Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1890 — Page 3

ON LAKE GALILEE. SERMON DELIVERED BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. the Eminent Divine Continues His Series of Discourses Descriptive of His Trip Through the Holy Land-An Able Production Fully Reported. In the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Y Dr. Talmage preached the tenth >f' his series of sermons on his Palestine lour, describing his experiences on the lake whose waters were once stilled at ;he command of Christ. The sermon ivas from the text, “He entered into a ihip and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the lipid.” —Mark iv, L , It is Monday morning in onr Palestine jxpericnce, and the sky is a blue Galilee ibove as in the boat we sail the blue Balilee beneath. It is thirteen miles long and six miles wide, but the atmosphere isaso clear it seems as if I could iast a stdne from beach to beach. The lake looks as though it had been let down >n silver pulleys from the heavens and ivere a section of the sea of glass that St. John describes as a part of the celestial landscape. Lake Galilee is a depression of six hundred feet in which the river Jordan widens and tarries a little, for the river Jorian comes in at its north side and departs from its south side, so this lake ias its cradle and its grave. Its white iatin cradle is among the snows of Mount Hermon, where the Jordan starts, and its sepulcher is the Dead” Sea, into which the Jordan-empties, Lake Como, >f Italy; Lake Geneva, of Switzerland; Lake Lomond, of Scotland; Lake Winnipesaukee, of America, are larger, but Lake Galilee is-the greatest diamond that ‘ver dropped from the finger of the ilouds, And whether encamped on its banks as we were yesterday and worshiping at its crystal altars, or wading into its waves, which make an ordinary bath Solemn as a baptism; or now putting out upon its sparkling surface in a boat, it Is something to talk about and pray ibout and sing about, until the lips with Which we now ‘describe it can neither talk, nor pray, nor sing. Os the 230 war ships Josephus maneuvered on these waters —for Josephus was a warrior as well as a historian—there remains not one piece of a hulk, or bne patch of a canvas, or one splinter of an oar. But return to America we neverjwill-until we have, had a sail upon this inland sea. Not from a wharf, but from a beach covered with black and White pebbles we go onboard a boat of about ten or twelve tons, to be propelled partly by sail and partly by oar. We put our overcoats and shawls on a* small deck in the stern of the boat, the Fery kind of a deck where Christ lay on i fisherman’s coat when of old a tempest I pounced upon the fishing smack of the affrighted disciples. Ospreys and wild duck and kingfishers fly overhead or dip Lheir wings into the lake, mistaking it for a fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that those Bible stories about sudden storms on this lake are true? Is it possible that a sea of such seeming placidity t>f temper could ever rise and rage at the heavens? It does not seem as if this happy family of elements could have ever had a falling out and the water strike kt the clouds and the clouds strike at the water. ‘Pull away, oarsmen’. On our right bank are the hot sulphur baths, so hot they are scalding, and the waters must Sool off a long while before hand or foot tan endute their temperature. Volcanoes have been boiling these waters for centuries. Four springs roll their resources into the great swimming reservoirs. King lierod there tried to bathe off the results of his excesses, and Pliny and Josephus describe the spurtings out of these’ volcanic heats, and Joshua and Moses knew abouf them, and this moment long lines of pilgrims from all parts as the earth are whiting for their turn to step into the steaming restoratives. Let the boat, as far as possißte 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 fevy mosaics and fallen pillars and pedestals, and here and there a broken and shattered frieze remain, mightily suggestive of the time when Herod Antipas had a palace here and reigned with an opulence and pomp and cruelty and abomination that paralyzes the fingers of the historian when he comes to write it and the fingers of the painter when he attempts to transfer it to canvas. I suppose he was one nf the worst men that ever lived. And what a contrast of character comes at every moment to the thoughtful traveler in Palestine, whether he walks the beach of this lake or sails as we now do these waters! Side by side are the two great characters of this lake region. Jesus and Herod Antipas. And did any age produce any sui'h antipodes, any such antitheses, any such opposites? Kindness and crnelty, holiness and filth, generosity and meanness, self-sacrifice and selfishness, the supernal and the infernal, inidnoon and midnight. The father of this lierod Antipas was a genius at as l sassination-. lie could manufacture more reasons for putting people out of this life than any man in all history. He sends for Hyrcanus to come from Babylon to Jerusalem to be made high priest and slays him. He has his brother-in-law while in bathing with him drowned by the king's attendants. He slays his wife and his wife's mother, and two of his sons and.his uncle, and filled a volume of atrocities, the last 'chapter .of which was the massacre of all the babes at Bethlehem. With such a father°as Herod the Great yoti arc not surprised that this Herod Antipas, whose palace stood banks of this lake we now sail, was a combination of wolf, reptile, and hyena, while the Christ who walked’ yonder banks and sailed these waters was so good that almost every rod of this scenery is associated with some wise word or some kindly deed, and all literature and all art and all earth and ail Heaven are put to the utmost effort in trying to-express how grand and glorious and lovely He was and is and is to bo. The Christly and Herodic characters as different as the two lakes we visit arid not far apart, Galilee and the Dead sea; the. one flower banked and the other bituminous and blasted; the one hovered over by the mercy of, Christ, the other blasted by the wrath of God; the one full of finny tribes sporting in the clear depths, the other forever lifeless; the waters of the one. sweet, and pleasant to the taste, the other bitter and sharp and disgusting. Awful Dead Sea'.’ Gio. ions Genncsaret! We. will not attempt to cross to the eastern side of the Jake, as I had thought to du, for’those regions are inhabited by a thieving and.murderous race, and one must go .thoroughly armed, and as I never shot any- one and have no ambition to be shot, I said, “Let us stay by the western shore.” Pull atfay, ye Arab oarsmen! And we come along the shore near by which stand great precipices of brown and red and gray limestone crowned by basalt, in the sides of which are vast caverns, sometimes she hiding place of bandits, and sometimes the. home o&honest shepherds, and sometimes the dwelling place of pigeons and vultures and eagles. During one of Herod’s wars his enimies hid in these mountain caverns, and the sides were too steep for Herod’s army to descend, and the attempt to climb in the sac« of armed men Would have called

down extermination. So Herod had , great cages of wood, ironbound, made and filled them with soldiers and let them down from the top of the precipices until they gave signal that they were level with the caverns, and then from these cages they stepped out to the mouth of the caverns’ and haying set enough grass and wood on fire to fill the caverns with smoke and strangulation, the hidden people would ednie forth to die; and if not coming forth voluntarily, Herod’s men would pull them out with long iron hooks, and Josephus says that one father rather than submit to the attacking army flung his wife and seven children down the precipice and then leaped after them to his own death. Now, ye Arab oarsmen, row on with swifter stroke, for we want before noon to land at Capernaum, the three years’ home of Jesus. But before arrival there we are to have a new experience. The lake that had been a smooth surface begins to break up into roughness. The air which all the morning made our sail almost useless suddenly takes hold of our boat with a grip astonishing, and our poor craft begins to roll and pitch and tumble, and in five iginutes we pass from a calm to violence. The contour of this lake among the hills is an invitation to hurricanes. I used to wonder why it was that on so limited a sheet of water a bestormed boat in Qhrist’s time did not put back to shore when a hurricane was coming. I wonder no more. On that lake, an atmospheric fury gives no warning, and the change we saw in five minutes made me feel that the boat in which Christ sailed may have been skillfully managed when the tempest struck it and the wild importunate cry went up, “Lord save us or we perish!” I had all along that morning been reading from the New Testament the story of occurrences on and around that lake. But our Bible was closed now, and it was as’ much as we could do to hold fast and wish for the la>id. If .the winds and the waves had continued to increase in violence the following fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the first five, and we had been still at their mercy-, our bones would have been bleaching in the bottom of Lake Gennegaret instead of our being here to tell the story; but the same Power that rescued the fishermen of old to-day safely lauded our party. What a Christ for rough weather! All the sailor boys ought to tty to Him as did those Galilean mariners. All you in the forcastle and all you who run up and down the slippery ratlines, take to sea with you Him who with a quiet word sent the winds back the mountain gorges. Some of ybu Jack Tars to whom these words*will conn*.need to “tack ship” and ! change your course if you are going to get across this sea of life safely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay there. Ready about! Helm’s a-lee!' Mainsail haul! Star of peace! beam o’er the billow, Bless the soul that sighs for thee; Bless the sailor’s lonely pillow, Far. far at sea. Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having in their arms carried us ashore to the only place where our Lord ever had a pastorate, and we stepped amid the ruins of the church where he preached again and again and again, the synagogue, „whose rich sculpturing lay there, not as when others see it in spring time covered with weeds and loathsome with ireptiles, but in that December weather completely uncovered to our agitated and intense gaze. On one stone of that synagogue, is the sculpturing of a pot of manna, an artistic commemoration of the time when the Israelites were fed by manna in the wilderness, and to which sculpturing no doubt Christ pointed upward while He was preaching that sermon on this very spot in which He said: “Not as your fathers did eat manna anjl are dead; He that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” Wonderful Capernaum. Scene of more miracles than any place in all the earth! Blind eyes kindling, with the morning. Withered arms made to pulsate. Lepers blooming into health. The dead girl reanimated. These Arab tents, which on this December day I find in Palestine,, disappear, and I see Capernaum as it was when Jesus was pastor of the church here. Look at that wealthy home, the architecture, the marble front, the upholstery, the slaves in uniform at the doorway. It is the residence of a courtier of Herod, probably Chuza by name, his wisp Joanna, a Christian disciple. | Itut something is the matter. The slaves I are in great excitement, and the courtier living there runs down the front steps and takes a horse and puts him at full run across the country. The boy of that nobleman is dying of typhoid fever. All i the doctors have failed to give relief. I But about five miles up the country, at Cana, there is a divine doctor, Jesus by name, and the agonized father has gone for him, aVid with what earnestness those can understand who have had a dying-child in the house. This courtier cries to Christ, “Come down ere my child die!” While the father is absent, and at 1 ; o'clock in the afternoon, the people I watching the dying boy see a change in | the countenance, anil Joanna, the I mother, on one side of his couch, says: "Why. this darling is getting well; the fever has broken. See the perspiration ori his forehead? Did any of you give him any new kind of medicine?” “No,”, is the answer. The boy turns on his pillow, his delirium gone, and asks for something to eat and says: "Where's father?” Oh, he has gone up to Cana to get a young doctor of about thirtyone years of age. But no doctor is needed’ now in this house at Capernaum. The people look at the sun dial to find what time of the day it is, and see it is just past noon and 1 o'clock. Then they start out and meet the returning father, and as soon as they come within speaking distance they shout at the top of their voices, “Your boy is getting well!” “Is it possible?” says the father. “When did the change.l for the better take place?” “One o’clock,” is the answer. “Why,” says the courtier, “that is just the hour that Jesus said to me, ‘Thy son liveth.’ One o'clock!” As they gather at the evening meal what gladness on all the countenances in that home at Capernaum! The mother, Joanna, has not had sleep for many nights, and she now falls off into delightful slumber. The father, Chuza, the Herodian courtier, worn out with anxiety as well as by the rapid journey to and from Cana, is soon in.restful unconsciousness. Joanna was a Christian before, but I warrant she was more of a Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza accept the Christ who had cured his boy? Is-there in all the earth a parent so ungrateful for the convalescence or restoration of an imperiled child as not to go into a room and kneel down and make surrender to the almighty love that came to the rescue? Do not mix up this case with the angry discussions about Christian science, but accept the doctrine, as old as the Bible, that God does answer prayer for the sick. That Capernaum boy was not the only illustration of the fact that : prayer is mightier than a typhoid fever. And there is not a doctor of large praci tice but has come into the sick room of some hopeless case and, in a cheerful manner if he were a Christian, or with a bewildered manner if he were, a skeptic, • said: “Well, what have you been doing i with this patient? What have you been giving him? The pulse Is better. The i crisis is past. After all, I think he will i get well.” Prayer will yet be acknowli edged in the world’s material medica, and i the cry is just as appropriate now as [ when Chuza, the courtier from 'Caper-

naum, uttered in Christ’s hearing, “Come down ere my child die!” It the prayer be not answered in the way we wish, ft is because God has something better for the child than earthly recovery, and there are thousands of men and women now alive in answer to fathers’ and mother’s prayers, myself one of the multitude. The mightiest agency in the universe is prayer, and it turns even the Almighty: It decides the destinies of individuals, families, and nations. During our sad civil war a gentleman was a guest at the White House in Washington, and he gives this incident. He says: “I had been spending three weeks in the White House with Mr. Lincoln as his guest. One night—it was just after the battle of Bull Run—l was restless and could not sleep. I was repeating the part which I was to take in a public performance. The hour was past midnight. Indeed, it was coming near to the dawn when I heard low tones proceeding from a private room w-here the President slept. The door was partly open. I instinctively walked in, and there I saw a sight which I shall never forget. It was the President kneeling before an open Bible. “The light was turned low in the room. His back was turned tojvard me; for a moment I was silent as I stood looking in amazement and wonder. Then he cried out in tones so pitiful and sorrowful: “Oh, thou God that heard Solomon in the night when he prayed for w-isdom, hear me! I cannot lead this people, I canot guide the affairs of this nation without Thy help. I am poor and weak and sinful. Oh, God, who didst hear Solomon when he cried for wisdom, hear me and save the nation!” You see we don’t need to go back to Bible times for evidence that prayer is heard and answered. But some one may say that Christ at Capernaum healed that courtier’s child, yet He would not have done it for one in humble life. Why, in that very Capernaum He did the same thing for a dying slave, belonging to the man who had made a present to the town of the church of which Jesus s was pastor, the synagogue among whose ruins I to-day leap from fragment to fragment. This was the cure of a Roman soldier’s slave, whose only acknowledged rights were the wishes of his owner. “But,” says some one, “why was it that Christ, coming to save the world, should spend so much of his time on and around so solitary a place as Lake Galilee? There is only one city of any size on its beach, and both the western and eastern shores are a solitude, broken only by the sounds coming from the mud. hovels of the degraded. Why did not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty, at Athens the learned, at Cairo the historic, at Thebes the hundred-gated, at Rome the triumphant? If Christ was going to save the world, why not go where the world’s people dwell? Would a man wishing to revolutionize for good the American continent, pass his time amid the fishing huts on the shores of Newfoundland?” My friends, Galilee was the hub of the wheel of civilization and art, and the center of a population that staggers realization. On the shore of the lake we sail to-day stood nine great cities— Scythopolis, TaHch, Hippos, Gamala, Chorazin, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Magdala, Tiberias—and many villages, the smallest of which had 15,000 inhabitants, according to Josephus, and reaching from the beach back into the country in all directions. Four thousand ships, history says, Were at onetime upon these waters. Battles were fought there which shocked all nations with tneir consequences. Upon those sea fights looked Vespasian and Titus and Trajan and whole empires. From one of these naval encounters so many of the dead floated to the beach they could not soon enough be entombed, and a plague was threatened. Twelve hundred soldiers escaping from these vessels of war were one day massacred in the amphitheater at Tiberias. For three hundred years that almost continuous city encircling Lake Galilee was the metropolis of our planet. It was to the very heart of the world that Jesus came to soothits sorrows, and pardon its sins, and heal its sick, and emancipate its enslaved, and reanimate its dead. ( And let the church and the world take the suggestion. While the solitary places are not to be neglected we must strike for the great cities if this world is ever to be taken for Christ. Evangelize’ all the earth except the cities and in one year the cities would corrupt the earth. But bring the cities and all the world will come. Bring London and England will come. Bring Paris and France will come. Bring Berlin and Germany will come. Bring St. Petersburg and Russia will come. Bring Vienna and Austria will come. Bring Cairo and Egypt will come. Bring the near three million people in this cluster of cities on the Atlantic coast and all America will soon see the salvation of God. Ministers of religion! let us intensify our evangelism! Editors and publishers! purify your printing presses! Asylums of mercy! enlarge your plans -of endeavor! And instead of this absurd and belittling and wicked rivalry among our cities as to which happens to. have the most men and women and children, not realizing that the more useless and bad people a city has the'worse it is off, and that a city which has ten, thousand good people is more‘to be admired than a city with one hundred thousand bad people, let us take a moral census and see how many, good men and good, women are leading forth how large a generation of good children who will consecrate themselves.and consecrate the round world to holiness and to God. Oh, thou blessed Christ, who didst come to the mighty cities encircling Lake Galilee! come in mercy to all our great cities of to-day. Thou who didst put Thy hand on the white mane of the foaming billow of Genncsaret and make them lie down .at Thy feet, hush all the raging passions of the world! Oh. Thou blessed Christ! who on the night when the disciples were trying to cross tiiis lake and “the . wind was contrary,” after nine hours of rowing had made only three miles, ' didst come stepping on water at the touch of Thy foot hardened into crystal, meet all our shipping, whether on placid or storiny seas, and say to all thy people now by whatever style of tempest tossed or driven aS though didst to the drenched disciples in the cyclone; “Be of good cheer. It ’s I. Be not afraid!” Thank t ' that I have seen this lake of Christly memories. Conclusive Evidence. Lady Dow ager—l am at last thor oughly satisfied that the wife Lord Henry brought from America used to be an actress. Countess Flango— How did you find out? I-iady Dowager—l renounced them both yesterday, and she clasped her hands, took three steps to the right, sobbed convulsively for fifteen seconds, and then turning about, towered to her full height and defied me.— Grip. Oscar Wilde up all night once, and when asked " next day to say why he had done so, he replied that he had stayed up “to see a lily die.” There are many vices which do not deprive us of friends; there are many virtues which prevent our having any. Glue from whale refuse is a new article of commerce in Russia.

Growth of London. One of the most singular facts about the growth of London is its regularity. It may be roughly taken that every month about a thousand houses are added to London. In August of this year 766,577 houses had to be supplied by the water companies with water; in September that number had increased to 766,797. In August of last year 754,464 houses had to be supplied, or 12,113 below the number in the same month of this year. In September of this the companies had to supply 10,976 houses more than in September of 1889. This extension is not confined to any one portion of the capital, but a preference is stilßsbeing shown for the north and northwest suburbs. — Pall Mall Gazette. Depth of the Sea. 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ONLY 50 CENTS Evi Bent with your order as a sruarantee of good faith is all we rewcX. PfhliSl lldWWk uoire, the balance (SbbU) you NkSX. can *he express office rt after you have examined the watch, and are convinced of its 'Ab worth. The picture that we la show here gives a good view of O ’^lll the watch that we send We ri* '<l havetheminhundredsofdiff- ! •*! f> erentstyles of engraving. The fl e cases are made of two heavy WjrS siWaiK Vh>us of IS*, solid oeld Fovercompositioninetar.and warranted ta ev. er v respect. It is hunting case, stem wind aJld . B *® m “I' R has viSSi crown and thomb pieces, ail accurately .wIFttWSEiEf fe made, fitted aud war. ■ 188 ranted The move WZliaa mentlatde flue Elgin Sjfflßtizl ’ W style,richly jeweled iOfesaiJSfi quick train, OSO Bvfel ; bcatsperhour. Expansion balance, ’■VvJSSa.Kg-F iKI patent pinion, natent escapement, full plateheautirully tluished, aceuratauMfc^lwEjßw’.ely regulated and •- i adjusted and War. correct time. guaranteeissent-with each watch, good for ten years. The regular retail price of this watch wKiFWWEßlgaaßgsy is *95.00. but we desire tp secure on agent in oMr. every town throughout the United States, aud therefore the special price of SO. 00. If you send money With your order (gMO) w ? wiU toclude in additions Ve r If yrahSwkfrfend in thecig have himi calf our salesroom and ae-1 KIRTLAND JBROS. & CO» Isct watch for you. | 62 Fulton. Street N. Y. YDUR BOY WANTS SOur Illustrated CATALOGUE of Scroll Saws, Designs, Magic Lanterns, Skates, Boxing Gloves, etc. jO-Send stamp for our No. 200 Catalogue. THE JOHN WILKINSON CO., 269 & 271 State St. Chicago, 111. New~pensTon law. THOUSANDS NOW ENTITLED WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ENTITLED. Address for forms for application and full information WM. W. DUDLEY, LATE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. Attorney at Law. Washington, D. C. (Mention this Paper.) I Ing ftae''fait SMALLsm Inatant .] 1 If/ nllef for cold or perspiring feet. < On sale I Mr .varywhere, sr sent free on rseelpt of Meta. Jrw Sample package fra. st storM, or maUedf.ro SW dime. Illustrated Pamphlet Free. <7 r«l>INB CO., WOBLD B’LD’G. K.T, ■■REEMAN i MONEY, Washington. D. OCPatxnt. Pension. Claim and Land AttornitsrH. D. Monsy, IO years member ot Congress. ■ A. A. Freeman, 8 yean Asst U. S. Atty Gea-

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