A Year's Wandering in Bible Lands Author:George Aaron Barton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IL FKOM OXFORD TO PARIS. Pabis, August 12th, 1902. The morning of the day we left Oxford was spent on the Thames. We rowed down the river to Iffley, whe... more »re there is a most quaint and interesting old church, which was built in Norman times. We went in and found the aged rector reading morning prayers. As it was Monday morning, he had only his daughter for a congregation. It was a pathetic picture to see this white-haired man in an environment which belongs to the distant past, reading to his daughter as solemnly as though she were a multitude. That afternoon we went to London, where we spent twelve days. While there I devoted a good part of my time to reading and study in the British Museum. That institution is a great treasure-house of antiquities and books. It is a privilege to be able to forage in it for a little time. While I toiled there, the other members of the party devoted themselves more to sightseeing. On two occasions I was tempted out. One of these was for a visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the other was for a boat ride up the Thames to Richmond. It was pleasant to meet in London a number of our friends from America. Among these were Professor and Mrs. Lyon, of Harvard; Professor R. F. Harper, of the University of Chicago, and Professor and Mrs. Mitchell, of Boston. Professor and Mrs. Mitchell were on their way home from Jerusalem, where he had been doing the work which I am going out to do. They gave us much information about our future life and work, which will, no doubt, prove exceedingly useful to us. Two or three incidents, which occurred while we were in London, are perhaps worth mentioning. We took tea one afternoon with Percy Bigland, a portrait painter, and an earnest Friend. His home and studio in Chelsea are next door to John Sar...« less