Telegram-herald., 1891-05-18


other nan IA Ehe 9asyeEse can sceosa9-isaz
II asn=fnea are wis~ thay viii aet allow
their nets 70 enlaagie, or II they DO seei
dentally set iHtsrt visited. the WORK Of sx
trscaEisa should bs Kindly and gently con
dGctsl whaE q CAD spectacle tsF ussa
and anSels shea % oar reosaE dealcasica
aAy ministers u al Determinations sEood
on this platform and wished for s@ea
etRsr widest prosperity and usefulness.
bar there are cities ia this country where
there Is now going on aa 4sfal ripping
and reniias add tearing of fishing nets
Iadeei. All over ChrlstsnGon AZ this time
there Is great war going Ga between E.ar
srraen. ministers against ministers
yog Must nIsD YOUR owS SEr.
Now hsvs Detiesd . nsaa c4Daot ash
and Gsht az the sauna TINA tie either
aszlscts hls net or bis maskst lt Is anaz
iag how much LINE so1ae VI the fisAsrnasa
have 10 look alter other fishermen IL Is
iaors than can DO to take care Of my own
net You see the wind = just right. and il
= SUCH a good time for fishing. aud the
nsh are coming Ia 20 rapidly that have To
keep MY ere and hand busy. There are
about TIVE hundred ral.lion souls wanting
10 get Into the kingdom Of God. and e will
AL the fishermen OF Christeadom TO safely
Lad them.
Al East Hampton. Long Island. where I
summer. cut on the bluffs some morning
We sec tho fags mp. and that is the signal
for launching out into the deep. For
mile the water Is tinsed with that peculiar
color that indicates whole schools OF pisca-
torial revelry. and the beach swarun with
IL III III
on. and those Of Us W no do not 60 out ON
the wave stand on the beach ready TO re-
joice when the boats como back, and IN our
excitement we rush into the water with
our shoes on to help get the boats up the
beach. aud we lay hold the lines and pull
till We arc red In the face. and ~ the living
things Of the deep come tumbling in on
the Aand cry out, Captain, how many1"
And he answers, About fifty thousand."
And we shout to the late corners. ''Hurrah.
fifty thousandP' We must have an en-
thusiasm something like that II we arc
ever 70 take the human race for God and
heaven Aye. we ought to have that en-
thusiasm OF the beach multiplied hun
dred fold and by so much a. an immortal
soul Is worth moro than bluelish-
Oh. brethren Of ministry Let IN spend
our time in fishing instead Of lighting.
But II angrily jerk my net across your
net, and you jerk your net Angrily across
mine, we will soon have two broken meta
and no fish. The French revolution nearly
destroyed tho French fisheries. and &C.
clcsisstical war il the worst thing possible
while hauling souls into the kingdom.
had hoped that the millennium was about
TO dawn. bat the lion Is yet too fond Of tho
lamb Ny friends. notice in tho text that
james the son OF Zebedes and John his
brother were busy not mending somebody
elss's nets but mending their own nets. and
l rather think that we who are engaged in
Christian work In this latter part of tho
nineteenth century viii require all our
spare time to mend our own meta God
help US in the important dutyl
In this work OF reparation we need to
put into the nets more threads Of common
sense. When we can present religion as
great practically we will catch hundred
souls where now we catch one. Present
religion rs an intellectually and we will
fail Out in tho fisheries there are set
across the waters what are called gill nets,
and the fish put their heads through the
meshes and then cannot withdraw them
because they are caught by the gills But
gill nets cannot be OF any service in rclig-
ious work Mea are never caught for the
truth by their heads; it is by the heart or
not at all No Argument ever saved a man,
and no Keen analysis ever brought q man
into th. Kingdom of God. Heart work,
not head work. Away with your gill nets,
Sympathy, helpfulness, consolation, love,
are the names of some of the threads that
we need 70 weave In our gospel nets when
we are mending them.
II TEE WORLD WOULD BELIEVE IT WOULD
SURRENDER
Do you know that the worlds heart is
bursting with trouble. and IL you could
make that world believe that the religion
Of Jesus Christ is Q soothing omnipotcnce,
the whole world would surrender tonor-
row, yea, would surrender this hour? The
day before James A. Garfield was inapgur.
ated as president I was Ia the cars going
from Richmond TO Washington. A gentle
man seated next to me in the cars knew
me, and we were soon in familiar converse
ton IL was Just after a bereavement and
was speaking to him from an over bur
deued heart about the sorrow was suffer
ing
Looking at his cheerful face, said: '1
guess you have escaped all trouble I
should judge from your countenance that
you have come through free from all mis-
fortune" Then be looked at me with look
shall never forget and whispered in my
ear "Sir. you know nothing about trouble.
My wife has been in an insane asylum for
fifteen yean" And then he turned and
looked out Of the window and into tho
night with silence I was too overpowered
TO break That was another illustration
OF the fact that no one escapes trouble.
Why. that man seated next 70 you In
church has on his soul a weight compared
with which . mountain Is . feather. That
woman seated next TO you in church has a
grief the recital OF which would make your
body. mind and soul shuddsr
When you are mending your net for this
wide, deep sea OF humanity, take out that
wire thread Of criticism aud that horse
hair thread OF harshness, and put in . soft
silken thread OF Christian sympathy. Yea,
when you ara mending your nets tsar out
those old threads OF gruffness and weave
In few threads of polisenos and genial
i.y. In the house of God let all the Chris
tian faces beam with a look that means
welcome Say good morning" 70 the
stranger ~ he enters your pew, and at the
close shake hands with him and say, How
did ron like musIc'" Why, you would be
to that man panel OF the door Of heaven;
yoa would be 70 him . note Of the doxology
that seraphs siag when new soul enters.
That man IL a thousand miles from home.
aud he has inst heard by telegraph that
his child IL sick With scarlet fever. and bis
boy At colleg, has got into Disgrace. aud he
has had business troubles and IL 80 home
ssck he can hardly keep from crying Just