Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-10-05
DEEP SEA FISHING.
Da. TALMAcE TELLS WHY CHRIST
CHOSE FISHERMEN.


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P"ssessed intenectnai and fhysica'
vtgor-Grest Congregations Assemble
Vt she tabernacle.
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A'''h n"roPo III ia'ina'e naS iaceu
ruuiences unusually large ana entnu-
slastic, who are attracted to the Taber-
nncle no less by the potent eloquence of
tie preacher than through desire to
near from his own lips the message of
thanks intrusted to him by the czar to
the contributors Of The Christian Herald
famine cargo. which he and Mr.. Klopsch
conveyed to Russia in the steamer Leo
Il ia understood that DIR. Talmagt has
IA preparation full account of the mis-
sion to Russia, as well as his own preach
ing tour to Germany, England, Scotland
md Ireland. The text this morning
WAS taken from Luke v. 4. Launch
ont into the deep"
Christ, starting on the campaign of
the worlds conquest, was selecting his
staff officers. There were plenty of stu
dents with high foreheads, and white
hands, and intellectual faces, and refined
tastes In Rome and in Jerusalem. Christ
might have called into the apostleship
twelve bookworms, or twelve rhetori-
Clans. or twelve artists. Instead he takes
group Of men who had never made
speech; never taken lesson in bellies
lettres: never been sick enough to make
them look deicate--their hands broad,
clumsy and hard knuckled. He chose
fishermen, among other reasons, think,
because they were physically hardy.
Rowing makes strong arms and stout
chests. Much climbing Of ratlines makes
ones head steady. A Galilee tempest
wrcstled men into gymnasts.
The opening work of the church was
rnugh work. Christ did not want
twelve invalids hanging about him,
complaining all the time how badly they
felt. He leaves the delicate students at
Jerusalem and Rome for their mothers
and aunts to take care Of, and goes down
20 the seashore, and out of the toughest
material makes an apostleship. The
ministry need more corporal vigor than
any other class. Fine minds and good
Intentions are important, but there must
De physical force to back them. The
intellectual mill wheel may be well built
and the grist good, but there must be
enough blood in the mill race to turn
the one and to grind the other.
fie chose fishermen also because they
were used to hard knocks The man
who cannot stand assault is not fit for
the ministry. II always has been and
always will be rough work, and the man
VINO, at every censure or caricature, sits
down to cry had better be at some other
work. 1t il no place for ecclesiastical
doll babies. A man who cannot preach
pecause he has forgotten his manuscript
or' lost his spectacles ought not to preach
ut all. Heaven deliver the church from
Il ministry that preach in kid gloves and
from sermons in black morocco covers!
These fishermen were rough and ready.
They had been in the severest of all col
ieges.
When they were knocked over by the
main boom Of the ship they entered the
Sophomore; when washed off by
great wave they entered the Junior;
when floating for two days without
food or drink on plank they came to
the Senior, and when at last their ship
dashed on the beach in midnight hur-
ricane they graduated with the first
honor
JESUS ON sHIrBoARD.
siy text finds Jesus on shipboard with
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