The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21

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glce of hauling in the spotted treasures
through some imperfection of the net they
splash back into the wave. That is too
much of
TRIAL OF PATIENCE
for most fishermen TO endure, and many
man ordinarily correct of speech in such
circumstances comes TO an intensity of ut
terauce Uniustitiable. Therefore no good
fisherman considers the time wasted that is
spent n mending his net Now the Bible
again and again represents Christian
workers as fishers of men. and we are all
sweeping through the sea of humanity some
kind of net. Indeed, there have been
enough nets out and enough fishermen busy
TO have landed the whole human race in the
kingdom Of God long before this. What is
the matter! The gospel is all right, and it
has been good time for catching souls for
thousands of years. Why. Their, the fail
ures! The trouble is with the nets and
most of them need to be mended. l propose
10 show you what is the matter with most
OF the nets and how to mend them. In the
text old Zebedee and his two boys, James
and John, were doing a good thing when
they sat in their boat mending their nets.
The trouble with many Of our nets is that
the meshes are too large If fish can get
his gillS and half his body through the net
work, he tears and rends and works his
way out and leaves the place through which
The Bible weaves faith and works tight to-
gcther, the law and the Gospel, righteous
ness and forgiveness. Some of our nets
have mesheS so wide that the sinner floats
in and out and is not at any moment caught
for the heavenly landing. In our desire to
make everything 50 easy we relax, we
loosen we widen We let men after they
are once in the Gospel net escape into the
world and go into indulgences and swim all
around Galilce from north side to south
side and from east side TO west side, eX-
pecting that they Will come back again.
We ought to make it easy for them to get
into the kingdom OF God, as far as we can
make ii impossible for
THEM To GET OUT.
The poor advice nowadays to many is:
Go and do Just as you did before YOU We're
captured for God and heaven. The net was
not intended to be any restraint or any
hindrance. What you did before YOU We're
Il Christian, do now. Go to all styles of
read all the styles of books. en-
gage in all the styles of behavior as before
YOU were converted And so through
these mcShes of permission and laxity they
wriggle out, through this opening and that
opening. tearing the net as they go, and
soon all the souls that we expected to land
in heaven, before we know it are back in
the deep sea of the world. Oh, when we go
ACCOMPLISHING let us make il as easy as
PUSH!pie i"l SUNS =" seU III anu d. Aaio DIS
posSloie 10 GEL our.
Is Tue blDIe language an unmeanlng
verbiage when il talks about self denial and
keeping Tue pody unuer ana ABOUT walking
the narrow way ana entering the Straight |
gaze ana ABOUT carrying the cross! Is there
10 De no way OF teLilhs Whetnef man Is |
ohrlSllall except pH ms taxing the COM
lhuhloh chailce on Sacfalnentai DAY May
man be as reckless about his thoughts, |
about his words. about his temper, about |
ms alnusementS. ABOUT MS dealings after
conversion as before coIvenslonz One,han |
the soSpei nets WIN whlch we nave been |
scooplng the sea nave had Such wlue mesnes
that thSy nave oeen AL TORN 10 pieces by |
the rushing out liito lile world OF those |
whom a