Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-09

net, and they never get place to swing the
net In other words. they want TO do Cos
/ pei work on a big scale, or they will not do
/ il at all.
see feeble minded Christian men going
around with Bagster's Bible under their
arm, hoping to do the work of an evan
/ gelist and use the net, while they might be
better content with hook and line and take
one soul at time. They are bad failures
as evangelists; they would be mighty sue
cesses as private Christians. II you catch
only one soul for God, that will be enough
to fill your eternity with celebration. All
hail the fisherman with hook and line!
have seen man in toughest corduroy
outfit come back from the woods loaded
down with string of finny treasures hung
over his shoulder, and his gamebag filled,
and dog with his teeth carrying basket
filled with the surplus of an afternoons
angling and it was all the result of a hook
and line And in the eternal world there
will be many man and many a woman
that was never heard OF outside of a village
Sunday school or prayer meeting buried
in /. church basement who will come be-
fore the throne of God with multitude of
souls rlnsomed through his or her instru-
mentality, and yet the work all done
through personal interview, one by one,
one by one.
You do not know who that one soul may
be. Staupitz helped one soul into the light,
but it was Martin Luther Thomas Bilney
brought salvation to one soul. but it was
Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was
the means of saving one soul, but il was
John Summerfield Our blessed Lord healed
one blind eye at a time, one paralyzed arm
at a time, one dropsical patient at a time
and raised from the dead one girl at a time
one young man at a time. Admire the net |
that takes in great many at once, but do /
not despise the hook and line
~ THE GOSPEL FISHERIES.
God help us amid the gospel fisheries /
whether we employ hook or net, for the /
day cometh when we shall see how much /
depended on our fidelity. Christ him +
self declared The kingdom Of heaven IS 4
like unto net that was cast into the sea
and gathered OF every kind, which when I
il was full, they drew to shore and sat
down and gathered 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 fishermen think it best 70 keep
the useful and worthless of the haul in the
same net until it is drawn upon the beach,
and then the division takes place, and II it
Is on Long Island coast the mossbankers I
are thrown out and tire bluefsh and shad
on If it is on the shore of Gallee
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 into pals 10 be
carried home for use.
So in the church on earth, the saints ard
the hypocrites, the generous and the mean,
The chaste and the unclean, are kept in the
same membership, but at death the diyi-
sion will bemade, and the good will be gath
cred into heaven, and the bad, however
many holy communions they may have
and however many rhetorical
prayers they may have offered, and how
ever many years their names may have
been ON the church rolls, will be cast away
Tod forbid that any of us should be among
he cast away But may we do our
work, whether small or great, as thorough
y as did that renowned fisherman, George
W. Bethune who spent his summer rest
Ingling in the waters around the Thou
aud Isles and beating at their own craft
hose who piled it all the year, and who
he rest of the time gloriously preached
,hrist in a pulpit only Is minutes from
where now stand. and ordering for his
'wn 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 grandmother
Sing also my own hymn:
Jesus, thou prince OF life.
Thy chosen cannot die:
Like thee. they conquer in the strife. !
To reign with thee on high"