The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-05-20

rrcu from thousands Of foul de-
mons, and there, demon driven, the
mad swine rushed into the sea.
And here is the place where
Jesus had his homc-great Caper-
naum. One Saturday morning
they awaked--a city full of inva
lids and demoniacs. That night
they slept---a great city without
one symptom of sickness. Begin
ming Will. the demoniac in the syn
agogue, and Peters wiie's mother.
be dispensed his benefactions until
all were well For 'alI they that
had any sick with divers diseases
brought them unto him; and he
laid his hands on every one OF
them, and healed them. And
devils also came out from many,
crying out and saying, Thou art
the Son OF Godw
Three miles northeast of our
boat the 5000 were fed on those
green and fowery slopes. Six miles
across the sea to the southeast, the
1000 were healed and fed. Yon-
der at the southern end of the plain
Of Gen1esaTet, five miles from cur
boat, was the home of Mary Mag
delene, where those ten mud huts
now stand behind the gorgeous
oleanders that bloom along all the
shores. Here in front of us where
the black boulders rise amidst
sparkling shells. leanders, tulips.
cycl"mri : ana 1 Il arenOnes. tnuu,-
ands stood and list, ned while Jesus
sat in such boat as tnis and spoke
the Nine Parallels, beginning with
the "Sower.'' And here Peter
drew a dollar from a fish's mouth
to pay the temple tax for himself
and Jesus. And here he called
back the dead to life. In the early
dawn after his resurrection he
stood yonder on that pebbly beach
to comfort again and instruct the
humble fishermen whom he had
chosen to give laws to all nations
for all time, and who are yet to "sit
on twelve thrones, judging the
twelve tribes OF Israel :; The
prophetic silence of the sea and the
land shall never be broken here
until the children of Jacob come
trooping home from every land
whittier the Lord has scattered
them, and the old songs shall sound
again across the sea, and the
myriads of Israel shout their hosan-
nahs from alt these mountains and
valleys For "He that scattered
Israel will gather him, and keep
him, as a shepherd doth his flock"
Near sunset at Magdela we pass
ed a compact shoal of fish with
their dorsal fins and black backs
floating above the shining water
half an acre in area. ALI the OBJ
servers estimated the space at an
acre, but in speaking of fish it is
always safer to cut the first esti-
mate in two, and then take "the
smaller half" A few minutes lat
err, while gathering shells on the
beach of Gennesaret, a tempest
swept down Wady Fik-a deep
canon seven miles from the north
ern end of the Lakeland plowed
dlagonally across to Capernaum,
churning to spray and foam all the
northeast half of the lake. A bril-
liant rainbow flashed out its glori-
Gus arch on the bosom of the dark
storm, extending from the emerald
hill where the 5000 were fed to
the plateau, two thousand feet
above the lake, where like bone
faction was conferred on the 1000.
Five minutes later, a wide and
more splendid arch sprang from
the mouth of the Jordan and rested
its other base on Gergesa of the
demoniacs and swine. Then a
third swung out the signal of peace
from Capernaum to Wady Fix
opposite Tiberias.
Under the src!h:;Hg blaze OF this
three-fold splendor, the frightened
Syrian boatmen set their sails and
piled their oars, and soon in a
drenching rain and through the
darkness of night we landed in
Tiberias and were welcomed to our
convent by the franciscan fathers.
Thus all my hopes for Galilee have
been realized I hava COON +ho 49,,