Das Land und das Buch; oder, biblischen Abbildungen aus der Sitten und Gebräuche, die Szenen und Landschaften des Heiligen Landes. gefahren und ich hatte timeto Blick über mich. Die Szene hatte alle in-freizeittiere der ganzen Neuheit. Ich war jung, frisch von Amer - ica, und war mit einer fast unbändigen propensityto Lachen beschlagnahmt. Der Lärm war ohrenbetäubend, und es war nicht theslightest Annäherung an Hingabe sichtbar, oder Evert möglich, soweit ich das beurteilen konnte, während die Haltungen, Kostüme, Gesten und Geräusche, die das Auge met und betäubt theear waren unendlich seltsam und lächerlich. Su

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The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . traversed, and I had timeto look about me. The scene throughout had all the in-terest of entire novelty. I was young, and fresh from Amer-ica, and was seized with an almost irrepressible propensityto laugh. The noise was deafening, and there was not theslightest approximation to devotion visible, or evert possi-ble, so far as I could judge; while the attitudes, costumes, gestures, and sounds which met the eye and stunned theear were infinitely strange and ludicrous. Such splendor, too, I had never seen. By the aid of numerous lamps, thewhole church seemed to flash and blaze in burning gold.I stood near the altar, which was covered with gold cloth, and decorated with censers, golden candlesticks, and splen-did crucifixes. A bench of bishops and priests filled theentire space within the railing, and two monks were wav-ing, or, more accurately, swinging their censers before them.The cloud of incense rose wreathing and circling to theupper dome, diffusing on all sides a strong aromatic odor.. CEREMONIES IN CIIUliCH OF HOLY SEPULCHRE. 559 After some delay, the whole priesthood of those denomina-tions which then united in this ceremony were assembled, properly robed and fumigated, and, with lighted candle ineither hand, stood ready for the grand feat of the day. Insingle file, seventy priests and bishops, in long robes of goldand silver texture, marched out into the body of the churchwith solemn pomp. Turkish officers went before, beatingthe heads of the crowd, w^ho bowed down as they haddone for us. Slowly the gorgeous procession worked itsway along the north side, singing, with nasal twang andstentorian lungs, harsh harmony in barbarous Greek. Ina few minutes they returned, laid aside their robes, extin-guished their tapers, and the multitude dispersed, greatlyenlightened by—a vast number of wax candles, and edifiedby a devout manifestation of sp

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1870
• booksubjectbible
• bookyear1874