Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1938 — Page 13

® THERE ARE TWO SEAS IN PALESTINE... One Is fresh and fish are

in it. Splashes of gréen adorn its banks. Trees spread their branches over it and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing water. Along its shores the children play as children played when He was there. He loved I. He could look across its silver surface when He spoke His parables. And on a spalling plain fot far away, He fed five thousand people. The River Yoru makes this sea Seni patin water from the hills. So It laughs In

ite is Eappler because it Is Form, . THs River Jordan flows on south ints another sea.) Here Is no splash of fish, no uttering leaf, no song of Birds, no children’s lsuphter. Travelers choose another route unless on urgent business. The air hangs heavy above its water, and melther man for Beast nor fowl will di > What makes this mighty difference in these neighbor seas? Not the River Jordan. It empties the same good water into both. Not the s soil In which they lie. Not the country roundabout. : This is the difference. The Sea of Galilee receives but does not Em the Jordan; for

measure, The other sea is shrewder, Boarding its income jealously. It will not be tempted i generous impulse; every drop it gets it keeps. The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing; it is named “The Dead.” There are two kinds of people in the world.

There are two seas in Palestine. ‘By BRUCE BARTON

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