. In His footsteps : a record of travel to and in the land of Christ : with an attempt to mark the Lord's journeyings in chronological order from His birth to His Ascension . e north was the Sidonianharbor, and on the south the Egyptian, each being abouttwelve acres in area. There are still remains which tell of itsold busy days, thougli the doom prophesied has at last over- * The land of Gennesareth, which is identifie 1 with the marshy plain, El Q/iuweir,which stretches for three mile.-, along the sliore of the lake in its northwest corner.—Henderson, Palestine. 73 In His Footsteps taken it
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. In His footsteps : a record of travel to and in the land of Christ : with an attempt to mark the Lord's journeyings in chronological order from His birth to His Ascension . e north was the Sidonianharbor, and on the south the Egyptian, each being abouttwelve acres in area. There are still remains which tell of itsold busy days, thougli the doom prophesied has at last over- * The land of Gennesareth, which is identifie 1 with the marshy plain, El Q/iuweir, which stretches for three mile.-, along the sliore of the lake in its northwest corner.—Henderson, Palestine. 73 In His Footsteps taken it (Ezek. xxvi-xxviii, 19). In excavating great heapsof shells have been turned over, from which the famous dyehad been obtained, and broken lumps of glass that mark thesite of its not less famous glassworks. It was a busy andheathen city when he passed by the sands of its sea coast.*Sidon was a still older city than Tyre. In Homers day itwas famed for its silversmiths, and in that of Xerxes for itsshipbuilders. On visiting the site of ancient Tyre we findit occupied by a town called Sur, containing five thousandinhabitants, about half of them being Mohammedans. Sidon, . ^0m^^.^^^&m MODERN TYRE. now Saida. It has a population of fifteen thousand. Thereis an American mission there, with a boys and girls school. While passing through this heathen territory a woman—a Canaanite by birth and a Greek by language—came andbesought him to cure her afflicted daughter. Had no one elsesought him, the womans noble faith repaid him for his journey. FROM THE COAST OF TYRE AND SIDON TO THE REGIONKNOWN AS DECAPOMS. Heals many, Feeds four thousand. Matt. XV, 29-31 ; Mark vii, 31-37.Matt. XV, 32-38; Mark viii, 1-9. Decapolis was the name given to ten cities lying on theeastern and southern shores of the Sea of Galilee. With one * Henderson, Palestine. 74 Third Years Ministry exception these ten cities lay on the eastern side of theJordan. The Lord, after passing north through the region ofSido