The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-26
.BEMIDJI BIBLE CONFERENCE
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familiar and interesting to the Bible
student. Then leisurely, comfort
able horseback ride is planned across
country. One must needs go
through Samaria." He will be glad
to sit by Jacobs we'll, to visit the
tomb of Joseph which is nearby,
to spend little time at Shecham,
and climb Mount Gerezin, something
of a task but abundantly worth
while. He will be impressed by the
marvellous beauty in the situation of
the city of Samaria, and will regard
with much interest the ruins of
ancient public works. Nazareth, of
course, will be visited and enjoyed,
and the traveller will see in it's loca-
ton a most advantageous place
for the boy Jesus to have grown up.
And then, when he comes to the sea
of Galilee he will want to stay as
long as he can, and read the story of
His life while there, and allow the
sweet story to come slowly upon his
soul while he takes that story in
with such feelings of tenderness as
never before possessed him as he
read it.
1t was our privilege to see this
fascinating lake-the real heart of
the Holy Land-from four separate
and distinct points of view, each i'm
preston deeper and sweeter than
the one before thiswaspartly because,
in any case, ones liking for the little
lake is cumulative, but more espec-
tally because our impressions came
by an ascending scale of vantage in
the points of view.
Our first glimpse of Lake Galilee
was from the station at it's south
end, and over the adobe houses
forming the village there.
The time was toward evening, and
we were looking through eyes that
all day had been feasting upon the
beautiful plain of Esdraelon and it's
adjacent mountains first eye
opener to the charms of inspiring
Palestine. Inevitably the lake look
ed little, so very little. 1t did not
seem possible that we were actually
seeing its whole length; But we
were. And the misgiving we were
bound to acknowledge to ourselves
concerning the sea of Galilee was
exactly suited to recall, and I could
not help recalling, the question once
asked by people who had not yet
felt the dimensions of the man of
Galilee, rs not this the carpenters
SOM" What could there be extraord-
hary about such man or such a
sea? One could mark beginning and
boundaries of both. Why tarry or
why return? With a feeling that
was half question and half sigh we
went back to our train, and happily
the unexpectedly splendid scenery
thru the east-Jordan mountains to
Damascus soon made a palimpsest
of the superficial first impression of
our cherished sea.
Saturday evening our train
brought us back to the same spot,
the sky was clearer than it had been
the other day and we came closer.
Directly we were going in rowboats
to Tiberias, the only town now of
any consequence on the Lake, and
some miles distant. There was a
little wind-only low breeze but
9snapping white caps flashed every
where across the ruffled surface, as
If the little sea would show it's teeth
just as hint of what it could do if
once it's temper slipped the leash.
We could readily understand why the
boatmen Rugged the shore; and the
lake began to seem less insignificant.
moreover, already we were feeling the
subtle uplift of the mountains. One
accustomed merely to the relations
of ordinary life can never accurate
ly measure mountain perspectives.
And altho 681 feet below sea level,
the setting of this pearl of waters is
mountainous do not wonder that
the Hebrew prophets were men of
vision, were poets, were such passion
ate preachers of righteousness, and
packed their sermons with such
daring metaphors. Hereafter, when
I help install a pastor, I mean to
burn all the notes of famous ad-
dressas for Such Occa cionc and rinr