The Jordan Valley and Petra . f black basalt. We found our camp pitchednorth of the town, near the ruined citadel and on abluff some one hundred and fifty feet above thelake. At Tabigha we saw one specimen — the Khuri Daud—of the modern disciple, a hale,good-natured monk. Here at Tiberias we saw an-other disciple, — a sturdy, clear-eyed Scotchman,Dr. Torrance, who, with his assistants, practisesthe modern art of healing and relieving pain in thename of Galilees Master. Men and women of allcreeds, ancient and modern, come many a daysjourney from far beyond the Jordan to this havenby the sea. Al
The Jordan Valley and Petra . f black basalt. We found our camp pitchednorth of the town, near the ruined citadel and on abluff some one hundred and fifty feet above thelake. At Tabigha we saw one specimen — the Khuri Daud—of the modern disciple, a hale,good-natured monk. Here at Tiberias we saw an-other disciple, — a sturdy, clear-eyed Scotchman,Dr. Torrance, who, with his assistants, practisesthe modern art of healing and relieving pain in thename of Galilees Master. Men and women of allcreeds, ancient and modern, come many a daysjourney from far beyond the Jordan to this havenby the sea. All are welcome, all are cared forkindly. Many are healed and relieved of burdenswhich were making life miserable or they return to the poverty and desolationof their nomadic dwellings, they look back to thisbright Christian hospital as the very door and gate-way to heaven itself. Dr. Torrance and his workersremain eight and nine months in this seethingclimate, and flee away to Safed for a breathing spell. Galilee 135 In the summer. The massive walls of the variousbuildings, the small windows and stone roofs, arean attempt to shut out the fierce heat and glare ofthe sun, and to afford a relief from the deadly in-fluences of mere continued existence in this the little cemetery below, with its rows ofgraves,—wives and little children,—tells a patheticstory of the abundant sufferings and sorrows ofthose who follow the Masters footsteps In thislonely station by Galilee. Eight months after our visit, cholera appeared Inthe villages around the Sea oi Galilee. The goodDoctor remained at his post, but his bonnle wifefell a victim to the scourge, and the little ceme-tery claimed another hostage until the resurrectionmorning. ^ the rivers of the world, the Jordan isunique by a twofold distinction of Nature andHistory. There are hundreds of other streamslarger, more useful, or more beautiful; there isno other which has been more spoken about bymankin
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