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Nov 30 Blog

Famous Americans Who Made Holy Land Tours

When the first American missionaries arrived for their Holy Land tours in 1819, it took three days to travel from their port of disembarkation in Jaffa to Jerusalem. When Mark Twain arrived nearly half a century later, he still found the roads “infernal” and the place as a whole “desolate and unlovely.” Jerusalem, he said, was “a pauper’s village ... The glory of Jerusalem has indeed parted.”

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