The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 60

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Who Will Go?

Through the doors that open stand
Who will go?
Calls invite on every hand,
Who will go?
You whom Christ from sin has freed,
Hear the Lord of glory plead
For the lands that lie in need.
Who will go?

Soul, does Jesus speak to you,
Will you go?

Has He work for you to do?
Will you go?

He has borne the cross before,

He will keep the crown in store,

Enter, then, the open door!

Will you go? Nelected.

So the Sea of Galilee has a double claim to dis-
tinction. To its natural beauty, which is said to
be unsurpassed, is added the glory of having been
closely connected with the life of Christ on earth.
On its shores the Savior performed many miracles
and often preached to the people. On its northwest
coast was the city of Capernaum, where He dwelt
after leaving Nazareth, and which is called “His
own city.” Of the ten or more cities that stretched
along its shores in the time of Christ, there remains
only the city of Tiberias, on the west side of the sea.

The sea, walled in by high hills, is some twelve
miles in length, by six or eight in breadth. ‘The
river Jordan flows through it and carries away its
overflow. In the time of Christ the
sea was the scene of busy life. It was
full of fish, and the gospels furnish
abundant proof of the importance of
fishing as an industry at that time.

The Sea of Galilee, beautiful as it
is with its clear water and its pictur-
esque surrounding, is a treacherous
body of water. Its surface is swept by

sudden gusts of wind, and tempests

The Sea of Galilee, with Tiberias.

The Sea of Galilee.

The Sea of Galilee, called also Sea of ‘Tiberias
and Lake of Gennesaret, is well known to Bible
readers. On this sea Jesus, when a great tempest
arose, filling the disciples with fear, rebuked the

. winds and the sea, so that there was a great calm
and the men marveled, saying, “What manner of
man is this that even the winds and the sea obey
Him!? Matt. 8, 26. On this sea Simon Peter, at
the word of Christ, let down his net and caught
a great multitude of fishes, Luke 5. At this sea
Jesus, after His resurrection and shortly before His
ascension, showed Himself again to the disciples,
addressing to Peter the searching question : “Simon,
son of Jonas, lovest thou me?” and giving him the
command: “Feed my lambs! Feed my sheep !”

often lash it until its waves beat high
upon the shore. “A resident of ‘Ti-
berias,” says a last year’s traveler,
“told us that he had seen it when it
might be mistaken for an ocean, so
violently was it agitated, and he bore
testimony also to the unexpected
squalls that visit it. We spent two
days on the sea, and in crossing it
found the wind so variable that prob-
ably half a dozen times the sail became
useless and it was necessary to resort to the oars.
The uncertainty of the weather has been attributed
to the numerous ravines or canyons which run down
from the mountains round about the sea, and as
these are the same that they were two thousand
years ago, travel upon the lake is attended with the
same risk that it was then, and in earnest prayer
we, during our voyage, commended ourselves to Him
who walked on the waters of this sea and said to His
troubled disciples: ‘Be of good cheer; it is I; be
not afraid ? ”

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I REMEMBER no one sin that my conscience does
so much accuse and judge me for as doing so little
for the saving of men’s souls and dealing no more
fervently with them for their conversion.

Richard Baxter.

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