| Show the earthly homo af pf jesus 7 F our miles south of the strong G reek city of Sep Se photis botis hidden away awny among gentle hills then hovered covered from the base to tho the crown with vineyards aud GS fig g trees lay a natural or basino basin of rich frich red and white earth harth st in shape about a mile in writh width and aud wol wonderfully der fully fertile along the charred and chalky ope opa of the highest of these hese hi a small and love ly village which in a land laud v here where av every ery stone teemed to have a story is remarkable as having had bad no public history and no distl distinguishable aguish nati v B u name no great road led up to this thia sunny nook no traffic eime cime alito it no leg legions 0 ns marched through it trade war advent adventure alre Aire pleasure pomp passed by it flowing from west to east from east to west along the roman roma road but nut the meadows were aglow with wheat and barley rear near the low ground ran a belt of gardens fenced with loose stones in which myriads of green figs red nates dates and golden citrons citrona ripened in the summer sun high up the lined line d and planted like the tho Rhine at bingen hung bung vintage yin sin of purple gra gna grapes pest in the plain among the corn and arid beneath ihm tho bu mulberry trees and figs shone daisies poppies tulips lilies and an emones endless in their profusion brilliant in their dyes low elow ilow down non uon on the hillside sprang a well of water bubbling plentiful and sweet and above this thia fountain of life in a long iong street straggling from arom the fountain holthe synagogue rose the homesteads of many shepherds craftsmen draftsmen and vine dressers it was a lovely and humble place of which no poet no ruler do no historian of israel had ever jet yet taken note no rachel had ben berl be benl rl n met and kissed into love at this well no ruth euth had bad gathered up the sheaves of barley in mo tower had been beell built for tion on tilis height jio iio carn cain camp phad had bem ben biu pitched for fur battle battie in that vale vaie that oneo become dearer to the faudres of men than either buth ruth or rachel ther then walked t through r ugh these fields drew water watt rat at this spring passed up and down the lanes ihne s of atis hamlet the place was more than absure the atau arab may have pitched lils his tent by mhd the well yell the tho magistrate of 0 Seph bris must have known the but hut the hamlet was never mever ed ty by jewish scribes in the bible hi in the talmud in the writ aliga of joephus joseph us welt we earch search in vain for any records of this sacred place like jtb Ita happy neighbors iNa Vi inand Io dorit w was the a abode bode ot 0 bushard bu shadd gewand men and oil pressers pr essers eagers whose lives w were i peul in thuu synagogue anu aou the olive elive grove away from the bright greek cities aud and the abney roman roads no doubt it had bad once been possessed of either an arab or a hebrew name but we do ilot riot know that name except in its hellenic form the greeks called the town nezaree or nazareth HepWorth Dizon i |
