The Pine-tree coast (1891) (14799429413)

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Title: The Pine-tree coast

Year: 1891 (1890s)

Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905

Subjects: Maine -- Description and travel Atlantic Coast (Me.)

Publisher: Boston. Estes & Lauriat

Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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THE CARRYING PLACE. perity to make itself felt — is that little one of Jonesport, lying up behindMooseabec Reach. Let us look in at Jonesport. We find a sober, plodding, undemonstrative people, engaged in fishing, ship-building, lobster-canning, and the like humdrum occupations. A more unprom-ising soil to nourish delusions in one could scarce imagine. Yet it was fromthis very place, and under this same cold sky of Maine, that a colony of relig-ious enthusiasts, whose zeal outran their worldly wisdom, set out for the HolyLand, some twenty-five years ago, with the avowed object of raising up a newPalestine on the decrepit civilization of the benighted Moslem. They were tobe the vanguard of a reflux movement toward the hoary East. These people

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4 a. FK.\I PETIT M.WAN TO MACIIIA& were not driven to do this, as the Latter-Day Saints were in founding Utah, butembraced their voluntary exile ip the self-sacrificing spirit of a new-born zealA roving itinerant hail come among them, preaching this new crusade. He possessed tin dangerous gift of natural eloquen ■■-. seemingly without judgmentor practical wisdom to give it useful direction. When pushed lor an expla-nation of how this or that thing was to he dpne, by Borne of tie- more cautious«>nes? he would tell them that the Lord would provide, ami to throw them-selves upon the Lord. To make a long story short, he induced his convertsto sell their household goods, houses, and lands, in order to carry out thisvisionary scheme of his; and with the means thus obtained, the colony ofJonesport Eedemptionists put to sea, and in due season landed at Jaffa, the portof Jerusalem. Here the seales fell from their eyes. They found Palestine anything but aland flowing with mi

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