New Paths through Old Palestine

Chapter 9: I GO DOWN INTO EGYPT

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A traveler's series of pilgrimage sketches recounts journeys across Palestine, blending sensory descriptions of landscape, ruins, and local customs with observations of modern changes such as railroads, motor vehicles, and aeroplanes. Each chapter visits a holy site—Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Bethany, the Mount of Olives, the Garden, and crossings into Egypt and the Dead Sea region—pairing biblical memory with wartime scars and everyday rural life. The narrative contrasts ancient traditions and sacred geography with technological progress and reflects on possibilities for the land's social and spiritual future.

I GO DOWN INTO EGYPT

The strings of camels come in single file
Bearing their burdens o’er the desert sand;
Swiftly the boats go plying on the Nile
The needs of men to meet on every hand.
But still I wait
For the messenger of God who cometh late.
—Author Unknown.