The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-03-24
Copyright, Davis ". CLARK.


as the scene of Jesus temptation.
The place is singularly in harmony
with his experiences. 1t is painless
desert dusky with hOrrid shades =
The denuded rocks and Redeemed soil
scorched bv burning sun, and 1.-The
sulphurous sea stretching like a
shroud over the accursed cities-alI
this land of death mute and motion
less as the grave-formed a fitting
scene.
Macherus was the inpregnable for
| tress- palace overlooking the Jordan
| Valley, where Herod Antipas kept his
court, and gave the banquet to his
officers, at which Herodias baited her
hook with her daughters modesty,
and went angling in the pool of drunk
en- revelry. Here John the Baptist
was martyred.
The Sea of Galilee is an insignifi-
cant little pond seven by fourteen
miles, but when one considers the
events which transpired there, it rises
to be easily the most sacred and i'm
portant sheet of water on the globe.
For example, in this series of lessons
it is at Galilee that the miraculous
draught of fishes is taken; the discip-
les are called; the storm is Gained:
and the five thousand are fed. On
the shore of this lakes stood Capernaum
City of Nathum), one of nine cities,
the sites of which have all been de-
fined. This was the city lifted to
heaven by Jesus residence there. The
glittering fragments of the cen
turion given marble synagogue, with
the conventional twisted foliage orna-
mentation greet the eye of the mod
ern traveller, and remind him of the
doom which Jesus pronounced on
account of the spiritual obtuseness of
its population. In passing there is
all illustration of how Jesus sought
places where the people were massed.
Practically His entire public ministry
was in Galilee. Josephus may exag-
gerate when he says that there were
two hundred and fifty cities there of
fifteen thousand each; but recent
exploration shows that the territory
was so thickly built over at that date
as to make it practicallYa continuous
village.
ChiId-Study and Sunday-School
Method
When Correggio overlaid the dome
of Parma with the frescoes which
make its common plaster more pre-
cious than gold, for every figure of
prophet or apostle he gave us a num-
Der of happy, cherub-like children,
unconsciously, perhaps, he was copy
ing the bible A child's face peers
out of almost every page. We see
the boy Ishmael fainting near the
angel-pointed fountain, Joseph in his
iridescent coat, Moses in his wave
rocked cradle, Samuel answering
Gods call in the mystic shade of the
tabernacle, two boys raised to life
one by Elijah, the other by Elisha;
the children singing "Hosannan on
Jesus approach; the lad with five
barley loaYes and two fishes; Jesus
healing boy and the daughter of
the woman of Tyre, and raising the
daughter of Jairus placing a child in
the midst of the disciples. The series
closes with the most significant of all
a child in Jesns' arms. We may
we'll marvel at this prominence of
childhood in the Bible They are far
from being overlooked. Promises and
commands are given to children;
rewards are offered. More miracles
are worked upon children than any
other one class of persons. We may
well ask, why this prominence"
1t can not be accidental. 1t must be
designed. If we find the child in the
Bible, the natural inference is that
the Bible is for the child. Putting
children in possession of their herit-
age in the Bible is the legimate and
supreme function of the Sunday
school-a function which it is perfor-
ming more intelligently and success
fully than ever since its first institu-
ton. All workers in this department
of the Church ought to know their
calling, the Importance and dignity
of it. They should appreciate the
honor and seek to make full proof of
their ministry. This they are I'M
doubtedly doing as never before.
Announcement.
The undersigned announce that