The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-29

c~uooiS VI piScaVOrl8i reveify, and m
beach swarms with men with their
coats of and their sea caps on, and
those Of us who do not go out on the
wave stand on the beach ready to re-
joice when the boats come back Ana IN
our excitement we rush into the water
with our shoes on TO help get the boats
up the beach and W. all lay hold the
lines and pull till We are pdin the t1ee,
and as the living things Of the. deep
come tumbling In on The sand ! cry out:
Captain, how many" And he answers:
About 50, boo" And We shout to The
late corners "Hurrah, SO, 0o0-' We
must have an enthusiasm spHeAip6
like that il we are ever TO take the ha-
man race for God and Heaven -,
q, brethren Of the ministry! Let us
spend our time in fishing instead, Of
fighting. But il l sngrily Jerk my>net
across your net and you jerk your net
angrily across mine, WI will soon hswe
two broken nets and no fish The
French revolution nearly destroyed the
French fisheries, and ecclesiastical war
Is the worst thing possible whiie haul
ing souls into the kpgdsn3 ~
friends. ] notice in the tsxt-th21 a1meA,
the son of Zebedce, and John. his
brother, were busy not mending some
body else's net, but mending their own
nets, and ] rather think that we who
arerengaged in fbristian work iT this
latter part Of DE nineteebth. century
will require all our spare time to mend
our own nets riC srt
In this work Of ~reparation we need
to put into the nets more threads OF
common sense. When we can present
religion as a great practically we will
catch q hundred souls where now we
catch one. Present religion as IN in
trllcctuality and we will fail. Out in
the fisheries there are set across the
waters what are called gill nets and
the FISH put their hcnis thrvngh- the
mesAes. apd then cannot withdraw them
becspse tiny Orc caught by the gills.
Bat gill nets a not he of any service
in religious work. Men are meyer
caught for the truth by their headfik
ment ever saved q nah htakho keen
analysts evrr bhS(hta htnf into fhe
kingdom ofGo1 Ilkart vsofk bot head
work. lANsyt Yin toh4 Bin nets
Sympathy. heIpfulness, consolation.
love, are the names of some of the
threads that we need to weave In oUy
gospel nets when we are mendina
them. DO. sou kney tkat the worG,s
hcAh IS bursting with, ttd6t3c, and il
you could make that world believe tina,
the religiop Of Jesus Christ is a soothing
oGunipottnces the whole world would
surrender tomorrow, yea, would sur.
render this hour. The day before
James A. Garfield was inaugurated as
president l vas in the cars going from
Richmond to Washington. 4 gentle
man Aeated next to me in the cars knew
vcrsaticn. 1t was just after a bcreave-
meut and ] was spcaldug TO him from
an ov~erburdcned heart about the sor
row ] was suffering. Looking at his
| cheerful face l said: II guess you
have escaped NIL trouble. / should
Judge from your couhtenanre that
you huve come through free from all
misfortune" Then he looked at me
with n look j shall never forget and
whispered in my "Sir. you know
nothing about trouble. Nj wife has
been IN an jnsane asylum for fifteen
years" aud thenhe turnAaand looked
out of the window and into the night WITH
q silence j was too oveTpowcred 70
break. That wal snoaheri Illustration
of the fact That no one escapes trouble,
When you are mending your net for
this wide, deep sea of humanity, take
out that wire thread Of criticism and
the horschair thread of hBrshness and
put in a soft silken thread of Christian
sympathy. Yea, when you are mend
ing your nets tear ont those old threads
of gruffness and weave in a few
threads of ~politeness and geniality. In
the shouse of God lei AL the Christian
faces beam with a look that means
welcome. Say good morning" to the
stranger rs he enters your pew and al
the close shake hands with him and
say: "Il0w did you like the musicT'
Why. you would be to that man a
panel Of the door of HcavSn;Sou would
be 20 him . note sdf tho asxplogy that
sersphssiny shena ier soul enters
TINT man is a thorrsaxd 1nfics from
home and he has just heard by telegraph
that his child is sick with scarlet fever
and his boy at college has got into dis
gSare and he has had business troubles
and is so homesick he can hardly kceJ
from crying. just one word of brotherly
blindness from you would lift him into
a small heaven. ] have in other days
entered n pew in church and the woman
at the other end of the pew looked al
me asmrch rs To say: 'How dare yuui
Thie Is ny pew and ] pay the m for
it," Well. | crouched ut the other o
ncr and made myself as small as pos
sible and felt as though ] had been
stealing something. So there are peo.
pie who ave a sharp edge to their re.
ligion and they act as though they
thought most people had been elected
10 be damned andfbey were glad-ot IT,
ThcAcsect il lysashihSs isto &so-;
the fly far out and then let it drop geot-
ty-down and keep il gently rising and
falling wi;h'the waters, and not pHnRe
it like man-of-wGis anchori epd
abrup.ne.. aud harshIess OF mauner
must be avoided in our attempts at
usefulness ! know a man living in
New York who Is mrre sunshiny and
genial when he has dyspepsia than
when ne Is not suffering FROM ihatte-
Pressing trouble. ! have found out his
secret. When he starts out in the morn
ing with such depression he asks fOr
special grace TO keep from Swapping up
anybody that day ana puts forth addi-
tionai determination TO be kindly and
genial. and by the help of God he &c
complishes it Many Of our nets need
TO be mended in these respects. the
black threads and the rough threads
taken out and the bright threads and
the golden threads of Christian genial
ity woven in. In addition 70 this we
ought 20 <mepdssur snets with more
threads Of pattencA -
1nto eli our nets we need to weave
all along the edge and all through the
center great long, stout threads of
Christian patience. How patient God
has besn with Us. Can we not h. pa