[Illustration: W. A. Whittle] A BAPTIST ABROAD OR TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EUROPE AND ALL BIBLE LANDS BY REV. WALTER ANDREW WHITTLE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HON. J. L. M. CURRY, LL.D. WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. “Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam; The desert, forest, cavern, breaker’s foam, Were unto him companionship; they spake A mutual language, clearer than the tome Of his land’s tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature’s page glassed by sunbeams on the lake.” CHILDE HAROLD NEW YORK: J. A. HILL & CO., UNION SQUARE, 1890. COPYRIGHT, 1890. BY J. A. HILL & COMPANY. All rights reserved. MOTHER WILL READ THIS BOOK THROUGH TWO PAIRS OF SPECTACLES. ONE PAIR WILL MAGNIFY ITS VIRTUES WHILE THE OTHER WILL DIMINISH ITS DEFECTS. THEREFORE IT IS AFFECTIONATELY AND LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO MOTHER. INTRODUCTION. Next to seeing a foreign land with one’s own eyes is seeing it through the eyes of an intelligent, appreciative countryman. The word is purposely chosen, because one wishes to know what is observed and thought by a person who has tastes, sympathies and views in common with himself. A thousand things in a strange country are interesting and in different degrees. One studies historically, another socially, another politically, another ecclesiastically, while unfortunately not a few rush pell-mell bringing back the most superficial and indistinct impressions. Some find most satisfaction in architecture, while others have their chiefest enjoyment in sculpture, in painting, in natural scenery, in costumes and customs. No two have precisely the same fancies, and yet an observant, cultivated countryman is more likely to please us by what he likes and describes than is a foreigner whose point of view and whose mental habitudes are so different from our own. What is most pleasing in a book of travels is wide and varied observation, is an account of several countries inhabited by different races and distinguished by marked peculiarities.