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Jordan River

"The young Jordan -- type of that strange life of ours! Bright and beautiful in its cradle, laughing its merry morning away, through the flowery fields of the Huleh, plunging with the recklessness of youth, into the tangled brakes and muddy marshes of Merom; hurrying thence, full grown, like earnest manhood with its noisy and bustling activities, it subsides at length into life's somber midday in the placid lake of Gennesaret. When it goes forth again, it is down the inevitable proclivity of old age, sinking deeper and deeper, in spite of doublings and windings innumerable, until finally lost in the bitter sea of death -- the melancholy bourne [tomb] from which there is neither escape nor return" (LB 248).

The Dead Sea will be healed by waters from under the altar (Eze 47:8-10).

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