Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-12-12

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too high. "Why not let ME 20 into the sheep
which wander over these hillsY' No; that
would have been too gentle. Rather let
| me go into these swine want to be with
the d0nizens OF the mire. / want to associate
with the inhabitants of the filth. Great is
mud! prefer bristles to wings. l would
rather root than fly. like snout better than
wing"
Infdelity SCOTS at the idea that those swine
should have run into the Jake. But it was
| quite natural that under the heat and burn
ing Of that demoniac possession they would
| start for the water to get cooled of Would
hat all the swine thus possessed had 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 out of man into them they
1 now attict the human race with the devils
| of scrofuls that comes from eating the I'M
clean meat! The healthiest people on earth
are the Israelites, because they follow the
| bill OF fare which God in the book of
Leviticus gave to the human race, and our
| splendid French DR.. Pasteur and our
I glorious German DR.. Koch may go on with
their good work Of killing parasites in the
human system; but until the world corrects
its diet, and goes bac. TO the divine resula-
ton at the beginp hg, the human race will
| continne 70 be Possessed OF the devils of
to cross over to the eastern side of Lake
Galilee even in discussion.
Pull away, ye Arab oarsmenl And we
como along the shore near by which stand
| great precipices OF brown aud red and gray
limestone crowned by baSalt in the sides OF
which are vast caverns, sometimes tho hiding
| place OF bandits, and sometimes the home OF
honest shepherds, and sometimes the dwell
! ing place of pigeons and vultures and eagles
| Dnrnc nf HarpdfS hia mi. HID
in these mountain caverns 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 extermina alton.
SO Herod had great cages Of wood, iron
bound, made and filled them with soldiers and
let them down from the top Of the precipices
until they gave signal that they were level
with the caverns, and then from these cages
they stepped out to the mouth OF the cavernS
and having set enough grass and wood on
fire to fill the caverns with smoke and stran-
gulation, the hidden people would come
forth to die; and if not coming forth volun-
tarily Herods men would pull them out with
long iron hooks, and Josephus says that one
father. rather than submit to the attacking
army flung his wife and seven children down
the precipice and then leaped after them to
his own death.
Now, Oe Arab oarsmen row on with swift
er stroke for we want before noon TO land
at Capernaum, the three years home OF
Jesus But before arrival there we are to
have a new experience. The lake that had
been a smooth surface begins to break up in
TO roughness. The air, which all the morn
ing made our sail almost useless, suddenly
takes hold Of our boat with q grip astonish-
! ing. and our poor craft begins to roll and
pitch and tumble, and in five minutes we
pass from a calm to violence. The contour
OK this lake among the hills is an invitation to
hurricanes. | used to wonder why it was
that on so limited a sheet OF water q be-
stormed boat in Christ's time did not put
back to shore when hurricane was coming.
l wonder no more.
On that lake au atmospheric fury gives no
warniug and the change We saw in five
minutes made me feel that the boat in which
Christ sailed may have been skilfuly man
aged when the tempest struckit and the wild,
importunate cry went up, Lord save us or
we perish" had all along that morning
been reading from the New Testament the
story of occurrences on and around that lake
But our Bible was closed now, and 1t was as
much as we could do to hold fast and wish
for the land. IL the wind and the waves had
continued TO increase in violence the follow
ing fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the
first five, and we had been still at their mercy
our bones would have been bleaching in the
bottom Of Lake Gennesaret instead Of our
being here to tell tho story
But the same power that rescued the fish
ermen Of old to-day safely landed our party.
What a Christ for rough weather. All the
sailor boys ought to fly to Him as did those
Galilean mariners. All you in the forecastle
and all you who run up and down the sin
perry ratlines take to sea with you Him wno
with a quiet word sent the winds back
through the mountain gorges. Some OF you
Jack Tars to whom these words will come
need to tack ship" and change your course
il you are going to get across this sea OF life
safely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay
therei Ready about Helms a-leei Main
sail haul
star of pescel beam DER the bIllow,
Bless the soul that sighs for thee;
Bless the sailors lonely pillow,
Far, far at sea.
Here at Capernaunl, the Arabs having in
their arms carried us ashore to the only
place where our Lord ever hal pastorate
and we stepped amid the ruins OF the church
where He preached again and again and
again-the synagogue whose rich sculptur-
ing lay there, not as when others see it in
springtime covered with weeds and loath.
some with reptiles, but in that December
weather completely uncovered to our sg-
tated and intense gaze? On one stone OF that
synagogue is the sculpturing of pot of
mama, an artistic contamination OF the
time when the Israelites were fed by mama
Ill tue uuu W WHICH SCuipJut
no doubt Christ pointed upward while He
was preaching that sermon on this very spot
in which He said: mot as our fathersdid eat
mama and are dead; he that eateth of this
bread snail live forever" Wonderful Ca
psrnaum! Scene OF more miracles than any
place in all the earth! Blind eyes kindlng
with the morning. Witheret arms made to
puIsste. Lepers blooming into health. The
dead girl terminated.
These Arab tents which on this December
day find in Palestine disappear, and l ses
Capernaum as 1t was when Jesus was pastor
of tho church here. Look at that wealthy
home, the architecture, the marble 'front.'
the upholstery, the slaves in uniform at the
doorway. 1t is tho residence OF a courtier OF
Herod, probably Chuza by name, his wife
Joanna a Christian disciple. But something
is the matter. The slaves are in great ex-
element, and the courtier living there runs
down the front steps and takes horsc and
puts him at full run across the country The
boy of that nobleman is dying of typhoid
fever. All the doctors nave FAILED 60 give
relief. But about five miles up the country,
ut Cana there is q divine doctor, Jesus by
name, and the agouize1 father has gone tor
Him, and with what earnestnsss those can
understand who have had dying child in
the house. This courtier cries to Christ
"Come down ere my child der
While the father is absent and at O'Clock
In the afternoon, the people watching thu
dying boy see change in tho countenance
, and Joanna the mother. OIL one side OF hi
couch, says: "Why, this darling is gettinl
, we'll the fever has broken. See the prespira
ton on his forehead. Did any of you Civ
, him any new kind of mediciueT mo" !
, the answer. The boy turns on his pillow
! his deirium gone, and asks for something Il
, eat and says: where's fatherr oh, heha
| gone up to Cana TO get young doctor o
, about thirty-onc years OF age. But no docto
! is needed now in this house at Capernaum
, The people look at the sun dial to see wha
j. time it is, and Fes it is just past noon and
:, O'CLOCK. Then they start out and meet tn
!; returning father and as soon as they com