The Holy Land and Syria . h, as you remember, wasMary Magdalens home. Looking through the rainbow you can catch sight ofthe Mount of the Beatitudes where our Saviour sat whenHe preached the Sermon on the Mount. On the slopinglittle hill at the left it is said He commanded the wearymultitude to sit down on the grass and fed the fivethousand. Now look eastward to the lands on the opposite sidesof the lake and the Jordan. They rise straight up fromthe water. The hills are so steep that it would be almostimpossible to climb them, and they are ragged andrough. That is the land of the Gadarenes, whe
The Holy Land and Syria . h, as you remember, wasMary Magdalens home. Looking through the rainbow you can catch sight ofthe Mount of the Beatitudes where our Saviour sat whenHe preached the Sermon on the Mount. On the slopinglittle hill at the left it is said He commanded the wearymultitude to sit down on the grass and fed the fivethousand. Now look eastward to the lands on the opposite sidesof the lake and the Jordan. They rise straight up fromthe water. The hills are so steep that it would be almostimpossible to climb them, and they are ragged andrough. That is the land of the Gadarenes, where ourLord cast out the devils into the swine which ran vio-lently down a steep place into the sea. All about us are the most familiar scenes of the Scrip-tures. Every bit of these shores has been hallowed; andas we look the figures of the Old and New Testamentsspring into life. It is impossible to read the Bible inthe Holy Land and not feel that its people were realmen and women. The apostles had the same feelings as i88. In a galvanized iron shack, the home of newl\- arrived colonists, thebread of Bible times is made by a Jewess from modern Europe. Pales-tine, as a national home, has had a special appeal to the persecuted Jewsof Poland and southeastern Europe
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