The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-05
GALHEE.
Dr.. TaImaze Continues His Dis
courses on the Holy Land
The sea OF GaIIies-EntsrestiagD Descriptions
Of tbs Noted L%8Is-rhs story OF the
sWIne-DeserlPtIsn OF Many
BEb.e scenes.

his tenth sermon at Brooklyn from the
text: He entered into a ship and sat in
the sea; and the whole multitude was by
the sea on the land" Mark. iv. L He
said:
1t is Monday morning in our Palestine
experiences. and the sky is z blue
Gaiilee above, as in 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 a stone from beach to beach.
The lake looks as though it had been
let down on silver puIleys from the
heavens and were section of the sea
of glass that St John describes as a
part of the celestial Landscape. Lake
Galilee is a depression OF SIX hundred
feet in which the river Jordan widens
and tarries a little, for the river Jordan
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 sepulchre is the Dead Sea, into which
the Jordan empties- Lake Como of
Italy, Lake Geneva of Switzerland.
Lake Lomond of Scotland, Lake Winni-
Pesaukee of America are larger, but
Lake Galilee is the greatest diamond
that ever dropped from the finger of the
clouds
AS some times a beautiful child in q
neighborhood has a half dozen pet
names, and some of the neigh bors call
other, SO this pet lake of the planet has
a 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 and he calls it Sea of Galilee.
Ask Luke and he calls it Sea of Come
saret Ask John and he calls it Sea of
Tiberias- Ask Josephus and Eusebius,
and they have other names ready.
OF the 2TO war ships Josephus ma
neuyered on these waters-for Josephus
was warrior as we'll as 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 sail upon
this inland sea Not from q wharf but
from a beach covered with black and
white pebbles we go on board boat of
about ten or twelve tons, to be propelled
partly by sail and partly by water
1t is arough boat and as far as possible
removed from a Venet ian gondola or a
sportsman's yacht With a common
saw and hammer and axe many of you
could make a better one. Four bare
footed Arabs, instead of sitting down
to their oars, stand as they always do
in rowing, and pull away from shore.
We put our overcoats and shawls on
a small deck in the stern of the boat
the very kind of a deck where Christ
lay on a fisherman's coat. when of old a
tempest bounced upon the fishing smack
of the affrighted disciples. Can it be
that those Bible stories about sudden
storms on this lake are true? Is it pos
sible that a sea of such seeming placid
ity of temper could ever rise and rage
at the heavens?
On our right bank are the hot sulphur
baths, so hot they are seaIding, and the
waters must cool off long while before
hand or foot can endure their temper
ature. Volcanoes have been boiling
these waters for centuries -Four springs
roll their resources into two great swim
ming reservoirs King Herod there
tried to oathe off the results of his ex-
cesses, and Pliny and Josephus describe
the squirt ngs 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 not run aground
hug the ives tern shore of the lake that
we may see the city of TibeFas once
great capital, of the architecture of
which few mosaics, and fallen pillars,
and pedes tails, and hero and there a
nightly suggestive of the time whom
HerOd Antipas had palace here and
reiRned with an opulence. and pomp.
and cruelty and abomination that
paralyzes the fingers of the historian
when he comes to write it, and tho
fingers of the painter when he attempts
to transfer it to canvas
Side by side are the two great charac-
tors of this lake region: Jesus and
Heron Antipas- And did any age pro-
duce any such antipOdes? Kindness
and cruelty. holiness and hlth, geneF-
osity and meanness, self-sscrifce and
selfishness, the supernal and the infer
nal, midnoon and midnight The father
of this Herod Antipas was a genius at
assassination He could manufacture
more reasons for putting people out of
this life than any man in ali history
He sends for Hyrcanus 10 come from
Babylon to Jerusalem to be made high
priest and Stays him He has his
brotheE-in-lRw, whilo in bathing with
him, drowned by the Kings attendants.
He Stays his wife and his Wife's mother,
and two of his sons and his uncle, and
filed a volume of atrocities, the last
chapter of which was the massacre of
all the babes at bethlehem With such
father as Herod the Great you are not
surprised that this Herod ABtipas,
whose palace stood on the banks of the
lake we now sail, was comb nation of
wolf, reptile and hyena- While the
Christ who walks yonder banks and
sails these waters was so good that al
most every rood of this scenery is asso-
ciated with some wise word or some
kindly deed, and all literature, and all
art and all earth. and ali Heaven are put
to the utmost effort in trying to express
how grand and glorious and lovely
he was, and is. and is to be. The Christ
ly and Herodic characters are different
as the two lakes we visit and not far
apart Gaiiee and Dead sea; the one
flower banked and the other bitumIn-
Gus and blasted; the one lowered over
by the mercy Of Christ, the other blast
ed by the wrath OF God; the one full of
hnny tribes sporting in the clear depths.
the other forever lifeiess; the waters of
the one sweet and pleasant TO the taste.
the other bitter and sharp and disgust
ing. Awful Dead seal Glorious GEN
nesareG
But We look over to the hills of Gadara.
on the other side, down which 1000
swine. after being possessed by the
devil, ran into the lake, and bringing
on Christ ha