The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-02-08

peilou 10 simplicity OF uleb, bnhhh Vou
for their rescue from the temptation
Of killing delicacies. The men and
women who are TO decide the drift OF
the twentieth century, which is ouly
seven or eight steps of, are now i've
miles back from the rail station, and
had for breakfast this morning similar
bill Of fare 10 that which Christ pro
vided for the fishermen disciples on tina
banks of Lake Galilee. Indeed, the only
articles of food that Christ by miracle
multiplied were bread and fish which
the boy, who acted as butler to the
seven thousand people of the wilder
ness, handed over-five barley loavea
and two fishes. The boy must have
felt badly when called on to give up
the two fishes which he had brought
, out after having caught them himself,
sitting with his bare feet over the bank
Of the lake and expecting to sell his
supply at good profit but he felt better
when by the miracle the fish were null
tiplied and he had more returned to
him than he had surrendered.
Know, also, In order to understand
the ichthyology OF the Bible, that in
the deeper waters, as tho Sc Of the Med
iterranean, there were monsters that
are now extinct The fools who be-
come infdels because they cannot
understand the engul fment OF the
recreant Jonah In a sea monster, might
have saved their SO ls by studying a
little natural history. 20" says some
one, ''that story Of Jonah was only IA
ble." Says others, sit was interpreted
by some writer Of later times" Others
say, 'it was the reprodu ction of the
story Of Hercules devour ed and then
restored from the monster" But my
reply is that history tells US that there
were monsters large enough to whelm
ships. The extinct ichthyosaurus Of
other ages was thirty feet long, and az
late as the sixth century OF the Chris
tian era, up and down the Mediterra
mean there hoated monsters CO impaired
with which modern whale was sar'
dine or herring. The shark has again
and again been found to have swal
lowed man entire. A fisherman or
the coast of Turkey found sea mon.
ster which contained woman and Q
purse of gold. have seen in museums
sea monsters large enough TO take dowr
prophet. But have better reason
for believing the Old Testam ment ac
count, and that is that Christ said II
was true and type of His own resur
rection, and l suppose He ought tt
know In Matthew, 18th chapter, 40th
verse, Jesus Christ says: For as Jonai
was three dayc and three nigh Is in the
whales belly, so shall the Son of Man
be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth" And that settles Il
for me and for any man who does not
believe Christ dupe and an imposter.
Notice, also, how the Old Testament
writers drew similitude fr ON the fish
cries. jeremiah uses such imagery ts
prophesy destruction: Behold will
send for many fishers, sa ith the Lord
and they shall fish them" Ezelkie.
uses fish imagery to prophesy pros
perity: 1T shall come to pass that the
fishers shall stand upon 1t from En-gedi
even TO En-eglaim; they shall be Q
place TO spread forth nets; their fish
shall be according TO their kinds, as the
fish Of the great sea, exceedingly
many" The explanation Of which /,
that En-gedi and En-eglaim stood OF
the banks Of the d Dead Sea, In the
waters OF which no fish can live, hui
the prophet says that the time viii
come when these waters will be regen.
Grated and they will be great places foi
fish. Amos reproves idolatries by say
ing: THE day shall come upon you
when he will take you aw ay with hook
and your prosperity with fishhoolxs.
Solomon, In Ecclesiastes, declares thai
those captured Of temptation are al
fishes taken in an evil net Indeed
Solomon knew all about the finny tribe
J and wrote a treatise on ichthyologJ
/ which has been lost
Furthermore, in order that you may
understand the ichthyology of the
Bible, you must know that there were
five ways of fishing. One was by 9
fence Of reeds and canes, within which
the fish were caught But the Herodis
government forbade that ON Lake Cali
lee, lest pleasure boats be wrecked by
the stakes driven. Another mode wa,
by spearing; the waters Of Galilee wers
so clear, good aim could be taken foi
the transfxing. Another was by hool
and line, as where Isaiah says: 'ThS
fishers also shall mourn, and they that
cast angle in the brooks shall lament
And Job says: 'Canst thou draw out
leviathan with hook2" and Habbalsub
says: "They take up all of them with
the angle" Another mode was by cast
ing net or that which was flung from
the shore. Another by drag net Oh
that which was thrown from boat an6
drawn through the sea as the fishing
smack sailed on. How wonderful al
this is inwrought into the Bible Inn
agery, and It leads me to ask In which
mode are you and fish ing, for the
church is the boat and the Gospel Is the
net and the sea Is the world an d. the fish
are the souls and God addresses us as
he did Simon and Andrew, saying,
Follow me and will make you fishers
OF men" But when Is the best time
TO fish for souls9 In the night Peter,
why did you say to Christ, I'VE hays
toiled all the night and have talfen
nothingp" Why did you not fish in the
day.time2 He replies, "You ought to
know that the night is the best time
for fshing?" At Tobyhanna Mills among
the mountains of Pennsylv ania, saw
friend with high boots and fishing