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There is a town at the top of the Holy Land with a name like a boy’s—Dan. Down at the bottom of the Holy Land is another town called Beersheba; so people often say “from Dan to Beersheba,” meaningfrom top to bottom or from one end of something to the other. Between these two towns the distance is only one hundred and fifty miles and the distance across Palestine is only about fifty miles, sothat it would be possible now in one day to go in an automobile up and down and across Palestine.

There are two lakes in Palestine; one is in the north and one is in the south, but both are called Seas. The one in the north is called the Sea of Galilee. The one in the south is known as the Dead Sea, for nothing can live in it nor grow around it.

The Sea of Galilee is where Christ walked on the water and where the miraculous number of fish werecaught. Many of Christ’s close friends were fishermen, and He asked them to help Him teach others, saying He would make them “fishers of men.” So a club of Galilee fishermen was started and they used a drawing of a fish as the sign of their society, for, strangely enough, the first two letters of the Greek word for fish were Christ’s initials. As in Bible times, they still have sudden storms on the Sea of Galilee and a great many fish are still caught there.

Running from the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea is a zigzag river called the Jordan. It was in the Jordan River that John the Baptist baptized Christ, and people go from all over the World to see the spot where this took place, and some to be baptized there themselves. There is always a clergyman on hand, ready and waiting, to baptize those who come.

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“圣地”的顶端有一个小镇，镇的名字像一个男孩子的名字——但；“圣地”的底端还有一个城镇，名叫别示巴。于是人们常常说“从但到别示巴”，意思就是“从上到下”或“从一端到另一端”。这两个城镇相距仅150英里，巴勒斯坦城东西相距大约只有50英里，所以，现在如果乘汽车，一天之内就能够从北到南，从东到西，走遍整个巴勒斯坦。

巴勒斯坦有两个湖，一个在北部，另一个在南部，但是两个都称作“海”。北部的叫加利利海，南部的叫死海，因为死海中没有生物可以生存，在死海的周围也不长任何生物。

加利利海是基督水上行走过的地方，这里盛产鱼。基督的好朋友中很多都是渔夫，基督请他们帮他布道，并说他要使他们“得人如得鱼”。于是加利利海的渔夫组成一个社团，用一幅“鱼”的画作为社团的标志。奇怪的是，希腊语“鱼”的单词的头两个字母是基督姓名的首字母。就像《圣经》时代一样，现在加利利海仍然会突然发生暴风雨，那里的渔夫仍然能捕捉到很多很多的鱼。

有一条蜿蜒曲折的河从加利利海流进死海，这条河叫做约旦河。就是在约旦河，施洗者约翰给耶稣施洗。人们从世界各地来到这里，参观耶稣受洗的地方，有些人自己来这里受洗。总有一位牧师在近旁，随时准备着为前来的人施洗。