Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 43, Hope, Bartholomew County, 16 February 1893 — Page 3

OS SACRED SHORES. The Ichthyology of Iho BibleBreakfast by the Sea of Galilee—Wesson of the l f ishes--l)r. Talinago’H Sermon. Dr. Talmagepreached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Subject: “The Ichthyology of the Bible, on God Among the Fishes." Text, Gen. i. 20— “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life.” He said: What a new book the Bible is! After BC years’ preaching from it and discussing over 4,000 different subjects founded on tl 3 word of God the book is as fresh to me as when I learned, with a stretch of infantile memory, the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept,” and I opened a few weeks ago a- new realm of Biblical interest that neither my pulpit uor any one else’s had ever explored, and having spoken to you in this course of sermons on God everywhere concerning the “Astronomy of the Bible; or, God \mong the Stars;” the’‘Chronology of theBible; or, God Among the Centuries;” the “Ornithologv of the Bible; or, God Amorg the Birds;” the Mineralogy of the Bible: or, God Among the Amethysts,” this morning, as I may be divinely helped, I will speak to you about the Ichthyology of the Bible; or God Among the Fishes.” Our horses were lathered and tired out, and their fetlocks were cut out by the rocks, and I 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 had started from Jerusalem was well nigh exhausted, and the articles of diet remaining had, by oft repetition three times a flay for three weeks, ceased to appetize. 1 never want to see a fig again, and dates with me are all out of date. For several days the Arab caterer, *ho could speak but half a dozen English words, would cuswer 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 that lake has four names, and it is worth a profusion of nomenclature, and it is in the Bible called Chinnareth,Tiberias, Gennesareth and Galilee. To our extemporized table on Sabbath morning came broiled perch, only a few hours before lifted out of the sacred waters. It was natural that our minds should revert to the only breakfast that Christ ever prepared, and it was on those very shores where we breakfasted. Christ had in those olden times struck two flints together and set on fire some shavings or light brushwood and then put on larger wood, and a pile of glowing bright coals was the consequence. Meanwhile the disciples fishing on the lake had awfully “poor luck,” and every time they drew up the net it 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 153 big fish rewarded them. Simon and Nathaniel, having cleaned some of those large fish, brought them to the coals which Christ had kindled, and the group who had been out all night and were chill and wet and hungry sat down and began mastication. All that scene came back to us when on Sabbath morning, in December, 1889, just outside the ruins of ancient Tiberias and within sound of the rippling Galilee, we breakfasted. Well, the world’s geography has changed, and the world’s 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. Do you realize that the first living thing that God created was the fish? It preceded the bird, the quadruped, the human. The fish has priority of residence over every living thing. The next thing done after God had kmdled for our world the golden of the sun and the silver c jAandelier of the moon was to make > iiie fish. The first motion of the | principle of life, a principle that all | the thousands of years since have I not been able to define or analyze, I the very first stir of life, was in a fish. No wonder that Linnaeus and Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest minds of all the centuries sat enraptured before its anatomy. Oh, its beauty and the adapledness of its structure to the element in which it must live; the picture gallery on the sides of the mountain trout unveiled as they spring up to snatch the flies; the grayling, called the flower of fishes; the salmon, ascending the Oregon and the Severn, easi-

ly leaping the falls that would stop them; the bold perch, the gudgeon, silver and black spotted; the herring, moving in squadrons five miles long; the carp, for cunning called the fox of fishes; the wondrous sturgeons, formerly reserved for the tables of royal families and the isinglass made out of their membrane; the tench, called the physician of fishes, because when applied to human ailments it is said to be curative; the lampreys, so tempting to the epicurean that too many of them slew Henry II —aye. the whole world of fishes! The Lord by placing the fish in the first course of the menu in paradise, making it precede bird and beast, indicated to the world the importance of the fish as an article of human food. The reason that men and women lived three and four and five and nine hundred years was because they were kept on parched corn and fish. We mix up a fantastic food that kills the most of us before 30 years of age. Custards and whipped sillabubs and Roman punches and chicken salads at' midnight are a gauntlet that few have the strength to run. The reason that the country districts have furnished most of the men and women of our time who are doing the mightest work in merchandise, in mechanics, in law, in medicine, in theology, in legislative and congressional halls, and all the presidents from Washington down — at least those who amounted to anything—is because they were in those country districts of necessity kept on plain diet. No man or woman ever amounted to anything who was brought up on floating island or angel cake. What made the apostles such stalwart men that they could endure anything and achieve everything? Next to divine inspiration,'it was because they were nearly all fishermen and lived on fish and a few plain condiments. Paul, though not brought up to swing the net and throw the line, must of necessity have adopted the diet of the population among whom he lived, and you see the phosphorous in his daring plea before Felix, and the phosphorus in his boldness of all utterances before the wiseacres on Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he went without fright to his beheading, and the phosphorus you see in the lives of all the apostles who moved right on undaunted to certain martyrdom, whether to be decapitated or flung off precipices or hung in crucifixion. Phosphorus shining in the dark without burning.

Indeed the only articles of food that Christ by miracle multiplied were bread and fish which the boy who acted as sutler to the 7,000 people of the wilderness handed over—five barley loaves and two fishes. Know also in order to understand the ichthyology of the Bible that in the deeper waters, as those of the Meditterranean, there were monsters that arc now extinct. The fools who became infidels because they cannot understand the engulfment of the recreant Jonah in a sea monster might have saved their souls by studying a little natural history. “Oh,” says someone, “That story of Jonah was only a fable.” Say others, “It was interpolated by some writer of later times.” Others say, “It was the reproduction of the story of Hercules devoured and then restored by the monster.” But my reply is that history tells us that there were monsters large enough to whelm ships. The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages was thirty feet long, and as late as the sixth century of the Christian era up and down the Meditterrancan there floated monsters compared with which a modern whale was a sardine or a herring. The shark has again and again been found to have swallowed a man entire. A fisherman on the coast of Turkey found a sea monster which contained a woman and a purse of gold. Notice also how the Old Testament writers drew similitude from the fisheries. Jeremiah uses such imagery to prophesy destruction, “Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them.” Ezekiel uses the fish imagery to prophesy, “It shall come to "pass that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even to En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many,” the explanation of which is that Eu-gedi and Eu-eglaim stood on the banks of the Dead sea, in the waters of which no fish can live, but the prophet says that the time will come when these waters will be regenerated and they will be great places for fish. Furthermore in order that you may understand the ichthyology of the Bible you must know that there were five ways of fishing. One was by a fence of reeds and canes, within which the fish were caught. But the Herodic government forbade that on the shores oi Galilee, lest pleasure boats be wrecked by the stakes driven. Another mode was i by spearing-—the water of Galilee

was so clear, good aim could be taken for the transfixing. Another was by hook and line, as where Isaiah says, “The fishers shall also mourn, and they that cast angle into the brook shall lament.” And Job say, “Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?” And Haubakkuk says, “They take up all of them with the angle." Another mode was by casting net or that which was tiung from the shore; another, by a dragnet or that which was thrown from a boat and drawn through the sea as the fishing smack sailed on. Suppose I go around in this audience and ask these Christians when they were converted to God. One would answer, “It was at the time I lost my child by membranous croup, and it was the night of bereavement,” or it would be, “It was just after I was swindled out of my property, and it was the night of bankruptcy,” or it would be, “It was during that time when I was down with that awful sicknss, and it was the night of physical suffering,” or it would be “It was that time when slander took after me, and I was maligned and abused, and it was the night of persecution.” Ah, my hearers, that is the time for you to go after souls, when a night of trouble is on them. Miss not that opportunity to save a soul, for it is the best of all opportunities. But be sure before you start out to the gospel fisheries to get the right kind of bait. “But how,” you say, “am I to get it?” My answer is, “Dig for it.” “Where shall I dig for it?” “In the rich Bible grounds.” We boys brought up in the country had to dig for bait before we started for the banks of the Raritan. We put the sharp edge of the spade against the ground and then put our foot on the spade, and with one tremendous plunge of our strength of body and will we drove it in up to the handle and then turned over the sod. But make up your mind as to whether you will take the hint of Habukkuk and Isaiah and Job and use hook and line, or take the hint of Matthew and Luke and Christ and fish with a net. I think many lose their time by wanting to fish with a net, and they never get a place to swing the net. In other words, they want to do gospel work on a big scale, or they will not do it at all. □ I have seen a man in roughest corduroy outfit come back from the woods loaded down with a string of finny treasures hung over his shoulder, and his gamebag filled, and a dog with his teeth carrying a basket filled with the surplus of an afternoon’s angling, and it was all the result of a hook and line. And in the eternal world there will be many a man and many a woman that was never heard of outside of a village Sunday school or a prayer meeting buried in a church basement who will come before the throne of God with a multitude of souls ransomed through his or her instrumentality, and yet the work all done through personal interview, one by one, one by one. Go,d help us amid the gospel fisheries whether we employ hook or net, for the day cometh when we shall see how much depended on our fidelity. Christ himself declared: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good in the vessel, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world—the angels shall come forth and separate the wicked from the just. So in the church on earth, the saints and hypocrites, the generous and the mean, the chaste and the unclean, are kept in the same membership, but at death the division will be made, and the good will be gathered into heaven, and the bad, however many holy communions they may have celebrated, and however many, rhetorical prayers they may have offered, and however many years their names may have been on the church rolls, will be cast away. God forbid that any of us should be among the “cast away!” PEOPLE. Ex-President Hayes w r as the first man to receive the LL. D. degree from Johns Hopkins. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, has come out on a platform akin to spiritualism, or divine spirittualism, as he calls it. Sixteen years ago, Governor McGraw, of Washington, drove a bobtailed car in San Francisco. Now he holds the reins of the State government. Vice-President Morton has appointed Senator Gray, of Delaware, a regent of the Smithsonian institution, in the place of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, deceased. The Scotchmen of Denver propose to erect a $10,000 statue of Bobby Burns. A sculptor favorably considered is W. Grant Stevenson, ol Edinburgh, who has made half a dor.o statues of the px v t.

TDEWSOFTHEWEEK Negroes killed a New Orleans policeman Wednesday. Potatoes are worth $1.25 per bushel In the Chicago wholesale market. Ferdinand Ward is a free man, ail the indictments against him having been dismissed. Dr. Norvin Green, presidentof the Western Union telegraph company, died at Louisville, Sunday. i Two young ladies near Denton, Nob., aro suffering from glanders, contracted from a favorite pony. The gamblers at Guthrie, Okla., have broken into the legislative desk and stolen the anti-gambling bill. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Big Pour near Pana, 111., Tuesday. One man was killed and six seriously injured. A Chinaman committed suicide at New York. Wednesday, beihg the first case known in this country among that race. There is a conflict of authority between federal and State officials in South Carolina, growing ontof railroad litigation. The City of Fokin, which is now in port at San Francisco, after being two weeks overdue, was delayed by a broken propeller. Pickpockets are thriving in Chicago, and easily escape arrest, leaving their victims helpless and without recourse of any kind. Ex-Governor Foraker will not accept the appointment offered him by Governor McKinley as trustee of the Ohio State University. Under the space allotted to Kentucky in the World’s Fair mining building at Chicago, a miniature mammoth cave is to be constructed. The Illinois Steel Company at Chicago cleared over 80,117.000 in the past year. It has decided to issue $7,000,000 in bonds at 5 per cent. The Pennsylvania House, by a vote of 3.50 to 13, passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes within the commonwealtb. Heirs of Col. 0. Clay King, late of Kingsville, Mo., claim $40,000,000 worth of property in the heart of Chicago, known as the Bourbon estate. The Brooklyn common council has ordered the removal of the statue of Henry Ward Beecher from the front of the. city hall to Prospect park. Justice Harlan of the United States Supremo Court, is in London, and was pro J dented to the Queen’s Bench by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Tuesday. Door in Michigan find it almost impossible. to get through the snow, which is over five foot deep, and hunters pursue them on snow-shoes and catch them alive. James Sebastian, a farmer living near Sherman, Tex., dropped a stick of dynamite on his stove. The five inmates of the house were horribly bruised and burned. Col. Ingersoll delivered an eloquent eulogy on the character of Abraham Lincoln at Now York, Saturday night, on the Stth anniversary ol the birth of the martyr President. Kentucky Legislators are agilated over the convict labor problem. The present lessees demand further concessions, while the State already loses money under the present. Contract. Frank Hirth, an anarchist well known in Chicago and Milwaukee, committed suicide in Detroit on the 9th. by taking morphine. He was despondent because he had lost touch with the socialists. James J. Kalian, the colored minister who killed his wife at Winfield, N. Y., has been sentenced by Judge Brown, of Long Island City, to die by electricity at Sing Sing in the week beginning March 13. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, lias sent a message to the legislature deploring the recent hurn’ng of the negro Smith, at Paris in that Stale, and recommends the passage of more stringent laws to check the violence of mobs. Holder’s Hotel, Cincinnati, was partially destroyed by lire, Thursday morning. The structure had been condemned and ordered to be torn down within a month. It was packed with people. Fonr were burned to death. While Mrs. Oliver Pattio was away 'rom her home near Bollair, Mich., preaching, Tuesday night, the house, burned to the ground, and her three children. aged twelve, ten and six years, perished in the Haines. Rev. G. W. Angleberger, chaplain of the Wyoming House of Representatives, lias refused to receive It is salary. Ho is a : Seventh-day Adventist, and in his letter declining his salary says that it is un(Christianlike to do so. The Norwegian bark Alice went ashore at Long Beach, N. J., Monday night. Eleven sailors were rescued by the lifesaving service by means of the breeches ; buoy. Five who attempted to land in the bark’s boats wore drowned. Rev. Fat her Sherman, son of the late Gon. W, T. Sherman, in a lecture at St. Louis, Saturday night, stated that his : father was at otto time suspended by President Lincoln, on a charge of insanity, caused by same incoherent dispatches which were tampered with. The college of physician* of Philadelphia, has adopted a series of resolutions calling upon Congress to. keep quarantine, at all frontiers under the supreme and exclusive regulations and control of the National Government, ana administered solely by trained, sanitary officers of the United States-. W1K Butler, colored, a step-son of Smith, who was burned by a Texas mob last week, was found hanging to a limb and his body riddled with bullets, near Paris, Tex., Wednesday morning. He made himself notorious by boasting that ho knew Smith’s whereabouts before his capture!, which he. refused to- divulge. 1*0 HE IGN. Michael Davit!: has been elected to Parliament to 1 represent Northeast Cork. The destruction: of property by the

floods In Australia will amount to $15,000.000. Tho Marseilles correspondent of tho Paris Liberte says that within tho last four days fifty persons have died in Marseilles of a choleraic disease. A stormy debate took place in the Canadian House of Commons, at Ottawa, Wednesday, over the prospective policy ol the Cleveland administration toward that country. Another violent earthquake was felt at Zante, Tuesday. The King and Queen ol Greece are visiting ail the villages on the island to learn the wants of those who have been driven from home, and to calm the panic-stricken. The caraval Santa Maria, escorted by the crusler Isia do Luzon, sailed from Cadiz for America, Tuesday. The cruiser will proceed half way across the Atlantic with the caraval. Ex-Minister and Deputy Ronvier, exMlnlster and Senator Paul Deves, Senator Albert Grevy, brother of tho late President, and Senator Leon Renault, have been discharged from tho accusations against them in connection with the Panama proceedings, on tho ground that the evidence does not warrant putting them on trial. WASHINGTON. Tho treasury department has reduced its estimate of the probable amount required for tho payment of the sugar bounties. The original estimate was 810,500,000. It is now 88,000,000. President Harrison expects to leave Washington within an hour or two after the Inauguration of his successor, and arrive at Indianapolis Monday, Marche He will spend the intervening Sunday at Pittsburg. Mr. Turple, in the Senate, Tuesday, offered a resolution making political crime? a non-extraditable offense. It was laid on the table. A debate arose over tho ratification of the Russian treaty, the clause making an attempt to murder any member of tho Russian royal family a nonpolitical offense, and extraditable. Mr, Turpie defended the right of asylum for such offenders. Tho treaty was ratified by a two-thirds vote. In the whisky trust investigation, Weddesday, Thomas Dewar, a guager, testified that he was approached by Mr. Gibson and requested to assist in destroying the Shufeldt distillery. Was told that 1 could make 810,000 by assisting him, and 825,000 if the njatter went right. At a subsequent conversation Gibson stated that he could give witn ess something to put a can under a tank of alcohol in the cistern room of the Shufeldt distillery. Witness was to receive 810,000 for this. a triple aIliance. The Monroe Doctrine Said to Have Been Ignored. Extradition Treaty With Kussla—Prclucl* to a Foreign Combine, The Washington correspondent of s New. York paper Sunday, telegraphed » sensational story to the effect that a “triple alliance between tho United States Russia and France—such is the international combination of forces for mutua benefit and defense which lias been secretly pending for six years and which, un known to cither tho diplomatic or politi' cal world at largo, culminated in an ex ecutivo session of the U. S. Senate two days ago. This is the first public announcement of the weighty meaning which lay behind the seemingly unimportant and formal announcement that ’the extradition treaty with Russia has been ratified.’ It is claimed that tho United States will be sustained by Russia and Franco in all annexation projects in the Western hemisphere.” The report is not fully credited in Washington, and tho general belief is that no such interpretation can bo placed on the mere ratification of the extradition treaty.

GLADSTONE’S GRIT. Tito Grand Old Man Resents an Insult From Balfour. In the House of Commons, Friday, Mr Balfour spoke at length in favor of extending the debate on the Behring Sea question. In the course of his remarks ho reflected on the present Ministry. Mr. Gladstone questioned correctness of Balfour’s statements. Balfour replied with spirit and in insulting terms. Cries of “shame” and Jeers from Irish and Liberal members ensued amidst much confusion, Mr. Gladstone arose trembling with indignation, and in a voice shaken with anger, thundered out: “With due regard to circumstances and time I have endeavored to serve the House to the best of my ability (loud cam) prolonged cheers). The right honorable from East Manchester would have shown better taste, would have better fulfilled the duties of the post which, he occupies, if he had spared the reference to my agreeable occupation.” Repeated cheers followed Mr. Gladstones words, and amid the enthusiasm of the demonstration Mr. Balfour rose unnoticed to speak. He began throe times before his voice could be hoard. Before he had spoken a dozen audible words the Irish members .drowned'his voice again with yells and shouts of ‘Oh, oh. coward ” and “Withdraw.” Finally amidst the utmost disorder Balfrur succeeded in making himself hoard and stated that ho had not intended to reflect on the Prime Minister or to hurt his feelings in any way. His apology was received on all sides with prolonged cheers. I I ho poo! of Bethesda was much the same as a railroad pool of the present dav it was surrounded t,y cripples. y ’ “There, I’ve made a clean breast of it » 1 chicken? 0 rem,lrtrod whn * Plucking th.