The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-12-05
ON LAKE GALILEE.
SERMON DELIVERED BY REV. 7. De
WITT TAlMAGE,

Tho Eminent Divine Continues His So
ries Of Discoursss Descriptive Of His
Trip Through the Holy Land-An Able
Production Fully Reported.
BROOKLYN, Nov. DIR. 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 ut The Christian Herald serv-
ice in New York in the evening, was
from the text, He entered into ship
and sat in the sea; and the whole null
titude was by the sea on the land. "
Mark Nv, l.
1t 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. 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 pulleys from the
heavens and were 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 Jor-
dan comes iE at it's north side and de-
parts from its south side, SO this lake
has it's cradle and it's grave. Its white
satin cradle is among the SHOWS of
Mount Herlnon 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
whether encamped on its banks as we
were yesterday and worshiping at it's
crystal affairs, or wading into it's waves,
which make an ordinary bath solemn
as baptism; or now putting out upon
its sparkling surface in 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 beautiful child in
neighborhood has 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 lie calls it Sea of Gen.
nesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea
of Tiberias. Ask Iosephus and Fuse
bus, and they have other names ready.
But to me it appears child of the
sky, star of the hills, rhapsody of
the mountains, the baptismal 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 its 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 Unanswered 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 sail upon this inland
sea- Not from wharf, but from a |
beach covered with black and white
pebbles we go on board boat of |
about ten or twelve tons, to be pro-
PEELED 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 a pulley manages to hoist and
let down the SAIL 1t is rough boat,
and as far as possible removed from
Venetian gondola or sportsman's
yacht. With a common saw and ham,
mer and AK many of you could make
better one. Four barefooted Arabs,
instead of sitting down to their oars
stand as they always do in rowing, and
pull away from shore. insist on help
ing, for there is nothing more exhila-
rating to Inc than rowing, but soon
have enough of the clumsy oars and
the awkward attempt at welding them
while in standing posture.
A FRAGMENT OF THE FALLEN SKY.
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 fisherman's coat when of old
tempest pounced upon the fishing
smack of the affrighted disciples. Os-
preys and wild duck and kingfshers fly
overhead or dip their wings into the
lake, mistaking it for a fragment of