The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-24


|. Rible. or God among the Fishes" being
a \ continuation of his series OF liscourses
4 on God Everywhere" The text chosen
"a was Genesis l., 20: And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the
n moving creature that hath life"
A What new book the Bible isl After
A thirty-six years preaching from 1t and
4 discussing over 1000 different subjects
II founded on the Word of God, the Book
" Is as fresh to me as when learned,
with "A stretch OF infantile memory, the
shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus
N wept." and opened few weeks ago q
II new realm of biblical interest that
II neither my pulpit nor anyone else's had
N ever explored, and. having spoken to
A YOU in this course Of sermons on God
Everywhere concerning the Astronomy
n OF the Bible, or God Among the Stars;
\ the Chronology of the Bible, or God
Among the Centuries; the ORTHODOXY
\ of the Bible, or God Among the Birds;
the Mineralogy of the Bible, or God
Among the Amethysts, this morning as
may be divinely helped, | will speak
to you about the lchthyology of the
Bible. or God Among the Fishes.
cur horses were lathered and tired
out. and their fetlocSs were red with
blood cut out 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
liberal supply of food with which we
had been started from Jerusalem was
well nigh exhausted, and the articles of
diet remaining, had, by oft repetition,
three times day for three weeks.
ceased to appetite. / never want to see
fig again, and dates with me are all
out OF date For several days the Arab
caterer, he could speak but half dozen
English words, would answer our re-
quest for some of the styles of food
with which we had been delectated the
first few days, by crying out, Fin
ishcd. ="
The most piquant appetizer is alb
stincnce, and the demand of all the
party was: Let us breakfast on Sun
day morning on fresh fish from Lake
Gennesareth," for you must know that
that lake has four names, and it is
worth profusion of nomenclature, and
1t is in the Bible called Chinnerete,
Tiherias, Gennesareth and Galilee 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 break
, fast that Christ ever prepared, and it
was on those very shores where we
UbrcalIfastcd. Christ had in those older
mines struck two fiints together and
Jet on fire some shavings or
light brushwood, and then put on
iarger wood and pile of glowing
Upright Goals was the consequence
Meanwhile, the disciples fishing on the
lake had awfully poor luck" and
every time they drew up the net it
a hung dripping without a fluttering fin
or squirming scale. But Christ from
the shore shouted TO them, and told
Them where to drop the net, and 1873
big fish awarded them. Simon and
Nathaniel, having cleaned some OF
NAose large fish, brought them to the
als which Christ had kindled, and the
Wfoup who had been out all night and
Werc chill and wet and hungry sat
own and began mastication. All that
kccnc came back to me when, on Sab
tin morning. December, 1889, just out
side the ruins of ancient Tiberias and
within sound of the ripping Galilee,
we breakfasted.
Now. is it not strange that the Bible
imagery is so lnwrought from the fish
cries, when the Holy Land is, for the
most part, an inland region? Only three
|. lakes, two beside the one already men,
toned, namely, the Dead sea, where
4 fish can not live at all, and as soon as
they touch it they die and the birds
4 swoop on their tiny carcasses, and the
4 third the Pools of Heshbon, which are
ALTERNATELY full and dry. Only three
rivers of the Holy Land-Jabbok,
Kishon and Jordan. About all the
fish in the waters of the Holy Land are
the perch. the carp, the Dream, the min
now, the blenny, the barbel (so-called
because of the barb at its mouth), the
ehub. the dog-fish, none OF them worth
IA Delaware shad or an Adirondack trout
We'll, the worlds geography has
1ehanged and the worlds bill
of fare has changed. Lake Cali
Dee was larger and deeper and better
stoched than now, and no doubt the
Irivers were deeper aud the fisheries
we're of far more Importance than now.
Besides that, there was the Mediterra-
mean sea only thirty-five miles away
4 and the fish were sailed or dried and
drought inland, and SO much OF that ar
ticle of food was sold in Jerusalem that
fish market gave tine name to one OF
the gates of Jerusalem near by, and 1t
was called the Fish gate The cities
had great reservoirs, in which fish were