The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-16

important particular since the time of
Christ" / told him to ask the Arabs
to give me the helm and sail and let
me manage her. They did SO good
navredly--with a significant glance
and smile at one another as if they
thought I didn't know anything about
it, but / brought the boat into the
wind and steered across to the oppo-
site shore--the country of the Cad
arenes' l was considerably gratifed
to observe the expression of surprise
and then as thought of admiration
on the faces of those sceptical Arabs.
| thought now if l don't do anything
to spoil it, but | probably shall if l
make any move at all, and so / con-
cluded l would just hold on to the
sail and let her drive straight ahead,
anywhere. The wind was blowing
freshly and we were headed for the
sloping shore where the wild man
came out of the tombs to meet Christ,
and the swine ran down the steep place
and were drowned in the sea. We
passed the brow of the mountain
where Christ looked down and saw
his disciples "toiling in rowing for
the wind was contrary" On one
side,a the upper end of the lake were
old ruins of Capernaum and the
village of Bethsaida and the town of
Mary Magdalene. On the other, the
mountain where Christ fed the multi
tude with the loaves and fishes. And
beneath us the very waves of the sea
that ran to bear up the feet of Christ
on eager crests and fell PROSTATE like
crouching housekeeping their white
waves of foam at the command abe
still !" And now the wind subsded
with the going down of the sun.
The sail tapped uselessly against the
mast and the Arabs took up the oars
to row back. l took one of them
and was not long in finding out the
meaning of that expression of the
Bible "they were toiling in rowing"
Their oars are about IL feet long,
heavy as beam and thick as mans
body-although something depends
on the size of the man. They have
to stand up to it, and step forward
and backward as they row a coal
barge on the Detroit river, and
little of it goes a good ways. 1t had
always been a mystery to me how it
were possible that mere placid mill
pond like that, could rouse itself up
into so violent tempest as the Bible
describes. But when the priest inti-
mated that it would not be safe to
cross to the other shore as storms
were apt to arise suddenly at that sea-
son of the year-that the storm drew
down the deep cuts in the mountains
and whirled about over the sea, twist
ing the waves up into curling froth
and blowing their tops off down the
wind. And when that very night and
several times during the next the day
saw it myself-how the storm wind
seemed to descend spirally like
whirlwind or water-spout from the
hill-tops to the bosom of the lake,
and ruffle it into a chopped sea, COW
cred with white caps that would have
swamped a fishing-boat easily in its
trough could very well conceive
the extreme peril by which those
strong-armed, stout-hearted fishermen
must have been threatened before
they were forced to drop their oars
and call upon Christ to help them.
Our dragoman said that he had once
spent whole night with party on
the lake. A storm had suddenly
come down upon them, it was i'm
possible to turn back to the shore
without being overturned, and hour
after hour they strained with main
strength at the oars to keep her head
to the waves, and bailed fast to keep
her from sinking. And when the
morning came they had hardly moved
from their position, bat were glad
enough to have held their own and
to have kept afoat until the storm
subsidized and they reached the shore.
II seems that fish abound in the