The Peace of Galilee.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1910, Page 4

The Peace of Galilee.

Nothing in Palestine touched me so much, nothing else seemed to mo so intimately to retain the fragrance of the most beautiful smirit our world has known, as Galilee and its shores, writes Robert Hichens in his article entitled "From Damascus to Nazareth" in the Century. As I rode slowly down to it over ti!:e hills covered with wild flowers, and plants and grasses that lifted themselves almost to the knees of the horses, T felt at last, "Tins is indeed the Holv Land"—the land dreamt of bv the Russian pilgrim in the icy North, and the dtfle Breton boy on ti''« sun-scorched frieflu upland; the land Awards which hearts turn from the uttermost parts of the earth, the unique 'and of pionvrs* and of fulfilment. The <resture of the Breton bov f>imo back to my n.indi as he said; "T shall see Holy Land." *•niv Iv in a mystic drean he hid • o!;e I on Galileo. On those quiet «a!e;ri, far below nie, as still as (dns-s. green. hedged about by thickets of wild oleander and by nivriads O f n"known flowers, Hie ni'iraeiil.vs feet had walked. Tt was if tlr touch of tho«e feet had given t\. +t lr em peace for ever—that marvellous peace at which I now was gazing.