This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...could be added to these encouraging statistics; and the result of the conversation was to inspire much hope for the future of this great empire. A long night journey from Vienna brought me with the early dawn to the little town of Salzburg; and sallying forth from the railway station, I thought that the world could ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...could be added to these encouraging statistics; and the result of the conversation was to inspire much hope for the future of this great empire. A long night journey from Vienna brought me with the early dawn to the little town of Salzburg; and sallying forth from the railway station, I thought that the world could contain but few pictures so beautiful. The town was still slumbering beside its swift river Salza, rushing from among the distant Alps to the Danube. Morning mists were curling upwards from the richly-wooded hills on one bank, and from the bare precipices on the other. Between these heights the castle-rock stood bare and stern; while far up the valley snowclad mountains had already bared their crests and whitely reflected the morning light. The hours that succeeded were full of charm. I climbed to the chief points of view that command the town, the Capucinberg, with its monastery on the right bank, the Monchberg on the left; and as the day progressed and the town woke up to life, the scene acquired new richness of beauty, while the openings in the distant hills still suggested the wonders beyond. 1 "It was only within the last few years that some Christian men had altempt?d, with varying success, to start upon a small scale Sunday-schools in the larger cities of Austria, and only in Vienna had a prolonged attempt been made. In 1873, the Rev. D. Moore and Count Bernstoff started a Sunday-school in a fourth-floor lodging. Several of the schools were formed privately at that time, but all had ceased to exist. The first Sunday-school held in a public hall specially provided for such meetings was in 1875, at the Evangelical Chapel, in Vienna. The attendance varied for several years until 1877, when the number on the list steadily increased to nea...
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