Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-02-10
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Genesis in my text AMI o. our Lords re-
mark ami adhered TO sim )licity OF diet.
The reason that thu country districts have
furnished most OF the mea aad women OF
our time who are doing the mightiest work
In merchandise, in mechanics in law in
me iicine, in theology, in legislative and
congressional halls, ami all the pr esdents
from Washington dowl-1t least those WHO
have amounted to anything-is because they
were in those country districts of necessity
keot on plain diet.
No man or wO nan ever amOIlte to any
thing who was brought up on floating isanl
Or angel cake. The world must turn back
to paradsiac diet if it is 10 get para1isiac
morals and parad sliac health. The human
racs to-day needs more phosphoruS and the
fish is charged AMI surchargel vita phos-
neutrality-suspicious. that which shines in
the DARK without burning
What made thu twelve apostles such stall
wart men that they could endure anything
and achieve everything Mex. TO divine in
spiratiOn. it was because thsy wsre nearly
all fishermen ami lived on fisi aul u few
plain condiments. Paul. thou IN not brought
~ TO swing the net and throw the line, must
of necessity have adopted the diet OF the
/ pOOuatiOn among whom he lived, and You
see the phosphorus in bis daring plea before
Felix. and the phosphorus in his boldest of
all uttsrances before the wlsacreS on Mars
Hill AMI the phosphorus as he went without
fright TO his behea1ing, and ths phosphorus
you see in the lives Of all tns apostles who
moved right on undaultei 70 certain martyr
dom. whether to be declpitated or flung off
| precipices or hung in crnclhxlon.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark without
| burning No man or woman that ever lived
was independent of questions OF diet. Lst
those who by circumstances are compelled
70 simplicity OF diet thank God for their res
cue from the temptation OF killing delica-
cies. The men and women who are to de-
eide tae drift Of the Twentieth Century,
which is only seven or eight steps off, are
now five miles back from the rail station
AMI ha for breakfast this morning a similar
| bill OF fare to that which Christ provided for
the fishermen disciples on the banks Of Lake
Galilee.
In led the only articles of fool that
! Christ by miracle multiplied were bread AMI
| fish which the boy who acted as sutler to the
| 1900 persons Of thu wilderness handel over
five barley loaves AMI two fishes. The
boy must have felt badly when callei on to
4 give 10 tds two fishes which be hal brought
| out after having caught them himself, sit
ting vita his bare fest over the bank of the
lake and expecting t. sell his supply atgoo1
/ proft but he felt better when by t1e mira
! Gle the fish were multiplied and hs had more
returned to han than ne had surren 1ersi.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology ofthe Bible that in the deeper
waters, as those of the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that are now extinct. Thu
fools who become in61els because they can
noS understand the ingulfmsnt OF the recre-
/ ant Jonah in a sea monster might have
saved their souls by studying little natural
history. On" says some one, that story
OF Jonah was only fable" Say others;
1T was interpolate1 by soma writer of later
tines Others say: 1T was a reproduc-
ton o: the story OF Hercules devouret ami
then restoI Ell from thu monster" Bat my
reply is that history tells Us that there were
monsters large enough to whelm ships.
TIE extinct ichthyosaurus Of otaer ages
was thirty feet long, AMI as late as the Sixth
Century Of the Christian era up AMI down
the Mediterranean there toated monsters
compared with which a mo Tern wlale was
a sariine or a herring. Fne Shark has again
and again been found to swallow man en-
tire. A fisherman on the coast OF Turkey
found a sea monster which contained a wO-
man and purse of gold. l have seen in
museums sea monsters large enough to TAKE
down q prophet.
But have a better reason for believing
the Old Testament account, AMI that Is that
Christ said it was true ant typo OF Hts
own resurrection, AMI | suppose H9 ought
to know. In Matthew xii, 40 Jesus Christ
saws, For as Jonas was three days Gn
three nights in the whales belly, 50 sd1u
tue Son OF Man be three days AMI three
nights IN the heart OF the earth" And that
settles it for me an for any man wh) does
not believe Christ a duoe aad an imoos59r.
Notice also how the Old restsm en- writer's
drew simitude frO n the fisheries. Jarenal
uses such Imagery to prOphesy destruction,
Behold, will Seui for many fishers, sailh
the Lord, AMI they shall fish them" Ezekiel
uses fish imagery 70 propnesy prosperity,
/ 1t shall coma TO pass that th9 fsaers shau
stand upon il from Engeli even 70 E1eg-
lain: there SHALL be pace t. sOrel forth
nets: their fish shall be according 70 their
kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding
many the explanation Of which is that
Eage1i and Eneglaim stood on ths banks
os the Dead SEA, in the waters OF watch
no fish can live but thu prophet says that
the time will come wnen these waters Will
be regenerated, and they Will be great places
for fish. AmOs reprOves idOiatrieS by say
M The day shall cOms upon you Whsn
be will take you away with HOOKS an your
posterity with f,hhooSs' Solomon, in
EcceSiaStes, dee! ares that those captured OF
temptation are as fishes taken IN an evil
net Indeed Solomon knew all about the
funy tribe and wrote a treatise on ic1thy'
oogV which has been Loss.
Furthermore in order that you may I'M
derstand the ichthyology OF the Bible, you
must know tnat there were five ways o.
/ fishing. One was by Il fencs OF reeds and
cane, within which the fish were caught.
But the Herodic government forbade that oD
Lake Galilee less pleasure boats be wrecked
by the stakes driven. Another mode was by
spearing, the waters OF Galilee so clear gooj
aim could be taken for the traus6xng. An
other was by hook and line, as where Isaiah
says, The fishers also shall mourn, anc
they that cast angle into the brooks shall
lament And Job says, "Canst thou draw
out leviathan with hook" And Habak'
kuk says, They take up all OF them witt
the angle"
Another mole was by a casting net o,
that which was flung from the shore, All
other. by a dragnet or that which wa
thrown from r boat and drawn through tia
sea as the fishing smlck sailed on. How
wonderful all this is inwrouyht into the
Bible imagery ami it leads me TO ask in which
mole are you aud fishing, for ths church
is the boat and TIE gospel is the net, and
the sea is the world, AMI tho fish are the
souls, and God addresses us as He did Simon
and Andrew, SAYING, Follow Me. snl |
will make you fishers OF men, But whenis
| the best time to fish for sous; In the night
/ Peter. why did you say to Christ, 1--WE
have toiled all the night and have taken
/ nOtuluBs " by Oin you not uSu III tue Jay
1 times He replies. you ought to know that
the night is the best time FOR fishing
At Tobyhanna Mills. among thu moun-
tains OF Pennsylvania, saw a friend with
high boots and ifs iiag tlc';le starting ous
at . Oclocx at night. and said. "Where ara
/ YOU goings' He answered, Going TO fish,
/ What, in thenightm Heanswerei. "YeS,
/ in the night" SO the vast majority OF souls
captured for Cod are taken in times Of re.
vival in the night meetings. They might
( Just as well come at u O'Clock at mon, bat
most Of them will not. Ask the ev4ngeists
Of olden times ask Finney, ask Nsttleto1,
ask Osborn ask Daniel Baker. anl then ask
all the modern evangelists which IL the best
time to gather souls. aud they will answer,
( The night; by all odds, the night Not
only the natural night, but the night OF
/ trouble.
Suppose | 90 aroun in this audience and
ask these Christians when they ware convert
ei TO God. One would answer, - was at the
time lost my child by menbranous Group,
and it was the night Of bereavem ent, OF
the answer would be, 1T was just after |
was swindlsd out OF my property. and It was
! the night Of bankruDicg,' or it woul be-
ut was during that time when l was down
with that awful sickness IN it was the night
/ of physical suffering" or it would be, 1t
was that time when Islander took after me,