The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-12-04
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TWO aRRAT CHARACTERS OF THE RE

Side by side are the two great char
acters of this lake region, Jesus and
IIerod Antipas And did any age pro
duce any such antipodes, any such an
tithescs, any such opposites' Kind
ness and cruelty, holiness and filth,
generosity and meanneSs, self sacri.
lice and seltishness, the supernal and
the internal, midnoon and midnight,
The father Of this lierod Antipas was
genius at assassination. He could
manufacture more reasons for putting
people out of this life than any man in
all history He sends for Hyrcanus to
come from Babylon to Jerusalem to be
made high priest and Stays him, He
has his brothcr-in-law while in bathing
with him drowned by the kings at
tendants. He Stays his wife and his
wife's mother and two of his sorS and
his uncle, and filled a volume of atroci-
ties, the last chapter of which was the
massacre of all the babes at Bethle-
hem.
With such a father as Herod the
Great you are not surprised that this
Herod Antipas, whose palace stood on
the banks of this lake we now sail, was
a combination of wolf, reptile and hy-
ena, while the Christ who walked
yondcr banks and sailed these waters
was 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 trying to express how grand and
glorious and lovely lie was and is and
is to be. The ChriStly and Herodic
characters as different as the two lakes
we visit ana 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
forever ifeless; the waters of the one
sweet and pleasant to the taste, the
other bitter and sharp and disgusting
Awful Dead sea! Glorious Gennesa-
ret .......
NO DESIRE TO SHOOT ANY ONE.
We will not attempt to cross to the
eastern side of this lake, as had
thought to do, for those regions are in
habited by Il thieving and murdcrous
race, and one must go 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 Ga
dara, on the other side, down which
two thousand swine after being pos
sessed by the devil ran into the lake,
and bringing down on Christ for per
hitting it the wrath of all the stock
raisers of that country, because of this
running of the pork business You see
that Satan isa spirit of bad taste Why
did he not say: Let NE go into those
birds, whole tlocks of which fly over
Galilee." No; that would have been
too high. why not let me go into
the sheep which wander over these
hills2' No; that would have been too
gentle Rather let me go into these
swine want to be with the denizens
of the mire, | want to associate with
the inhabitants of the filth. Great is
mud prefer bristlcs to wings
would rather root than fly. | like
snout better than wing"
lnii4clity SCOTS 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 delnoniac
possession they would start for the wa
ter to get cooled off. Would that all
the swine thus possessed had plunged
to the same drowning, for to this day
the descendants of some of those por-
cine creatures retain the demons, and
as the devils were cast out of man
into them, they now attiict the human
race with the devils of scrofula that
comes from eating the uncIean meat.
The healthiest people on earth are the
lsraolites. because they follow the bill
of fare which God in the book of lie
viticus gave to the human race, and
our splendid French doctor Pasteur
and our glorious German doctor Koch
may 60 On with their good work of
killing parasites in the human system;
but Until tire world corrects its diet and
goes back to TIE divine regulation at
the beginning the human race will
continue to be possessed of the devils
of microbc and parasite. But | did
not mean to cross over to the eastern
side Of Lake Galileo even in discussion.
PULL AWAY, yE oAESMEN!
Pull away, ye Arab oarsmen! And
we come alons the shore near by which
stand great prcc;:7 ces of brown and
red and grey 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
cavcrns, 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 exter-
mination. So Herod had great cages
of wood, ironbound, made and filed
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 cav
erns with smoke and strangulation, the
hidden people would come forth to die;
and if not coming forth voluntarily,
Herod's 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 rrecipice and then
Ieaped AFTER them TO lis own death
Now, sc Arab oarsmen, row on with
swifter stroke. for we want before noon
to land at Ctpcrnauln, the three years
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