Telegram-herald., 1890-12-01
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ts y Monday 2ornEns n cur Palestine
expsE1oncess 4.d the sky y blue Galiles
above, a. II tAe besE NE sAil the blue Cali
Ice beneath II u thirteen niles long aud
six miles ~its. bat the atmosphere Is 50
clear it sssEas ~ II l could east a stone
from beach 10 beach. The lake locks as
Though Il bad beea let down on silver pal
lsys frona the heavens aud were a section
of the sea Of gl.ss thss ST John describes
as a part Of the celestial landscape Lake
GAlilee Is depression Of six handred feet
Ia which the river Jordan Sidens and
s&rriss = little. for the river Jordan comes
IA st It's nortA side AID departs from its
south side % this LAKE has is cradle and
ia grave.
It's white satin cradle Is amonx the
SHOWS OF Mount HsrEnon where the JOr-
dan starts, aad its s~palcher Is the Dead
sea into which the Jordan empsies Lake
Come OF Italy. Lake Geneva Of Switzsr-
lsad. Lake Lomond Of scotland, Lake
WiaBipessakse OF America are larger, bat
Lake esiilse is the greatest diamond that
ever dropped from the hnser OF the clouds,
and whether sncamped on its banks ss we
were yesterday and wcrshiping At its erys-
tal affairs or wsding into It's waves, which
make sn ordinary bath solemn as a bap-
tLsm, or now putting out upon its spark
ling surfacs in q boat. il is something TO
talk about and pray about and sing about
until the lips with which We now describe
II can neither talk nor pray nor sing.
THE LAKE HAS MANY NAMES
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 another, so this pet
lake OF the planet has profusion OF
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this sheet OF water is, and he viii call 1t
Tabariyeh- Ask Moses Of the Old Testa-
ment, and he calls IL Sea of Chinnereth
Ask Matthew. and he calls il Sea Of Cali
lee. Ask Luke, and he calls it sea OF Gen
nesarrt- Ask John, and he calls il Sea OF
I TIberias. Ask Josephus and Eusesius,
and they have other names ready. But to
me IL appears a child of the sky, star OF
the hills, a rhapsody OF the mountains, the
| bapttsmal bowl OF the worlds temple the
smile Of the great God Many kinds Of
hsh are found in these waters, every kind
OF tree upoe its bank, from those that grow
/ In the torrid zons to those in the frigid,
| from the palm to the cedar
/ or the two hundred and thirty war ships
Josephus maneuvred on these waters-for
Josephus was a warrior as well as q his
/ torian-thcrc remains not one piece of
I hulk, or one patch OF q canvas, or one
I splinter Of an oar. But return TO America
We never will until we have had sail upon
this inland sea. Not from a wharf, but
/ from beach covered with black and white
/ pebbles, we go on board a boat of about ten
or twelve tons, to be propelled partly by
sail and partly by oar. The mast leans
80 far forward that IL seems about 10 fall,
but we find IL was purposcly so built, and
the rope through pulley manages to hoist
and let down the sail 1t is a rough boat,
and as far as possible removed from a
Venetian gondoia or a sportsman's yacht
With a common saw and hammer and AK
many Of you could make better one
-Four barefooted Arabs, instead OF sitting
/ down 70 their oars, stand, as they always
do in rowing, and pull away from shore. l
insist on helping. for there is nothing more
exhtlarzsing TO me than rowing. but soon
have enough OF the clumsy oars aud the
awkward setempt at welding them while
In standing posture
We put our overcoats and shawls on a
small deck in the stern Of the boat, the
very kind of deck where Christ lay on a
fshermsn's coat when Of old tempest
pounced upon the fishing smack Of the
sfrighted disciples Ospreys and wild
ducks and kingfshers Fly overhead or dip
their wings into the lake, mistaking it for
fragment Of fallen sky. Can it be that
those Bible stories about sudden storms on
tins lake are true9 Is it possible that a
sea of such seeming placidity Of temper
could ever rise and rage at the heavens' IL
does not seem as IL this happy family OF
elements could have ever had a falling out,
and the water strike at the clouds and the
clouds strike at the water
PULL AWAY, oARsMEs.
Pub awsv, oarsmeni On our right bank
are the hot sulphur bsths, so hot they are
scalding. aud the waters must cool of a
long winle before hand or foot can endure
their temperature Volcanoes have been
boiling thee waters for centuries. Four
springs roll their resources into two great
swimming reservoirs. King Herod here
tried to bathe OF the results Of his excesses,
aud Pliny and Josephus describe the spnrt-
inEs cut Of thsse volcanic heats, and Joshua
and Moses knew about them, and this mo
nent loaa lines of pilgrims from al parts
Of the earth sre waEting for their turn to
step into the stesning restoratives-
let the boat, as far az possible and not
run aground, hug the western shore OF the
lake that we may see the city Of Tiberiss,
once great capital, Of the architecture Of
which few mossics and fallen pillars and
pe<iestsls. and here and there n broken
aud shattered frieze remain. nightly sug-
gest5ve Of the time when Herod AntiPss
lad palace here and reiSnsd with an
epuleacs and pomp and craeltY and
sbonination that paraiyres the fingers Of
The historian when be comes 20 write IL,
and tbe fiagers Of the psiater when be at
teu1pts 20 transfer tt TO canvas. I suppose
he va one ~ the worst men that ever
lived And what a contrast of character
cones at svsry moment 20 the thoughtful
traveller in Palestine whether hs walks
the beach of shfs lake OF sails a. ne now
do these waters
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side BY side are the two xr - characters
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