News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-04

/ VIE 5 mother, anu TWO Oh Ills SOILS aDC
his uncle, and filed a volume of atroci
ties, the last chapter of which was the
massacre of all the babes at Bethle
hem.
With such n father as Herod the
Great you are not surprised that thi.
HerOd Antipas, whose palace stood OF
the banks of this lake we now sail. wa.
combination of wolf, reptile and by
ena, while the Christ who walked
yonder banks and sailed these waters
was so good that almost every rood o.
this scenery is associated with some
wise word or some kindly deed, and al
| 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 he was and is and
is to be. The Christly and Herodic
characters as different as 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
| forever lifeless; the waters of the one
sweet and pleasant to the taste, the
other bitter and sharp and disgusting.
! Awful Dead seal 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 thieving and murderous
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 is a spirit of bad taste. Why
did he not say: Let me go into those
birds, whole flocks of which fly over
Galilee." No; that would have been
too high. why not let me go into
the sheep which wander over these
hills" No; that would have been too
gentle. Rather let me go into these
swine. l want to be with the denizens
of the mire. want to associate with
the inhabitants of the filth. Great is
mud | prefer bristles to wings. |
would rather root than fly. | like
snout better than wing"
Infidelity 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 demoniac
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 afflict the human
race with the devils of scrofula that
comes from eating the unclean meat.
The healthiest people on earth are the
Israelites. 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 go 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 l did
not mean to cross over to the eastern
side of Lake Galilee even in discussion.
PULL AWAY, YE oARsMEN!
Pull away, we Arab oarsmenl And
we come along the shore near by which
stand great precip;ces 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
caverns, and the sides were too steep
for Herods 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 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 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
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 with
swifter 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 into roughness. The |
air which all the morning made our sail |
almost useless suddenly takes hold Of |
our boat with a grip astonishing, and |
our poor craft begins to roll and pitch |
and tumble, and in five minutes we
pass from n calm to violence. The /
contour of this lake among the hills is
an invitation to hurricanes / used to |
wonder why it was that on so limited
sheet of water a bestormed boat in
Christ's time did not put back to shore
when hurricane was coming. | won
der no more. On that lake an atmOs- |
pheTic 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 managed when |
the tempest struck it and the wild i'm |
Fortunate cry went up, Lord save us
or we perish!" / had all along that |
morning been reading from the New |
Testament the story of occurrences Oh
and around that lake. But our Bible |
was closed now, and it was us much as
we could do to hold fast and wish for
the land.
If the winds and the waves had con
tinued to increase in violence the fol
lowing fifteen minutes in the same ra-
ito as in the first five, and we had
been still at their mercy, our bones
would have been bleaching in the bot
tom of L; Ike Gennt saret instead of our
being here to tell the story but the