The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . ofhis early childhood and boyhood and manhood at Naz- Desolate Places. 233 areth ; the places where he spent three years and upwardin teaching in the synagogues, healing the sick, walkingupon the waves, and bidding the winds and the waters be still, along the shores of the Sea of Galilee ; theplace of his baptism in the river Jordan, and the wilder-ness in -which he fasted for forty days and forty nights ;the places where he called back to life the widows son,raised Lazarus from the grave, and gave t
The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . ofhis early childhood and boyhood and manhood at Naz- Desolate Places. 233 areth ; the places where he spent three years and upwardin teaching in the synagogues, healing the sick, walkingupon the waves, and bidding the winds and the waters be still, along the shores of the Sea of Galilee ; theplace of his baptism in the river Jordan, and the wilder-ness in -which he fasted for forty days and forty nights ;the places where he called back to life the widows son,raised Lazarus from the grave, and gave to blind Bar-timeus his sight; the place where in agony of spirit heprayed, and sweat, as it were, great drops of blood; theplaces where he was betrayed, where he was cruellycrucified, and where he was laid in the new-made tomb ;and the place, too, where he burst the bonds of deathasunder and arose triumphant from the grave ! From henceforth we shall no longer follow his earthlyfootsteps ; but God grant that we may be able to followhim in a spiritual sense more closely than ever CHAPTER XII. AMONG THE DRUSES. FROM Csesarea Philippi (Banias) our course liesover the mountain, and t|ie paths here, as elsewherein Syria, are horrible, though somewhat relieved by theglimpse of valleys we get in the distance, and the occa-sional ones we cross. All the forenoon we ride within close view of thesnow-capped Hermon, and on reaching the summit ofthe mountain opposite, the winds become so strong andcold that we are obliged to put on shawls and over-coats. And at lunch-time so cold are the winds that weseek the shelter of a friendly rock to protect us from theblasts while we lunch and take rest. About 2 we reach Beit-jin (the abode of anevil spirit, as translated in English), a considerable vil-lage, situated at the head of a deep valley or gorge, andoccupied principally by Moslems, though in the heart ofthe Druse country. Before descending the steep hillwhich leads down to t
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