: A Tramp's Sketches by Graham Stephen - Russia Description and travel; Jerusalem; Russia Social life and customs; Graham Stephen 1884-1975

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THE WANDERER'S STORY

MY COMPANION. HOW HE FOUND HIMSELF IN A COACH. IRRECONCILABLES. THE TOWNSMAN. HIS CONVERSION.

THE UNCONQUERABLE HOPE

THE PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM

THE MESSAGE FROM THE HERMIT

FRONTISPIECE

NIGHT OVER THE BLACK SEA

FAREWELL TO THE TOWN

The town is one large house of which all the little houses are rooms. The streets are the stairs. Those who live always in the town are never out of doors even if they do take the air in the streets.

When I came into the town I found that in my soul were reflected its blank walls, its interminable stairways, and the shadows of hurrying traffic.

A thousand sights and impressions, unbidden, unwelcome, flooded through the eye-gate of my soul, and a thousand harsh sounds and noises came to me through my ears and echoed within me. I became aware of confused influences of all kinds striving to find some habitation in the temple of my being.

What had been my delight in the country, my receptivity and hospitality of consciousness, became in the town my misery and my despair.

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