Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03

frieZe reman, mgnCly suggestive oA the time when Herod Antipas had palace here and reigned with an opu- lence and pomp and cruelty and abomination that paralyzes the fingers of the historian when he comes to write it and the fingers of the painter when he attempts to transfer it to can vas suppose he was one of the worst men that ever lived. And what con- trast of character comes at every mo- ment to the thoughtful traveller in Pal estine, whether he walks the beach of this lake or sails as we now do these watersl
 TWO GREAT CHARACTERS OF THE RE
 s GIoN. !
 Side by side are the two great char acters of this lake region, Jesus iand Herod Antipas And did any age pro duce any such antipodes, any such an titheses, any such opposites2 Kind ness and cruelty, holiness and filth, generosity and meanness, self sacri- flee and selfishness, the supernal and the internal, midnoon and midnight. The father of this Herod Antipas was a genius at assassination. He could manufactur> more reasons for putting people out of this life than any man in all history He sends for Hyrcanus to come from Babylon to Jerusalem to be made high priest and stays him. He has his brother-in-law while in bathing with him drowned by the kings at tendants. He stays his wife and his wife's mother, and two of his sons and his uncle, and filled a volume of atroci- ties, the last chapter of which was the massacre of all the babes at Bethle- hem.
 With such a 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 a combination of wolf, reptile and hy- ena, while the Christ who walked wonder 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 hovered 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 ifeless; 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 nurderous race, and one must go thoroughly armed, and as I never shot anyone and have no ambition to be shot, I said, 'cLet us stay by the western shore" l" 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 mittingI it. .tM wrath of all the stock raisers t country, because of this ruinin1 hep pork business. You see that s iB aspirit of bad taste. Why did he H9ksB1y: 'Let me go into those birds, wholehocks of which fly owe, Galilee." :" No; that would have been too high ''Why not let me go into the sheep which wander over these hills2' No; that would have been toe gentle. Rather let me go into these swine I want to be with the denizens of the mire. want to associate with the inhabitants of the filth. Great is mudl I prefer bristles to wings. would rather root than fly. I like snout better than wing"
 Infidelity scoffs 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 demoniat possession they would start for the wa l ter to get cooled off. Would that al the swine thus possessed had plunged to the same drowning, for to this day the descendants of some of those DOT 1 cine creatures retain the demons, anG as the devils were cast out of mar into them, they now affict the human race with the devils of scrofula tha comes from eating the unclean meat l The healthiest people on earth are tn, Iraelites, because they follow the bil l of fare which God in the book of Le viticus gave to the human race, ant our splendid French doctor. Pasteu
 and our glorious German doctor Kocl
 may go on with their good work o
 killing parasites in the human system
 but until the world corrects it's diet ant
 goes back to the divine regulation a
 the beginning the human race vii
 continue to be possessed of the devil
 of microbe and parasite. But I di.
 side of Lake Galilee even in discussion
 PULL AWAY, YE OARsMEN!
 Pull away, ye Arab oarsnen! An,
 we come along the shore near by whicl
 stand great precipices of brown ant
 red and gray limestone crowned b,
 basalt, in the sides of which are vas
 caverns, sometimes the hiding place o
 bandits, and sometimes the home o
 honest shepherds, and sometimes tn
 dwelling place of pigeons and vu'ture
 and eagles. During one oi llofod'
 wars his enemics hid in these mountail
 caverns, and the sides were too stee
 for Herod's army to descend, and tn
 attempt to climb in the face of arlne
 men would have called down extel
 mination. So Herod had great cage l l ] ]. Ia