Telegram-herald., 1891-05-18
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
o. rAlMAcE PaEAcHEs A SERMON
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Ell Il vonld he sinply furnished oy the
pronptirusls With Walsh the people have
sss4iea Themselves Of ths increased accom-
HsodAtioa afforded by the new Tab~rn@eie.
The vast eCiflee Is ss denseiy crowded -
every seFsies - tAs etdsr aad smaller
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lag paid as af:entsoa 70 tlss THEOLOGICAL
disputes watch are asiIstgnz the eanrche>
and ~ usual gave soaad practical advice
- both parties. Ills text was Matthew ~.
"a; James the son Of zsbesiee. and John
his brother. ia q ship with Leosdes their
father. nsndinz their usts-"
Il 20 fishsng." cried simon Peter 90 his
comrades, and TAG most Of the apostles bad
hands hard from fishing tsekls The fsh-
sr,es OF the world have always attracted
attention In the Third century the aeen
Of Egypt had for pin money four hundred
and seventy thousand dollars. received from
the fisheries OF Lake Aoerix And II the
time should ever come when tia immen-
cAtf "a nc WITH flRRtt<a~A11 ~Sf~2@A ots -
Ted by the vegetables and meats OF the
land. the sea has an amount OF animal lie
that would feed al the populations OF the
earth. and latten them with food that 81
its phosphorus you'll make a generation
brainy and intellectual beyond anything
that the world has ever imagined My
text takes u among the Galilesn fisher
men One day Waiter Scott, while hunt
ing in an cid drawer, found among some
Old Eshing tackle the manuscript OF his
immortal book "waverley." which be had
put away there - Of no worth. and who
knows bar that today we may End some
unknown wealth OF thought while looking
az the fshing tackle in the text,
PUT YOUR xxrs IN GOOD ORDER
IL Is not good day for fshing. and three
men ars in the boat repairing the broken
fishing nets. II you are fishing with .
hook and line and the fish will not bite is
Ia good time to put the anglers apparatus
into better condition Perhaps the last
lish you hauled IN was so large that some
thing snapped Or II you were fishing
with a net there was a mighty founder
Ing Of the scales. or an exposed nail on the
eide Of the boat which broke some Of the
threads and les part or all Of the CAP
tives Of the deep escape into their natural
element. And hardly anything Is more
provoking than 20 nearly land . score or .
hundred OF trophies from the deep and
when you are in the full g,ss Of hauling In
the spotted treasu rvs through some tmper-
fiction OF the net they splash back into the
wave.
Thas Is too much Of q trial OF patience
for most fishermen TO endure. and many .
man ordinarily correct OF speech in such
circumstances comes 70 an intensity OF
utterance unjnstiiiable. Therefore no good
fisherman considers the time wasted that
Is spent in Needing his net Now the
Bible again and again represents Christian
workers - fishers OF men, and We arc all
sweeping through the sea Of humanity
some kind of net. Indeed. there have
been enough nets out and enough fisher
men busy To have landed the whole human
race in the kingdom OF God long before
thla What ia the matter? The Gospel Is
al right, aud il has bean . good time for
catching souls for thousands OF years.
Why, then. the faiuress The trouble Is
with the nets, aud most Of them need TO be
nended- | propose to show you what is
the matter with most of the nets and how
To mend them In the text old Zebedee
and his two boys. James and John, were
doing good thing when they sat In the
boat mending their rets
The trouble with many Of our nets Is
that the ncshes are too large. Ii n fish cen
get his gills and half his body through the
network. be .ears and rends and works his
way out and leaves tho place through
which be squirned tangle OF broken
threads The Bible weaves faith and works
tight together. ths law aud the Gospel.
Righteousness and forgiveness. Some Of
our nets nave meshes so wide that the sin
ner floats In and ont and Is not at any mo
ment caught for the heavenly landing. In
our desire 70 make everything 30 easy. wc
relax, we loosen, we widen. We let men
after they are once IN the Gospel net escape
.nto the world aud 60 into indulgenccs
and swim all around Galiles. from north
side To south side and from east side to
west side. expecting that they will como
back again We ought To make 1t easy for
them To get into the kingdom Of God. and.
a. far az We can. make is impossible for
them to get out.
The poor advice nowadays TO many H.
$50 and do just as you did before you were
captured for God and heaven The net
WAS not intended to be any restraint or
Any hindrancs. What you did before you
were Christian, do now. Go to all
styles Of amusement. read all the styles OF
books. engage in all the styles Of behavior
sS before yoa were converted" And so
taroagh these rneshcs Of permission and
lsxity they wriggls out through this
opening ADD tina; opening. tearing the net
IA they 80. and soon all the souls thar We
expected TO land 10 heaven before We
know II ara back in the deep sea OF the
world On. when we 20 a-gospel fishing
let "a make IL a. ensy an possible for souls
10 set In. and ~ hard ~ possible TO get out
BIZ CHRISTIAN EVERY DAT
Il the Bible language al unmesning
verbiage when 10 talks about self denial
and keeping the body under. and about
walking the narrow war and entering the
strait gate. and about carrying tho
cross, Ia there TO bs no way Of telling
whether a man Is q Christian except by bis
taxing ths communion ehalice on sacra-
mental dsys May a man be a. reckless
about bis thoughts. about bis words, abont
his temper. about bis auuscrneuts. abont
his dealings after conversion "a bsfore con
version, One-hslf the Gospel nets with
which We have sc-n scooping the SEA have
bal saca wide r,eshcs that they have been
all torn 70 pieces by the rushing cut into
the world Of those whom tighter net
wogld have Kept In The only use OF net
II tn keep the Esa from gpine back TO
where they were t<fors and taking them
whers they cruld not have been taken By
any other mesns Aias. that the words Of
Christ srs so little needed wnen he said,
. Whosoever doth not bear bis cross and
cosss after ma cannot De mr. disciple" The
church il fast les,Dsnfnu AZ BAD a. the