Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-02-11
ACCOMAC G. r. VA. SATURDAMa. FEBRUARY II, L

0nd hsh Which tne boy who acted as suit
Ter to the 1000 people of the wilderness;
handed over-fvo barley loayes and two
fishes. The boy must have felt badly
when called on to give up tho two fishes
which he had brought out after having
caught them himself, sitting with hi:
baro fcot over the bank of tho lake ant
expecting to scllhis supply at good profit
but he felt better when by the miracle
the fish were multiplied and he hi,
moro returned to him than 10 had sur
rendered.
THE MIRACLE OF JONAH AND TIE GREAT
FISH.
Know also in oricr to understand The
icnthyolosy Ct tie Eiblc that i'll the deep
er walcrs, az those OF the Mediterranean
there were monsters that arc now OK.
tinct. Tho fools who become infldolt
becausc they cannot understand the III
gulfueilt of the rccreant Jonah III u sea
monster might have saved their couls
by studying II little natural history
ooh" says SOHO ono, that story- of 10
nah was only 4 fable" Say others, Il:
was intc-rollted hy some writer Of lnta.
times" Others say, 1T was a rcprcduc-
ton OF tic story Of Hercules acGc,lrcd
and then restored from the monster.
But my reply is that history tells Us hat
there were monsters large enough &c
whelm ships.
The extinct ichthyosauras of Other
eyes was 60 feet long, and rs late rs Tic
sixth century Of the Christian cr.. Up and
down the mediterranean there f.oatcd
monsters compared with Which mod
e11l whale was Il sartlilc or u herring.
The shark Lao again and agoin boen
found to have swallowed a man entire.
A fisherman on the coast of TURKEY
found IL sea monster which contained Il
woman and 4 Purse OF gold. have
seen in museums sea monsters Largo
enough to lake down Il prophet.
But have better reason for bclicv-
ing the Old Testament account, and that
is that Christ said it was true and Il type
of his own resurrection. and suppose
lie ought to know. In Matthew xii, 30,
Jesus Christ says, "For as jonas was
three days and three nights in the
whales belly, so shall the Son of Man
be three days and three nights il the
heart of tho earth. And that settles it
for Inc and for any man who does not
believe Christ dupc and aM impostcr.
Notice also how the Old Testament
writers drew similitudc from tire fish
cries. Jcroniah uses such imagery to
prophosy destruction, behold, will
send for many fishers, saith the Lord,
and they shall fish rlelu.' Ezekiel uses
fish imagery to prophecy prosperity, 1T
shall come to pass that tho fishers shall
stand upon it from En-gedi even to En-
eglain; they snail he u place to spread
forth nets; their fish shall BIO accord
ing to their kinds, as tho fish Of the
great sea, exceeding many" the expla-
nation of which is that Engedi and
En-eglaim stood on tho banks of
tho Dead sea, in tic waters Of which
no fish can live, but the prophet says
that the time will como when these
waters will be rcgcnerated. and they will
Re great places for fish. Amos reproves
idolatrics by saying, The day shall
come upon You when he will take you
away with hooks ard your pcgtcrity
with fshhooils. =, Solomon, in Ecclesi-
astcs, declares that those captured of
temptation arc as fishes taken i'll IN evil
ret. Indeed Solomon knew all abont
the 1nny tribe and wrote a treatise on
ichthyology which has been lost.
THE ANCIENT FISHERMEN.
Furthermore, in order that you may
understand the ichthyclogy OF tho Bible,
you must know that there were Eve
ways Of fishing. Ono was by a fence of
reeds ard canes. within which the fish
were caught. But the Herodic govern
mcnt forbade that on Lake Calico, lest
pleasure boats DC wrecked by The stakes
driven. Another mode Was by spcariug
the waters of Galilce so clear good aim
could be taken for the transiixing. An
other was by hook and line, as where
Isaiah snys, "The fishers also shall
mourn, and they ti,at cast angle into the
brooks shall lament" And Job says.
"Canst thou draw ont loviathan with a
hool1T And I1ahn!rl,ule says, "Ihey take
up all CT them with the angle
Another mode was by casting net OF
thet which v-as fr;ng from the shoft;
another, by tiraSn@t or that which
was thrown from a boat and drawn
through the sea rs tie fishing smack
sailed OH. How onue.fll eli this is in
wrought into The Diblc imagery, and it
leads me 10 ask III which mode arc you
and fishing, for the Church is TIE boat,
and the gospel is the net. and tho sea il
the wori,!, and tho fish are the souls. and
God addresses Us rs he did Simon and
Andrew, saying, Follow me, and I will
make you fishers of laen." But when is
the best time to fish for souls: In the
night. Peter, why did you say to Christ,
1--WE have toilcd all tho night and have
taken nothing Why did you not fish
in the daytime? lie replies, ''You ought
to know that the night is tic best tire
for fishing"
at Tobyhanna Mills, among the
mountains Of Pennsylvania, saw a
friend with high boots ard fishing tackle
starting ont at 0 o'clock ut night, and /
said, "Where are you going% lie
answered, "Gsoing to fish" What, in
tho night" Flo answered, eyes, II tho
night" So tho vast majority Of aouls
captured for God IRE taken IN times Of
revival In tho night meetings. They
might just rs well come at ls o'clock ct
noon, bet most Of them will not. Ask
tho evangelists Of olGen times, ask
Finney, ask Nettleton, csA Osborn, asl
Daniel Baker, and then ask ell the
modern evangoists which is tho best
time to gather souls, and they will
answer, "Ths night; by all odds, the
night Not only tho natural night, but