The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-16
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to teach in the synagogue and many hear
ing Him were astOnished" Mark vi, p
But to whatever extent He may have "as-
tonlshed" them, whether in that structure
or elsewhere, there is no evidence that Je-
sus ever had anything of following among
His fellowtownsmen of Nazareth and
none OF His great miracles were performed
there. In fact the gospel expressly states
that He could there do no mighty work"
being a prophet without honor Sin His
own country and among His own kin"
Mark vi, 81 They would not accept as
divine TIE meek and lowly one who had
grown up among them, and when He arose
before them and "opened the book" with
the startling declaration: "The spirit of the
Lord is upon me-" with amazement and
anger ''the eyes of all of them that were
III the synagogue were fastened on Him."
as they said one to another: "Is not this
the carpenter?" as not this JoseDh's
son" who sacrilegiously assumes ito
preach deliverance" to us who have
known Him all His life, and then "filled
with wrath" they rose up and thrust
Him out of the city, and led Him unto
the brow of the hill whereon their city
was built, that they might cast Him down
headlong." luke iv.)
Judging from the present hight OF the
ont. of Precipitation, which is shown as
the hill from which they sought to least
Him down" it would not have hurt Him
very seriously If they had, but the same
account tells us that He escaped in safety
and passing through the midst of them
went His way and came down to Caper-
naum," the new home from whence He
never again returned. to the unbelieving
city OF His youth. While at Nazareth my
tent was pitched north of tue town, close
to the Greek monastery, where l again
fell in with English-speaking fellow-trav-
elers, Lady Maginnis and party from
London being in camp on the same
ground. During the night previous to my
departure a terrific storm of wind and
rain came up and about o'clock in the
morning was aroused by cries of alarm
from my neighbors' tents only to find that
one side of my own had been blown in
and was in danger of tumbling down on
top of me. After loud wells for assistance
my Arab contingent finally came to my
relief, and, after hastily digging rough
trench to carry off the stream of water
running through the tent. they again Sc
cured the ropes and stakes as best they
could under the circumstances. But so
night the work was not very effectively
done and | was compelled to spend the
few hours yet remaining before daylight
with my umbrella raised over my bed,
condition of affairs not exactly conducive
to pleasant dreams. Upon getting up in
the morning l found that my neighbors
had suffered much more severely than |
had, their tents being wrecked to such an
extent that they had been compelled in
the middle of the night to seek refuge
within the hospitable walls of the monas-
terry. But il we who had been better sit
uated were inconvenience by the war of
the elements, what must have been the ex-
perlence of the poor muleteers, who, fol-
lowing their usual fashion, had slept on
the bare ground in the open air. These
hardy fellows crawl into kind of rough
camel's-halr sleeping sack" completely
enveloping their heads as well as their
bodies and sleep peacefully anywhere and
under any circumstances regardless OF
wind or weather. This was their last
night in my service, as l here babe adieu
to the tents and all my camping retinue
except one muleteer who was to carry the
baggage of Sasoor and myself as far as
CaifIa, where l was to take the Austrian
Lloyd steamer for Beyrout, which touches
at that out-of-the-way port once every two
weeks. The storm which had ragged
through the night increased to a perfect
hurricane as daylight advanced and poor
Sasoor. who had not been feeling in the
best of condition Tor several DAYS, appealed
to me by all the saints in the Greek calen-
dar not to attempt the long ride to Caiffa
through such deluge, but as | was Obliged
to catch that particular steamer or else
change all my plans or wait fortnight
longer in that forsaken country until an
other one arrived, | announced my deter
mination to make the effort despite "high
water" and that warm and Objectionable
place usually mentioned in connection
Herewith. Sasoor called the dragoman
of the other party to his aid together they
tried to convince me that we could never
reach there in time; that we should lose
our way, and even that the road was dam
gerous in such a tempest; but all to no
purpose, and so we finally mounted and
rode away from the memorable old city,
living witnesses that even in this degener-
ate day something exceptionally good"
can "come ont of Nazareth"
AS we continued on our way
ssThe storm that tor a space did fail
Now treby laundering swelled the gale,''
and in all my varied, if not variegated, ca
reer | never beheld anything like it be-
fore The experience on Mt. Tabor was
bad enough, but it was a summer shower
compared to this, and during the entire
trip it did not let up for a moment. The
heavy rain was accompanied by fierce
bowling blast that swept across the plain