SUPPLEMENT. Editors will confer a favour by giving a brief notice of "The Methodist Magazine." We enclose an outline which may be used if desired. THE METHODIST MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER, 1894. Price, $2 a year; $1 for six months; 20 cents per number. Toronto: William Briggs. In this number the Editor describes, with nearly a score of engravings, sights and scenes in Damascus, the oldest and one of the most interesting cities in the world. Another beautifully illustrated paper is that by John Addington and Miss Symonds, on "Life and Adventure in the High Alps." It describes tobogganing and other exploits of thriling interest A valuable article on "The Reverend Dr. Ryerson," with fine frontispiece of statue, as it appears in Normal School grounds, is from the able pen of John George Hodgins, LL.D. A remarkably impressive discourse, by H. J. Pope, President of the Wesleyan Conference, and delegate to our own General Conference, entitled, That which is Another Man's, and that which is Your Own," is given. Of timely interest (in view of the approaching General Conference), is an article by Dr. Schell, on "The Epworth League, its Opportunities and Perils." A paper, that should be read by all the members of the Methodist Church, by the Rev. Alfred Roebuck, B.D., F.R.G.S., on "Class-meetings and How to Improve Them," graphic sketches on mission work in New York, the illustrated story of "Spindles and Oars "-life in a parsonage, the Cornish story, a short sketch of "Archdeaco Farrar," and a brief paper, by Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, on "The only Successful Missionary Method," make up a good number. We fear that there are only here and there those who calmly review focussed as never before on the life of Christ. It is found that incom 4 4 2 Harmony. By the REV. WILLIAM ing and Budding;" "Plant Habits;" "Potting Plants;" "Transplanting," and nearly thirty other equally valuable "talks." The books are printed in large, clear type, and The attention of the world is bound in a pretty blue cloth. THE Methodist Magazine. SEPTEMBER, 1894. TENT LIFE IN PALESTINE. BY THE EDITOR. DAMASCUS. FLOWER-SELLER, DAMASCUS. hand of Damascus." of Abraham's house, DAMASCUS "The Pearl of the East," "The Garden of Paradise," "Glorious as Eden!"-such are some of the titles given by its admirers to this oldest city in the world. And after crossing the arid desert or the sterile mountains, small wonder that pilgrims of every land and age have joined in the praises of this oasis of beauty. How wonderful the story of this ancient city! The first Biblical record of Damascus is in Genesis, xiv. 15, nearly two thousand years before the Christian era, when the confederate kings made war upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and "Abraham pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left A few verses later we read of the steward Eleazer of Damascus." A village in the neighbourhood still bears the name, "the Habitation of Abraham." VOL. XL. No. 3. |