Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-23

These dear brethren OF all denomlna-
tions, afflicted with theological fidgets,
had better 90 to mending nets instead
of breaking them. Before they break
up the old religion and try to foist on
us q new religion let them go through
some great sacrifice for God that Will
prove them worthy for such q work,
taking the advice OF Talleyrand to man
who wanted to upset the religion OF
Jesus Christ and start new one, when
he said: go and be crucifled and then
raise yourself from the grave the third
days 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
plete Angler" and "Wheatley's Rod
and Line and "Scott's Fishing in
Northern Waters" and "Pullman'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 and
late on Saturday night he goes home
with empty basket and 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
that will soon come in.
In the time OF great disturbance in
Naples in 1919, Massaniello, bare foot
ed fishingboy, dropped his fishing rod
and by strange magnetism, took COM
mand OF that city OF 100000 souls. He
took off his fishing jacket and put on q
robe OF gold in the presence OF bowling
mobs. He put his hand on his lip as a
signal and they were silent. He waved
his hand away from him and they re-
tired to their homes. Armies passed in
review before him. He became the ma
tion's idol. The rapid rise and COM
plete supremacy OF that young fisher
man, Massaniello, has no parallel in all
history. But something equal to that
and better than that is an every day oc.
currance in heaven. God takes some oil
those. who in this world were fishers oil
men, and who toiled very humbly, but
because OF the way they mended their
nets after they were mended, and sud
denly hoists them and robes them and
scepters them and crowns them, and
makes them rulers over many cities,
and he marches armies OF saved ones
before them in review, Massaniellos I'M
honored on earth, bu. radiated in hea'
ven.
Sweep all the seas with nets, scoop
nets. seine nets, drag nets, all encom-
passing nets, and take the treasures in
BY hundreds and thousands and mil
lions, and nations be born in day, and
the hemispheres quake with the tread
OF ransoming God. Do you know what
will be the two most tremendous hours
in our heavenly existence? Among the
uuadrillions of ages which shall roll on,
what two occasions will be to us the
greatest? The day OF our arrival there
will be to us, one of the two greatest.
The second greatest, think, will be the
day when we shall have put in parallel
lines before us, what Christ did for us,
and what we did for Christ, the one sc
great, the other so little. That will be
the only embarrassment in heaven. Ny
Lord and my God! What will we dc
and what will we say when, on one side
are placed the Saviour's great sacrifices
for us, and our small sacrifices for Him
His exile, His humiliation, His agonies
on one hand, and our poor weak, INSULT
cient sacrifices on the other. To make
the contrast less overwhelming let us
quickly mend our nets, and like the
Galilean fisherman may we be divinely
helned tn east them on the the right
side of the ship.