The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22


after day without particular discour-
agement. But what a lack of patience
if we do not Immediately succeed in soul
catching. We are apt to give itup and
say Il will never try again"
Into all our nets We need to weave all
along the edge and all through the CEN
ter. great long stout threads of Christ
ian patience. How patient God has
been with US. Can we not be patient
with our fellows? | had presented me
from Scotland a few days ago an orna-
mented iukstand. the wooded parts of
which were made from piece OF tree
cut down by Mr.. Gladstone. at Hawar-
den. and sent by him to Scotland by re-
quest. The incident reminded me Of
the fact that a women, who had long
been on Mr.. Gladstone's estate, had a
wayward boy, and in her despair she
asked Mr.. Gladstone to take the boy in
! hand. While prime minister OF Eng
land. with all the mighty affairs Of the
kingdom in his hand. he took that boy
in his study and cousel,ed him. and then
knelt down and prayed with him, and
the boy was saved. If we all
had the hearts of sympathy like
that. what would &c to US impossible?
/ The rottencst thread that YOU are to
tear oft OF your net il uubalief, and the
most important thread that you are to
put IN it is faith. II you cannot trust
,iHe infinite. the holy. the omnipotent
jehovah. whom can you trust? If We
Could get our nets right We could ac-
cOmplish more in soul saving in the
next year than we have in the last
/ twenty years. But where shall we get
them mended: Just where old Zebedee
and his two boys menGed their nets
/ where you are. james, why don't YOU
/ put Your oar in Lake Galilee, or hoist
/ your sail and land atCapernaum, or Ii
/ berias. or GaGara. and. seated on the
/ bank, mend your net: John. why don't
/ you 90 ashore aud mend YOUR nett" No.
I they sat on the guards OF the boat or at
/ the PROV Of the boat or in the stern of
! the boat. and they took up the thread
and the needle, and the ropes and the
wooden blocks. and went TO work, sew
ing, sewing: tying. tying: weaving.
weaving: pounding, pounding: until.
the ret mended. they push il off in
the sea and drop paddle and hoist sail,
and the cutUater went through amid
| the shoals of fish, some OF the descend
ants of which We had for breakfast one
morning while We were camped on the
beach Of beautiful Galilee. James ard
John had no time 10 go ashore. They
were not fishing for fun.
notice that all who leave the Gospel
boat and go ashore to mend their nets
stay there. Or If they try again to fish.
they do rot catch anything. Get out of
the Gospel boat and &c up into the
world to get yeur net mended. and you
will live TO see the day when you will
feel like the man who, having forsaken
Christianity. sighed Il would give
thousand pounds TO feel as l die in
1920" The time will csme when you
would be willing to give a thousand
pounds to feel as you did IL 1891. Ttsse
men who have given up their old relig-
ion can not help you bit. 1t is my
opinion that the most OF those ministers
who gave up the old religion are in
search OF nOtOrie:y. They do not sue
coed in attracting much attention. They
are tired OF ohseprity. They must do
something to attract attention. so they
sit down on the beach and re 20 tearing
to pieces the fishing nets instead Of
nending them. The staid el6 denomi-
nation to which they belong does not
pay them enough attention. SO they at
tract attention by striking their grand
mother. They do not get enough atten-
ton by standing in the pulpits, 50 they
go to work and break the church win
dows.
These dear brethren Of all denomina-
tions. afflicted with theological fdgets. |
had better go to mending nets instead
Ct breaking them. Before they break !
Up the old religion and try &c foist On
Us new religion let them go through !
some great sacrifice for God that will /!
prove them worthy for such a work. |
taking the advice of Talleyrand to man |
who wanted to upset the religion of !
Jesus Christ and start a new one, when |
he said: Go and be crucified and then ,
raise yourself from the grave the third .
day Those who propose to mend
their nets by secular and skeptical
books are like man who has Just one
week for fishing and six of the days he
spent in reading ''Isaak WaltOn's Com
piete Angler" and ''WheatIey's Rod
and Line" and SCOTS Fishing in
Northern Waters" and 'Pullmau's
Wade Mecum Of Fly Fishing for Trout"
and then on Saturday morning. his last
day out. goes to the river to ply his art.
but that day the fish will not bite aud
late on Saturday night he goes home
With empty basket and a disappointed
heart. Meanwhile a man who never
saw big library in all his life has that
week caught with an old fishing tackle
enough to supply his own table and the
table Of all his neighbors and enough to
salt down in barrels for the long winter
hat will soon come in.
In the time Of great disturbance in ,
Naples in 1919, Massaniello. bare foot .
q fshingboy, dropped his fishing rod ;
md by strange magnetism, took COM ,,
nand of that city of 100000 souls. He
ook of his fishing jacket and put on a
ODE o. gold IN the PRESENCE of bowling
nobs. He put his hand on his lip as a
ignal and they were silent. He waved !
Us hand away from him and they re-
ired to their homes. Armies passed in
eview before him. He became the ma
ions idol. The rapid rise and COM
'Iete supremacy Of that young fisher
nan, Massaniello, has no parallel in all Y
istory. But something equal to that v
nd better than that is an every day &C. :
urrance in heaven. God takes some of @
hose, who in this world were fishers of Il
len, and W no toiled very humbly, but Il
ecause OF the way they mended their il
cts after they were mended, and sud- :,
emily HOSTS them and robes them and n
cepters them and crowns them, and r
lakes them rulers over many cities. ;,
nd he marches armies of saved ones :.
etore them in review, Massaniellos IN =
ouored on earth, bu: radiated in hea- =
en-. e
Sweep all the seas with nets, scoop p
cts seine nets DRAG nets all eBcOm- :!
aSsing nets, and take the treasures in Ia
Y, hundreds and thousands and mil IL
ons, and nations be born in day, and Ia