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Excerpt from An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography
Of our schools, has no place in our public systems of education. What school or academy, even when proposing a course of study peculiarly select and religious - what system of Public Edu cation - what College or Theological Seminary even, includes in its 'plan of study the Geography and History Of the Bible? How many, accordingly, read the Scriptures daily, and for half a century profess to expound them it may be, without any just conception of the localities and scenery of Bethlehem, of Nazareth, of Capernaum, of Jerusalem, of the Mount of Olives, or of dark Gethsemane - localities and scenes around which cluster the most hallowed associations of the Christian.
The following work is the result of an humble effort and an earnest desire to associate together, for reasons which have been brie¿y indicated, the History and Geography of the Scriptures, and to allure the young and assist them in an interested and intelligent perusal of the Book of God. Whatever may be the consideration in which this text book itself shall be held, we claim that the subject of it undeniably ought to have a place, not only in the Bible-class and Sunday school, but in the primary and grammar school, the college and the theological seminary.
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