to Bible-readers, these events which have given their interest to this land are very unreal and shadowy. We believe the history of the Bible, we accept it as true, but too often it passes for a story, almost a myth, as far as its effect upon us is concerned. We have heard Bible people discoursed upon until they have faded away into abstract characters; and Bible places spiritualized into allegorical unrealities. Let it be our effort on this journey to arouse our historical imagination. We must people