The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
APlea For Faith and Patience.

APIea For Faith and Patience.
BROOKLYN. y. Y, May 1S.-Dr. Tai
mage took for lis text for his discourse
yesterday morning Matthew. iv, 81:
james the son of Zebedee. and John,
his brother, in a ship with Zebedee,
their father. mending their nets"
81 &c a fishing cried Simon Peter
TO his comrades, and the most of his
apostles had hands hard frem fishing
tackle. The fisheries of the world
have always attracted attention. In
TIE third century the queen Of Egypt
bad for pin money four hundred and
seventy Thousand dollars received from
the fisheries OF lake Moeris. And if
the time should ever come when the
immensely of the worlds population
could not be fed b. the vegetables and
meats of the land. the sea has an
amount OF animal life that would feed
all the populations OF the earth and fat
ten them with food that by its phos-
phorus would make a generation brainy
and intellectual beyond anything that
the world has ever imagined. Ny text
takes US among the Galilean fishermen.
One day Walter Scott, while hunting IN
an old drawer. found among some cid
fishing tackle. the manuscript Of his
immortal book 'Waverlv." which he
had put away IS Of no worth. and wlO
knows but that TO-DAY we NAV find some
It
ing at the fishing tackle in the text.
1t Is not a good da- for fishing and
three men are in the boat repairing the
broken fishing nets. II YOU are fishing
with hook and line and the fsh will
not bite, il i about time 70 put the
anglers apparatus into better cOndi-
too.
Now the bible again and aGa1n rep
Tesents Christian workers as fishers of
men. and We are all sweeping through
the sea Of humanity some kind OF net.
Indeed. there have been enough nets
out and enough fishermen bzsy to have
landed the whole human race in the
kingdom OF God long oefOre this. What
is the matter: The gospel IL all right.
and If has been a good time for catching
souls for thousands Ofyears. Why. then.
the failures: The trouble Is with the
nets and most of them need 10 he mend
ed. propose TO show YOU what is the
natter with most of the nets and how to
mend them. In the text old Zebedee
and his tive boys. James and John. were
doing good thing when they sat in the
boat mepdiug their uets.
! The trouhle with many of our nets is
THAT the meshes are too large. IF a fish
can get his gills and half his body
through the network, he tears and
rends and works his way out and leaves
the place Through which he sQuirmed a
tangle of broken threads. The Bible
weayes faith and works tight together.
the law and the Gospel. righteous ness
and forgiveness. Some OF our nets have
meshes so wide that the sinner floats in
and out an1 K not at any moment
caught for the heavenly landing. In
our desire TO make everything &c easy
We relax We loosen, We widen.
Is the Bible language an unmeaninC
verbiage when Il talks about self denial
and keeping the cody under and about
walking the naFroE way and entering
the straight gait and about carrying
the cross: l. there to be no way Of tel-
ing whether a man Is a Christian ex-
cept by his taxing tie communion chal- .
ice on sacramental GAY? May q man be !
as reckless about his thoughts. about (
his words. about his temper, about his /
amusemeRtS. about his dealings after !
conversion: One half she gospel nets !
with which we have been scooping the /
sea have had such wide meshes that /
they have been all torn TO pieces by the |
out into the world of those
whom tighter net would have kept in. =
The only use ola net Is to keep the fish T.
from going back TO EheTc they
were before and taking them where
they could not have been taken BY anv
other means Alas. that the words Of
Christ are so little needed when He
said: i'WhOSOever doth not bear his
cross and come after Ne cannot be Nv
disciple" The church Is fast beeom- /
ing as bae as the world, and when ii
gets as baG as the world it will be worse
than the world by so much as it will /
ado hypocrisy OF most appalling kind L
to its other defects 4
Now have noticed that man cannot
fish and fight al the same time. He
either neglects his net or his musket.
II Is amazing how much time some of 4:
the fishermen have to look after other !
fishermen. 1t is more than can do to I
take care Of my own net. You see the
wind is just right and it Is such a good :
time for fishing. and the ish are com I
ing in so rapidly. that have to keep
my eye and hand busy. There are :
about 200, 600. 900 souls waiting 10 get &
INTO the kingdom OF God, and,it will re- 2
iuire all the nets and all the boats. and 7
AL the fishermen OF Christerdsn to safe I
Y land them. r
o, brethren OF ministry. Let US I
pend cur time in fishing instead OF :
lighting. But if l angrilT jerk nv net b
across your net, and you jerk YOUR net I
.ngrily across mine, We will soon have r
NO broken nets and no fish. The I
french revolution nearly destroyed the o
french fisheries. and ecclesiastical war n
: the worst thing possible while haul b
ug souls into the kingdom. had a
hoped that the millennium was about q
o dawn but the lion is yet too fond of Il
amh My friends. notice that in the n
ext that James. the son of Zebedee. h
nd John. his brother. were busy not n
nending somebody else's nets but mend d
Nc their Own nets and / rather think :,
hat We who are engaged in Christian n
york in this latter part OF the nine a
zenith century will require all our b
pRre time 70 mend our Owl nets. Col b
'elp Us in the Important duty! - - ',
When you are nending your net for
his wide, deep sea OF humanity. take n
u that wire thread OF criticism and %
be horSehair thread Of harshness and b
Ut in soft ssken threat OF Christian Ii
Yea, when you are mending II
our nets tear out those old threads OF OF
-uffness and weave in a few threads OF "
Offences and geniality. In the house in
! God let all the Christian faces beam al
18th look that means welcome. Say v