. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . t Nazareth, not ascendingby the steep and jagged path which Christ ascended, but by a new way whichmodern engineering has built, and we go zigzagging up the heights, steep abovesteep, until we seem to hover over Nazareth, a village of such overpoweringinterest that all the world has seen or wishes to see it. How the Omnipotenthas scooped out these valleys and molded these hills on which and through whichJesus, the lad, walked, sometimes with his father, sometimes with his mother, sometimes with village con-temporaries, and someti
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . t Nazareth, not ascendingby the steep and jagged path which Christ ascended, but by a new way whichmodern engineering has built, and we go zigzagging up the heights, steep abovesteep, until we seem to hover over Nazareth, a village of such overpoweringinterest that all the world has seen or wishes to see it. How the Omnipotenthas scooped out these valleys and molded these hills on which and through whichJesus, the lad, walked, sometimes with his father, sometimes with his mother, sometimes with village con-temporaries, and sometimesalone. We halt at the veryfountain where Joseph andMary and Jesus used to fill thegoat-skins. We stop for thenight at a Russian convent,and for the first time in manynights have a pillow dark I open my Bibleand within sight of the hills towhich the young Christ sooften looked up, while theylooked down, I read the storyof Jesus of Nazareth, whichappears so vivid and strangeand new, it seems as if I hadnever read it before. WHERE CHRIST WALKED. BY THE DEAD SEA In traveling along theroads of Palestine, I am im-pressed as I could not other-wise have been, with the fact that Christ, for the most part, went afoot. Wefind him occasionally on a boat, and once riding in a triumphal procession, as itis sometimes called, although it seems to me that the hosannas of the crowd couldnot have made a ride on a stubborn, unimpressive and funny creature like thatwhich pattered with him into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But generalhhe walked. How much that means only those know who have gone over the dis-tances traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two milesfrom Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles withoutfatigue, but not more than one man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany toJerusalem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must IN THE HOLY LAND 15: climb up among the rolling stones and descend wh
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