---
title: 'At the Sign of the Balsam Bough'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr.'
date: 1895-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Non-Christian Religions and Beliefs'
- 'History (General)'
- 'Travelogues'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 104'
- 'Acts 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/van-dyke-1895-at-the-sign-of-the-balsam-bough
---

# At the Sign of the Balsam Bough

Two Harper's pieces: Weeks surveys Hindu–Muslim history in India under the Moghuls; Van Dyke celebrates camping, white birches and fishing on the St. John river.

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