A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible LandsWhittle, Walter Andrew
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A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands
Whittle, Walter Andrew
Europe -- Description and travel; Middle East -- Description and travel
Joseph Parker—Canon Farrar—Charles H. Spurgeon. Page, 118
CHAPTER XIII.
NOTTINGHAM, CAMBRIDGE, AND BEDFORD.
Preaching to 2,500 People—Entertained after the Manner of
Royalty—Excursion to Cambridge—What Happened on the Way—Received
an Entertainment by the Mayor—Cambridge University—King’s
Chapel—Fitzwilliam Museum—Trinity College—Cambridge Bibles—Adieu
to Friends—Bedford—The Church where John Bunyan Preached—Bedford
Jail, where Bunyan wrote _Pilgrim’s Progress_—Bunyan’s
Statue—Elstow, Bunyan’s Birthplace—His Cottage—His Chapel—An Old
Elm Tree. Page, 123
CHAPTER XIV.
THE BAPTISTS OF ENGLAND.
Their Number and Divisions—The Regular Baptists—Their
Movements and Progress. Page, 130
CHAPTER XV.
LAST OF ENGLAND AND FIRST OF THE CONTINENT.
Windsor Castle, the Home of England’s Queen—Queen Victoria—The
Home of Shakespeare—Across the Channel—First Impressions—Old
Time Ways—Brussels on a Parade—Waterloo Re-enacted—A Visit to
the Field of Waterloo—A Lion with Eyes Fixed on France—Interview
with a Man who Saw Napoleon—Wertz Museum—“Napoleon in
Hell”—“Hell in Revolt against Heaven”—“Triumph of Christ”—Age
Offering the Things of the Present to the Man of the Future.
Page, 143
CHAPTER XVI.
FROM BELGIUM TO COLOGNE AND UP THE RHINE.
Brussels—Its Laces and Carpets—Belgium a
Small Country—Cultivated like a Garden—Into
Germany—Aix-La-Chapelle—Birthplace of Charlemagne—Capital of
Holy Roman Empire—Cathedral Built by Charlemagne—A Strange
Legend—Shrine of the Four Relics—A Pulpit Adorned with Ivory and
Studded with Diamonds—Cologne—Its Inhabitants—Its Perfumery—Its
Cathedral—A Ponderous Bell—A Church Built of Human Bones—Sailing
up the Rhine—A River of Song—Bonn—Its University—Birthplace
of Beethoven—Feudal Lords—The Bloody Rhine—Dragon’s Rock—A
Combat with a Serpent—A Convent with a Love Story—Empress
of the Night—Intoxicated—Coblentz—A Tramp-Trip through
Germany—Sixteen Thousand Soldiers Engaged in Battle—Enchanted
Region—Loreli—Son-in-Law of Augustus Caesar—Birthplace of
Gutenberg, the Inventor of Printing. Page, 155
CHAPTER XVII.
FROM FRANKFORT TO WORMS.
Frankfort-on-the-Main—Met at Depot by a Committee—Frankfort, the
Home of Culture and Art—Birthplace of Goethe—“He Preaches like a
God”—The Home of Rothschild—A Visit to his House—Worms and its
History—Luther and a Bad Diet—Luther Monument—Theses Nailed on
the Door—Fame of Luther and his Followers more Imperishable than
their Bronze Statues. Page, 168
CHAPTER XVIII.
GERMAN BAPTISTS.
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