Arizona republican., 1892-11-27

and half Christian life, and with new determination, and new plans, and new expectations launch out into the deep. POINTERS TO FISHERMEN.
 The text is appropriate to all who are engaged in Christian work, The church of God has been fishing along the shore. We set our net in good, calm | place, and in sight of fine chapel, and we go down every Sunday to see if the | fish have been wise enough to come into our net. We might learn something | from that boy with his hook and line. He throws his line from the bridge-no fish He sits down on a log-no fish. He stands in the sunlight and casts the line. but no fish. He goes up by the mill dam, and stands behind the bank, where the fish cannot see him, and he has hardly dropped the hook before the cork goes under The fish come to him as fast as he can throw them ashore. In other words, in our Christian work why do we not go where the fish are? It is not so easy to catch souls in church, for they know that we are trying to take them. If you can throw your line out into the world, where they are not expecting you, they will be captured. Is it far to take men by such stratagem2 Yes would like to cheat five thousand souls into the kingdom.
 The whole policy of the church of God is to be changed. Instead of chiefly looking after the few who have become | Christians our chief efforts will be for | those outside. If after a man is con | verted he cannot take care of himself am not going to take care of him. If he thinks that am going to stand and pat him on the back, and feed him out of an | elegant spoon, and watch him so that | he does not get into draft of world | Illness, he is much mistaken. We have in our churches great mass of helpless, inane professors, who are doing nothing for themselves or for others, who want us to stop and nurse them. They are so | troubled with doubt as to whether they | are Christians or not. The doubt is set | tied. They are not Christians. The best We can do with these fish is to throw them back into the stream and go after them again with the Gospel net.
 "Go into the world and preach the Gospel" says Christ-into the factory, the engine house, the clubroom; into the i houses of the sick; into the dark lane; into the damp cellar; into the cold gar ret; into the dismal prison. Let every man, woman and child know that Jesus died, and that the gate of heaven is wide open. With the Bible in one pocket, and the hymn book in another pocket, and loaf of bread under your arm, launch out into the great deep of this worlds wretchedness.
 The text is appropriate to all the un- forgiven. Every sinner would come tC Godifhe thought that he might come just as he is. People talk as though the par don of God were . narrow river, like the Kennebec or the Thames, and that their sins draw too much water to enter it.. No; it is not a river nor a bay, but sea. should like to persuade you to launch out into the great deep of Gods mercy. am a merchant. 1 have bought cargo of spices in India. l have, through bill of exchange, paid for the whole cargo. You are ship captain. give you the orders and say, Bring me those spices" You land in India. You go to the trader and say, "Here are the orders" and you find everything all right. You do not stop to pay the money yourself. It is not your business to pay it. The ar engagements were made before you started. So Christ purchases your par don. He puts the papers, or the prom ises, into your hand. Is it wise to stop and say, 'I cannot pay for my re- demption?' God does not ask you to pay. Relying on what has been done. launch out into the deep.
 The Bibles promises join hands, and the circle they make will compass all your sins, and all your temptations, and all your sorrows. The round table of King Arthur and his knights had room for only thirteen banqueters, but the round table of Gods supply is large enough for all the present inhabitants of earth and heaven to sit at, and for the still mightier populations that are yet to be.
 KEEP AWAY FROM THE REEFS.
 Do not sail coastwise along your old habits and old sins. Keep clear of the shore. Go out where the water is deep est. Oh, for the md sea of Gods mercy! Be it known unto you, men and breth- ren, that through this man is preached unto you forgiveness of sins" l preach it with as much confidence to the eighty year-old transgressor as to the maiden. Though your sins were blood red they shall be snow white. The more ragged the prodigal, the more compassionate the father. Do you say that you are too bad? The high water mark .pf Gods pardon is higher than all ythr trans gressions. "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.
 Do you say that your heart is hard! Suppose it were ten times harder. Do you say that your iniquity is long con- tinued? Suppose it were ten times longer. Do you say that your crimes are black? Suppose that they were ten times blacker. Is there any lion that this Samson cannot slay? Is there any fortress that this Conqueror cannot takei