Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-09
hristians. If YOU catch only ole sor

Christians. II you catch only ole soul
for God, that will be enough to fE your
eternity with celebration. all hSl the
fisherman with hook and line!
I have seen man in toughest tol;du-
roy outfit come back from The woods
loaded down with string of fiI y .reas-.
ures, hung over his shoulder ID his
ga1nebag filed, and dog with Las teeth
carving the basket filed with the sur
plus 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 woman that was
never heard of outside Of a village Sun
day school or prayer meeting buried in
church basement who will come be-
fore the throne of God with multitude
of souls ransomed through his or her IN
strumentality, and yet the workau 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 it was John Summerfeld.
Our blessed Lord healed one blind eye
at time, one paraiyzed arm at time
one dropsical patient at time, and
raised from the dead one girl at time,
one young man at a time Admire the
net that takes in great many at once,
but do not despise the hook ard line.
THE APPLICATION TO CHRISTIANITY.
God help rs 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 himself
declared: 1.-THE kingdom of heaven is like
unto net that was cast into the sea and
gathered of every kind, which, when it
was full. they drew to shore aad sat
down and gathered the good in tie YES
sells, but cast the bad away. So shall 1t
be at the end of the world-the angels
shall come forth and separate the wicked
from the Just.
Yes, the fishermen think it lest to
keep the useful and worthless cf the
haul in the same net until it 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 bluefsh and shad preserved, or
if it is on the shore Of Galilee the issi
classified as siluroids are hurled back
into the water or thrown up Oh the ba,i-
as unclean, while the perch and the caIi'
and the barbel are put into pals to be
carried home for use.
So in the church on earth the saints
and the hypocrites, the generous ana The
mean, the chaste and the unclean, are
kept in the same membership, but al
death the division will be made. and the
good will be gathered into heaven. and
the bad, however many holy comlnun-
ions they may have celebrated, and
however many rhetorical prayers they
may have offered, and however many
years their names may have been on TIE
church rolls, will be cast away. God
forbid that any of us should be among
the "cast away" But may VIC do our
work, whether small or great, as thor-
oughly as did that renowned fisherman.
George ". Bethune, who spent his
summer rest angling In the waters
around the T!:cl.sand Isles and beatine
at their own c, IL those who piled it all
the year, and who to rest Of his time
gloriously preached Christ in pulpit
only Is minutes from where now
stand, and ordering for his own obse
quies: Put on me my pulpit gown and
bands, with my own pocket Bible in my
right hand. Bury me with my nother
my father and my grandmother Sing
also my own hymn:
.',Jes- thou prince Of life.
II chosen cannot die;
Like thee. they conquer in the strife.
To reign with thee on high