Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-22

mr. M the prov OF the boat, aud they took uo
the thraad and the nesdle, aud the ropes aud
the wooden blocks. AID went to WORK: sew
ing. sewing; tying, tying: weaving' weaving;
pounding, pounding, until, the net mehie,
they push II of into the sea and drop pa'ule
and hoist sail, AMI the enewa.sr "e eho
through amid the shoals OF fish, some OF the
descendants OF which we had for breakfast
one morning while we were enclmpsd on inc
haac', nj n a1utifu Galilee. James and Joln
had no time TO 90 ashore They were not
fishing for fun, as You AMI do IN summer
time. 1t was their livelihood aud that OF
their families. They mented their hs1s
where they were, in the ship.
"Oh y saws some one, II mean to get my
not mended and will 90 down to the public
library. ard will see what the scientists say
about evolution and about the survival OF
the fittest AMI I will read up what tia
theologians say about advanced thought |
will leave the ship awhile. AMI will go ashore
and stay there until my net is mended." Do
that my brother, and YOU will have no net
left. Instead OF their helping You mend
your net, they will steal the pieces that res
main. Better stay in the Gospel boat wher5
you have all the means for mending your
net What are they, do you ask! | answer
all you need you have where you are, namely,
n Bible and place to pray. The more you
advanced thought, the bigger fool You will
be. Stay in the ship and mind your net.
That is where James the son Of Zebedee and
John his brother staid That is where all
who get their nets mended stay.
These dear brethren of all demo limitations
afflicted with theological fidgets, had better
20 to mending nets instead of br eaking them.
Before they break up the old eligion aud
try to fOist on us new religion let them go
through some great sacrifice for God that
will prove the worthy f.: slcl n WORK,
taxing the advice of Taleyrall t. n man
who wanted to upset the religion OF Jesus
Christ and start new on, when he said
go and be crucihed and then raise yourself
from the grave the third day. Those wno
propose to mend their nets By secular skep-
teal books are Just like a man who has just
one week for fishing, and six OF tle days ne
speu Is in reading IslaS Walton's complete
Angler" and Wheatley's "Rod AMI Line
and SCOTS Fishing in Northern Waters,
aud Pullman's "Va1e Mecun Of Fly Fishing
for Trout" and then on Saturday morning,
his last day out, goes to the river to ply MS
art. but that day the fish will not bite, and
late on Saturday night he goes home VITA
empty basket and disappointed heart.
Meanwhile a man who never saw a big
library in all his life, has that week caught
with an old fishing tackle, enough 10 supply
his own table and the table of all his neign
bors, and enough to salt down in barrels Iol
the long winter that will sOol come in. Alas
Alas II, when the Saturday night OF our
lire drops on us it shall be found tnat we
have spent our time in the libraries OF
worldly philosophy trying to mend oIr nets,
and we have only few souls to report as
brought - Col through our inssrumel51t-
ty. while some humble Gospel fisherman. III;
liorary ma1eup OF a Bible AMI an almanac,
shall come homs Ia len with the results, MS
trophies the souls wthin fifteen miles Oh ms
lo5 cabin meeting house.
In the tine OF great disturbance IN Naples
in 1919 Massaniello bare footei fishing
boy. droDpel his fishing ROD, and by strange
ma ynetism took COMMAND OF that CITY OF SIX
hundred thousand souls He took OIL his fish
iog Jacket ami put OIL robe Of gold III tho
presanc, OF bowling mobs lie put his mana
on his liz as Z signal, and they were rent.
He waved his hani away from him. and they
retired 20 their homes. Armies passed. IN "a
view before him. He became the nations
idol. The raoil rise and complete supremacy
of that young fisherman, Mas'aniello mas no
parallel in all history. But something equal
to that and better than that is an everyday
occurrence in heaven
God takes some of those. who in this world
were fishers of men, and who tollei very
hunblv. but because of the way they M ande1
their nets and employed their nets after they
were mended, and suddenly hOistS them ana
robes them and scepters them ana crowns
than and makes them rulers over cities, ana
He marches armies OF sayel ones before taem
in review Massanielos unhonore1 on eartn,
but radiated in heaven. The fisher boy OF
Naplss soon lost his power, but those people
Of God who kept their nets mended ana
rightly swung them SHALL never lose their ex'
Ill fAlsarrar
and ever Keep that reward in sight.
Bat do not spsn1 your time fishing with
hooy and line Why did not James the son
o.Zebe lee. sit on the wharf at Cana, MS teet
HANGING over the lake AMI with long pole
AMI a worm on the hook dipped into tae
wave wait for some mullet 10 swim up ana
BE- caught? Way did not Zeoe1ee spend MS
afternoon trying to catch one eeE NO; tnav
wor, was to- SLOW. These men were hoS
msnling a hoo; AMI line; they were men l.
in their nets. 50 let the church OF COD not
h, cont,nt with having here on soul
AMI next month another soul brought into
the kingdom Swesp all the seas with nets
scoop nets. seine nets drag nets, all encom-
passing nets-an1 take the treasures IN
by hundreds and thou san Is AMI millions, AMI
nations be born in day. and the newspapers
ouake with the tread OF a rals0mlng tod.
Do you know what will be the two mos,
tremendous hours IN our heavenly existence.
Among the quadrilliols OF ages which shall
roll on what two OCCASIONS will be to us the
greatest?
The day OF our arrival there will be 70 Us
one of the two greatest. The second great
est | think will be the day when we shall
have put in parallel lines before us what
Christ did for us AMI what we did for Christ
1.-THE one so great. the other 50 little. That
will be the only embarrassment in heaven.
NV Lord and my God! What will We do and
what will we say when on one side are placed
the Saviours great sacrifices for us aud our
small sacrifices for Him-dis exile, His
humiliation. His agonies on one hand, and
our poor weak, insufficient sacrifices on tho
otherg To make the contrast less over.
whelming, let us quickly mend our nets and
like the Gallean fishermen may we be d'yine-
" helped TO cast them on the right side o.
the ship