The Penn's Grove record., 1893-02-10

not only to feed Out hatssn - JUN
race. Sl
formulated that the harveets and vineyard
and land animals may be tnsu @cient to feet
the human family, and tbs nations may b
lobli1ed to come to the fiytrS aud ocean
beaches to seek tbs living hervssts thai
swim the deep, and that would mean mnrt
healh and vigor AMI ortiiaucy o orair
than the human race nov ovn-
The Lord. BY placing The nsh in this frsi
course Of the menu In paradise. making 1t
precede bird aud bsast, indicated to thu
world the Importance Of the fish - az
article OF human food. The reason thai
men and women lived three AMI four and
Ave and nine hundred pears was because
they were kept on parcded corn and hsh
We mix 10 q fautsstc fool that Kill the
most OF US before thirty ysarsof age. Gus
tards and whipped sllsbubs and Roman
uunches and chicken salads At midnight ara
I gantlet that few Q N stren 9Th to ruu-
We nut on many . tom ostous glowing
epithets saying that the psrsou beneath died
| OF patriotic services or from ~cxhAustton 10
| religious work when nothing killed ths poor
fellow but lobster eaten ~ party four hour.
sfter he ought to have been sound asleep III
| bed. There are msn to-day in our streets %
| mauy walking hospitals who might have
/, bean athletes II they had tsksn the hiut oil
Genesis in my text and OF our Lords re-
mark and adhered to hm5 iicity OF diet.
The reason that the country districts have
furnished most Of the men and wonsn OF
our time who are doing the mightiest work
In merchandise, ia mschAntca In law, ID
medicine In theology. In Legislative and
congressional halls, nj all the presidents
from Washington down-at least those who
have amounted to anythin8-is because they
ware in those country DISTRICTS OF necessity
tept on plain diet.
No man or woman ever to any.
thing who vas brought up on floating island
to ~paradisiae diet IL 1t Il to get paradisiac
morals and parad saiac health. The human
race to-day needs more phosphorus and ths
dsh Is charged An1 surcharged with phos-
'ohorus-phosph0rua that which shines 10
ihe dark without burning.
WHAT made the twelve apostles such stst.
eart men thst thsy could endure anything
sad achieve everythingf Next to divina 10.
spiration, it was because they were nearly
al fishermen and lived On fish AMI . few
plain condiments. Paul. thou IN not brought
az to swing the net and throw the line, must
OF necessity havs adopted the diet of the
p~opaiation among whom he lived. and you
see the phosphorus in his daring plea before
Felix, and the phosphorus in his boidest OF
ali u~tterances before the wisacres ON Mars
Hill, and the phosphorus - he went without
fright to his beheating. and tins phosphorus
you see in the lives Of all the apostles who
moved right on undauutsd to certain martyr.
dom. whether to be decapitated or dung of
7recipicss or hung ia crucifixion.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark without
burning. No man or woman that ever lived
was independent OF QUESTIONS OF diet. Let
those who by circumstances are compelled
to simplicity OF diet thank God for their res
cue from the temptation OF killing delica,
cies. The men md women who are to de-
eide the drift OF the Twentieth Century,
which 10 only seven or eight steps OF, are
now five miles back from the rail station
and had for breakfast this morning q similar
bill OF fare to that which Christ provided for
the fishermen disciples on the a of Lake
Galilee.
indeed the only articles Of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied vera brsa | an
fish which the boy who acted as sutier to the
1000 persons Of the wilderness handed over
five barley loaves and two fishes. The
boy must have felt badly when called % to
give up the two fishes which ne had brought
out after having caught their himself, sit
ting with his bare fest over the bank OF the
lake and expecting to sell his supply at good
profit, but he felt better wnsn By the mira
Gle the fish were multiplied aud he had more
eturned to him than he had SURRENDERED l.
Know also In order to understand the
ie~hthyology OF the Bible that in this deeper
waters. as whose OF the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that are now extinct. rhs
fools who become inddels becauss they can
not understand tue ingulfmsnt OF the recre-
ant Jonah In q sea monster might have
saved their souls by stu lying a little natural
history. "Oh,n says some one, that story
of Jonah was only q fable Say others:
at was interpolated by some writer Of later
times" Others say: ut was q ~reproiuc-
ton OF the story Of Hercules deyourei AMI
then restoI ed from the monstsr.n But my
reply is that history tells US that there were
monsters large enough to whsim saips.
The extinct icAthyosAurus OF other ages
was thirty fest long, and as lats - tue Sixth
Century Of the Christian era up and down
the Mediterranean there fosted monsters
compared with which . mo arn waaIe was
\ sardine or a herring. the shark aas again
sud again been found 10 sw aliow . 1 en-
tire. A fisherman on b COAST OF Turkey
found a see monster which contained . wo-
a n . purss Of gold. ] have seen in
museums sea monsters large enough to take
'own q prophet.
But I have . better reason for believing
the Old Testament sccount and that 10 that
Christ said IL was true auf = typo OF His
OWN resurrection, and | suppose BE ought
TO know. In Matthew Kit. 10. Jesus Christ
ayS "For ~ Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whales belly, % shall
the Son Of Man b. three days and three
nights in the heart Of the earth" Andtnat
settles 1t for me and for any man who does
Sot believe Christ q dupe and an imposter.
Notice also how the Old Tsstsmsnr writer's
drew similitude from the fisheries. jeremiah
uses such imagery 70 prophecy destruction,
the Lord, and they shall fsh them!n Ezekiel
uses fish imagery to prophesy prosperity,
ait shall come to pass that the fishers shall
stand upon IL from Eugedi svsn 70 Eaeg-
lain; there shall be Z place to spread forth
nets; their fish shall b according 70 their
kinds as the ish Of the great ssa, exceeding
many the explanation Of which 10 that
Engedi and Eneaiaim stood on tins banks
Of the Dead SEA- in the waters Of which
no fish can Iva but the prophet says that
the time will come when these waters will
be regeuerated, and they will be great places
for fish. Amos reprovss idolatriss 81 say
ing. The day shall come upon you when
he will take you away with and your
posterity with hshhookap Solomon. in
Ecclesiastes, declares that those captured OF
temptation are a. fs1ss taken in an evil
net. Indesd Solomon knew all about tue
huny tribe and wrote . treatiso on icIthy
9logy which has been lost.
Furthermore in order that you may uu-
derstand the ic~hthyology OF b Bible, you
must know that there were i've ways 0
fishing. One was BY . fsnco OF reeds and
NoaSp WitAiA WmIA tAu H1a WV 11Azht
But the Herodic government forbade that on
LAKE Galiisas less pleasure boats be wrecked
by the stakes driven. Another mode was by
spearing, the waters OF 6siilee 80 clear good
aim could be taken for the t~ransdxlng. An
other was by hoo and line, a. wnsre Isaiah
says s'The fishers also shall mourn, and
they that cast angle into the BROOKS shall
lament" And job 4 ssCanst hou draw
out leviathan with q hookf' And Habak-
kuk says They take up all OF them witt
the angle"
Another mode was bya casting net On
that which was nung from the shore, an
other. by q dragnst Or hat which wa
thrown from y bolt and drawn through thu
sea as the fishing smack sailed on. How
wonderful all this is inwrou ght into the
Bible Imagery and IL leads me TO ask in which
mo ie are you and | fishing, for the church
Is the boat, and the gospel IS the net and
tine sea Is the world. MI ths Dish are the
souls, and God addresses u as He did Simon
and Andrew, saying, "Foliow Ne. and !
will make you fishers OF mem But whsnts
the best time to 1sh for soussi In the night
Peter. why did you saw to Christ ave
have toiled all the night and have taken
nothiugr' Why din you not fish ia the day
timer BE replies. "You ought 70 know thai
he night Is the beat time Tor ashinz.s