Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04

tiers of this lake regiou-Jesus and Herod
Antipas. And did any age produce any
such antipodes, any such antitheses, any
such opposites? Kindness and cruelty
holiness and filth, generosity and mes =
ness, self-sacrIfce md seiflshuess. the
! supernal and the internal. midnoon and
midnight. The father Of this Herod
AntiDas was genius at assassination.
He could
MANUFACTURE MORE REASONS
any man in all history. He sends for
Hyrcanus to come from Babylon TO Ie-
rusalem 10 be made high priest and slays
him. He has his brother-in-law, while
in bathing with him, drowned by the
kings attendants. He Stays his wife
and his wife's mother, and two of bis
sons and lis uncle, and filled volume
OF atrocities, the last chapter OF which
was the massacre of oil the babes at
Bethlehem. With such 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 u com bination of wolf, reptile
and hyena. While the Christ who
walked yonder banks aud suiled these
waters was so good that almost
every rood of this scenery is associated
with some wise word or some kindly
deed. aud 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, nnd is TO be. The Christly
and HerOdic characters as dlffersnt 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 lifsless; the waters of the
one sweet and pleasant to taste, the
other bitter and sharp anu disgusting.
Awful Dead sea!
GLORIOUS GESNEsARET.
We will not attempt to cross to the
cas- ern side Of this lake, as l had
thought 10 do, for those regions are in
hnhited by q thieving and murderous
race, and one must 90 thoroughly armed
and rs never shot anyone and hare no
ambition TO be shot, said: "Let us
stay by the western shors.'' But we
look over to the hills of Gudara, on the
other side, down which 2000 swine after
being possessed 10y the devil ran into the
lake and bringing down on Christ for
permitting it the wrath of all the stock
rnisers of that country. because of this
running of the pork business. You see
that Satan is spirit of bad taste. Why
did he not say: 'Lst me go into those
birds, whole florks Of which fly over
Galiee. No: that would have been
too high. "Why not let me go into the
sheep that wander over these hills?"
No, that would have been too gentle.
Rat her let me 90 into these swine. /
want TO be with the denIzens of the mire.
want to associate with the inhabitants
of the filth. Great is mud! l prefer
bristles TO wings. l would rather root
than fly. ] like suout better than
wing.
Infdeity SCOTS at the idea that those
swine should have run into the lake.
But 1t was quite natural that under the
heat and burning of that demoniac pos
session, they would start for the water
TO GET COOLED OFF.
Would that all the swine thus pnssessed
had plunged to The same drowning for
TO this day the descendants of some or
those porcine creatures retain the de-
mons. and as the devils were cast out of
man into them they now afflict the hu-
man race with the devils of scrofula that
comes from eating the uncleun meat.
The healtnest people on earth are the
Israeiites because they follow the bill of
fare which God in the book of Leviticus
gave 10 the human race, and our SPLEEN
did French Doctor Pusteur, aud 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 TO the
Divine regulation at the beginning, the
human race will continue to be possessed.
Of the devils of mcrobe and parasite.
But l did not mean TO cross over 10 the
eastern side of Lake Gulilee even in dis
cusSion.
Pull away, We Arab oarsmen! And
we come along the shore near by which
stand great precipices of brown and red
and gray limestone crowned by basalt in
the sides OF which are vast caverns,
the hiding place of bandits, |
and sometimes the home of honest shep-
herds and sometimes the dwelling pare
IF pigeons, vultures and eagles. During |
1ne of Hprod i wars his enemies hid in
these mountain caverns and tbs sides |
were too steep for Herod's army TO de- !
stSuu, ana tuS attempt 10 ciiilD III tn6 |
face of armed men would have called |
Town determination. So Rsrod had great !
ages Of wood, IRON bound, made and |
illed them with soldiers and let them |
Town from the top of the preciplces until
hey gave signal that they were
LEVEL WITH THE CAvERNs,
and then from these cages they stepped
,ut to the mouth of the caverns and
lav!ng set enough grass and wood on fire
% fill the cuverns with smoke and strau-
.ulatiun, the hidden people would come
'orth to die; and il not coming forth VOL
lnturily, Heroi's men would pull them
,ut with long iron hooks, and Josephus
ays that one father rather than submit
20 the attacking army, flung his wife
md seven children down the precipice,
md then leapsd after them to his own
ieaih.
Now, ye Arab oarsman, row on with
writer stroke, for we want before noon
o land at Capernanm, the three-years'
ZONE OF Jesus. But before arrival there
Se are TO have new experience. Ths
axe that had been smooth surface be-
rims to break up into roughnsss. The
Iir which all the morning made our sail
almost useless, suddenly takes hold of
'ur boat with grip astonishing, and
'ur poor craft begins to roll and pitch,
MI fufphla and in five mir far |