Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-06-11
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cory, and is not quite certain but that there !
may be another chance after death. and
does not know whether or no. tho Bible is
inspired. and | tell you that man
Tor sot!t-savlnS Is poor stick.
and the Holy Ghost and the absolute
necessity OF Il regenerateu ueart, in order to
see God iii peace il ono thread you must
nave ~ your mended not. or you will never
be Il successful fisher for men. Why, how
can you doubt? The hundreds OF millions
Of new and women now standing III the
church on earth, and the hundreds Of
millions in heaven. attest the power OF this
Go.7r. to save. With more than the Ger.
tainty OF a mathematical demonst alton. let
us start out to redeem all nations. The
rotiencst thresd that you are to tear out OF
your Getls unbClef. and the lost important |
thread that you are to put in it Is 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! two 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
mended! just where old Lebedee and his
two boys mended their nets-where you are.
james. why don't you put your oar i'll
Lake Gaiilce, or hoist your SAID and land al
Capcrnaum or Tiberlas, or Gadara, and,
S'Aleu on Tue balh, ueHu your new JoHi,
why don't you so ashore and mend your
metz No. they sat on the guards OF the
boat. or Mt the PROV OF the boat. or in the
stern OF tho boat, and they took up this
thread and the needle, and the ropes and
the wooden blocks, and went to work, sew,
ing, sewing, trying, trying, weaving.
weaving. pounding, pounding, until the
net mended: they push it off in the sea and
and drop paddle and hoist sail, and the cut.
water went through amid the shoals OF
fish. some OF the descendants OF which we
had for breakfast one morning while We
were encamped on the beach Of beautiful
GAliec. James and John had no time 20 80
ashore They were not fishing for fun, rs
YOU and l do in summer time. 1t was
their livelihood and that OF their
| families. They mended their nets where
| they were, in the ship.
| notice that all who leave the Gospel
| boat and 30 ashore to mend their nets stay
| there. Or il they try again to fish, they do
not catch anything. Get out OF the Gospel
| boat and so up into the world to get your
net mendc,., and you Will live to see tho
| day when you feel like the man who, hav.
ing forsaken Christianity, sighed: II
would give thousand pounds to feel rs
| did III 1920" The time will come when
YOU would be willing to give a thousand
| pounds TO feel as you did in 1891.
| Those, dear brethren, of all denomina.
| tions, afflicted with theological tdgets, had
| better 80 to mending nets instead
of breaking them. Before they break
up the old religion and try to
iost on lis u new religion, let them so
| through some great sacrifice for God that
| will prove them worthy for such work,
| taking the advice of Talleyranu 10 a man
| who wanted to upset the religion of Jesus
| Christ and start new one, when he SAID !:
| 500 and lie crucitied and then raise your
self from the grave the third day -
In the time OF great disturbance In
| Naples in 1919, Mas,nniello, II bare-footed
t,Sy
strange magnetism took command Of that
city of six hundred thousand souls. lie
took off his lishing-jachet and put on robe
OF gold in the presence OF bowling mobs..
He put his hand on his lip as a signal and
they were silent. lie waived his hand away
from lin and they retired to their homes.
Armies passed IN review before him.
lie became the nations idol. This
rapid rise and complete supremacy OF that
young fisherman Mussaniello, has no paral.
lei III Ill histoay. But something equal &c
that and better than that Is an 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 a long pole ana worm on
the hook dipped into the wave wait foE
some mullet 10 swim up and be caught.
Why did not Zebedee spent
n ee 81" that tFyRs wa, to too soT
These men were not mendins Il hook and
line, they were mending their nets. So lei
the church of God not be content with hav.
ing here one soul and next month another
soul brought into the kingdom, Sweep all
the seas with nets scoop nets seine nets
drag nets, all-encompassing nets, and take
the treasures IN by hundreds and thousand,
and millions, aud nations be born in a day
and the hemispheres quake with the treat
OF ransoming God. DO you know wha
will be the two most tremendous hours IL
our heavenly existence? Among tn
| quadrillions of ages which shall rol
on, what two occasions will be t.
us the greatest? The day of our arriva
there will be to us one Of the two greatest
.. The second greatest, think, will be til
day when we shall have put in parable
.. lines before us what Christ did for us, an
: what we did for Christ, the one 80 grea
! the other 80 little. That will be the Onl
! embarrassment in heaven. My Lord an
my God! What Will we do and what wi
:, we say when, on one side we are place
! the Savior's great sacrifices for us. ana OIL
I small sacrifices for him; his exile, his HI
3 initiation, his agontes on one hand, and on
poor, weak, insufficient sacrifices ON I'll
5 other. To make the contrast less owe
i whelmlng let us quickly mend our net
i and, like the Galilean fishermen, may "
n be divinely helped to cast them on the rigl
Q side OF tho ship.