Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-21
net mcnded: they push ~ off in the sea and

| ret mended: they push II off in the sea and
| and drop paddle aud hoist sail, and the cut
| water went through amid the shoals OF
| fish, some OF the descendants of which we
had for breakfast one morning while we
were encanped on the beach of beautiful
Galilee. James and John had no time to 20
ashore. They were not fishing for fun, rs
| you and 1 do In summer time. 1t was
| their livelihood and that of their
families. They mended their nets where
they were, in the ship.
notice thai all who leave the Gospel
boat and 90 ashore to mend their nets stay
there. Or II they try again to fish, they do
not catch any thing Get out Of the Gospel
boat and go up into the world to get your
net mended, and you will live to see the
day when you feel like the man who, hay
ing forsaken Christianity, sighed: IL
would give II thousand pounds to feel as
did in 1920" The time will come when
you would be willing to give thousand
pounds 10 feel rs YOU did In 1891.
Those, dear brethren, of all denomina..
tions, afflicted with theological fidgets, had
better 30 TO mending nets instead
of breaking them. Before they break
up the old religion and try to
foist on us new religion, let them go
through some great sacrifice for God that
Will prove them worthy for such work,
taking the advice OF Talleyrand 10 man
who wanted to upset the religion OF Jesus
Christ and start II new one, when he SAID:
go and be crucifed and then raise your
self from the grave the third day
In the time OF great disturbance in
Naples in 1919, Massanello, bare-footed
iishng-boy, dropped his t>hing-rod, and 10y
strang &c magnetism took command of that
city OF six hundred thousand souls. lie
took off his iishing-j jacket and put on robe
OF gold in the presence OF bowling mobs.
lie put his hand on his lip asa signal and
they were silent. lie waived his hand away
from him and they retired 10 their homes.
Armies passed III review before him.
He became the nations idol. Tho
rapid rise and complete supremacy Of that
young fisherman Massanleilo, has no paral-
lei IN ali histoay. But something equal to
that aud better than that is al everyday
occurrence in heaven. But do not spend
your time fishing with hook and line. Why
did not James the son Of Zebedee sit on tie
wharf ut Cana, his feet hanging over the
lake and with u long pole ana worm on
the hook dipped into the wave wait for
some mullet 10 swim up and be caught.
Why did not Zebedee spend
his afternoon trying to catch
These men were not mendtng hook aud
line they were mending their nets. SO let
the church Of God not be content with hay-
ing here one soul and next month another
soul brought into the kingdom, Sweep all
the seas with nets, scoop nets, seine nets,
ufiS Hels, all-eHcoIipassll5 hcbS, anu tuhe
the treasures in by hundreds arri thousands
and millions, and nations be born in day.
and the hemspheres quake with the tread
OF a ransOming God. DO you know what
will be the two most tremendous hours in
our heavenly existence? Among tho
quadrilIions of ages mich shall roll
on, what two occasions will be to
us the greatest? The day of our arrival
there will be to us one of the two greatest
The second greatest | think, Will be the
day when we shall have put i'll parallel
lines before us what Christ did for us, and
what we did for Christ, the one so great
the other so little. That will be the only
embarrassment in heaven. My Lord and
my God! What will we do and what will
we say when, on one side we are placed
the Savior's great sacrifices for us, and our
small sacrifices for him. his exile, his HUI.
initiation. his agonies OH one hand, and our
poor, weak, insufficient sacrifices on tho
other. To make the contrast less over
whelmIng let us quickly mend our nets,
and. like the Galilean fishermen, may we
be divinely helped to cast them on the right
side of the ship.