Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-01
beach of this lake or sails as we now do

tiers of this lake regiou-Jesus and Herod
Antipss. And did any age produce any
such antipodes, any such autltheses, any
such opposites? Kindness and cruelty
holiness and filth, generosity and meo =
ness, self-sacrIfce and selfshness, the
superual and the Internal, midnoon and
midnight. The father OF this Herod
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 Je-
rusalem 10 be made high priest and Stays
him. He has his brother-in-la law, while
in bathing with him, drowned by the
kings attendants. He Stays his wife
and his wife IS mother, and two of his
sons and his uncle, and filed q volume
of atrocities, the last chapter of which
was the massacre of all the babes at
Bethlehem. With such q 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 com bination of wolf, reptile
and hyena. While the Christ who
walked youder 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 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 taste, the
other bitter and sharp and disgusting.
Awful Dead sea,
GLORIOUS GENNESARET.
We vii! not attempt TO cross TO the
cas- ern side of this lake, as l had
thought to DO, for those regions are in
habited by thieving and murderous
race, and one must 20 thoroughly armed
and as l 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 GadGra, on the
other side, down which.2000 swine after
being possessed by the devil ran into the
lake and bringing down on Christ tor
permitting it the wrath of all the stock
raisers of that country, because of this
running of the pork business. You see
that Satan is q spirit of bad taste. Why
did he not say: LET me go into those
birds, whole fiocks Of which fly over
Galilee.' No: that would have been
too high. 'Why not let me go into the
I,y1
No, that would have been too gentle.
Rather let me go Into these swine. l
want 10 be with the denIzens of the mire.
I 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"
Infdeiity SCOTS at the idea that those
swine should have run into the lake.
Bat II was quite natural that under the
heat and burning of that 6emoniac pos
session, they would start for the water
TO GET COOLED OFF.
Would that ali the swine thus possessed
had plunged 10 the same drowning for
10 this day the descendants of some of
those porcine creatures retain the de-
mons, and as the devils were cast out of
man into them, they now eftiict the hu-
man race with the devils of scrofula that
comes from eating the unclean meat.
The healtniest people on earth are the
israslites because they follow the bill of
fare which God in the book of Leviticus
gave to the human race, and our spleD-
did French Doctor Pasteur, and our
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 back 10 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 10 the
eastern side of Lake Galilee even in dis
cussion.
Pull away, ye Arab oarsmen. And
we come along the shore near by which
stand great precipices OF brown and red
and gray limestone crowned by bnsalt in
the sides of which are vast caverns,
sometimes the hiding place of bandits,
and sometimes the home of honest shep-
herds and sometimes the dwelling place
of pigeons, vultures and eagles. During
one of Herod IS wars his enemies hid in
these mountain caverns and the sides
were too steep for Eerod's army to de-
scend, and the attempt to climb in the
face of armed men would have called
down determination. So Herod had greet
cages of wood, iron bound, made and
filled them with soldiers and let them
down from the top of the preciplces 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 csverns with smoke and stran-
gulation, the hidden people would come
forth to die; and if not coming forth vol
unfairly, Herod 3 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
aud seven children down the precipIce,
and then leaped after them 10 his own
death.
Now, We Arab oarsman, row on with
swifter stroke, for we want before noon
TO land at Capernaum, the three-years'
hons of Jesus. But before arrival there
we are 70 have a new experience. The
lake that had been q smooth surface be-
gins 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
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