Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-06


Mars hill. aud the phosphorus ~ ~
went without fright 20 his beheading
and the phosphorus yon ace IN the live
Of all the apostles who moved right of
undsunted TO certain nartyrdom, whcth
or to'bs decapitsted or flung of prcci
pices or hung IN crucidxion.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark with
out burning. No mnB or woman thai
ever lived WINS independent Of questions
Of diet. Let those who by circumstance
orc compelled 10 simplicity Of diet THANH
God for their rescue from the tempta
ton Of killing delicacics. The mon and
women who are todecide the drift Of tllt
Goth century. which Is only seven OF
eight steps on, arc now five miles bach
from the rail station and had for break
fast this morning similar bill OF fare
10 that which Christ provided for the
fishermen disciples on the banks Of Lake
Galilee.
Indeed tho only articles Of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied were bread
and fish which the boy who acted az suit
Ter 10 the 1000 people Of the wilderness
handed over--fve barley loavcs and two
fishes. The boy must have felt badly
when called on TO give up the two fishes
which no had brought out after having
caught them himself, sitting with his
bare feet over the bank of the lake and
expecting 10 sell his supply at good profit,
but he felt better when by the miracle
the fish were multiplied and no La !
more returned TO him than he had su =
rendered.
THE MIRACLE OF JONAH AND THE GREAT
FISH.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology Of the Diblo that in the deep
er waters, as those OF the Mediterranean,
there were monsters that are now ex-
tinct. The fools who become infdels
because they cannot understand the in
gulfment Of the recreant Jonah in n sea
monster might have saved their souls
by studying little natural history.
"Oh." says some one, "thst story Of Jo-
nah was only fable" Say others, ut
was interpolated by some writer of later
times" Others say, 1T was q reproduc-
ton Of the story of Hercules devoured
and then restored from the monster"
But my reply is that history tells us that
there were monsters large enough to
whelm ships.
Tho extinct ichthyosaurus of other
ages was 30 feet long, and as late as the
sixth century Of the Christian era up and
down the Mediterranean there foated
monsters compared with which mod
ern whale was sardine or q herring.
The shark has again and again been
found TO have swallowed u man entire.
A fisherman on the coast of Turkey
sound sea monster which contained
woman and purse Of gold. / have
seen In mpseums sea monsters large
enough to take down prophet.
But have better reason for believ-
ing the Old Testament account and that
Is that Christ said It was true and type
Of his own resurrection. and suppose
he ought to know. In Matthew XII, 40,
Jesus Christ says, For as Jonas was
three days and three nights in the
whales belly, so shall the Son of Man
BIO three days and three nights in the
heart OF tho earth" And that settles il
for me and for any man who does not
believe Christ dupc and an impostor.
Notice also how the Old Testament
writers drew similtude from the fish
cries. Jeremiah uses such imagery to
prophesy destruction, Behold, will
send for many fishers, saith the Lord. /
and they shall fish them" Ezekiel uses
Lsh imagery to prophesy prosperity. 1T
shall come to pass that the fishers shall
stand upon it from En-gedi even to En-
eglaim; they shall be a place TO spread
forth nets; their fish shall be accord
ing TO their kinds as the fish of the
great sea. exceeding many" the expla-
nation OF which is that Engedi and
En-eglaim stood ON the banks of
+he Dead sea, In the waters of which
40 fish can live, but the prophet says
hat tho time will como when these
waters will be regeneratcd, and they will
DO great places for fish. Amos reproves
by saying. "The day saall
come upon you when he will take you
away with hooks and your posterity
with hshhooks." Solomon, in Ecclesi-
sstes. declares that those captured of
temptation are rs fishes taken In an evil
net. Indeed Solomon knew all about
he flnny tribe and wrote a treatise on
which has been lost.
THE ANCIENT FisIlER,lEN.
Furthermore. In order that you may
understand the ichthyology OF tho Bible,
iou must know that there were five
ways OF fishing One was by a feace of
'eeds and canes, within which the fish
we're caught. But the Herodic govern.
nent forbade that on Lake Galilee, lest
pleasure boats be wrecked by the sta ,cs
lrsven. Another mode was 10y spearing.
he waters Of Galilee so clear good aim
ouid be taken for the transiixing. An
'ther was by hook and line. as where
saiah says. The fishers also shall
mourn. and they that cast angle into the
'rooks shall lament" Aud job saws,
'Canst thou draw out leviathan with
'ookr And Habakkuk says, "Thoy take
y all OF them with tho angle"
Another mode was by casting net O,
hat which was flung from the shore;
mother. by dragnet or that which
'as thrown from boat and drawn
trough the sea "a the fishing smack
ailed ON. How wonoerful all this is in
Trought into the Bible imagery, and il
'ads me to ask In which mode are YOU
nd l fishing. for tho church Is the boat.
nd the gospel is the net, and the sea |