Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-05
THE LAKE GALILEE.
DIR. TALMAGE'S SAIL OVER The
FAMOUS BIBLICAL LAKE

cipator, the Pardon Granter, the
Merciful, the Comforter.-Heave
for All.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. 80, 1S90.-Dr.
Talmage preached today the tenth Of his
series OF sermons on his Palestine tour,
describing hsexperiences on the lake whose
waters were once stilled at the command Of
Christ. The text was: HE entered into
a ship and sat in the sea; and the whole
multitude was by the sea on the land."-
Mark 4. 1.
1t is Monday morning in our Palestine
experiences, and the sky is blue Calico
above as in the boat we sail the blue Cali
lee beneath. 1t is thirteen miles long and
six miles wide, but the atmosphere is
so clear it seems as if l could cast stone
from beach TO beach. The lake looks as
though it had been let down
silver pulleys FROM the heavens
and were a section OF the sea Of
glass that st. John describes as 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 Jordan comes in at its north side
and departs from its south side, 80 this
lake has it's cradle andi 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 Winnipesaukee Of America,
are larger, but Lake Galilee is tire greatest
diamond that ever dropped from the finger
10 h. oil hat an IN
banks as we were yesterday and worship
ping ut 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 n 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
OF tho two hundred and thirty war
ships Josephus manoeuvred on these
waters-for Josephus was warrior as
! well as historian--there remains not one
piece of hulk, or one patch of 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 q
wharf but from beach covered with
black and white pebbles we go on board a
boat of about ten or twelve tons, TO DO
propelled partly by sail and partly by
water. 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
| lot down the sail. 1t is q rough boat and
as far as possible removed from Venetian
gondola or sportsman's yacht. With q
common saw and hammer and axe many
of you could make a better one. Four
barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting down
to their oars, stand as they always do in
rowing, and pull away from shore. l in
| sist on helping, for there Is nothing moro
exhilarating to me than rowing, but soon
had enough of the clumsy oars, and tho
awkward attempt at welding them while
instanding 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 fsherman's coat, when Of old II tempest
| pounced upon the fishing smack of the
affrighted disciples. Ospreys and wild
duck and hngGshers fly overhead or dip
their wings into the lake, mistaking it for
q fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that
those Bible stories about sudden storms
on this lake are true? Is it possible that a
sea of such seeming placidity of temper
could ever rise and rage at the heavens?
| 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.
Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having
| in their arms carried US ashore to the only
place where Our Lord ever had pastor
ate, and we stepped amid the ruins of the
| church where He preached again
and again, and again, whose rich
sculpturing lay the synagogue,
there, not as when others SEQ it in spring
time covered with weeds, and loathsome
with reptiles, but in that December
weather completely uncovered to our agi-
tated and intense gaze. On one stone OF
that synagogue is the sculpturing of pot
OF mama, an artistic commemoration OF the
time when the Israclites were fed by
mamma in the wilderness, and to which
'sculpturing no doubt Christ pointed up
ward while He was preaching that sermon,
on this very spot, in which He said: mot
as your fathers did eat mamma and are
dead; He that eateth OF this bread shall
live forever" Wonderful Capernaum.
Scene of moro miracles than any place in
all tho earth Blind eyes kindling with
the morning. Withered arms made to
pulSate. LeperS DlOOuiuB lnUO uedlLD.
The dead girl terminated.
These Arab fonts. which on this Decem-
Der day find in Palestine, disappear and
see Capernaum as it was when Jesus was
pastor of the church here. Look ut that
wealthy home, the architecture, the mar
BILE front, the upholstery, the slaves in uni
form ut the doorway. 1t is the residence
of courtier of Hcrod, probably Chuza by
name, his wife, Joanna, christian dis
ciple But something is the matter. The
slaves gre in great excitement, and the
CONTRIBUTING there runs down the front
steps and takes horse and puts him at
full run across the country. Tho boy of
of that noblcman is dying of typhoid fever.
All the doctors have failed TO give relief.
But about five miles up tho country, mt
Cana, theirs is Divine Doctor, Jesus by
name, and the agonfzod father has gone
for Him, and with what earncstncss those
can understand who have had u dying
child in the house. This courticr cries 10
Christ: ''Come down ere my child do"
While the father is absent and at one
o'clock in tho afternoon, the people watch
ing the dying boy see a change in the ooun-
tenance. and JOANNA the mother, on one
side of his couch, says, "Why, this darling
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