A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands

Chapter 1: A BAPTIST ABROAD

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A traveler recounts extended journeys through Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, and Egypt, offering practical routes, vivid landscape sketches, and attentive depictions of local life. Preferring long walks and off‑the‑beaten‑track exploration, he emphasizes contact with rural communities and close observation rather than rapid sightseeing. Religious reflection and denominational interest appear throughout, with profiles of clergy and discussions of Baptist varieties woven into broader cultural and historical notes. The text combines personal anecdote, geographic and archaeological description, and moral commentary, supported by maps and illustrations to help readers visualize places and draw informed impressions.

A BAPTIST ABROAD

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES

EUROPE AND ALL BIBLE LANDS

REV. WALTER ANDREW WHITTLE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

HON. J. L. M. CURRY, LL.D.

WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.

“Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;
Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;
Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,
He had the passion and the power to roam;
The desert, forest, cavern, breaker’s foam,
Were unto him companionship; they spake
A mutual language, clearer than the tome
Of his land’s tongue, which he would oft forsake
For Nature’s page glassed by sunbeams on the lake.”

Childe Harold

NEW YORK:

J. A. HILL & CO.,

UNION SQUARE,

1890.

By J. A. HILL & COMPANY.

MOTHER

WILL READ THIS BOOK

THROUGH

TWO PAIRS OF SPECTACLES.

ONE PAIR

WILL MAGNIFY ITS VIRTUES

WHILE THE OTHER

WILL DIMINISH ITS DEFECTS.

THEREFORE IT

IS AFFECTIONATELY AND LOVINGLY

DEDICATED TO

MOTHER.