The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-25
MISoGLLAM & Q US.
VISIT 10 N.fZfRETII.
NAZARETH. March L.. 81.
AIrEARANrE nF TME InMN

NAZARETH March J.. l.d.
APPEARANCE oF rIE lows
The scenery around thu town 81 Nsztrih is
| very much like that 10 he found ~ Vermont
rounded hills, narrow valleys limestone 10 k.
sunny sOl's. patches of green irll, ,ni ,crinnl
pastures You do not src the sugar aiai,lr crowu-
| ing tie hill tops nor the graceful .im 10 the
hollows, but the dark Green of the olive aul the
spreading branches ofihc d., 'T'-s nst.i You
travel on horseback, along alpliu, paths. in-
stead OF rolling ia tusgivs uv-s ,1unir, r'frage
I roads. There are nu Gotta. rs ,r f,tu houses
With great harms and hai siscA. a.un. ihv way :
no busiling town. 40 ciir. .rl r.Ai,, o. factory
machinery. Travelling from u.r i'iiG nf Esira-
/ clun, climbing thC bills llsf ~ mi-h 20 up
/ from the meadows along DE touLcc. c.icu' ride
/ OF four miles bring. u 20 q hollow among the
| hills. We look down into i' ,ui hatcu view Of
the town west OF u. un . .uuuy s.rf. Of "a
hill, which rails 5 fogf OF five h4uiici ,,t above
| the town The Hat ruo.ed stone HOUSES are nes-
tied on the hill side jus, ~ the dwellings are in
many a New England village. Danish from
| your mind any other resemblance There are
no wide streets, no front yards Gl.cd with roses
! aud lilacs, no trim cottages with green blinds
but stone walls with holes i"r windows heaps
Of mud aud manure around 90, luois At the
bottom OF the hollow arr oil u'i,r tres, garden
walls aud hedge - pti,hl. r,u ,-.si Of the
town, a. the foot 81 iLc i.,.. D. in, pour
Ing uuI copi"u, sis,1H,s e. .a''i thfough a
marble slab Ne pitch "t. i,a' Aiih.n a stone S
throw u The & aniaii. close h' l,ic .foyc of old
oiiSe, the limestone d. .,- ,..;t ... oui along
I the hill side behind o.. ..,in- Fl ,',- f-om the
cold wind ss,tiing doHG from 'i" r.,'h
I'M lo.Ar,.>.
Tie fountain IS tue oal, Iul.- resort 81 a.,
town. Here the women and eifls ii,l their Wa
ter jars. chat together. talk uyrr the urX@ bal
ance their jars upon the crown % th head aud
walk baCA To their hum's Her, ',4cy poun!
the dirt from their clothes upou 'ho rocks they
have no scrubhing-boards. no psira' Washing
machines. or clothes wfingcrs. neither a,sh-,Uh.
The brook below the fountain is the public wash
ing pAce-ihc place also, where the horses
donkcys, sheep and goats q The town s'lkc their
ihirS,
There is no pleasani,r village IN lal slime, none
where the people are more kini aui courteous,
none where the maidcus are more beautiful not
such a beauty as you hnl IN the West, but as
widely separated from The common type among
the Arabs as the Madonna Of Raphael is from
our conception ~ tie witches OF Midsummer
Nights Dream The population is Christian.
Very pleasant il is TO hear the iOlling Of the
church bell for vcspets falling on the evening air
And now lei me ask your readers 10 climb the
hillside with me-, the hill north OF the town that
We mey have nn hour for quic, reflection
VIEW ~ MOONLIGHT
II is evening, and the sights aul sounis OF
DAY are fading on the eve and car Thr neon
is approaching the full and throw q flood OF
light upon the hills Ih't are drifting clouds
in the Sky overhead. H. .hc north ll,ic i- a
dark thunder cloul-visid .shcs Of lightning
Paying round Lebanon aud Harmon. E,si Of
Us is the rounded light Of Tabor and beyond
over the Jordan Valley light, neecy clouds, lined
With silver aul edged with gold lowering in
mid air a. the chrruhiu and 'rrsrhin one, how.
cred over the hills OF Bethlehem We louA across
the plain OF Esdralon in the south and behold
Little Herman aud Gilboa, while far away
through the haze wc trace dimly the outlines Of
Eba and Geriaim westward, clearer and more
| distinct, 10 Noun, Carmel We here the linkling
OF bells io the sheep'olds. the barking Of dogs
the howl Of jackals ou the hills and the deep
, thunder far away. From the vale below u as.
cend the voices OF our own mule,eers, singing
around their camp-frts. We behold our own
white tents and those Of an English party just
arrived. The place. the scene, the huut. alike
are soothing 10 body AMI soul and We feel the
appropriateness Of the words
Here in the body icut
Absent-afar roam.
hut nightly pitch iay moving tout.
days march nearer home
With such calming Influences around Va We
forget the present. and go back 1865 years 10 te-
hold Nazareth rs II was at that iimc--a vale as
peaceful then rs uow-an insgnitcani town, So
small that the people Of other towns spoke OF II
| contemporary just as We sometimes speak OF
Slab City aud Hard Scrabble. No great public
thoroug hfares led through the place. There was
| n Roman road down the s,a.coasi, aud another
from the sea-cOasl through Sephafis in the valley
| Eve or ia miles north, extending eastward to
tho sea Of GalileC so the tides Of travel and
commerce flowed past Nazareth, leaving IL u
small village, among .he hills, without hisio-
ry
! ruy JARRETT, oY tlgi..
Among tbs inhabitants We see the carpenter
| Joseph, using the axe, aud saw, the plane and
| ehscl laying wooden beams Tor the roofs OF
houses, making tables aud stools and among
| the madens vino Gil their jars ~ the fountain Is
one named Mary, beirothcd 10 the carpenter
She is low ia station, though she has royal blood
| In her veins. Through ali the centuries since.
painters have thought OF her rs m ideal Of per-
iect loyeliness, purity, and truth l, Is not ian.
cy or fiction. Such girl lived here, walked
along these paths, brea,hed the fragrance Of the
flowers blooming In the garden pluckcd the lily
Of the valley, perhaps, 10 adorn her hair. and
sirolled with her mates beneath the olives.
JEsus As ciRLb.
But no, rs the place Of the Annuncinton
as the home OF Mary, do We think Of Nazareth
but as the childhood aud manhood home Of Jesus
Christ. We think Of him a. lying 10 Mary's aim',
| q child Of adorable beauty. The mothers hand
leads him, a. she CONES 20 the fountain TO til her
pitcher lie plashel his feet In the running stream,
hears the sparrows chirp, aud the hum Of the
bees aud gathers the scarlet aud purple aneglu-
nes Ills childhood Is like our own lic has biz
play.houfs, famhlcs over the hills Incomes ne.
auainl,d with every locality As lhc bo,s Of
| America know every acre Hg1dnd their homes,
each towering rock, each nook, each brook aud
tfcc, so he became acquainted with the places
around this, his boyhOod home.
The father and mother have stories tot hiul. NJ
our parents have for ns Of his ancestry how
Abraham, the father Of the nation. came dowu
from the distant north and stopped NJ Shcchem
From this hilltop they perchancc point oui tc
him Mount Ebal and Mount Gcrizim, ani lh,
| valley between them, where the patriarch hrs
pitched his tent. They tel, him the story Of Jo.
scph and show hini the hill Of Dotham, across
the plain Of EsdraclOn, where the Midianiles tool
him from his cruel brethren 10 be slave IN
Egypt, aud what came OF it. story more won
derfnl than any romance. As we listen 10 lh'
stories ug cur parents Of the early history ~ ouI
own country-Of Washington aud Franklin and
their compatriois. 30 be heard Of Moses Joshua
the iirst great leaders Of Israel. From this bill
he sees the battle ground where Barak defeated
Sisefa, and where Gideon, with bis three hundred
put the multitude Of Midianites 10 fight. BeyonS
that Geld he beholds the rugged mountain o
Gllboe, where Saul aud Jonathan were slain. OI
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