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Title: The pathways and abiding places of our Lord;
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company Philadelphia, G. S. Appleton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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stible fountains waterthe land! Even if there be some poetry mingled here with the gravity of his-torical description, it is evident that the general beauty and fertility of thecountry were once very great, and especially when contrasted with its presentaspect. These shores were then the seat of populous cities and villages, whoseinhabitants were blest with prosperity and plenty. The lake was alive with alittle fleet of fishing and ferry boats, which drew up the treasures out of itspure waters, or conveyed the inhabitants, with the merchandise of an inlandcommerce, between the thriving villages and towns upon the coast. Here stoodthe cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida, and here Capernaum, by the pride of itsinhabitants, seemed to be exalted to heaven. Here the Son of Man foundmultitudes to hear and thousands to disregard His message, and few followerssave those whom He chose, as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, from thehumble ranks of the fishermen. But even these have departed now; for
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CHOKAZIN BETHSAIDA CAPERNAUM. 175 though, as we rode along the shores, we observed that the clear waters teemedwith such a multitude of fishes as we never before saw, crowded in their nativeelement, yet there is but one poor crazy ferry boat remaining, scarcely a fisher-man, and but a small population. For of all the cities, towns and villages thatsmiled around the Sea of Galilee, the mean-looking and ruinous Tiberias almostalone is left, and the earthquake which ruined Safed, has thrown down thewalls even here. Whence all this unusual and fearful desolation ? Look tothe mountain where He taught, to the sea whence He preached to the people,to the shores once pressed by His holy footsteps ; think of what He was andwhy He came, and then mourn over that blind and obstinate unbelief whichforced from the lips of the Saviour after He had honored these cities with mostof His mighty works the awful denunciations, Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woeunto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which

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