Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

Gospel fisherman, his library made up of Bible and an almanac, shall come home laden with the results, his trophies the souls within fifteen miles of his log cabin meeting house.
 FISHERMAN IN COMMAND.
 In the time of great disturbance in Naples in 1649 Massaniello, a bare footed fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod and by strange magnetism took command of that city of six hundred thousand souls. He took of his fish ing jacket and put on a robe of gold in the presence of bowling mobs. He put his hand on his lip as a signal and they were silent He waved his hand away from him and they retired to their .onas Armies passed in review before
 He became the nations idol
 ne rapid rise and the complete su- premacy of that young fisherman, Mas saniello, has no parallel in all history.
 But something equal to that and bet ter than that is an everyday occurrence in heaven. God takes some of those who in this world were fishers of men, and who toiled very humbly, but be- cause of the way they mended their nets and employed their nets after they were mended, and suddenly hoists them and robes them and scepters them and crowns them, and makes them rulers over many cities, and he marches armies of saved pnes before them in re- view, Massaniellos unhonored on earth but radiated in heaven. The fisher boy of Naples soon lost his power, but those people of God who have kept their nets mended and rightly swung them shall never lcse their exalted place, but shall reign forever and ever and ever. Keep that reward in sight.
 But do not spend your time fishing with hook, and line Why did not James the oneof zebedee sit on the wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over the lake and with long pole and a worm on the hook dipped into the wave wait for some lnullet to swim up and be caught9 Why did not Zebedee spend his afternoon trying to catch one ee12 No, that work was too slow. These men were not mending 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-encompassing nets-and take the treasures in by hundreds and thousands l and millions, and nations be born in a day, and the hemispheres quake with the tread of ransoming God. Do you know what will be the two most tre- mendous hours in our heavenly exis tence2 Among the quadrillions of ages which shall roll on what two occasions will be to us the greatestY
 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 in parallel lines before us what Christ did for us and what we did for Christ, the one 80 great, the other so little. That will be the only embarrassment in heaven. My Lord and my Godl What will we do and what will we say when, on one side are placed the Saviour's great sac ritices for us, and our small sacrifices for him; his exile, his humiliation, his agonies on one hand, and our poor, weak, insufficient sacrifices on the other2 To make the contrast less overwhelming. let us quickly mend our nets, and, like the Gailean fishermen, may we be divinely helped to cast them on the right side of the ship