The place where our Lord was so conspicuously occupied, the city of Capernaum, has caused great controversy among the geographers. The doom pronounced against it and the other unbelieving cities has been notably fulfilled, for no one can in the present day pronounce between the two most probable spots. One of these is Khan Minyeh, a mound of ruins close to the shore of Gennesaret, at the north-west extremity of the plain. The other is Tell Hum, three miles north of the last place, where are ruins of walls and foundations, half a mile long by a quarter wide. It also projects into the lake, and is backed by rising ground. Dr. Wilson supports the second, as also do the geographers dating from 1675; while Dr. Robinson, relying on Josephus, supports the first. It is one of the insoluble problems. CHAPTER IV. _EARLY CHURCH CUSTOMS, FASTS, AND FESTIVALS._ CHURCH HISTORY DIVIDED INTO AGES AND PERIODS. Dr. Schaff, in his "History of the Apostolic Church," has divided the whole history of the Church as follows:-- FIRST AGE.--The Primitive or Universal Church, from its foundation on the day of Pentecost to Gregory the Great, thus embracing the first six centuries (A.D. 30-590). _First Period._--The Apostolic Church, from the first Christian Pentecost to the death of the Apostles (A.D. 30-100). _Second Period._--The Persecuted Church, to Constantine (A.D. 100-311). _Third Period._--The Established Church of the Græco-Roman Empire, and amidst the Barbarian storms, to Gregory the Great. (A.D. 311-590). SECOND AGE.--The Church of the Middle Ages, or Romano-Germanic Catholicism, from Gregory the Great to the Reformation (A.D. 590-1517). _Fourth Period._--The commencement of the Middle Ages, the planting of the Church among the Germanic nations, to the time of Hildebrand (A.D. 590-1049). _Fifth Period._--The flourishing period of the Middle Ages, the summit of the Papacy, monasticism, and scholastic and mystic theology, to Boniface VIII. (A.D. 1049-1303). _Sixth Period._--The dissolution of the Middle Ages and preparation for the Reformation (A.D. 1303-1517). THIRD AGE.--The Modern or Evangelical Protestant Church in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church from the Reformation to the present time. _Seventh Period._--The Reformation, or productive Protestantism and reacting Romanism (A.D. 1517-1600). _Eighth Period._--Orthodox Confessional and Scholastic Protestantism in conflict with ultramontane Jesuitism, and this again with semi-Protestant Jansenism (seventeenth century and first part of eighteenth). _Ninth Period._--Subjective and negative Protestantism, Rationalism, and Sectarianism, and positive preparation for a new age in both Churches (middle of eighteenth century to present time). THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.