NAZARETH. \/3 
and holy contest, it will be at that period ^^^y^' 
when Reason and Revelation shall exter- 
minate ignorance and superstition. Those who 
peruse the following pages, will perhaps find 
it difficult to credit the degree of profanation 
which true religion has here sustained. AVliile 
Europeans are sending messengers, the heralds 
of civilization, to propagate the Gospel in the 
remotest regions, the very land v/hence that 
Gospel originated is suffered to remain as a 
nursery of superstition for surrounding nations ; 
where voluntary pilgrims, from all parts of the 
earth, (men warmly devoted to the cause of 
religion, and more capable of disseminating the 
lessons they receive than the most zealous 
missionaries,) are daily instructed in the grossest 
errors. Surely the task of converting such 
persons, already more than half disposed to- 
wards a due comprehension of the truths of 
Christianity, were a less-arduous undertaking, 
than that of withdrawing from their prejudices, 
and heathenish propensities, the savages of 
America and of India. As it now is, the pilgrims 
return back to their respective countries, either 
divested of the religious opinions which they 
once entertained, or more than ever shackled 
by the trammels of superstition. In their 
journey through the Holy Land, they are 
