ABSTRACT
Warder Cresson's impulse to return to an earlier orthodoxy than that represented by the American religious mainstream can be seen in a very different form in the writings of the Anglo-Catholic priest William Henry Odenheimer. Odenheimer embodied an alternative orthodoxy in that he proffered the possibility of a return to Old World, and even Catholic, modes of Christian spirituality. Although John Meshullam was an Anglican operating under the auspices of the bishop of the Church of England in Jerusalem, his ambitions coalesced nicely with those of the American Millerites. Although it is virtually a requirement for American writers who discuss Palestine to bemoan the effects of Turkish tyranny on the Holy Land and its people, discussions like this one of the physical hardships that faces individuals resident in Palestine are rare. Clorinda Minor demonstrates in this passage an attentiveness to the material facts of life in nineteenth-century Jerusalem that cannot often be found in William Thomson or Edward Robinson.
