The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-12-04
DIR. TALMAGE'S, SERMON.
A SAIL ON THE LAKE THAT WAS
sTFLLEDAT oHRlsT's COMMAND. 1

Where Jssus Lived and Died-Prayer
the Mishtirst Agency-T1se Lake Has
Many Names.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 80.--This Is the tenth
of the series that Doctor Talmage has
delivered at the Brooklyn Academy Of
Music, ON Ais teuY of Palestine, and de-
scribes his experiences on the lake whose
waters were stilled at Chrlst's commands,
and was from the text: HE entered into
o ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole
multitude was by the sea on the land. ~
Mark w., !.
It Is Monday morning In cur Pales-
tine experiences, and the sky rs a 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 1t seems as If !
could cast stone from beach to beach.
The lake looks as though 1t had been let
down on silver pulleys from the heavens
and were section of the sen of glass
that St. John describes as part of the
celestial landscape. Lake Galilee is a
depression Of six hundred feet in which
the river Jordan widens and tarries a
little, for the river Jordan comes in at
Its north side and departs from It's
south side; 80 this lake has Its cradle
and it's grave. Its white satin cradle Is
among the SHOWS of Mount Hermon
where the Jordan starts, and its sepul-
cher is the Dead sea into which the Jor-
dan empties.
Lake Como Of Italy, Lake Geneva of
I,r,41nrvord Tala Toy,ond of Coot1opd
Lake Winnipesaukee Of America are
larger, but Lake Galilee Is the greatest
diamond that ever dropped from the fin
ger of the clouds, and whether encamped
on It's banks as we were yesterday and
worshiping at its crystal affairs OF wad-
ing into its waves, which make an ordi-
nary bath solemn as baptism, or now
putting out upon its 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 1t can neith-
er talk nor pray nor sing.
As sometimes beautiful child in q
neighborhood has a half dozen pet
names, and some of the neighbors call
her by one name and others by another,
so this pet lake of the planet has q pro-
fusion 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 Matthew, and he
calls 1t Sea Of Galilee. Ask Luke, and
he calls it Sea OF Gennesaret. Ask John,
and he calls 1t Sea Of Tiberias. Ask
Josephus and Eusebius, and they have
other names ready. But to me it ap-
pears child of the sky, star of the
hills, rhapsody of the mountains, the
baptismal bowel 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. or the two hundred and
thirty warships Josephus Unanswered on
these waters-for Josephus was war
rior as well as historian-there re-
mains not one piece OF a hulk, or one
patch of q canvass, or one splinter OF an
oar. But return to America we never
will until we have hada sail upon this
inland sea. Not from wharf, but from
@ beach covered with black and white
pebbles, we go on board boat of about
ten or twelve tons. to be propelled
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. 1t Is a
rough boat, and as far as possible re-
I41o
sportsman's yacht. With common saw
and hammer 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
helping, for there Is nothing more ex-
hilsrating to me than rowing, but l soon
have enough OF the clumsy oars and the
awkward attempt at welding them while
in standing posture.
We put our overcOats and shawls on a
small deck in the stern Of the boat, the
very kind of a deck where Christ lay on
a fisherman's coat when Of old tempest
pounced upon the fishing smack of the
affrighted disciples. Ospreys and wild
ducks and kingfshers ny overhead or dip
their wings into the lake, mistaking 1t
for fragment OF fallen sky. Can it be
that those Bible stories about sudden
storms on this lake are true? Is 1t posi-
BILE that sea Of such seeming placidity
OF temper could ever rise and rage ut
The heavens.
It does not seem as II this happy
family Of elements could have ever bad a
falling out, and the water strike a. the
clouds and the clouds strike at the
water.
Pull away, oarsmenl On our right
bank are the hot sulphur baths, SO hot
they are scalding, and the waters must
cool on long while before hand or foot
can endure their temperature. Volcanoes
have been boiling these waters for GEN.
turtles. Four springs roll their resources
into two great swimming reservoirs.
King Herod here tried to bathe off the
results OF his excesses, and Pliny and
Josephus describe the spurtings out of
these volcancic heats, and Joshua and
Moses knew about them, and this mo-
ment long lines OF pilgrims from all
parts of the earth are waiting for their