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"Now I must tell you, my dear Maria, that I am really in love with His Holiness. I am sure, if there is any truth in physiognomy, he must be an amicable man ... I never saw a more benignant countenance in my life, and I was so near him, and that so for a considerable time that I could mark it well and make it a study ... He has a fine person, and an excellent expression; altogether he is quite a man, so far as appearances go, to my mind. Of their Eminences the Cardinals, I say nothing; certainly the Holy Father suffers nothing by ^ [added above] (a) comparison with them. But O! The fatigue of this exhibitton [exhibition]! Four mortal hours did I stand in the midst of a crowd to see it, but it was worth all the toil; it amply repaid me.
In the afternoon I heard the Miserere in the chapel at St Peter's; that was at the close of a long previous Service. I can only say it was most ravishing. There was one voice that I never can forget; I could scarcely believe that it was the voice of a man. But these things cannot be described; they must be heard and seen, and then their impression can never be lost.
....................................... Life of Dr Raffles
From the Coliseum [sic] I passed slowly through the Forum, first renewing my acquaintance with the arch of Constantine, by far the finest and most perfect of all, though not the most interesting to me, for the deepest interest attaches to that of Titus ................ I sat for some time on a stone by the Arch of Titus, and made a little sketch of the seven branched golden candlestick, as borne [crossed out] (by the cap) in the procession of the captive Jews, along with the silver trinkets, the golden table, &c., still preserved in the basreliefs on the sides of the piers under the arch. What can be more interesting of all the monuments of antiquity than this? How can infidelity account for [crossed out] (this) its [crossed out] (antiquity) exist-
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ence [existence]? Assuredly, if anything of this kind can confirm the truth of Scripture history the Arch of Titus does.
........................... ibid.
I have omitted to record, in the review of the scenes and places we have visited today, the deep interest we felt in seeing the Mamertine prison. It is just at the foot of the Capitoline, on the right hand, behind the arch of Septimus Severus. Here, in their trium- phant processions, the conquerors to the capital to receive their crown, the captives to the dungeon to receive their doom. In the deepest of these dungeons --- for there are two, one beneath the other, and to that we descended --- Peter was confined, according to tradition, and they show the stone to which he was chained. And [crossed out] (to) ^ [added above] (as) this was the only prison at that time in Rome, it is all but certain that Paul was confined there previous to his martyrdom, and there wrote his Epistles to the Hebrews and 2nd to Timothy. According to the postscript to the latter, "the 2nd Epistle unto Timothy was written from Rome when Paul was brought before Nero the second time." It is remarkable that in this deep, dark, doleful dungeon there is a well of the purest water of which we drank ... Is it possible that of this same water the Apostle of the Gentiles drank, and by it was refreshed, when writing those sacred letters which have refreshed the Church of God in all ages from that day to this? Assuredly it was even as the water of the well of Bethlehem to us! Talk of superstition! Bah! it is hu-
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man [human] nature, and among the best things of which our nature is capable, to feel intensely under circumstances such as these. ..... ibid
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Begging. Hints on Begging.
Get a Book ruled and numbered to the extent of as many names as there are shillings in the amount required. Then get the Report of the Bap. Mission and the Report of the Bible Translation Soc. & the Aged Pilgrim's Benefit Society and proceed.
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..................... It is as life matures, that the weight of life [crossed out] (is), the burden, of this unintelligible world, and the mystery of the hidden God, are felt. A vast amount of insincerity is produced by mistaking this. We expect in the religion of the child the experience which can only be true in the religion of the man. We force into their lips the language which describes the wrestling of the soul with God. It is twenty years too soon ............... They know nothing yet ............ they ought to know nothing of God but as the Father who is around their beds --- they ought to see nothing yet but Heaven, and angels ascending and descending.
...................... Robertson's Sermons
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...................... And this is our struggle --- the struggle. Let any true man go down into the depths of his own being, and answer us, --- what is the cry that comes from the most real part of his nature? Is it the cry for daily bread? Jacob asked for that in [crossed out] (the morning) his first communing with God - preservation, safety. Is it ever this, --- to be forgiven our sins? Jacob had a sin to be forgiven, and in that most solemn moment of his existance he did not say a syllable about it. Or is it this --- "Hallowed be thy name?" No, my brethren. Out of our frail and yet sublime humanity, the demand that rises in the earthlier hours of of [sic] our religion may be this --- Save my soul; but in the most unearthly moments it is this --- "Tell me thy name." We move through a world of mystery; and the deepest question is. What is the being that is ever near, sometimes felt, [crossed out] (nev) never seen, --- That which has haunted us