. In Terra Santa, con glimpes dell Europa ed Egitto. Figlio di aclergyman della Chiesa e la sua età, Ithink, è di trentasei. Egli non è alto, ma in forma solida,è in robusta salute e vigore e di manly appaiono-ance. Possa egli lunga tenere alta la parola di vita withpower e successo. Una lettera di introduzione ci ha dato molto pleasantinterview con il Rev. Il dott. Raffles, ora nel fiftiethyear del suo ministero. Egli ci ha ricevuto con grande-est cordialità e affabilità. Avevo fatto un suggestionof andando verso il luogo dove il suo immediato predecessore,il giovane eloquente e Thomas Spencer, wasdrowned. Il dott.

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. Holy Land, with glimpes of Europe and Egypt. son of aclergyman of the Established Church, and his age, Ithink, is thirty-six. He is not tall, but solid in form, is in robust health and vigor, and of manly appear-ance. May he long hold forth the word of life withpower and success. A letter of introduction gave us a very pleasantinterview with Rev. Dr. Raffles, now in the fiftiethyear of his ministry. He received us with the great-est cordiality and affability. I had made a suggestionof going to the place where his immediate predecessor, the youthful and eloquent Thomas Spencer, wasdrowned. Dr. Raffles showed us a manuscript note-book, in which Spencer had recorded his texts fromthe time he began to preach. He spoke of the recentAmerican edition of his Life of Spencer, and of thehandsome style in which Messrs. Sheldon & Co. hadissued it. The day of this interview we went to London> and the first news we heard from home, was thedeath of Kingman Nott, so like that of Spencer. Itwas a sad shock and heavy grief to us, for we knew. BEDFORD AND ELSTOW—BUNYAN. 31 our young brother well, and loved him, how much!Other well known brethren in the ministry had fin-ished their work also—in so short a time had deathplucked a goodly cluster. Our next excursion was to several deeply interestingplaces once hallowed by the presence and deeds of thegreat and good. First we went to Bedford, leavingLondon early in the morning, July 27th. As we en-tered the town, and were crossing the bridge over theOuse, with what intense interest we gazed on the spotwhere stood the jail in which Bunyan was a prisonerso long, and where the immortal allegory had its birth !The little river flows on as when he saw it from hisgrated window, but not a vestige of the jail remains. It was at that corner of the street, said our guide, as we passed along, that Bunyan heard the piouswomen talking of religion. This was before his con-version. We went to the house of worship, a largeand substantial one, which

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