Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

Full Report OF the Brooklyn Divine,
Latest sermon in the series Descriptive
of His Trip Through the Land Where
Jesus Lived and Died.
BRooKLYN, Nov. 3O-Rev. DIR. Talmage
preached today the tenth Of his series OF
sermons on his Palestine tour. describ.
ing his experiences on the lake whose
waters were once stilled at the command
Of Christ. The sermon, which was de-
livered in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
in the morning and a. usual repeated be-
fore an enormous audience at the Chris
tian Herald service in New York in the
evening, was from the text: "He entered
into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the
whole multitude was by the sea on the
land'-Mark iv, l.
1t is Monday morning in our Palestine
experiences, and the sky is a blue Galilee
above, a. in the boat we sail the blue Cali
lee beneath. Ii is thirteen miles long and
six miles wide, but the atmosphere is so
clear it seems as if | could cast stone
from beach TO beach The lake looks as
though it had been let down on silver pull
4 leys from the heavens aud were a section
/ OF the sea of glass that st. John describes
/ as part Of the celestial landscape Lake
1 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 its
south side; so this lake has its cradle and
its grave
Its white satin cradle Is among the
SHOWS of Mount Hermon where the Jor-
Ian starts, and its sepulchcr is the Dead
sea into which the Jordan empties Lake
Como Of Italy Lake Geneva Of Switzer.
land, Lake Lomund OF Scotland Lake
Ninnipesaukee of America are larger, but
Lake Galilee Is the greatest diamond that
! ever dropped from the finger OF the clouds,
and whether encampcd on its banks as we
were yesterday and worshiping at It's crys.
tai affairs or wadng into its waves, which
make an ordinary bath solemn as a hap.
tism, or now putting out upon its spark
ling surface in boat, it IS something to
talk about and pray about aud sing about
until the lips with which we now describe
it can neither talk nor pray nor sing
the LAKE mas MANY NAMES
As sometimes a beautiful child in a
neighborhood has half dozen pet names
and some Of the neighbors call her by one
name aud others by another, 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 viii call it
Tabariyeh. Ask Moses Of the Old Tesla.
ment, and he calls il Sea of Chinnereth.
Ask Matthew and he calls il Sea of Cali
lee Ask Luke, and he calls il Sea Of Gen
nesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea Of
Liberals. Ask Josephus and Eusebius,
and they have other names ready. But to
me il appears a child Of the sky, star Of
the hills, rhapsody OF the mountains, the
baptsmal 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 maneuvred on these waters-for
Josephus was a warrior as well as a his
toran-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 nave had a sail upon
this inland sea. Not from wharf, but
from "A beach covered with black and white
pebbles, we 20 on board boat Of about ten
or twelve tons, 20 be propelled partly by
sail and partly by Gar. The mast leans
so far forward that il seems about 10 fall,
but we find il was purposely so built and
the rope through a pulley manages to hoist
and let down the sail lt is IA rough boat.
and AS far rs possible removed from a
Venetian gondola or a sportsman's yacht
With a common saw and hammer and AK
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. |
4. q, H. IL I.
eXhilaating TO me than rowing, but | soon |
have enough Of the clumsy oars aud the
awkward attempt at welding them while |
in standing posture.
We put our oyercoats and shawls on a
small deck in the stern of the boat, the
very kind Of a deck where Christ lay on a
fsherman's coat when Of old tempest
bounced upon the fishing smack Of the
affrighted disciples Ospreys and wild
ducks and kingfishers fly overhead or dip
their wings into the lake, installing it for
a fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that
those Bible stories about sudden storms on
this lake are trueg Is il possible that a
sea of such seeming placidity of temper
could ever rise and rage at the heavensy 1t
does not seem as if this happy family Of
clements could have ever had falling out,
and the water strike at the clouds and the
clouds strike al the water
PULL AWAY, oARsNfEN.
Pull away, oarsmenl On our right bank
are the hot sulphur baths, so hot they are
scalding, and the waters must cool of q
long while before hand or foot can endure
their temperature Volcanoes have been
boiling these waters for centuries. Four
springs roll their resources into two great
swimming reservoirs. King Herod here
tried to battle OF the results of his excuses,
and Pliny and Josephus describe the spnrt
ings out OF these volcanic 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 turn to
step into the steaming restoratives.
Let the boat, as far as possible and not
run aground, hug the western shore of the
lake that we may see the city Of Tiberias,
once a great capital. of the architecture Of
which a few mosaics and fallen pillars and
pedestals. and here and there broken
and shattered fricze remain, nightly sug-
FESTIVE OF the time when Herod Antipas
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