The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-12-04
ON LAKE GALILEE.
SERMON DELIVERED BY REV. T. DE
WITT TALMAGe.

Trip Through the Holy Landau Able
Production Fully Reported.
BRooKLYN, Nov. 80. DIR. Talmage
preached today the tenth of his series
Of sermons ON his Palestine tour, de-
scribing his experiences on the lake
whose waters were once stilled at the
command Of Christ. The sermon,
which was delivered in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music in the morning and
as usual repeated before an enormous
audience at The Christian Herald serv
Ice In New York in the evening, was
from the text, "He entered into ship
and sat in the sea; and the whole null
titude was by the sea on the land"
Mark iv, /.
1t is Monday morning in our Pales-
tine experience, and the sky is a blue
Galilee above as in the boat we sail
the blue Galilee beneath 1t is thirteen
miles long and six miles wide, but the
atmosphere is so clear it seems as If
could cast stone from beach to beach
The lake looks as though it had been
let down on silver pulleys from the
heavens and were section of the sea
of glass that st. John describes as
part of the celestial landscape. Lake
Gailee is a depression of six hundred
feet in which the river Jordan widens
and tarries little, for the river Jor,
dan comes III ut its north side and de-
parts from its south side, SO this lake
has its cradle and its grave. Its white
satin cradle is among the SHOWS of
Mount Hermon, where the Jordan
starts, and its sepulcher is the Dead
sea, into which the Jordan empties
Lake Como, of Italy; Lake Geneva, of
Switzerland; Lake Lomond, of Scot
land; Lake Winnipesaukee, of America,
are larger, but Lake Galilee is the
greatest diamond that ever dropped
from the finger of the clouds, and
whether encamped on its banks as we
were yesterday and worshiping at its
crystal affairs, or wading into its waves,
which make an ordinary bath solemn
as baptism; or now putting out upon
its sparkling surface in boat, it is
something to talk about and pray
about and sing about, until the lips
with which we now describe it can
neither talk, nor pray, nor sing.
THE PLANETS PET LAKE. '
AS sometimes beautiful child in a
neighborhood has half dozen pet
names, and some of the neighbors call
her by one name and others by an
other, so this pet lake of the planet has
profusion of names. Ask the Arab
as he goes by what this sheet of water
is, and he will call it Tabariyeh. Ask
Moses of the Old Testament, and he
calls it Sea Of Chinnereth. Ask Mat
thew, aud lie calls it Sea of Galilee.
Ask Luke and he calls it Sea of Gen
nesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea
of Tberias Ask Josephus and Fuse.
bus, and they have other names ready.
But to me it appears a child of the
sky, star of the hills, rhapsody of
the mountains, the baptismal bowl of
the worlds temple, the smile of the
great God. Many kinds of fish are
found in these waters, every kind of
tree upon its bank, from those that
grow in the torrid zone to those in the
frigid from the palm to the cedar
OF the two hundred and thirty war
ships Josephus Unanswered on these
waters for Josephus was warrior as
well as a historian-there remains not
one piece of hulk, or one patch of a
canvas, or one splinter Of an oar. But
return to America we never will until
we have had a sail upon this inland
sea. Not from a wharf, but from a
beach covered with black and white
pebbles we so on board a boat of
about ten or twelve tons, to be pro
PEELED partly by sail and partly by
oar. The must leans SO far forward
that it seems about to fall, but we find
it was purposcly SO built, and the rope
through Il pulley manages to hoist and
let down the sail 1t is a rough boat,
and as far as possible removed from a
Venetian gondola or a sportsman's
b yacht. With a common saw and ham
mer and ax many of you could make
instead of sitting down to their oars
stand as they always do in rowing, and
pull away from shore. | insist on help
ing, for there is nothing more exhila
rating to me than rowing, but | soon
have enough of the clumsy oars and
the awkward attempt at welding them
while in standing posture.
A FRAGMENT OF THE FALLEN SKY.
y We put our overcoats and shaw1s OH
a small deck in the stern of the boat,
the very kind of deck where Christ
lay on tisherman's coat when of old
a tempest popnced upon the fishing
smack of the affrighted disciples Os-
preys and wild duck and kingfishers fly
overhead or dip their wings into the
lake, installing it for a fragment of
fallen sky Can it be that those Bible
stories about sudden storms on this
lake are true2 Is it possible that sea
Of such seeming placidity of temper
could ever rise and rage at the heav
ensl 1t does not seem as if this happy
family Of elements could have ever had
falling out and the water strike at
the clouds and the clouds strike at the
water.
Pull away, oarsmenl On our right
bank are the hot sulphur baths, SO hot
they are scalding, and the waters must
cool off long while before hand or
foot can endure their temperature
Volcanoes have been boiling these
waters for centuries Four springs roll
their resources into two great swim
ming reservoirs. King Herod there
tried to battle off the results of his ex-
cesses, and Pliny and Josephus describe
the spurtings out of these volcanic
heats, and Joshua and Moses knew
about them, and this moment long
lines of pilgrims from all parts of the
earth are waiting for their turn to step
into the steaming restoratives.
Let the boat, as far as possible and