The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-12-03
walks the beach of tbI. lake or sails Al

Antipas. And did any age produce an
such antipodes, any such antitheset
any such opposites? Kindness and cru
city, holiness and filth, generosity an
meanness, self-sacriflce and selflshness
the supernal and the Internal, midnool
and midnight. The father Of thi
Herod Antipas was a genius at assassi
nation. lie could manufacture NOR
. reasons for putting people out of thi
, life than any man in all history. H,
sends for Hyrcanus TO come from Baby
Ion to Jerusalem to be made high prizes
and Stays him. He has his brother-in
law while in bathing with him drowned
by the Kings attendants He slays hi
wife and his wife's mother, and two o
his sons and his uncle, and filled q vol
ume OF atrocities, the last chapter o.
which was the massacre Of all the babet
at Bethlehem. With such father
as Herod the Great you are moi
surprised that this Herod Antipas
whose palace stood on the banks
OF this lake we now sail, was O
combination Of wolf reptile, and hyena.
While the Christ who walked yonder
banks and sailed these waters was 90
good that almost every rod Of this
scenery Is associated with some wise
word or some kindly deed, and all lit
erature. and all art, and all earth, and
oil heaven are pu. to the utmost effort
In trying to express how grand and
glorious and lovely He was, and is, and
Is to be. The Christly and Herodic
characters as different as the two lakes
we visit and not far apart, Galilee and
Dead Sea; the one flower-banked and
the other bituminous and blasted; the
one lowered over by the mercy OF Christ,
the other blasted by the wrath of God;
the one full Of finny tribes sporting in
the clear depths the other forever life
less; the waters OF the one sweet and
pleasant to the taste, the other bitter
and sharp and disgusting. Awful Dead
Sea! Glorious Gennesaretl
We will not attempt to cross to the
eastern side OF the lake, as had thought
to do, for those regions are inhabited BY
thieving and murderous race, and one
must 60 thoroughly armed, and as
never shot anyone and have no ambition
to be shot, said, "Let US stay by the
western shore" But we look over to the
hills OF Gadara, on the other side, down
which two - thousand swine after
being possessed OF the devil ran
into the lake, and bringing down
on Christ for permitting it, the wrath
OF all the stock rsisers of that country
because OF his running of the pork busi-
ness. You SEQ that Satan is spirit OF
bad taste. Why did no not say: "Let
me go into those birds, whole focks Of
which fly over Galilee." No, that would
have been too high. "Why not let mo
go into the sheep which wander over
these hills2' No, that would have been
too gentle. Rather let me 20 into
these swine. want to be with tho |
denizens Of the mire. want to associ-
ate with the inhabitants Of the filth. |
Great is mud! prefer bristles to wings.
would rather rot than fly. like snout
better than wing"
1nidelity SCOTS at tho idea that those
swine should have run into the lake.
But 1t was quite natural that under the
heat and burning OF that demoniac DOS.
session they would start for tho water
10 get cooled of. Would that all the
swine thus possessed had plunged TO the
'amo drowning, for TO this day the de-
'cendants OF some OF those porcine crea-
lures retain the demons, and as tho
lewis were cast out OF man into them,
hey now afilict the human race with the
ievils OF scrofula that comes from cat
ng the unclean meat. The healthiess
people on earth arc the Israelites be-
'ause they follow the bill Of fare which
}od in the book OF Leviticus gave TO
he human race, and our splendid French
Doctor Pasteur and our glorious Doctor
Koch may go on with their good work
Il killing parasites in the human sys-
en-, but until the world corrects its ,
liet and goes back TO the divine regula-
lon at the beginning, the human race
Till continue to be possessed OF the ,
evils OF microbe and parasite. But 1
Id not mean TO cross over TO the east .
IN side Of Lake Galileo even in discus !
lon.
Pull away, ye Arab oarsmenl And we !,
ONE along the shore near by which
tand great precipices OF brown and red ,,
nd grey limestone, crowned by basals
the sides OF which are vast caverns,
ometimes the hiding place OF bandits,
nd sometimes tho homo OF honest shep- !
erds, and sometimes the dwelling
lace OF pigeons and vulturos and eagles. :
'uring one Of Herod's wars his enemies
Id In these mountain caverns and the
des wore too steep for Herod's army
descend, and the attempt to climb in :,
10 face Of armed men would 1,
ave called down determination. :,
D Herod had great cages OF :
ood, iron-bound, made and filled them =
ith soldiers and let thom down from !.
10 top OF the precipices until thoy gave
signal that they wore level with the =
Iverns, and then from these cages they y
epped out to the mouth OF the caverns, :,
nd, having set enough grass and wood =
firo TO fill the caverns with smoke =
I'd strangulation, the hidden people =
ould come forth to die; and II not COM =
g forth voluntarily, Herod's men =
ould pull them out with long iron y
'oks, and Josephus says that one father =
'ther than submit TO the attacking =
my, flung his wife and seven children u
'wn q precipice, and then leaped after
em TO his own death. q
Now, ye Arab oarsmen, row on with o
Vifter stroke, for we want before noon y
land at Capernaum, the three years ?
,me Of Jesus. But before arrival there o
0 are to have new experience. The II