The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-12
Infidelity SCOTS at the idea that those

session they would start for the water
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 porcine
creatures retain the demons, and as the
devils were cast out of man into them,
they now affiict the human race with
the devils of scrofula that come from
eating the unclean meat. The health
lest people on earth are the Israelites
because they follow tho bill of fare
which God in the book of Leviticus
gave to the human race.
During one of Herod's wars his ene-
mics hid in these noun tain 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 determination. So
Herod had great cages Of wood, iron
bound, made and filled them with SOL
diers 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
strangulation, the hidden people would
come forth to die; and II 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 precipice and then leaped after
them to his own death.
Now, We Arab oarsmen, row on, for
we want before noon to land at CGper-
naum, the three years home of Jesus
But before arrival there we are to have
a new experience. The lake that had
been smooth surface begins to break
up into roughness. The air which all
the morning made our sail almost USE
less, suddenly takes hold of our boat
with grip astonishing, and our poor
craft begins to roll and pitch and tum-
BILE, and in five minutes we pass from a
calm to violence. On that lake an at
mospheric fury gives no warning, and
the change we saw in five minutes made
me feel that the boat in which Christ
sailed may have been skillfully man
aged, when the tempest struck it, and
the wild importunate cry went up:
Lord save US or we perish" II the
winds and the waves had continued to
increase in violence the following fif-
teen 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 Gen.
nesaret instead of our being here to tell
the story!
But the same power that rescued the
fishermen of old, to-day safely landed
our party. What Christ for rough
weather! All the sailor boys ought to
fly TO him as did those Galilean mari
ners All you in the forecastle, and all
you who run up and down the slippery
ratlines, take to sea with you Him who
with quiet word sent the winds back
through the mountain gorges
'star of peace! beam DER the billow
Bless the soul that signs for thee:
Bless the sailors lonely pillow,
Far, far at sea"
Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having
in their arms carried us ashore to the
only place where our Lord ever had
pastorate, and we stepped amid the
ruins of the church where He preached
again and again, the synagogue, whose
rich sculpturing lay there, not as when
others see it in springtime covered with
weeds and loathsome with reptiles,
but in that December weathe- COM
pletely uncovered to our agitated and
intense gaze. On one stone of that
synagogue is the sculpturing of a pot
Of mamma, an artistic commemoration of
the time when the Israelites were fed
by mama in the wilderness, and to
which sculpturing no doubt, Christ
ing that sermon on this very spot, in
which he said: Not as your fathers
did eat mama and are dead; he that
eateth of this bread shall live forever"
These Arab tents which on this De-
cember day find in Palestine disappear
and 1 see Capernaum as it was when
Jesus was pastor of the church b. fe
Look at that wealthy home, the archi-
lecture, the marble front, the up
holstery the slaves in uniform at the
doorway. 1t is the residence of court
Ter of Herod, probably Ctuza by name,
his wife. Joanna, Christian disciple
But something is the matter. The
slaves are in great excitement and the
courtier living there runs down the
front steps and takes horse and puts
him. at full run across the country. The
boy of that nobleman is dying of ty-
phoid fever. All the doctors have failed
to give relief But about five miles up
the country, at Cana, there is a Divine
Doctor, Jesus by name and the agonized
father has gone for him, and with what
earnestness those can understand who
have had dying child in the house.
This courtier cries to Christ: Come
down ere my child die!"
While the father is absent and at
o'clock in the afternoon the people
watching the dying boy see a change
in the countenance and Joanna, the
on one side of his couch says:
why, this darling is getting we'll; the
fever has broken; see the perspiration
on his forehead; did any of you give
him any new kind Of medicine?" NO"
is the answer. The boy turns on his
pillow, his delirium gone, and asks for
to eat and says: where's
father?" Oh, he has gone up to Cana
to get young doctor of about 81 years
Of age. But no doctor is needed now in
this house at Capernaum. The people
look at the sun dial to find what time
Of the day it is and see it is just past
noon and 1 o'clock. Then they start
out and meet the returning father and
As soon as they come within speaking
distance they shout at the top of their
voices: Your boy is getting we'll" SIS
It possible?" says the father; when