The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-18

I AeoAdTAy succeed IN sJul-catonlbg. 20
are apt TO give it up and say: Il will
need % weave al along the edge, and all
through the center. great, long, stout
threads Of Christian patience. How patient
God has been with u.s. Can We not be
patient with our fsllowsi l had presented
me from Scotland few days ago an orna-
parts of which were made
from q piece of a tree cut
down by Mr.. Gladstone at Hsrwarden, and
sent by him to Scotland by request The
Incident ieminded nus of the fact that
woman, who had long been on Mr.. Glad
stones estate, had a hayward boy, and In
her despair sic asked Mr.. Gladstone to take
the boy in hand While prime minister OF
England, with all the mighty affairs OF the
kingdom in his hand, he took thai boy in his
| study and counseled him, and then kneIt
down and prayed with him, and the boy
| was saved. II we all had hearts OF sympa~
thy like that, what would be to us impossl-
blei sis it not delightful that / can sing so
| wellf said Jenny Lind, IN q burst Of Joy
that she could help others. "Is it not de-
hghtful that / can sing so well!" And
might we not all say in thanKfulness to
God: ''Is it not delightful that we can sym
pathizs with others and encourage others,
and clip others, and save othersp
| Again, in mending our nets We need, also,
/
all the tangled meshes Of unbelief. Our
work is successful according to our faith.
| the man who believes in only half Bible,
| or the Bible in spots, the man who thinks
| he cannot persuade others, the man who
halts, doubling about this and doubling
about that, will be failure in Christian
work. Show me the man who rather thinks
that the garden OF Eden may have been an
allegory, and is not quite certain but that
there may be another chance after death,
and does not know whether or not the Bible
is inspired, and / tell you that man for
soul-saving is poor stick. Faith in
God and in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost,
and the absolute necessity of a regenerated
heart, in order TO see God in
peace, is one thread you must have In your
mended net, or you will never be success
full fisher for men. Why, how can you
Doubt The hundreds of millions of men
and women now standing ia the church on
earth, ard the hu'ireds OF millions in
heaven, attest the power Of this gospel to
saw. With more nan the certainty OF a
mathematical demonstration, let US start
out to redeem all nations. The rottennest
| thread that you are to tear out OF your net
| is unbellef, and the most 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
| trustl
o, this impor tant work Of mending our
| nets II we could mend our nets right we
would accomplish more in soul-saving in
the next year than we have in the last
twenty years. But where shall we get them
menIsil Just where old Zebedee and his
two boys mended their nets-where you
are James, why don't you put your oar
in Lake Galiee, or hoist your sail and land
at Capernaum, or Tberias or Gadara, a ID,
seated on the bank, mend your net! John,
why don't you 60 ashore and mend your
netF' No, 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 aud
the wooden blocks, and went to WORK sew
ing, sewing; tying, tying; weaving.
weaving; pounding, pounding; until,
the net mended, they push it off
in the sea, and drop paddle, and
hoist sail, and the cut-water went through
amid the shoals Of fish, some of the de-
scendants of which we had for breakfast
one morning while we were encamped on
the beach of beautiful Galilee. james and
John had no time to 60 ashore. They were
cot fishing for fun, as 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. 30"
says some one, II mean to get my net
mended, and | will 60 down to the public
| library, and l will see what the scientists
| say about evolution and about the survival
of the fttest, and l will read up
what the theologians say about 'ad-
vanced thought | will leave the ship
awhile. and will go ashore and stay there
till my net is mended.n Do that, my
brother, and you will have no net left. In
stead of their helping you mend your net,
they will steal the pieces that remain.
Better stay in the gospel boat, where you
have all the means for mending your net.
What are they. do you aski l answer all
you need you have where you are; namely,
Bible and place to pray. The more you
study evolution, aud adopt what is called
advanced thought, the bigger fool you will
be. Stay in the ship and mind your net.
That is where James, the son of Zebedee,
and John, his brother, staid. That is where
all who get their nets mended stay.
| notice that all who leave the gospel boat
and 60 ashore to mend their nets stay there.
| Or if they try again to fish, they do not
catch anything. Get out Of the gospel boat
| and go up into the world to get your net
mended, and you will live TO see the day
when you will feel like the man who, hav-
ing forsaken Christianity, sighed, 81 would
give 81. 900 to feel as l did in 1920" The
| time will come when you would be willing
TO give e.. 600 to feel as you did In 1891.
| These men who have given up their
olu Ecilklou Cduuob nolp you DIV. III Is
my opinion that the most of those
ministers who gave up the old religion are
in search Of notoriety. They do not sue
coed in attracting much attention. They
are tired of obscurity. They must do some
| thing to attract attention, so they sit down
on the beach, and 60 to tearing to pieces
the fishing nets, instead of mending them.
| The staid old denomination to which they
belong does not pay them enough attention,
so they attract attention by striking their
grandmother. They do not get enough at
tention by standing in the pulpits, so they
60 to work and break the church windows.
These dear brethren of all denominations,
afflicted with theological fidgets, had better
go to mending nets instead of breaking
them. Before they break up the old reigi IN
and try 10 foist ON US new religion lei
them go through some great sacrifice for
God that will prove them worthy for such
a work. taking the advice of Tallsyrand to
a man who wanted to upset the religion OF
Jesus Christ aud start new one, when he
said: go and be crucified and then raise
yourself from the grave the third
daym Those who propose to mend
their nets by secular and skeptica
books are like a man who has Just
one week for fishing, and six Of the
days he spends in reading "Isaak Walton's
Complete Angler" and "Wheatley's Rod
aud Line, and "Scott's Fishing in North.
ern Waters" ard "Pullman's Wade Mecuu