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Druses. Those of Nazareth are Greeks, Maronites, 
and Catholics. Cana of Galilee is tenanted by 
Greeks only; so is the town of Tiberias. In 
Jerusalem there are sects of every denomi- 
nation, and perhaps of almost every religion 
upon earth. With regard to that part of the 
people in the Holy Land who call themselves state of 
Christians, in opposition to the Moslems, we ,„I"inthe 
found them to be divided into sects, with whose ^^°'i/-^"'"'- 
distinctions we were often unacquainted. It is 
said there are no Lutherans; and if we add, 
that, under the name of Christianity, every 
degrading superstition and profane rite, equally 
remote from the enlightened tenets of the 
Gospel and the dignity of human nature, are 
professed and tolerated, we shall afford a true 
picture of the state of society in this country. 
The cause may be easily assigned. The pure 
Gospel of Christ, everywhere the herald of 
civilization and of science, is almost as little 
known in the Holy Land as in Caliphornia or 
Neiv Holland. A series of legendary traditions, 
mingled with remains of Judaism, and the 
wretched phantasies of illiterate ascetics, may 
now and then exhibit a ghmmering of heavenly 
light ; but if we seek for the blessed effects of 
Christianity in the Land of Canaan, we must 
look for that period, when " the desert shall 
blossom as the rose, and the wilderness become 
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