The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-29

you will never be . ~suecesafnt Ashss
for men
With more than the certainty Of 0
mathematical demonstration. Let 10
start out 10 redeem all nations The
rottcnest thread that you are 10 tear
pu4 Of your net Is unbelief, and the
fuost important thread that you are 70
pat IN il is faith Faith in God, tn
mnphant faith. everlasting faith II
you can not trust the infinite. the holy,
tie omnipotent Jehovah. whom Co
you trust? o, this important work Of
mending our nets. II we could get our
nets hight we could accomplish more in
soul saving In the next year than We
haye In the last twenty years But
,Nhene shall we get them mended? Just
vkcfe old Zebcdec and bis ~ sons
mended their nets-whcre you arc
'J5mcs! why don't you put your oai In
Lake Galilee, or hoist your sail and
land at Capcrnaum, or Tiberias,
or Gadara, and, seated on the bank,
mend your net? John, why don't
yosi go ashore and mend your pet?'
NO. they sat on the guards Of the boat
or At the prov of the boat, or in the
stern of the boat aud they took up the
thread and the needle. and the ropes
'ahdf the wooden blocks, and went to
work, sewing, sewing; tying, tyiuZ7
weaving, weaving; pounding, pound
Ing; until, the net mended. they push it
of In the sea and drop paddle and hoist
sail, and the cutwater went through
amid the shoals Of fish, some Of the de-
scendants of which we had for break
fast one morning while we were en-
camped on the beach of beautiful Cali
lee. James and John had no time TO
60 ashore. They were not fishing for
fun, as you and I do In summer time.
II was their livelihood and that Of their
families. They rnended their nets,
where they were, in the ship.
''Dh," says some one, IL mean 10 get
my net mcnded, and ! will go down 70
the pnt4ie library. and ! wiA see what
the scientists say about evolution and
about the sursisHt Of We fittssa,' and I
will read up what-<he Isheo1Vgiaus say
atou. 'advsueed thougft.s Twill le.ve
the ship ayhiis, and 1 vii. % ashore
andstsS there til ny net Is hncnded"
% fbat my bto.h-f. and you will have
no het Left. instcst Of their helping
you mead your net they win steal the
pieces that remain. hotter stay in the
gospel boat, where you have all tn.
means for mending your net What
bethcy. doHpnaek?i tan~wer all you
need You have where you are: namely.
Bible and q place to pray. The o
yen study evolution, and adopt what Is
fcancd advanced thought the bigger
fopl you will he, Stay in the ship and
mend your net Tint Is where James,
the son Of 2ebedee, and John. his
brother, stayed. That is where all who
get their nets mendcd stay.
/ notice that all who leave the gospel
boat and 20 ashore 10 mend their nets
stay there. Or il they try again 70 fish
they do not catch anything. Get ont 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: II would give 3
thousand pounds TO feel as ! did In
1880" The time will come when you
would be willing 70 give a thousand
pounds { o feel as you did in 1891. These
men who have given up their old re-
ligicn cannot help you q bit. II is my
opinion that the most Of those ministers
who ave up tho old religion, are in
ESaarch of notoricty. They do not n C
kuSed in attracting much attention They
- tired Of obsurity. They must do
puef21ing n at&sact attention, 30 they
&slOwue on the beach. and 60
f&3soFiafae p5eces the fishing nets In
sSssdro Of uending them The staid old
ldsnS.nin1tton 20 which they belong
aoes pot pay them enough attention by
1nndne n thc pulPits, SO they go to
w6R4Ehnd break the church windows
Those dear brethren Of all dcnomina-
ktiors, afflicted with theological fidgets,
nd better q 70 mepding nets instead
|of break ing them. Before they break
mp The old religion and try to foist on
JUS anew religion let them go through
sumagveat sacrifice for God that will
prove them worthy of such a work,
taking the sdvice OF Talleyrand to .
man who wanted to upset tho religion
| Il Jesus Christ md start a new one,
wAea he said: go and DO crucifed
| and then raise yourself from the grave
| the third day" Those who propose to
mend their nets by secular and
l-- l..1-. a-a ILL., yrun ~rhN
has just one week for fishing and six Of
the days he spends in reading '.Isaak
Walton's Complete Angler" and
"Wheatley's Rod and Line" and
SCOTS Fishing in Northern Waters"
| and ''Pullman's Wade Mecuin Of Fly
Fishing for Trout" and then on Satur-
day morning. hrs last dny out, goes to
the river - ply his art hut 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 a big library in
his life has that week caught with an
old fishing tackle enough TO supply his
" table aud the table of all his
neishhors end enough to salt down in
tarrcls FOR the long winter that will
|sool come in
Has, alas! II when the Saturday
q1Eht Of our life drops on us, it shall be
pf3ond that we have spent our time in
th3Nh@f3cs Of worldly philosophy Try
ing to m6pd our nets and we have only
b few souls II report ~ brought totsod
thrown our instrumentaiity, While
s6uss humble gospel fisherman. his
ljSs1ry oado up of a Bible and an ~
hanac, shall come laden with the re
suits, his trophies the souls within If
teen miles Of his log cabin meeting
house.
But do not spend your time fishing
with hook and line. Why did nat
James the son of Zebedce, sit on the
wharf At Cana. his fee, hanging over
the lake and with a long pole aud .
worm on the hook dipped into the wave
wait for some mullet to swim up and be
caurh,9 Why did not Zebedee spend
his afternoon trying 20 catch one7eel?
No that work was too slow. These
men were not mending = hook and line.
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