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Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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near which stood Askalon. It was here that St.Peter had that wonderful dream, in which he beheld allthe beasts of the world let down from heaven in a sheet,in order that he might eat of them. You remember thathe refused, saying: Not so. Lord! for I have never eatenanything that is common or unclean. And then came a voice which said: What God hathcleansed that call not thou common. It was these words that first led to the preaching of theGospel to the Gentiles, bringing about the conversion ofCornelius, the Roman centurion, and later on the preach-ing of Christ to all the world. As my guide refreshed my biblical memory with thisstory, he told me of an American who had visited thisplace with him last week. Said Moses: This American was a funny man, and it seemed to mea foolish one. He was not satisfied with seeing this house,but he asked me to show him the vision that St. Petersaw, and demanded to know what had become of the sheet.He said he did not think he ought to pay me unless I 20
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The men of Palestine are very strong and carry amazing loads on theirbacks. Both men and women think little of walking twenty miles a day.Many are too poor to keep even a donkey

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