Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-01
ON LAKE GALlLEE.
SERMON DELIVERED BY REV. T. DE
WITT TALMAGE.

BROOKLYN, Nov. 80. 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
MS usual repeated before an enormous
audience at The Christian Herald serv-
ice in New York in the evening, was
from the text, He entered into a ship
and sat in the sea; and the whole null
titude was by the sea on the land"
Mark iv, 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 l
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 q 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 a little, for the river Jor-
dan comes III at its north side and de-
parts from its south side, 50 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 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 Us we
were yesterday and worshiping at its
crystal affairs, or wading into its waves
which make an ordinary bath solemn
as a 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 q beautiful child in
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 he calls it Sea of Gen
uesaret. Ask john and he calls it Sea
of Tiberias Ask Josephus and Fuse
bus, 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 baptis,nal 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 maneuvered on these
waters-for Josephus was q warrior as
well as u historan-there remains not
one piece of a hulk, or one patch of a
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 a 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 q rough boat,
and as far as possible removed from
Venetian gondola or a sportsman's
yacht. With common saw and ham
mer and ax 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 insist on help
ing, for there is nothing more exhila-
rating to me than rowing, but l 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,
lhe very kind of deck where Christ
ay on tsherman's coat when of old
4 tempest bounced upon the fishing
smack Of the affrighted disciples Os-
lreys and wild duck and kingfishers fly
overhead or dip their wings into the
axe, installing it for a fragment of
allen sky. Can it be that those Bible
tories about sudden storms on this
axe are true2 Is it possible that a sea
If such seeming placidity of temper
,ould ever rise and rage ut the heav.
'ns2 Ii does not seem as if this happy
amly of elements could have ever had
/ falling out and the water strike at
he clouds and the clouds strike at the
water.
Pull away, oarsmen! On our right
)ank are the hot sulphur baths, SO hot
hey are scalding, and the waters must
,ool OFF a long while before hand or
GOT can endure their temperature.
Volcanoes have been boiling these