The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-02-16

hxlon, the heaven of the grand old gos
PEI; Yes, not only must you dig fo
9alC, use only fresh bait. You canno
ang!ewOrms. New views of truth. New
views of God. New views of the soul
Ihere are all the good books to hell
you dig.
But make up your mind as to wheth
or YOU will take the hint of Habukkuk
and Isaiah and Job and use hook anG
line, or take the hint of Ma THEW and
Luke and Christ and fish with net,
mink many lose their time by wanting
TO lsh with net and they never get .
place to swing the net. In other words
tney want to do gospel work on a bic
scale, or they will not do it at all.
! see feeble minded Christian men
going around with a Bagster's Bible
under their arm, hoping to do the work
OF an evangelist and use the net, while
they might be better content with hook
anu line and take one soul at a time
They are bad failures as evangelists
they would be mighty successive as
private Christians. If you catch only
one soul for God that will be enough
TO MI your eternity with celebration
All hail the fisherman with hook and
line.
have seen a man in toughest cor.
duroy outfit come back from the woods
ioaded down with a string of tinny
treasurs hung over his shoulder, and
MS gamebag filled, and dog with his
teeth carrying a basket filled with the
surplus of an afternoons angling, and
IL was all the result of hook and line
t-And In the eternal world there will be
q A.. 4
was never heard of outside Of village
Sunday school or prayer meetlno
buried in a church basement who will
come before the throne OF God with a
multitude of souls ransomed through
his or her 1nstrumentalitY, and yet the
work all done through personal inter.
view. one by one, one by one.
You do not know who that one soul
may be: Staupitz helped ono soul into
the light, but it was Martin Luther
Thomas Bilney brought salvation to
one soul, but 1t was Hugh Latimer
An edge tool maker was the means of
saving one soul, but it was John Sum.
merlield. Our blessed Lord healed one
blind eye at time, one paralyzed arm
at time, one dropsical patient at a
time, and raised from the dead one girl
at time, one young man at a time
Admire the net that takes in a great
many at once, but do not despise the
hook and line.
God helped us amid the gospel fish
cries whether we employ hook or net,
tor the day cometh when we shall see
how much depended on our fidelity.
Christ himself declared: "The kingdom
OF heaven Is like unto a net that was
cast into the sea and gathered of every
Kind, which, when 1t was full, they
drew to shore and sat down and gath
cred the good in the vessel, but cast
the bad away SO shall it be at the
end of the world-the angels shall
come forth and separate the wicked
from the just"
Yes, the fisherman think it best to
keep the useful and worthless of the
haul in the same net until 1T is drawn
upon the beach, and then the division
takes place, and if it is on Long Island
| coast the mossbankers are thrown out
| and the blueiish and shad preserved,
| or II 1T Is on the shore of Galilee the
| fish classified as siluroids are hurled
back into the water or thrown up on
the bank as unclean, while the perch
and the carp and the barbel are put in.
to pals to be carried home for use.
| SO In the church on earth, the saints
and the hypocrites, the generous and
the mean, the chaste and the unclean
are Kept IN the same membership, but
at death the division will be made, and
| the good will be gathered into heaven,
and the bad, however many holy COM
munions they may have celebrated and
however many rhetorical prayers they
may have offered, and however many
years their names may have been on
the church rolls, will be cast away.
God forbid that any of us should be
among the "cast awayw But may we
40 our work, whether small or great, as
thoroughly as did that renowned Ish-
erman, George w. Bethune, who spent
his summer rest angling in the waters
around the Thousand Isles and beating
at their own craft those who piled it
all the year, and who the rest of the
time gloriously preached Christ in Il
pulpit only 10 minutes from whero
now stand, and ordering for his own
obsequies: "Put on me my pulpit gown
and bands, with my own pocket Bible
in my right hand. Bury me with my
mother, my father and my grand
mother. Sing also my own hymn:
"Jesus thou prince of life!
Thy chosen cannot die,
Like thee. they conquer i'm the strife,
10 reign With thee Oh high.