Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-02-11
GOD is EVERYWHERE.
DR.. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SER
MONS ON THE BIBLE AND NATURE.

DR.. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SER
MONS ON THE BIBLE AND NATURE. 8
The Bible Abounds In Reference to Fish,
and They Aro Indirectly Recommended
For Eood--why Fishermen wero Chosen
For Apostles.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 5.-Rcv. T. De Witt
Tallnage this morning preached to q;
great audience In tho Tabernacle re-
markably interesting and eloquent SER
mon on 1.-The Ichthyology of tho BibleeS
or, God Among the Fishes" being coH3as
tinuation Of his series Of discourses OBJ
God everywhere. The text chosen wassI
Genesis i, 20, "And God said, Let the;
waters bring forth nbundantly tho moYsss
ing creature that hath life" ss,
What O new book the Biblo is! After
So years preaching from it and discuss
ing over 5000 different subjects founded
on tho word of God, tho book ises fresh
to me as when learned, with astreteslE,,'
of infantilo memory, tho shortest VERSO
in the Bible, Jesus wept," and ] opened
few weeks ago q new realm oeBibhclllii
interest that neither my pulpitnor; any
one else's had over explored, and having;
spoken to Won in this course ofasegmols!
on God everywhere concerning thesssAs
tronomy of the Bible; or, God Among.
the Stars" tho Chronology of the BiBlei.
CT, God Among tho Centuriesi tho. g. 3r s.
anthology Of the Biblc; Or. God Among
the Birds" the "Mineralogyofsth the sBiss.
BILE; or, Gol Among the Amethysts &
this morning. as may DO diyinelg.
helped, will speak to you abcutEthe;
.Ichthyology of tho Bible; or, God
Among the Fishes"
TEE APOSTOLIC FISHERMEN:
Our horses wcro lathered and tired
out, and their fetlocl1s werered withSthe,
blood cut out BIZ the rocks, md Isconld
hardly getrny feet out Of the stirrups as
ON Saturday night wo disnaounted on.the.
beach Of Lake Gal;lee. Tho5rathcrl
oral supply of food with lyhichsWe had
started from Jerusalem was we'll nigh
exhausted, and the articles Of diet re-
naming had by oft repetition three
times Il day for three weeks ceased to-
appetite. Inever want to see o fig again.:
and dates with mo arc about Of date
For several days tho Arab caterer who
could speak but half dozen English:
words, would answer. our requests for
some of Tho styles of food with whichweE
had been dolectatel tho first few days
by crying out, FINISHED. The most
piguant appetizer is abstinence, and The
demand Of all the party was, .Letsus!
breakfast on Sunday morning onSfreshs
fish from Lake Gennesareth, for you
must know that that lake has fournemes,
and it is worth profusion of noInen:
claturc, and it is in the Bible called
Chinnereth, Nberias, Gennesareth and
Galilec. &
To our extemporizcd table on sabbath:
morning camc broilod perch. only:a few.
hours before lifted out of the sacredy
waters. 1t was natural that our minds:
should revert to the only breakfast that.
Christ ever prepared, and itswas ie1,..
those very shores whore we breaS ss,ss.sss A.
Christ had in those olden; time Ssssks
sxy Clint, r1-,ocl5rs Nc
shavings or light brushwood and then.
put on larger wood, and 9 pile of glow
Ing bright Goals was the consequence.
Meanwhile the disciples fishing on the
lake had awfully "poorluck. and every
time they drew up the net it hung drip
ping without luttering fin or squir1n-
ing scale. But Christ from the shore
shouted to them and told them where to
drop the net. and 1853 big fish rewarded
them. Simon and Nathaniel, having
cleaned some of those large fish, brought
them to tho Goals which Christ had
kindled, and tho group who had been
out ali night and were chill and wet md
hungry sat down and began mastication.
All that scene came back to Us when on
Sabbath morning, December, 1869, just
outside the ruins Of ancient Tiheries and
within sound of the ripping Galilee, we
breakfasted.
BIBLE IcIITHYoLOGY.
Now, is it not strange that the Biblo
imagery is SO inwrought from the fish
cries when the Holy Land is, for the
most part, iii inland region? Only three
lakes-two besides the one already NEIL
toned namely, tho Dead sea, where fish
cannot live Mt all. and as soon as they
touch it thoy dic, and the birds swoop
On their tiny carcasses, and the third,
the Pools Of Hcshbon, which are alter
nately full and dry Only three rivers of
the Holy L.and-Jabbok, kishon and Jor-
dan.
About all the fish now in the waters
of the Holy Land are the perch, the carp,
the Dream, the ulirnow the blenny. the
barbel $50 called because of the barb at
its 1nouth), the club, the dogfsh, none
Of them worth Delaware shad or an
Adirondack trout. Well, the worlds
geography has changed, and the worlds
bill of fare has 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 Medite7ra-
mean sea only G5 miles away, and fish
were sailed or dried and brought inland,
and so much of that article Of food was,
sold in Jerusalem thate fish market gave
the name to one of the gates Of Jerusa-
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 afshpool. Isaiah
and Solomon refer to hshpools. Large
fish were kept alive and tied fast by ropes
to q stake in these reservoirs, q ring hay
ing been run through theirgills, and that
is the meaning Of the Scripture passage
which says, "Canst thou put hookinto
his nose or bore his jaw through with
thornT
So important was tho fish that the god
Dagon, worshiped by the Philistines, was
a. 1.o1e EcL o,,1 ba1T man or1 tnnt lie