Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
ON LAKE GALILEE.
sERMoN DELIVERED BY REV. T. DE
 WITT TALMAGE.

sERMoN DELIVERED BY REV. T. DE
 WITT TALMAGE.
 The Eminent Divine Continues His Se-
 ries of Discourses Descriptive of His
 Trip Through the Holy Land-An Ablo
 Production Fully Reported.
 BRooKLYN, Nov. 30.-Dr. 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, sHe entered into ship and sat in the sea; and the whole mul- titude was by the sea on the land" Mark iv, 1.
 It is Monday morning in our Pales- tine experience, and the sky is blue Galilee above as in the boat we sail the blue Galilee beneath. It 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 pulleys 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 depression of six hundred feet in which the river Jordan widens and tarries little, for the river Jor- dan comes ir at it's north side and de- parts from it's south side, so this lake has its cradle and it's grave. It's white satin cradle is among the snows of Mount Hermon, where the Jordan starts, and it's 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 whest,hier encamped on it's banks as we were yesterday and worshiping at it's crystal altars, or wading into it's waves, which make an ordinary bath solemn as baptism; or now putting out upon it's sparkling surface in a 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 a beautiful child in a neighborhood has a 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 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 Gen nesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea of Tiberias Ask Josephus and Fuse bius, and they have other names ready. But to me it appears a child of the sky, star of the hills, a rhapsody of the mountains, the baptismxE 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 it's 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 maneuvered on these waters-for Josephus was warrior as well as historian-there remains not one piece of a 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 a wharf, but from a beach covered with black and white pebbles we go on board a boat o1 about ten or twelve tons, to be pro pelled partly by sail and partly by ! oar. The mast leans so far forward that it seems about to fall, but we find it was purposely so built, and the rope through pulley manages to hoist and let down the sail. It is a rough boat and as far as possible removed from 6 Venetian gondola or a sportsman, yacht. With a common saw and ham mer and ax many of you could make z better one. Four barefooted Arabs instead of sitting down to their oars stand as they always do in rowing, anc pull away from shore. insist on help ing, for there is nothing more exhila rating to me than rowing, but soo1 have enough of the clumsy oars ana the awkward attempt at welding then while in standing posture.
 A FRAGMENT OF THE FALLEN SKY.
 We put our overcoats and shawls o1
 small deck in the stern of the boat
 the very kind of deck where Chris
 lay on fisherman's coat when of olt
 tempest bounced upon the fshinl
 smack of the afrighted disciples. Os
 preys and wild duck and kingfshers fl.
 overhead or dip their wings into tn
 lake, mistaking it for a fragment o
 fallen sky. Can it be that those Bibl
 stories about sudden storms on thi
 lake are truea Is it possible that a se
 of such seeming placidity of tempe
 could ever rise and rage at the heay
 ems? It does not seem as if this happ
 family of clements could have ever ha'
 a falling out and the water strike a
 the clouds and the clouds strike at tn
 water.
 l Pull away, oarsmen! On our righ
 bank are the hot sulphur baths, so he
 they are scalding, and the waters mus
 cool off long while before hand C
 foot can endure their temperature
 Volcanoes have been boiling tines waters for centuries. Four springs TO l fbn;r rocourcoc into fyvn oroat 3win