With light feet the Jerusalem company, some six score in number,
made the journey north to Galilee. One subject only was on their
lips, as they followed the road through Samaria to Kurn Hattin,
near the Sea of Tiberias. Here the Lord at the opening of his
mission had spoken his nine blessings to needy mortals; most
fitting it now was that on this memorable hillside he should utter
his farewell to those who had come to believe on him. Thus would
the circle of his teachings end where it had begun. Bright was the
picture. The glint of the sunlight on the Galilaean sea so near at
hand, with the uncounted flowers of the spring-time that covered
the lower plains, lent a charm to the scene that Quintus remembered
always.
At the outset the Roman convert is impressed with the goodly number
of those first disciples. They are not twelve or six score, but
many more. They greet each other with the salutation, "Peace be to
you," and then they rapturously add, "To-day we shall see our
Lord." In that intimacy which should always mark the followers of
Christ, they give Quintus their welcome; and at once he feels
himself among a congenial brotherhood.
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