Identifier: aroundworldwithp00phil (find matches)
Title: Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Phillips, Philip, 1834-1895 Vincent, John Heyl, 1832-1920
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, The Phillips Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ttle city of about two thousand inhabitants. I arrived just in time to appear before my waiting audience, which was a good one. I was compelled to use the organ provided me, which had been elevated to the top of the pulpit, on a level with the sides of the galleries. Between me and the audience was a great, burly negro, with a lever, pumping away with all his might to give wind for the organ. It was a very comical sight, and my sense of the ridiculous nearly overmastered me several times. How could one be expected to do ones best, perched up in that style as if some strange specimen to be examined? and that white-eyed, tugging, sweating creature just before one! It would be unreasonable, certainly. 28 /X THE SOUTH. My next engagement in the State called me to Jacksonville, a beautiful city situated on the St. Johns River. Here oranges hang temptingly above ones head on the trees in January and February; flowers perfume the air, and birds circle about in the sunshine. This State is our Italy.
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PICKING COTTON IN THE SOUTH, I had the great pleasure of singing to a large number of invalids, who had come herein search of health. Oh, how many weary ones there are in this world who spend the larger part of their lives in looking for a climate! and yet where does the Great Healer dwell? Faith, more faith, is what our poor humanity needs. The Good Physician can cure us in our homes—can he not ?—if we will but believe for healing. At Jacksonville we embark for the West India Islands, making a thorough pilgrimage through Jamaica. WEHJ- JXD/.l JSL.lXVS. 29 In our circuit and detours of Jamaica, we have traveled nine hundred and twenty-fivemiles without an insult or accident. The things that most impressed us were the unbounded hospitality of the Jamaicans, the intelligence of the natives, the pleasant appearance and large-ness of the places of worship, the catholicity of spirit cherished by many Christian people, the excellence of the roads, the varieties of climate, and the surpass

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