Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-02-09

the uslerH snail SihId upon II lrOul Lu-Btui
even to En-eglaim; they shall be place 10
spread forth nets; their fish shall beaccord-
ing to their kinds, as the fish Of the great
sea, exceeding many" the explanation OF
which IS that En-gedi and En-eglaim stood
on the banks Of the Desd sea, in the waters
of which no fish can live, but the prophet
says that the time viii come when the's
waters will be regenerated and they will be
great places for fish.
Amos reproyes idolatries by saying, 'The
day shall come upon you when be viii take
You away with hooks and your posterity
with fishhooks." Solomon, in Ecclesiastcs,
declares that those captured of temptation
are as fishes taken in an evil net. Indeed
Solomon knew all about the flnny tribe and
wrote a treaeise on ichthyology which bHs
been lost.
HOW ST. PETER FIsHED.
Furthermore, in order that you may un-
derstand the ichthyology of the Bible you
must know that there were five ways of
fishing One was by fence of reeds ard
canes, within which the fish were caught
But the Herodic government forbade that
| on Lake Galilee, lest pleasure boats be
wrecked by the stakes driven. Another
mode was by spearing-the waters Of Cali |
! lee SO clear, good aim could be taken for
| the transhxing Another was by hook AID
| line, as where Isaiah says, 1.-THE fishers al5o
shall mourn, and they that cast angle |
into the brook shall lament" And Job says, |
"Canst thou draw out leviathan with a
hooks" And Habakkuk says, ''They ta4,e
up all of them with the angle"
Another mode was by casting net or
that which was flung from the shore; an
other, by dragnet or that which was
thrown, from a boat and drawn through the
sea as the fishing smack sailed on. HJw
wonderful all this is inwrought into the
j Bible imagery, and it leads me to ask in
which mode are you and l fishing, for the
church is the boat, and the gospels the net,
and the sea is the world, and the fish are
the souls, and God addresses us as he did
Simon and Andrew, saying, "Follow me,
!. and will make you fishes of men," Bat
when is the best time to fish for soulsS In
the night Peter, why did you say to Christ,
"We have toiled all the night and have
| taken nothing2" Why did you not fish in
t the daytime9 He replies, "You ought to
, know that the night is the best time for
fishing"
! At Tobyhanna Mills, among the noun
? tains of Pennsylvania saw friend with
| high boots and fishing tackle starting out
Q at o'clock at night, and said, Where are
t you going?" He answered, "Going to fisL. "
! ''What, in the night9" He answered, Eyes,
in the night" So the vast majority OF
t souls captured for God are taken in times
of revival in the night meetings. They
3 might just as well come at IL O'Clock at
noon, but most of them will not Ask the
: evangelists of olden times, ask Finney, ask
4 Nettleton, ask Osborn, ask Daniel Baker,
y and then ask all the modern evangel-sUs
d which is the best time to gather souls, and
y they will answer, ''The night; by oil odds,
s the night" Not only the natural night,
d but the night of trouble.
II Suppose go around in this audience and
l. ask these Christians when they were con-
verted to God. One would answer, ut Was
IS at the time lost my child by membranous
n Group, and it was the night OF bereave-
1t ment," or the answer would be, 1T was
', Just after was swindled out of my prop
d erty, and it was the night of bankruptcy
Is or it would be, ut was during that time
Sc when was down with that awful sickness,
E. and 1t was the night Of physical suffering, y
Is or it would be, 1T was that time when
N slander took after me, and was maligned
10 and abused, and 1t was the night OF perse
ol cution" All, my hearers, that is the time
d for you to 60 after souls, when 2 night o.
Is trouble Is On them, Miss not that oppor
CO tunity to save soul, for it is the best OF al
'h opportunities
r. Go up along the Mohawk or the Juniata
ne or the Delaware, or the Tombigbee, or thu
St. Lawrence right after rain, and yol
will find the fishermen all up and down tn
rt banks. WhyP Because good time t.
nd angle is right after the rain, and that is
,i good time to catch souls, right after
Ill shower of misfortune, right after floods o
in disaster. And as pool overshadowe'
up with trees is grand place for making a fin
st haul Of fish, so when the soul Is under TN
be long dark shadows of anxiety and distres
ou It is good time to make spiritual hau
oe- People in the bright sunshine OF prosperit
Id are not so easily taken.
res RICHES OF THE BIBLE.
he But be sure before you start out to tn
nd gospel fisheries to get the right kind
all bait. 'But how" you say. "am to g
Mt IT." My answer is, dig for it," "Wnsl n,,
be shall / dig FOR its' "Ia the rich Bib
ng grounds" We boys hronnss,ne up ln y
The country bsd to dig for bait before we startt
for the banks of the Raritan. We put u
in sharp edge of the spade against the grour
ose and then put our foot on the spade, al
to with one tremendous plunge of our streng
res. OF body and will we drove it in up to =
ica handle and then turned over the sod
de. W. had never read Walton's "Complt
, is Angiern OF Charles Cotton's "Instructio
FIVE HOW to Angle For Grayling In Gle
had Stream" We knew nothing about
i Of modern red hackle or the fly OF Gran
he colored mohair, but We got the right Il
= =. of bait. No use trying to angle for nsh
me lie for souls unless you have the RIG
ane fbait, and there is plenty OF II in
lmas m KIND o the parallels, the miracles,
saa promises ne heaven OF the grand ,
~ cruclnxlon, y only must you dig
rs gospel Z es' mo- sh bait You cani
mO W., bait, but use only fss \. pond with old
aen do anything down ~ the truth. N
em views of God. New views On in '
tho There are all the good books 60 h.. =
his dig. !,
ter But make up your mind as to whetl
lti YOU will taka the hint Of Habukkuk O
nan Isaiah and job and use hook and line,
take the hint of Matthew and Luke al
Christ and fish with net. l think mai
the lose their time by wanting TO fish with
,ere ne5, and they never get place to swing q
The net In other words they want to do &c
AN. pei work on big scale, or they will not I
rec. it at oil.
avp see feeble minded Christian men goiI
nat. around with bagsters blpie unuer unt
hat arm, hoping to do the work OF an eva
Saw gelist and use the net, while they might
iteI better content with hook and line and tai
re- one soul at time They are bad failur
1e. as evangelists; they would be mighty ST
Ion. cesses as private Christians. II you cat
US only one soul for God, thaC VIII De enous