Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

CORY, and is not qnite certain but that there
may be another chance after death. aud
does not know whethcr or no, the Bible is
inspired. and tell you that man
for soul-saving IL poor stick.
Faith in God and In Jesus Christ,
and the Holy Ghost. and the absolute
necessity OF n regenersted heart, In order to
see God in peace IL one thread you must
have In your mended net. or you will never
be a successful fisher for men. Why, how
can you doubt? The hundreds OF millions
OF men and women now standing IN the
church Oh earth, and the hundreds OF
millions in heaven, attest the power OF this
Gospel To save. With moro than the cer-
tainty OF n mathematical demonsti alton. let
us start out to redeem all nations. The
rottenest thread that YOU are To tear out OF
your nets unbelief. and the most important
thread that you are to put in Ii II faith.
Faith IN God, triumphant faith, everlasting
faith. II you cannot trust the infinite, the
holy, the omnipotent Jehovah, who can
you trust?
Oh, this important work OF mending our
nets! II we could get our nets right We
would accomplish more IN soul-savlng IN
the next year than we have in the last TWEEN
" years. But where shall we get them
nended! just where old Zebedee aud his
two boys men led their nets-where you are.
james why don't you put your oar In
Lake Galllee, or host your sail and land ut
Capcrnaum or 1iberlas, OF Gadara, ana,
seated Oh the bank msnd your metz John,
why don't you 80 ashore and mend your
netY' No. they sat OH the guards OF tho
boat or ut the PROV OF the boat, or in the
stern OF the boat, aud they took up the
thread and the needle, and The ropes and
the wooden blocks, aud went 10 work, sew,
ing, sewing, trying, trying, weaving
weaving, pounding. pounding, untli the
net mended: they push IL off IN the sea and
and drop paddie aud hoist san, ana the cut
tttrll n IL A
fish. some OF the descendants OF which we
had for breatftst one morning While we
were encamped on the beach OF beautiful
Galilee. James and John had no time 20 10
ashore. T|ey were not fishing for fun, rs
! YOU and ! do in summer time. 1t was
their live hood and that of their
families. They mended their nets where
| they were, in the ship.
| | notice that all who leave the Gospel
| boat and 90 ashore to mend their nets stay
| there. Or II they try again TO tsh, they do
not catch amy thing. Get out OF the Gospel
| boat and 20 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 thousand pounds 10 feel
did In 1870" The time will come when
you would be willing to give thousand
| pounds 10 feel as YOU did in 1891.
Those dear brethren, OF all dcnomina-
lions, afflicted with theological fdgeIs, had
| DeIter 70 10 henulhS hcts lnste"t
OF breaking them. Before they break
up the Old religion and try 10
] folst 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 TO man
who wanted 10 upset the religion OF Jesus
Christ and start new one, when he said :;
&c o and be cruciied and then raise your
self from The grave the third day !
In the time OF great disturbance in
| Naples in l6i9, Massaniello, baref footed
| fshing-boy, dropped his iishing-rod, aud by
strau ge magnetism took command OF that
| city of six hundred thousand souls. lie
took off his tishng-jacket and put on robe
| OF gold in the presence OF bowling MODS.
| He put his hand on his lip II "a signal ana
they were silent. lie waived his hand away
from HIM ana they retired 10 their homes.
Armies passed IN review before him.
| lie became the nations Idol. The
rapid rise and complete supremacy OF that
young fisherman Massaniello, has no paral-
| lei IN all histoay. But something equal 10
that aud better thsa 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 the
| wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over the
lake and with long pole ana worm on
the hook dippsa into the wave wait for
some mullet 10 swim up and be caught.
| Why did not Iebedee spend
his afternoon trying to catch
| one eel? No. that work was too slow.
! These mcn were not mending hook aud
line. they were mend/s their nets. SO let
| the church OF God no. be content with hay-
ing here one soul and next III onth anoth er
soul brought into the kingdom, Sweep all
the seas with nets, scoop nets seine nets,
drag nets, all-encompa,slng nets. and take
the treasures IN by hundreds aud thousands
and millions, and nations be born In A day.
and the hemispheres quake with the tread
OF a ransomng God. DO you know what
will DO the two most tremendous hours In
our heavenly existence? Among Tho
quadrilllons Of ages which shall roll
on. what two occasions will be To
us the greatest? The day OF our arriva
there will be to us one of the two greatest
The second greatest, think, Will be the
day when We shall have put in parable
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 vii
we say when. on one side we are placed
the Savior's great sacrifices for U.S. and oul
small sacrifices for him; his exile, his hui
| initiation. his agonies OH one hand, and OUT
poor, weak, insufficient sacrifices on the
other. To make the contrast less over
whelmlng let Us quickly mend our nets
and. like the Galilean fishermen, may we
be dvinely helped to cast them on the right