Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

Jerusalem to be made high priest, and
Stays him. He has his brother-in-law while
in bathing with him drowned by the kings
attendants He Stays his wife and his
wife's mother and two of his sons and his
uncle, and filed volume of atrocities, the
last chapter Of which was the massacre of
all the babes nc Bethlehem.
With such a father as Herod the Great
You are not surprised that this Herod An
tipas, whose palace stood on the banks of
this lake we now sail. was combination
OF wolf reptile and hyena; while the
Christ who walked yonder banks and sailed
these waters WIS So good that almost every
rood Of this scenery is associated with some
wise word or some kindly deed, and all
literature and all art and all earth and all
heaven are put to the utmost effort in try
/ ing 10 express how grand and glorious and
4 lovely he was and is and is to be The
i Christly and Herodic characters rs differ
/ ent rs the two lakes we visit, and not far
apart Galilee and the 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 for
ever lifeless the waters of the one sweet
and pleasant to the taste, the other bitter
and sharp and disgusting. Awful Dead
sea! Glorious Gennesaret
We will not attempt to cross to the
eastern side of this lake, as had thought
TO do, for those regions are inhabited by a
thieying and murderous race and one
must go thoroughly armed, and as | never
shot any one aud have no ambition to be
shot, said: Let us stay by the western
| shore But we look over 20 the hills of
6adara, on the other side, down which two
| thousand swine after being possessed by
the devil RIM into the lake, and bringing
down on Christ for permitting 10 wrath
OF all the stock raisers of that country be-
cause Of this running Of the pork business.
You see that Satan is spirit of bad taste.
Why did he not say: Let me 20 into those
birds, whole iiocks Of which ifs over Cali
leeS' Mo- that would have been too high.
why not let me 20 into the sheep which
wander over these hillsfn No: that would
have been too gentle Rather let me 20
into these swine. want to be with the
denizens of the miro want 10 associate
with the inhabitants Of the filth Great is
mud prefer hristles to wings. would
rather root thnn ny ! like snout better
than wing
THE SOOTHING OF INFiDELITY.
Infdelity scoiIs at the idea that those
swine should have run into the lake. But
it was quite natural that under the heat
and burning Of that demoniac possession
they would start for the water TO get cool
ed OH. Would that all the swine thus pos
sessed bad plunged TO the same drowning
for this day the descendants of some OF
those porcine creatures retain the demons,
and as the devils were cast ont of man into
them they now atIlict the human race with
the devils Of scrofula, that comes from eat
ing the unclean meat The healthiest peo-
pie on earth are the Israelites. because they
follow the bill of fare which God in the
book OF Leyiticus gave TO the human race,
and our splendid French DR.. Pasteur and
our glorious German DR.. Koch may 20 on
with their good work Of killing parasites
in the human system; but until the world
corrects its diet, and goes back TO the
divine regulation at the beginning, the
human race will continue to be possessed
Of the devils of microbe and parasite But
did not mean TO cross over TO the eastern
side Of Lake Galilee even in discussion
Pull away, ye Arab oarsmenl And we
come along he shore near by which stand
great precipices OF brown and red and gray
limestone crowned by basalt, in the sides
Of which are vast caverns, sometimes the
hiding place Of bandits, and sometimes the
home Of honest shepherds, and sometimes
the dwelling place Of pigeons and vultures
and eagles. During one Of Herod's wars
his enemies hid in these mountain oaverns
and the sides were too steep for Herod's
army to descend, and the attempt to climb
in the face Of armed men would have
called down determination. So Herod had
great cages Of wood, iron bound, made and
filled them with soldiers and let them I
down from the top Of the precipices until /
they gave signal that they were level with |
the cayerns and then from these cages /
they stepped out to the mouth of the cav
erns, aud having set enough grass and /
wood on fire to fill the caverns with smoke |
and strangulation, the hidden people /
would come forth 10 die; and if not coming /
forth voluntarily Herod's men would pull /
them out with long iron hooks, and Jose 4
plus says that one father, rather than sub I
init to the attacking army, flung his wife 1
and seven children down the precipice and |
then leaped after them to his own death.
WE WANT TO PREACH CAPERNAUAi
Now, We Arab oarsmen, row on with
swifter stroke. for we want before noon to
land at Capernaum, the three years home
Of Jesus But before arrival there we are
10 have a new experience The lake that
had been a smooth surface begins to break
mp into roughness. The air. which all the
morning made our sail almost useless, sud
lenly takes hold of our boat with grip
and our poor craft begins to
roll and pitch and tumble, and in five min
ltes we pass from a calm to violence The
contour of this lake among the hills is an
invitation to hurricanes. | used to won
Ter why it was that on so limited sheet
II water a bestormed boat in Christ's time
lid not put back to shore when a hurri-
,ane was coming wonder no more.
On that lake an atmospheric fury gives
10 warning, and the change we saw in five
minutes made me feel that the boat in
which Christ sailed may have been skill
ully managed when the tempest struck it
md the wild, importunate cry went up,
Lord save US or we perisht' had all along
hat morning been reading from the New
Testament the story of occurrences on and
,round that lake. But our Bible was
losed now, and it was as much as we could
10 TO hold fast, and wish for the land. If
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