Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-04-12
CALIlEE.
And the Country and Towns Round
abont-Letter Number Il.

On BOARD NEW ENGLAND.
March IA, 1900.
have never been so impressed as
now with the geographical location
of the principal part OF Chriet 5 min
istry and miracles / have always
been too much under the mistaken
thought that Jerusalem was the CEN
ter OF this field. We have ha6 four
hard days journeys to travel from
that city to Nazareth, his home. We
must yet travel another, before we
have reached the Sea of Galilee, where
most of His mighty works were done.
1t was impressive to pass over the
ground of His birth, trial, crucifxiou
and resurrection, but we are yet to
see the scenes of the sermon on the
mount, the feeding of the five thous-
and and the seven thousand, the
sitting of the tempest and the larger
part Of His miracles and parallels.
We started this morning at six
clock that we might have the more
time at the sea. First we must as
cend out of the basin in which lies
Nazareth, and then descend on the
other side Only little way we pass
through Cana of Galilee. where, at
marriage feast, such as was yester-
day given in Nazareth, the first re-
corded miracle took place, How
much better now can we imagine the
reality, for we have passed over the
very road He and His mother trav-
eled to go to Cana.
Going down to Galilee from Naza-
reth is like going down to Jericho
from Jerusalem. 1t is the same Jor
dan valley into which we descend.
But the descent into that valley is
more striking when first one sees it
on the road from Nazareth than on
the road from Jerusalem. Suddenly
we came into the full view of the de-
preston, even before we could see
the sea, and it was a rapid descent.
In due time we came to the Horns
of Hattin. One understands the
cause for the name as soon as he sees
it, for there are two horns to the
mountain Here is where a great
battle was fought in July 1857, and
in which the Mohammedaus utterly
routed the Christians. Far more
pleasant is it to think of it as the
place of the sermon on the mount. |
could easily imagine, as | looked at
it, Jesus and His disciples seated to-
gether, and the very words echoed in
my mind as | stood before it. | was
interested in noting is relative posi-
ton to the sea. Sure enough we had
gone only little way till our guide
called out, There's the Sea of Cali
lee.
| have already spoken of the strik-
Il Of - A
This is south of the sea. But it is
also the same, as one sees the sea.
At first we saw only a very little of
the water through the narrow valley
that permitted its view. But it
widened rapidly and soon there lay
before US what looked like beautiful
sheet of silver in the glimmering
light. | would wish the reader to
know that this is no effort to adorn,
for its appearance was more like sill
yer than anything else l know. But
it was down, down, apd we were up,
up. above IT..
- Va eoYld mot ssa-3 ha rns.6 .<s.ons
which we must descefk7, but we felt
assured there must be one. Back
were stretched out hundreds of sheep
were grazing and never is there a
sheep without shepherd. Winding
about the spiral descent we constant
ly came consciously nearer, but the
deceptive illusion peculiar to the
place made it farther than at first it
seemed.
But at last we had entirely com
pleted the descent and were just out
side the walls of Tiberias Here again
we thought of Herod, for these are
the walls and this the fort that he
Around the city we
rode, and then a full mile beyond it,
by the shore of Galilee. At p. m.
we dismounted and took our lunch |
Then to the sea.
Never a more beautiful beach and |
sea. Millions of beautiful shells lie |
the millions of beautiful. clean |
pebbles and our company fell instinct |
lively to gathering them. But our
dragomen cried ''all aboard, :" and
we were loaded into six large row
boats with single sails, such | mag
inc as were used when Christ was
here. Our objective point was the
site of Capernaum. We realize bet
ter now the size of the water At
II ~ II ueitt not SS'tllicd iNiSSiOtt tUdb
t is thirteen miles in length and
light at its widest point. Now it
seemed even larger. There was en-
ugh of the wind and wave to bring
o mind the dread occasion when the
disciples called upon the Master to
Command the elements. i
We looked upon the sites of Caper-
aum, Bethsaida and Chorazin, and as !
re saw them, but noted that the cit !.
> are no longer there, we thought !
the significant words uttered nine
cen centuries ago: Woe unto thee
horazin! Woe unto Bethsaida,
And thou Capernaum. shalt
lou be exalted unto heaven? thou
halt 90 down unto Hades. F." d
At that time nine large cities re {
acted their industries in crystal =
alice. Now, Liberals, with 5000 Z
generate population, is the only oae d
the nine that remains. And we
e sure it is because they did not
approve their opportunities. But y
e message thatwas delivered 10 them Il
vain has gone out to all the world, N
ID the entrance OF the word has