Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-09
GOD IS EVERYWHERE.
DR.. T4Lu4GE CONTINUES HIS SER
MONS ON 4E BIBLE AND NATURE.

DR.. TaLM4GE CONTINUES HIS SER
: MONS ON BIBLE AND NATURE.
The Bible ssouuds In Reference to Fish.
ard hey Are Indirectly Recommended
Fc- Eood-Ssby Fishermen Were Chosen
For Apostles.
BRooKLyS. Feb. Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage this morning preached to
great audience in the Tabernacle q r.
markabIy interesting and eloquent ser-
mon on The Ichthyology o. the Bible,
or. God Among the Fishes" being con-
tinuation of his series Of discourses on
God everywhere. The text chosen was
Genesis i. 20, And God said. Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the mov-
ING creature that hath life"
What a new book the Bible is. After
Sc wears preaching from it and discuss
ing over 5000 different subjects founded
on the word of God. the book is as fresh
to me as when l learned. with a stretch
Of infantile meTcory. the shortest verse
in the Bible. 'JesSs wept, and / opened
few weeks ago a new realm of Biblical
interest that neither my pulpit nor any
one else's had ever explored, and having
spoken to you III this course of sermons
on God everywhere concerning the AS
tronomy of the Bible; or. God Among
the Stars" the Chronology of the Bible:
or, God Among the Centuries the Or
anthology of the Bible or. God Among
the Birds" the '-Mineralogy of the Bi-
bic; or, God Among the Amethysts.
this morning, as may be divinely
helped. Will speak to You about the
''Ichthvology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Fishes"
THE APOSTOLIC FISHERMEN.
Our horses were lathered and tired
out. and their fetlocks wera red with the
blood cut ont by the rocks, and could
hardly get my feet out of the stirrups as
on Saturday night we dismounted on the
beach OF Lake Galilee The rather lib
eral supply OF food with which we lad
started from Jerusalem was well nigh
exhausted, and the articles of diet -
naming had by oft repetition three
times q day for three weeks ceased 10
Appetite. Inever want to see a fg again,
and dates with me are ali out of date.
For several daysthe Arab caterer. who
could speak but half a dozen English
words, would answer our requests for
some of the styles of food with which We
had been delectated the first few days
by crying out, Finished" The most
piquant appetizer is abstinence, and the
demand of all the party was, Let us
breakfast on Sunday morning on fresh
fish from Lake Gennesareth," for you
must know that thatlake.-as four names
and it is worth a profusion Of nomen-
clature, and it is in the Bible called
Chinnereth, Tiberias, Gennesareth and
GaElee.
To our extemporized table on Sabbath
morning came broiled perch, only a few
hours before lifted out of the sacred
waters 1t was natural that our minds
should revert to the only breakfast that
Christ ever prepared. and 1t was on
those very shores where we breakfasted.
Christ had in those olden times struck
two fints together and set on fire some
shavings or light brushwood and then
pct on iarge- wood and q pile of glow
ing bright Goals was the consequence.
Meanwhile the disciples fishing on the
lake had awfully poor luck. and every
time they drew up The net it hurg drip
ping without futtering fir or squirm-
ing scale. But Christ from the shore
shouted to them and told them where to
drop the net. and l53 big fish rewarded
them. Simon and Nathaniel, having
cleaned some of those large fish, brought
them to the Goals which Christ had
kindled. and the group who had been
out all night and were ~hill and wet and
hungry sat down and began mastication
All that scene came back to Us when on
Sabbath morning. December, 1889. just
outside the ruins of ancient Tiberias and
within sound of the ripping Galilee, @e
orcakfaSted
BIBLE IcHTHYoLoGY.
Now. is it not strange that the Bible
imagery is so inwroaght from the fish
eries when the Holy Land is, for the
most part, an inland region: Only three
lakes-two besides the one already men
tioned-namelv. the Dead sea. where fish
cannot live at all and as soon as they
touch it they die. and the birds swoop
on their tiny carcasses. and the third,
the Pools of Heshbon, which are alter
nateiy full and dry. Only three rivers of
the Holy Land-Jabbok, Kishon and Jor-
can.
About all the fish now in the waters
of the Holy Land are the perch, the carp,
the Dream, the minnow, the blenny, the
barbel $50 called because Of the barb at
its MOUTH. the club. he dogfsh, none
of them worth Deial are shad or al
Adirondack trout. Well. the worlds
geography has changed, and the worlds
bill of fare mas changed Lake Galilee
was larger and deeper and better stocked
than now-and no doubt the rivers were
deeper and the fisheries were Of far
more importance then than now.
Besides that. there was the Mediterra-
mean sea only 35 miles away, ard fish
were salted or dried and brought inland,
and so much of that article OF. food was
sold in Jerusalem that fish market gave
tue udLue 10 one VI tue SdLeS VI JSi usei-
lem near by. and it was called the fish
gate. The cities had great reservoirs
in which fish were kept alive and bred.
The pool of Gideon was a fishpool. Isaiah
and Solomon refer to fshpools. Large
fish were kept alive and tied fast by ropes
to stake in these reservoirs, a ring hav
ing been run through their glls, and that
is the meaning of tae Scripture passage
which says, "Canst thou put hook into
his nose or bore his jaw through with a
thorn
So important was the FISH that the god
Dagon, worshiped by the PhiEstines, was
made half fsh and half man, and that is
the meaning of the Lords indignation
when in I Samuel We read that tins
Dagon, the fish god, stood beside the ark
of the Lord, and Dagon was by invisible
!. hands dashsa to pieces because. the Phil
istines had dared to make the fish Il god
That explains the Scripture passage,
.sThe head of Dagon and both the palms
Of his hands were cutoff upon the tlresh-