The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-22

most important thread that you are to
put IN 1t Is faith Faith in God tri-
umphant faith, everlasting faith If
You can not trust the infinite. the holy,
the omniPotent Jehovah. whom can
you trust2 o, This important work OF
mending our nets If we could get our
nets right we could accomplish more in
soul saving in the next year than we
have in the last twenty years But
where shall we get them mended? just
where old Zebedee and his two sons
mended their nets-where you are
''Oh," says some one, II mean TO get
my net mended, and / viii go down to
the public library, and viii see what
the scientists say about evolution and
about the survival of the httest, and
viii read up what the EheOlOgians say
about advanced thought Will leave
the ship awhile, and wiz go ashore
and stay there till my net is mended-' -
Do that, my brother, and you viii have
no net left Instead of their helping
you mend your net. they will steal the
pieces that remain. Better stay in the
gospel boat, where you have all the
means for mending your net What
are they, do you ask? 1 answer all you
need you have where you are; namely,
a Bible and a place TO pray. The more
you study evolution, and adopt what is
called advanced thought the bigger
fool you will be. Stay in the ship aud
mend your net That is where James,
the son of Zebedee, and JOhE, his
brother, stayed That is where all who
get their nets mended stay.
I notice that all who leave the gospel
boat and go ashore to mend their nets
stay there Or if they try again to fish
they do not catch anything. 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 will
feel like the man who, having fOrsaken
Christianity, sighed: Il would give a
thousand pounds to feel as I did in
1920" The time will come when you
would be willing to give a thousand
pounds to feel as you did in 1891. These
men who have given up their old re-
hgiOn cannot help you bit il is my
opinion that the most of those ministers
who gave up the old religion, are in
search of nOtOriety. They do not sue
coed in attracting much attention They
are tired of obsurity. They must do
something to attract attention, so they
sit down on the beach, and go
to tearing to pieces the fishing nets in
stead of mending them The staid old
denomination to which they belong
does not pay them enough attention by
standing in the pulpits, so they go to
work and break the church windows.
These dear brethren of all denOmina-
had better go to mending nets instead
of breaking them. Before they break
up the old religion and try to fOist on
US a new religion let them go through
some great sacrifice for God that will
prove them worthy of such a work,
taking the advice of Talleyrand to a
man who wanted to upset the religion
of Jesus Christ and start a new one,
when he said: go and be crucified
and then raise yourself from the grave
the third dayu' Those who propose to
mend their nets by secular and
slzeptical books are like a man who
has Just one week for fishing and six of
the days he spends in reading ''IsaalS
! WaltOn's Complete Angler" and
''Wheatley's Rod and Line" and
''Scott's Fishing in Northern Waters"
| and 'sPullman's Wade hIecum of Fly
| Fishing for Trout" and then on Satur-
| day morning, his last day out, goes to
| the river to ply his art, but that day the
| fish will not bite and late on Saturday
night he goes home with empty basket
and a disappointed heart Meanwhile
| a man who never saw q big library in
| his life has that week caught with an
| old fishing tackle enough to supply his
own table aud the table of all his
neighbOrs and enough to salt down in
barrels for the long winter that will
soon come in
AouI tLS --OJ SESCLtNA your LLLA4C ASLIAls
with hook and line. Why did not
| James, the son of Zebedee, sit on the
wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over
the lake and with a long pole and a
worm on the hook dipped into the wave
wait for some mulIet to swim up and be
caught? Why did not Zebedee spend
his afternoon trying to catch one eel?
No, that work was too slow. These
men were not mending a hook and line
| they were mending their nets.
So let the church of God not be con-
| tent with having here one soul and
next month another soul brought into
| the kingdom Sweep all the seas with
| nets, scoop nets, seine nets, drag nets,
/ all eneOmpassing nets, and take the
/ treas ures IN by hundreds and thousands
and millions, and nations be born in a
| day, and the hemispheres quake with
| the tread of ransOming God Do you
/ know what viii be the two most ire
| mendOus hours in our heavenly exist