The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-01

valEet yonder banks and sailed these
va ers was good that almost every r Cd
Of thus scelery Is assoc -ated with some wise
word or some kindly deed, and all literature,
and all art, AMI al earth, aad all heaven are
put - the utmost effort in irving to
express how grant and glorious ami lovely
he was, and is. and IS to be The Chris "
and herodic Characters, as different as the
tSo lakes we visit and not far apart, GALL q
and the Dead Ses: the one oaer-banked
and the other bitUminous and blasted; the
one lowered over by the mercy Of Christ,
the ether blasted By the wrath Of God; She
che fun OF finny tribes spf ring in the Gle ar
de tins, the other forever hf-leSs; the waters
Of the one sweet and pleasant TO the taste,
the other bitter and sharp and disgusting.
Awful Dead Sea Glorious GenDesar et
We viii not ATTEMPT to cross to the east
ern side OF this lake, as | had thought to do
for those regions are inhabited " thiev-
ing and ugrdsrous race, and one must 90
thoroughly AIMED, and as | never shot any
one AID have No ambition 70 be shot. said :
Let us stay by the western shore" But ve
look over 20 the hills Of Gadara on the
other side. down whic1 1000 swine. after
being 20 sesssd by the devil, ran into the
lake. aud bringing down OF Christ for per-
uittlnE II the wrath Of all the stock raj .ers
of that country, because of this running
Of the PORK business. You see that
satan Is spirit Of bad taste. Why did he
whole tocks of which fly over Galileen
N; g. would have BEEN TOO high. "Why
not let me g into tia sheep, which wander
over these hills!n No: that would have
been too gentle. Rather let me % into
these swine. | want to be with the deni-
zens OF the mire. l want to associate with
the Inhabitants Of the filth. Great
is mudl l prefer bristles to
wings would rather root
tina fly, I ike snout butter than wing"
Iufdeiity SCOTS at the idea that those
swine should have run into the lake. But
IL was quite natural that under the heat and
burning # that demons possession, they
would ssart for the water to get cooled of.
Would trat all the swine thus possessed had
plunged TO the same drowning, for 10 this
day the defendants If some Of those porcine
creatures retain the demons, and as the
devils were cast out Of man int them, they
now sffiict the human race with the devils
of scroIula that comes from eating the
unclean meat The healthiest people on
earth are The Israeli.es, because they follow
the bill Of fare which God in the book of
Leviticus gave 10 the human race, and our
splendid French doctor, Pasteur, and our
glorious G rman, DIR. Koca, may go N With
their good work of killing parasites in the
human system: but until the world c0rrecss
Its diet, and 60 back TO the divine regula-
tion at the b-ginni :: the human race will
micr he and parasite. But did not mea
10 cross over TO tie eastern side Of Lake
Gallee even In discussion.
Pull away. ye Arab oarsmenl And we
oome along the shore near by y hicn stand
great precipices 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
homes Of honest Shepherds and mstimes
the dwelling place Of pigeons, and vultur-s
and eagles. During one OF Herods war his
enemis, MD IN these mountain caverns, and |
the SIDES were tho steep for Herod's army t. |
descend, ana the attempt 70 climb in the face |
of aru-ed men would have called down ex- |
termination. So Herod had great cages Of |
wood, iron bound, made, ard filed them |
With 50 diers a d ls. them down from the |
top ot the precipices until they gave signal |
that they were level with the caverns, and |
tber from these cages tie, stepped out TO |
the mouth Of the cayelns, and having set |
enough grass and wood on fire to Fl ! the |
ca eT1s with smoke and strangulation, the |
hidden peorla would come forth to die: aud |
If not Ginning for voluntarily, Heroi's |
men would pull them cut with long iron
HOOKS, and JosepEus says that cne father,
rather than submit to the attacking army,
flung his v lfe and seven children down the
precipice. and then leaped after them to bis
own death.
Now, ye Arab oarsmen. row on with
sEiiter stroke, for we want before noon to |
land at CapernauSl, the three wears home Of |
Jesus. But before arrival there we are TO |
heve new exI erience The lake that had |
been q smooh surface begins to break up |
into rOughness. The air which all the |
morni z made our sail almost useless sud |
denly t9ks5 hold Of our boat with O grip !
astonishing. and our poor craft begins to |
roll and pitch. and tumble, and In Ave |
afF7fz
The contour of this lake among the hills is |
III invitation TO hurricanes. | used to won
der hy II was that on so limited sheet Of |
water a be-storned beat in Chrst's time, |
old lot put back 10 Shore when a hurri- |
cane Was coming. | wonder no !
more. Ga that lake an atmospheric |
fury gives TO warming and the change we |
ga" III five minutes made me feel that the |
bat III which Christ sailed may have been |
skillfuly managed when the tempest |
struck it, and the wild importunate cry
went up: Lord save US, or we perishr' |
had all along that morning been reading
from the New Testament the story of &C.
curTences on and around that lake. But
our Bible was closed now, and it was as
much as we could do to hold fast aud wish
for the land. If the winds d the waves
had continued to increase in violence the
following fifteen minutes in the same ratio
as III the first five. and we had still been at
tHelr mercy, our DOneS would have been
bleaching in the bottom of Lake
Gennesaret instead Of our being here t. tell
Che story. But the same power that rescued
the fishermen Of old to-day safely landed
cur party. What a Christ for rough
weather! All the sailor boys ought TO hy
to him as did those Gailesn mariners All
you IN the forecastle, and all you who run
up and down the slippery ratines, take to
sea with you him who with a quiet word
sent the winds back through the mountain
gorges. Some of you jack tars, to whom
these words will come, nesd to s'tack ship
ana cnange your course if you are going to
get across this sea of life safely, and gain
the eavenly hart or. Delay therel Ready
about! Helms a-leei Mainsail haul You
haye too valuable a cargo on board to run
INTO the Goodwlns or the Skerries.
Star OF peace beam DER the bilIov
Bless the III that signs for taee;
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 tho
church where he preached again aud again,
and again, the synagogue, whose rich
scuipturlng lay there, not IS when others
see ir II spring-time, covered with weeds.
and .oathsome with reptiles, but in that
December weather com lletely uncovered