Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-06

c,es of food that Christ by miracle null
tiplied were bread and fish which the
bow. who acted as sutler TO the seven
| thousand people of the wilderness,
handed over-five barley loaves and two
fishes. The boy must have felt badly
when called on to give up the two hshes
which he had brought out after having
caught them himself, sitting with his
bare feet over the bank OF the lake ana
expecting to sell his supply at good
proft. but he felt better when by the
miracle the fish were multiplied and tle
had more returned to him than be had
surrendered.
All, MY HEARERS,
that is the time for you TO go after
souls, when a night of trouble is on
them. Miss not that opportunity to
save a soul, for IL is the best Of all OPP
portunities Go up along the Mohawk
or the Juniata or the Delaware or the
Tombigbee or the ST. Lawrence right
after a rain, and you will find the Hsh-
ermen all up and down the banks.
Why? Because good time to angle is
right after floods of disaster. And as a
pool overshadowed with trees is grand
place for making q fine haul OF fish, so
when the soul is under the long dark
shadows of anxiety and distress, IL is q
good time to make a spiritual haul.
People in the bright sunshine OF pros
perity are not so easily taken.
But be sure before you start out to
the Gospel Fisheries to get the right
kind OF bait "But, how" you say,
IAN 10 get it?" My answer is. dig
for it," Where shall l dig for itP"
SIN the rich Bible grounds" We boys
brought mp in the country had to dig
for bait before we started for the
banks OF the Rsritan. We put the
sharp edge of the spade against the
ground, and then put one foot on the
spade, and with one tremendous plunge
of onr strength OF body and will, we
drove it in ND TO the handle and tnrned
over the sod. We had never read
Walton's Complete Angler" or Charles
Cotton's "Instructions how to Angle
for Crawling In Clear Stream." We
knew nothing about the modern red
hackle, or the fly Of orange-colored
mohalr, but we got the right kind OF
bait. No use trying TO angle for fish or
angle for souls unless you have the
right kind OF bait, and there Is plenty
Of it in the Promises, the PARALLELS,
THE MIRACLES,
the Crucifxion, the Heaven OF the
grand old Gospel. Yes, not only must
YOU dig for bait, but use only fresh bait.
You cannot do anything down at the
pond with old angle worms. New views
of truth. New views OF God. New
views OF the soul. There are all the
good books to help you dig. But make
up your mind as to whether you will
take the hint of Habakkuk and Isaiah
and Job and use hook and line, or take
the hint of Matthew and Luke and
Christ and fish with net. think
many lose their time by wanting to fish
with q net and they never get place
to- swing the net; in other words, they
want to do Gospel work on big scale
or they will not do il at all. l 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 and line
bad failures as evangelstS: they wonld
be mighty successes as private Chris
tians. If you catch only one soul for
God that will be enough to fill your
eternity with celebration. All hail, the
fishermen with hook and line! l have
seen a man in toughest corduroy outfit
come back from the woods loaded down
with string OF funny treasures hung
over his shoulder and his game bag
filed, and a dog with his teeth carrying
a basket filled with the suplus of an af-
teernoon's angling, and it was all the
result of a hook and line; and in the
Eternal World there will be many a
man and many a woman that was never
heard OF outside Of q village Sunday
School or a prayer meeting buried in
church basement, who will come before
THE THRONE OF GOD
with o multitude Of souls ransomed
through his or her instrumentaiity, and
vet 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 IL was Hugh Latimer. An edge
tool maker was the means OF saving one
soul, but it was John Summertield.
Our blessed Lord healed one blind eye
at time, one paralyzed arm at time,
one drOpsiCal patient at time, and
raised from the dead one girl at time,
one Young man at time. Admire the
net that takes in a good many at once,
but do not despise the hook and line
God help US amid the Gospel Fisher
les, whether we employ hook or net, for
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 it was full, they
drew to shore, and sat down and gath
cred the good in the vessels, 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 lust"
Yes, the fisherman think it best TO keep
the useful and worthless of the haul in
the same net until ii is drawn upon the
beach, and then the division takes
place. and il It ia on Long Island coast,
the most-bunkers are thrown out and
the bue-fish and shad preserved, or If
il Is
on THE SHORE OF GALILEE,
the fish classified as siluroidS are hurled
back into the water or thrown up the
bank as unclean, while the perch and
the carp and the barbel are put in pals
TO be carried home for use. So in the
church on earth, the saints and the
bypocriteS, the generous and the mean,
the chaste and the uncleaB, are kept in
the same membership, but at death the