The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-02-16
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cl, or. Talmage Gives An Account of Hi
So breakfast by tho Sea OF Ga,lIoo and De
duoes Many Lessons From the Monitor
OF Fish In the Bible.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 5.-Itev. Il. De
Witt Talmage this morning preached tc
a great audience in the Tabernacle 6
remarkably interesting and eloquent
sermon on "The IchthyOlogy of the Bi
BILE; or, God Among the Fishes" being
a continuation of his series of discOurses
on G. ID everywhere. Z ne text chosen
was Genesis j, 20, "And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creatures that hath lite."
What new book the Bible is! AT.
Ter &c years. preaching from it and dis
cussing over 5000 different subjects
founded on the word Of God the book is
as fresh TO me as when l learned, with
q stretch of infantile memory, the short
est verse in the Bible, "Jesus 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 in
this course OF sermons on God every
where concerning the "Astronomy of
the Bible; or, God Among the Stars"
the "Chronology OF the Bible; or, God
Among the Centuries;" the "Orn.Chol-
Ogy OF the Bloc; or, God Among the
Blrds;" the ''Mineralogy of the Bible;
or, God Among the Amethysts," this
morning, as may be divincly helped,
l will speak TO you about the "Ichthy-
ology OF the Bible; or, God Among the
Fishes"
Our horses were lathered and tired
out, and their fetlocks were red with
the blood cut out by the rocks, aud
could hardly get my feet out of the STIR
rups as on Saturday night we dismount.
ed on the beach OF Lake Galilee. The
rather liberal supply of food with which
we had started from Jerusalem was
we'll righ exhausted, and the articles OF
de. remaining had, by oft repetition
TREE times day for three weeks,
ceaced to Appetite. l never want TO
see fig again, and dates with me are
all out of date.
FOt several days the Arab caterer,
who could speak but half dozen Eng,
llsh words, would answer our requests
for Sole of the styles of food with which
we had been delectated The first few
days by crying out, "Finished." The
most pquant appetizer is abstinence
and the delhand of all the party was.
'Let us breakfast on Sunday morning
ON fresh fish from Lake Gennesareth,' ,
for you must know that that lake ha'
tour names, and it is worth profusioi
OF nomenclature, and it is in the Bibl
called Chiunereth, Tiberias, Gennesa
reth and Gahlee.
TO our eXtemporized table on Sab
bath morning came broiled perch, onl
few hOLrs before lifted out of the sa
cred wa crs. 1t was natural that on
minds should revert to the only break
fast that Christ ever pl eparcd, and
was on those very shores where w
breakfasted. Christ had in those oldc
times struck two nnts together and sc
on fire some shavings or light brush
wood and !hen put on larger wood, an
a pile of glowing bright Goals was tn
consequence.
Meanwhile the disciples fishing on th
lake had awiully ''poor luck" and ever
time they drew up the net it hung drip
ping withou.a tluttering lin or squirmin
scale. But Christ from the shore shout
ell to them and told Them where to dro,
the net, and 1853 big fish rewarded them
Simon and Nathaniel, having cleane,
some OF those large fish, brought then
to the Goals which Christ had kindled
and the group who had been out al
night and were chill and wet and hun
cry sat down and began mastication
All that scene came back to us when or
Sabbath morning, December, 1889, ius
outside the RUNS of ancient Tibcrlas
and within sound of the rippling Galilec
We brcakiasted.
Now, is il not strange that the Bible
Imagery is so inwrought from the fish.
cries when the Holy Land is, for the
most part, an inland region? Onl,
thee lakes, two besides the one already
mcntoned-namely, the Dead sea
where Gsh cannot live at all, and as
soon rs they touch it they die, and the
birds swoop on their tiny carcasses, ant
the third, the Pools of IIeshbon, wh:cl
are alternately full AMI dry. Only thrc,
rivers Of the Holy Land, Jabbok, Kis.l
on and Jordan. About all the fish nov
in the wate.s of the Holy Land prc tn,
perch, the carp, the Dream, the minnow
the blenny, the barrel $50 called be
cause of the barb ut its mouth), til,
chub, the doglish, none Of them worth
n Delaware shad or an Adirondack
trout.
Well, the worlds geography ha.
changed, and the worlds bill of fare ha.
changed. Lake Galilee was larger an,
deeper and better stocked than now
and 70 doubt the rivers were deepe
and the fisheries were of lar more i'm
po-tance then than now. Besides tha
there was the Mediterranean sea onl
35 miles away, and fish were salted O
dried and brought inland, and so muc
of that article OF food was sold in Jeru
salem that fish market gave the nam
to ore of the gates o. Jerusalem nea
by, and it was called The fish gate.
The cities had great reservoirs i
which the fish were kept alive and bred
The Poo of Gibeon was a lishpool
Isaiah end Solomon refer to fishpools
Lerge fish were kepL alive and tied fas
by ropes to a stake in these reservoirs
a ling having been run through thei
gills, and that is the meaning of the
Scripture passage which says, "Cans
thou put hook into his nose or bore