Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04
THE HOLY LAND.
The Tenth of DR.. TaImage's Sc
ries on His Recent Journey.
His Experiences on the Lake Whose
Waters Were Once Stilled by
the Command Of Christ.
The Tex: he Entered into Shin. ana Sat
In thu Sea; and the Whole Multitude
VISA by the sea on the Land"
Special to the Gazette.
OUR SAIL ON LAKE GALILEE.

| tour, describing his experiences Oh tHs
! lake whose waters were once stilled g
! the command of Christ. The sermon
| which was delivered in the Brooklyn
! Academy of Music in the morning ant
! as usual repeated before IN enormous
! audience at the Christian Herald service
| in New York in the evening, was from
the text: "He entered Into q snip, and
! sat in the sea; and the whole multitud {
| was by the sea on the land. - Mark I: /.
| II Ia Monday morning in our Palestine
| experiences, and the sky Is blue Galilee
| above, as IN the boat we sail the blue
| GaliIee beneath. II is Thirteen miles long
| aud SIX mites wide. but the atmosphere
| is so clear it seems as if could cast a
! stone from beach to beach. The lake
| looks US though il had been let down on
| silver pulleys from the heavens and were
| q section OF the sea of glass that st. John
| describes as part OF the celestial land
! scaDe. Lake Galilee ia IL depression of
! 600 feet in which the river Jordan widens
! and tsrries a little. for the river jordan
| comes III at the north side aud departs
| from Its south side, so this luke has its
| CRADLE AND ITS GRAVE.
Its white satin crude is among the SHOWS
| of Mount Eermon where the Jordan
| starts, and Its sepulchre is the Dead Sea
into which the Jordan enpties. Lake
! Como of Italy. Lake Geneva of Switzer-
land, Lake Lomond of Scotland, Lake
| Winniuesaukee of America, are larger
but Lake Gulilee is the greatest d!amoad
that ever dropped from the finger of the
! clouds, and, whether en"emped on its
hunks as We were yesterday and wor-
shipping at its crystal affairs, o? Winding
! into its waves which make an ordinary
| bath solemn as Il baptism, or now put
| ting out upon its sparkling surface in a
bout, ii is something to talk about, and
pruy about, and sing about, until the
| lips with which we now describe it can
IL ither talk, nor pray. Nor sing.
Az sometimes u beautiful child in q
neighborhood has half DOZEN pet
names. and some of the neighbors call
her by one name, aud others by another,
so this pet lake of the planet has pro-
fusion of names. Ask the Arab rs he
goes by, what this sheet of water is, and
he will call it TaDariyeh. ASK Moses of
the Old Testament and he calls it Sen of
Chinnereth. Ask Matthew and he calls
it Sea of GuliIee. Ask Luke and he calls
it Sea of Gennesaret. Ask John and he
calls it Sea OF 1lberias. Ask Joseph and
.Eusebius, and they have other names
ready. But TO me it appears
CHILD OF THE SKY,
star of the hills, @ rhapsody of the
mountains, the bgp;ismal bowl of the
world 3 temple, the smile of the great
God. Many kinds of fish are found i'll
these waters, every kind of tree upon its
bank. from those thnt grow III the torrid
zone to those in the frigid, from the
palm TO the cedar.
OF the two hundred and thirty war
ships Josephus maneuvered on these
waters-for Josephus was warrior as
well as n histOriGn-there remains not
one piece of hulk, or one patch of a
canvas, or one splinter of an oar. But
10 return TO America we never will until
we have had sail upon this inland sea.
Not from n whnrf, hut from q Teach,
covered with black and white pebbles,
we go on board of q boat Of about ten or
twelve tons, to be propelled partly by
sail aud partly by water. The mast
leans so far forward that IL seems about
TO full, but we find i; was puTposelY so
built, and the rope through pulley
manages 10 hoist and let down the sail.
1t is u rough boat, and as far as possible
removed from Venetian gondols or
sportsman . yacht. With common
saw and hammer and AK many OF you
could make better one. Four bare
footed Arabs, instead of sitting down 10
their ours, stand, As they always do in
rowing, and pSll away from the shore.
| Insist on helping, for there Is nothing
more eXhilGrRtiug 10 me than rowing,
but l soon had enough of the clumsy
oars, and the awkward attempt at WELD
ing them
WHILE IN STANDING POSTURE.
We put our overcoats and shawls on q
small deck in The stern of the boat, tne
very kind of deck where Christ lay on
q fisherman = coat, when of old tenn
pest pouuced upon the fishing smack of
the uffriGhted disciples. Ospreys and
wild duck and kiugfShers fly overhead or
dip their wings into the lake, installing
il for a fragment of fallen sky. Can 1t
lie thet those Bible stories about sudden
storms on this lake are true? Is it posi-
hle that a sea of such seeming placid ~
of temper could ever rise and rage Ut the
heavens? 1t does not seem as If this
happy family OF elements could have
ever had Il falling out and the water
strike at the clouds and the clouds strike
1t the water.
Pull away, oarsmen! On our right
bank are the hot sulphur baths, so bot
they are scalding, and the waters must
cool of long while before hand or foot
can endure their temperature. Eoicn-
noes have been boiling these waters for
centuries. Four springs roll their re-
sources INTO two great swim ming reser-
voirs. King Heroi there tried to battle
off ;he results of his excuses. ana PIiny
ani Josephus describe the spurtIngs out
OF these volcanic heats, and Joshua and
Moses knew about them, and this mo-
nent long lines of pilgrims from all parts
of the earth are waiting for their turn to
step into
THE sTEAMING RESToRATIvEs.
Let the boat, ss fur as possible, and
not run aground, hug the western shore
of the lake that we may see the city of
once q great capital, of the
architecture of which Il few mosaics and
fallen p liars ami pedestals, and here
and there q broken and shattered frisze |
remain, nightly suggestive of the time
" hen Herod Autipas had palace here |
and reigued with IN opulencr and pomp. |
aud cruelty, and aLomination that par |
alyzPs the fingers of the historian when |
he comes to write it aud the fingers of /!
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