Excerpt from The Cruise of the Eight Hundred to and Through Palestine: Glimpses of Bible Lands; Two Hundred and Twelve Full-Page Photo-Engravings, Two Twelve-Inch Panoramic Views of Jerusalem, Four Colored Plates of Palestine Wild Flowers, and Fifty-Eight Other Photographs of Persons and Places Connected Two years ago, in a room in the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, 9. Little group of men were talking of the next World's sunday-school Convention. Hartshorn was there, and Warren, B. F. Jacobs, Lawrance, Clark, Pearce and others. Each was asked to suggest a place. When Mr. Hartshorn's turn came, he said, quietly, Easter morning, 1904, at the Saviour's tomb, Jerusalem. A silence fell on the little company. Clark started a hymn, Guide me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah. Then they turned to Mr. Warren, who had just come back from a trip through the Holy Land, and questioned him. The group broke up the vision never died out. Some who were there believed it could become true. But when the idea. Began seriously to be discussed at Denver, six months later, and the International Convention approved the plan, thoughtful people called a halt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.