ch was now imminent, "the decease which Jesus was to accomplish at
Jerusalem"_.

JESUS HEALETH A LUNATIC

And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down
from the hill, much people met him. And, behold, a man of the company
cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he
is mine only child. And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly
crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising
him hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast
him out; and they could not. And Jesus answering said, O faithless
and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer
you? Bring thy son hither. And as he was yet a coming, the devil
threw him down, and tare _him_. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit,
and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.--_St.
Luke ix: 37-42_.

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_NOTE BY THE ARTIST_

_The picture gives an average representation of the outskirts of a
village in Northern Palestine, with its sordid, untidy, mud-built
houses, on the roofs of which are seen the reed booths or_ Succoth,
_occupied by the inhabitants during the oppressive heats of summer.
The snow-capped ridge of Hermon is indicated in the distance_.

LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU

Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and
taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters,
having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is
not mine, but his that sent me. And the scribes and Pharisees brought
unto him a woman ...; and when they had set her in the midst. They
say unto him, ... Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be
stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they
might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with _his_
finger wrote on the ground, _as though he heard them not_. So when
they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which
heard _it_, being convicted by _their own_ conscience, went out one
by one, beginning at the eldest, _even_ unto the last: and Jesus was
left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had
lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
Woman, where are those thine accusers? ha