveling in London--London a Studio--The Hum of Folly and the Sleep of Traffic--Five Million Heads in Nightcaps--Too Many People Together--Survival of the Fittest--Place and Pride--Poverty and Penury--Beneficence in London--East End--Assembly Hall--A Converted Brewer--His Great Work--Meeting an Old Schoolmate. Page, 107

A TRIO OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN.

Joseph Parker--Canon Farrar--Charles H. Spurgeon. Page, 118

NOTTINGHAM, CAMBRIDGE, AND BEDFORD.

THE BAPTISTS OF ENGLAND.

Their Number and Divisions--The Regular Baptists--Their Movements and Progress. Page, 130

LAST OF ENGLAND AND FIRST OF THE CONTINENT.

Windsor Castle, the Home of England's Queen--Queen Victoria--The Home of Shakespeare--Across the Channel--First Impressions--Old Time Ways--Brussels on a Parade--Waterloo Re-enacted--A Visit to the Field of Waterloo--A Lion with Eyes Fixed on France--Interview with a Man who Saw Napoleon--Wertz Museum--"Napoleon in Hell"--"Hell in Revolt against Heaven"--"Triumph of Christ"--Age Offering the Things of the Present to the Man of the Future. Page, 143

FROM BELGIUM TO COLOGNE AND UP THE RHINE.

FROM FRANKFORT TO WORMS.

Frankfort-on-the-Main--Met at Depot by a Committee--Frankfort, the Home of Culture and Art--Birthplace of Goethe--"He Preaches like a God"--The Home of Rothschild--A Visit to his House--Worms and its History--Luther and a Bad Diet--Luther Monument--Theses Nailed on the Door--Fame of Luther and his Followers more Imperishable than their Bronze Statues. Page, 168

GERMAN BAPTISTS.

A Weak Beginning--Persecutions--Firm Faith--Rapid Growth--A Trio of Leaders--Theological Schools--Publishing House--Hopeful Outlook. Page, 174

OUT OF GERMANY INTO SWITZERLAND.

A Lesson from Nature--Tramp-Trip through the Black Forests--Heidelberg Castle--Basle, Switzerland--Met by a Friend--Emigrants off for America--Delivering an Address to the Emigrants--The Grave of Erasmus--Gateway to the Heart of the Alps--Snowy Peaks--Rendezvous of the Nations--Beautiful Scene--Moonlight on the Lake--Sweet Music--Pretty Girls--Mountains Shaken with Thunder and Wrapped with Fire. Page, 184

SWITZERLAND AS SEEN ON FOOT.

Alpine Fever--Flags of Truce--Schiller and the Swiss Hero--Tell's Statue and Chapel--Ascent of the Rigi--Beautiful Scenery--Famous Falls--Rambles in the Mountains--Glaciers--The Matterhorn--Yung Frau--Ascent of Mount Blanc--An Eagle in the Clouds--Switzerland and her People--The Oldest Republic in the World--"Home, Sweet Home"--High Living--Land Owners--Alpine Folk--Night Spent in a Swiss Chalet--Johnson in Trouble--Walk of Six Hundred Miles--Famous Alpine Pass--A Night above the Clouds--Saint Bernard Hospice--Overtaken in a Snow-Storm--Hunting Dead Men--The Alps as a Monument--Geneva--Prison of Chilon--How Time was Spent--Tongue of Praise. Page, 190

BAPTIST MISSION WORK IN FRANCE.

Incipiency of the Work--Obstacles to Overcome--Progress --Hopeful Outlook. Page, 213

FROM VIENNA DOWN THE DANUBE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.

A Black Night on the Black Sea--A Doleful Dirge--Two Thousand Miles--Vienna--Its Architecture--Its Palace--Its Art Galleries and Museums--Through Hungary, Servia, Slavonia, and Bulgaria--Cities and Scenery along the Danube--Products of the Countries--Entering the Bosphorus amid a War of the Elements--Between Two Continents--Constantinople--Difficulty with a Turkish Official--A Babel of Tongues--The Sultan at Prayer--Twenty Thousand Soldiers on Guard--Multiplicity of Wives--Man-Slayer. Page, 220

FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO ATHENS.

A Stormy Day on Marmora--Sunrise on Mount Olympus--Brusa, the Ancient Capital of Turkey--Ancient Troy--Homeric Heroes--Agamemnon's Fleet--The Wooden Horse--Paul's Vision at Troas--Athens--A Lesson in Greek--The Acropolis--The Parthenon--Modern Athens--Temple of Jupiter--The Prison of Socrates--The Platform of Demosthenes--Mars Hill and Paul's Sermon--Influence of the Ancients. Page, 230

ASIA MINOR AND THE ISLAND OF PATMOS.

Smyrna--Its Commerce--Its Population--Famed Women--Home of the Apostle John--One of the Seven Asiatic Churches--Martyrdom and Tomb of Polycarp--Emblematic Olive Tree--Out into the Interior of Asia Minor--Struck by Lightning--Visit to Ephesus--Birthplace of Mythology--Temple of Diana--Relics of the Past--Homer's Birthplace--A Baptist Preacher and a Protracted Meeting--John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary--Timothy's Grave--Cave of the Seven Sleepers--Return to Smyrna--Sail to Patmos--Patmos, the Exiled Home of the Apostle John--The Island of Rhodes and the Colossus--Death and Disease on the Ship--Quarantined--A Watery Grave--Hope Anchored within the Vail. Page, 240

FROM BEYROUT TO THE CEDARS OF LEBANON.

FROM THE CEDARS OF LEBANON TO BAALBEK.

Returning to Tents--Mountain Spurs and Passes--A Modern Thermopylae--Two Caravans Meet--A Fight to the Death--How Johnson Looks--Victory at Last--Into the Valley where the King Lost his Eyes--Playing at Agriculture--Squalid Poverty--Baalbek--Its Mighty Temples--Men, Mice and Monkeys--A Poem Writ in Marble. Page, 269

DAMASCUS.

A Beautiful Valley--Flowing Rivers--Mohammed at Damascus--Garden of God--Paul at Damascus--Mohammedan at Prayer--Valley More Beautiful--Damascus Exclusively Oriental--Quaint Architecture--"Often in Wooden Houses Golden Rooms we Find"--Narrow Streets--Industrious People--Shoe Bazaars--Manufacturing Silk by hand--Fanatical Merchants--"Christian Dogs"--Cabinet-Making--Furniture Inlaid with Pearl--Camel Markets--A Progenitor of the Mule--Machinery Unknown--Ignorance Stalks Abroad--Fanatical Arabs--A Massacre--The Governor Gives the Signal--Christians Killed--French Army--Abraham Our Guide--Brained before Reaching the Post-Office--Warned not to Look at the Women--Johnson's Regret--Vailed Women--Johnson's Explanation. Page, 276

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