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).