CHAPTER LI.

Boyhood of the Saviour--Unseemly Antics of Sober Pilgrims--Home of the Witch of Endor--Nain--Profanation--A Popular Oriental Picture--Biblical Metaphors Becoming steadily More Intelligible--The Shuuem Miracle --The “Free Son of The Desert”--Ancient Jezrael--Jehu's Achievements --Samaria and its Famous Siege