1870 Antique HOLY LAND Palestine FREEMASONRY Christian BIBLE Jew Muslim ARABIAN

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var itemNumber = window.ItemID ? window.ItemID : -1; function passpara(){return + itemNumber + location.href.lastIndexOf(\'/\') + 1));} YOUTHFUL EXPLORERS IN BIBLE LANDS A Faithful Account of the Scenery, Ruins, Productions, Customs, Antiquities and Traditions of Scriptural Countries; As Youthful Pens Would Describe Them. JOPPA AND JERUSALEM. Prepared and Published Under the Auspices of “The Scholars’ Holy Land Exploration” of the United States, by Robert Morris, LL.D. First Edition. Published in 1870 by Hazlitt and Reed, Chicago. 9” x 6” hardcover with gilt decorated title. Illustrated. 224 pages.

Condition: Good antique condition. Exterior as shown in photo. Firm binding. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages.

Description:

This book, YOUTHFUL EXPLORERS IN BIBLE LANDS, is the fruit of a very important chapter in the history of modern Freemasonry.

In 1867, at the age of 50, renowned Masonic scholar, author and poet Rob Morris embarked upon a mission that had been the object of his thoughts and dreams for many years: to visit the Holy Land so that he might explore Freemasonry in the East and gather the ancient traditions of the Order in the very place where it had originated.

Dr. Morris called his effort “The Scholars’ Holy Land Exploration.” It was funded entirely by contributions from fellow Freemasons, which Morris personally solicited.

Morris felt sure that his enlightened Masonic brethren would understand how the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Land would illumine the pages of Masonic history; but he determined to make his mission practical even to those not of “the mystic tie.\" He thereupon made up a list of various specimens and sacred curios from the Holy Land that he felt sure the Craft would appreciate, and published a proposal to which Freemasons might contribute two, three, five, or ten dollars, as they chose. With this appeal he visited 130 lodges in Indiana. Iowa, Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia, Nebraska and New York, addressing the brethren wherever he Went. He would open the meeting by reciting his favorite poems, such as, “The Level and Square,\" “The Letter G,\" “The Holy Bible,\" \"Our Vows,\" “The Drunkard\'s Grave,\" “The Five Points of Fellowship,\" “The Emblems of the Craft,” and so on. He then presented his proposed Masonic pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Dr. Morris reported that despite the hard economic times following the Civil War his proposition met with a favorable reception. In some parts of the country, the crops had been bad and many Freemasons had little, if anything, to give. Some, he says, looked upon his enterprise as Quixotic. “Many others contributed the lowest amount asked for, namely, one dollar. Yet nearly four hundred of them gave me ten dollars each, trusting, as they said, to my pluck to accomplish the end proposed, or willing to show their respect for an old and industrious laborer who came before them with an appeal so reasonable and practical.\"

Contributors became members of the “The Masonic Holy Land League” instituted by Morris, the objectives of which were investigating the condition of Freemasonry in the land of its origin; inquiring into those forms of primitive Masonry that exist among the Bedouin Arabs; organizing lodges and a Grand Lodge in Palestine, and erecting a worthy edifice for Masonic purposes in the city of Jerusalem.

Dr. Morris did not disappoint his patrons. He traveled to Europe, and from there to Palestine. While in the Middle East, he met many Freemasons and told them that America contained more than two-thirds of all the Masonic Lodges in all the world, and that his brethren had sent him to the Holy Land to meet the Craft in the East and to gather the ancient traditions of the Order. In 1868, he opened a lodge of Masons in Jerusalem, which in 1873 was fully chartered and set to work.

After a two year sojourn, Dr. Morris returned to America to publish his findings and also present them in person as part of a grand lecture tour.

YOUTHFUL EXPLORERS IN BIBLE LANDS was the first book Dr. Morris produced upon his return from Palestine, preceding the more well-known Freemasonry In the Holy Land. In this book, he sought to capture the interest of the young people of America in this great subject of his own heart and life. The result of this gracious spirit and admirable adaptation of his Holy Land story and lecture work to the understanding and interest of the young helped to popularize \"The Scholars\' Holy Land Exploration\" throughout the country.

While Freemasonry is not the primary focus of YOUTHFUL EXPLORERS IN BIBLE LANDS, the book is required reading for anyone seriously interested in the 19th-century efforts to bridge American Freemasonry with its counterpart in the Middle East, as it was written by the architect of that very effort, Dr. Rob Morris, and describes much of what he saw during his mission to the Holy Land.

CONTENTS ARE:

CHAPTER ONE ~ SETTING FOOT ON HOLY LAND: Midnight view of Joppa * Glories of the Starry World * Going on shore * Uproar at Landing * Custom House customs * Streets narrow, steep and foul * Curious arches * Hotel * Call on the Governor * First breakfast in Holy Land * Collecting shells * The donkey Tyeeb * Camp o umbrellas * Scare from Bedouins * Telegraph line * Climbing palm-tree * Arab fight * Strolls through Joppa * Mosks * Schools * Dinner with the Governor * Mr. Floyd * Andromeda and Perseus * Saracenic Fountain * Pilgrim Mission * Music to Stabat Mater * Description of Joppa * Description of our three youthful explorers

CHAPTER TWO ~ ALL AROUND JOPPA: Familiar sounds * Tarboush * A Yankee harvester * Native plow * Goad * Women carrying wood * All sorts of noises * The judge in the gate * The golden orange groves * Lepers * Kerosene lamps * The Governor in Court * Dressed for Palestine * Enles of the youthful explorers * School * Sending telegram home * Doherty’s description * The way it went * Almond trees * Sailing through the harbor * Building stone * Private houses * The Bazaars, or markets * History of Joppa * Palestine model farms * American colony * Manufactures of Joppa * Sparrows * Morning views from housetops * American photographs * Dorcas * Tamarinds * Citrons * Wells * House of Simon the tanner * Convents * Jews * Vegetables * Tents * Djereed * Collecting specimens

CHAPTER THREE ~ OVER THE PLAIN OF SHARON: Native wedding * Narghileh * Arab horse * Pilgrim\'s horses * Native cooking * Hassan * Camels and saddle * Donkey * The happy Arabs * Ancient spear * Drawing water * Native houses * Arabic words * Telegraph from home * The cross of Jesus * Going ahead * Abraham\'s Fountain * Olive tree * Tower at Ramleh * Catholic convents * Joseph of Arimathaea * Dogs C.irod trees * Old church * Plain of Sharon * Picnic parties * Native music * Pendulum of history * Holy Grail * Condition of women * Lydda * Prevalence of blindness * Leprosy * Early Christian martyr * Kenan\'s unfairness * Jackals at midnight * Camp Hazezon-tamar

CHAPTER FOUR ~ MOUNTING THE HILLS OF DAN AND BENJAMIN: Dog of adoption * Native horses * Wely * palm tree * Judas Macchabseus * Native Religion * Jackal * Packing baggage * Steep bills * Arabic Words * Honeysuckle Glen * Sardines * Beggars, and how to refuse them * Finding a skull * Almond staff * Pet lamb * Blessings of freedom * Camel fight * Church of St. George * Insults for the boys * Plowing * Ebenezer * Exploits of the Macchabees * Pool of Gibeon * The cook * Flowers on Sharon * Baking bread * Gazelle * The Noble Helena * Butter making * Giant Pool * Rain fall * Military conscriptions * In sight of Jerusalem

CHAPTER FIVE ~ DOWN THE TURNPIKE, WESTWARD: Arabic words * A talisman * The Priests and the Pope * Lost in the hills * Jackal * David\'s exploit * Khans * Mosquito * Glory of the stars * Singular uses of numbers 1300 and 17 * Fox * Frogs * Cucumbers * Dew * Dogs * Fig trees * Sure-footed horses * The Sheikh * Pilgrims * The Machabees * Turnpike * Joppa to Jerusalem * A Mohammedan at prayer * Bevelled stones * Temperance of the Mohammedan * Tobacco * Arabs eating * Kirjath-jearim and its history * Stone lion * The Good Thief, Dismas * Ancient tombs * Bats * Oleanders

CHAPTER SIX ~ MOUNTING THE HILLS OF JUDAH: The recovery of Elliot * Story of a dog * Plowing and sowing * Mosaics * Arabic words * Black snake * Hospitality of Arabs * Exploit of an Arab boy * Hotel hash * Fleas * Prickly pear * Women weeping at the grave * Shepherd boy\'s music * Sore eyes * Tomb of Machabees * Acoustics * Insects * Scarcity of timber * Snails for food * Weights and measures * Plain of Sharon * Old coins * Counting distance by hours * Horses’ shoes * Jews in Judea * Porphyry * Agate * Dove * Onions * Performing a vow * Exploits of Lieut. Lynch * Sennacherib * Music box * Native music * Native houses * Funeral * Dragomans * Camp Sabbath

CHAPTER SEVEN ~ A SABBATH REST IN SIGHT OF JERUSALEM: Arabic words * Lord\'s Prayer in Arabic * Native village * Dog licking sores * The wise men from the East * Twelve o\'clock everywhere * Scorpion * Locust * Sugar cane * Dogs in Jerusalem * Military music * View of Jerusalem * The Koran * The Jewish party * Superstitions * The Lion of the Tribe of Judah * An altar of twelve stones * The Bible the best guide here * Sabbath musings in sight of Jerusalem

CHAPTER EIGHT ~ GENERAL SURVEY OF JERUSALEM: The first day in the city * Joppa gate * Solomon\'s seal * Dogs of Jerusalem * Veiled women * Cruelty of muleteers * Crowds of pilgrims * Orange merchants * Sweeping the streets * Native names * Dervish * Ornaments and cigars * The good Pasha * Heavy dews * Rephaim and its battles * Russian convent * Views from the north, east and south * Roman campPost-office * Banking house * Camp of the Assyrians * A ride round the walls * Promenade on the walls

CHAPTER NINE ~ THE POOLS AND WALLS OF JERUSALEM: The Turkish soldier, Kosroo * Profanity * Narrow streets * Sugar cane * Tumult in the streets * Hay on the horn * Despised dogs * Houses are numbered * Taxing the farmers * The Damascus gate * Saracenic ornaments * Criticisms on priests * Neetmok * Kitchen fires * Statistics of Jerusalem * Birket Manilla * Birket Es-Sultan * Pool of Hezekiah * Pool of Siloam * Well of En-Eogel * Native newspapers * Pilgrimages to the Jordan * Native doctors * Solomon\'s coronation * Sparrows * The little girl * Man born blind * Flowers at Siloam * Bees and bee hives * The field of blood.

CHAPTER TEN ~ A DAY ON MOUNT OLIVET: St. Stephen\'s Gate * Burial of the dead * Playing camel * Brood of puppies * Chicken merchant * Dog fight * Scanty breakfast * Arab and his horse * Broom * Brook Kedron * Martyr Stephen * Hebrew burying ground * Epitaphs * Tomb of Absalom * Story of the Great Stone * Garden of Gethsemane * View from Mount Olivet * Retrospect of Biblical history * Church now building

CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ THE QUARRY AND THE TEMPLE: Insulted in a coffee house * Loafing and cruel sheikhs * Street music * Queer mode of drinking * Watering the streets * A cawass * Horse shoeing * Dog districts * Mixing up things * Muldoon * Crazy man * Ancient inscription * Jews in Jerusalem * The great quarry * Mount Moriah * The accuracy of Josephus * The Mohammedan religion * Degraded state of the native women

CHAPTER TWELVE ~ THE MOHAMMEDAN SABBATH: Spraining an ankle * The legends of Jerusalem * Gate of St. John\'s Hospital * Greek patriarch * Armenian patriarch * Sparrows * Ancient lamp * Native costumes * Women coloring the eyes * Akeldama * Solitary palm tree * American kerosene * Dr. Peterman * Ancient coins Story of the coin * The Jews waiting * Character of Judaism * Jews1 benevolent societies * * Bishop Gooat * Prussian Deaconesses * Sweet music * Via Dolorosa

. CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ THE JEWISH SABBATH: Barbarian manners * American song * Eating pork * Cedar cone * Stepping the city walls * Good measure * A valuable ring * Defenses of Jerusalem * Russian convent * Ancient bottle * Attempted cheat * Horns of the Ibex * Abraham\'s oak * Shape of the city * Great stones * Stone marks * London Palestine fund * Prof. Kiepert * History of Jerusalem * Telegram from Beyrout * Legend-mongers * Mosaic pavements * Telegram from New York * Native houses * Abd-el-Kader * Persian singer

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH: Ostrich eggs * Palm tree broom * Loaded donkeys; their music * Dominoes * Idle womenCollecting taxes * Public whipping * Street music * Goats * Water supply * Squashes * Negro belle * Heretico * Coin helmet * Jerusalem stories * Jews * Mohammedan prayers * Song of backsheesh * Valley of Jehoshaphat * Collecting relics * Franciscans * Protestants * Brief tarrying * The English party * Golgotha * Protestant burying ground * Opthalmia * Leprosy * Communion service * Conversion of the Jews * Protestant Sunday School * A night within the walls of Jerusalem * Summing up.

Remember folks, this is an 1870 First Edition. This book is 144 years old.

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