Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-06

of all utterances before the wiseacres OH
Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he
went without fright to his beheading,
an the phosphorus you see in the lives
Of al he apostles who moved right on
unaf.unted , certain mart yrdom, vyheth-
er to be dec2ri.ated or flung off preci-
pices OF hun, ~ cTi7ciE1ion.
Phosphorus. shining IL the dark with
out burning. 10 Ia:-n CT woman thai
tver lived was iaGercrGcnt Of questions
6 Glct. Let those y---o by circumstances
;rc co.nltllt- ! to s-a lefty OF diet thank
God fer t.leir resc,-e from the tempta-
ton O. king delicacics. The men and
women VINO are to decide the Grift of the
! Goth century, which is o1ly seven or
eight steps of, are now five miles back
from the rel station and had for freak
fast this morning a similar bill of fare
to that which Christ provided for the
fishermen disciples on the banks Of Lake
Calilee.
Indeed the only articles of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied were bread
and fish which the boy who acted as suit
Ter to the 1000 people of the wilderness
handed over-fve barley loaves 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 multiplied and he had
more returned to him than he had sur
rendered.
THE MIRACLE OF JONAH AND THE GREAT
FISH.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology Of the Bible that in the deep
er waters, as those of the Mediterranean,
there were monsters that are now c--
tinct. The fools who become infdels
because they cannot understand the in
gulfment of the recreant Jonah in sea
monster might have saved their souls
by studying a little natural history
"Oh," says some one, that story of Jo-
nah was only fable" Say others, 1T
was interpolated by some writer of later
times" Others say, cit was g 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.
The extinct ichthyosaurus Of other
ages was so 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 a sardine or a herring
The shark has again and again been
found to have swallowed man entire.
A fisherman on the coast of Turkey
found sea monster which contained a
o,,1 Of
seen in museums sea monsters large
enough to take down prophet.
But | have better reason for believ-
ing the Old Testament account, and that I
is that Christ said it was true and type |
of his own resurrection, and I suppose
he ought to know. In Matthew xii, 49, |
Jesus Christ says, For as Jonas was
three days and three nights 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 it |
for me and for any man who does not |
believe Christ dupe and an impostor.
Notice also how the Old Testament |
writer's drew sirilitude from the fish
cries. jeremiah uses such imagery to
prophesy destruction, Behold, | will
send for many fishers. saith the Lord, I
and they shall fish them" Ezekiel uses
fish imagery to prophesy prosperity. 1T
shall come to pass that the fishes shall
stand upon it from En-gedi even to En-
eglaim; they shall be place to sprv,I
forth nets; their fisl shall be accor :
ing to their kinds. as the fish OF III.
great sea, exceeding many" the exIl.
nation of which is that Eagot1i a:.d
En-eglaim stood Gu the ban..s Of
the Dead sea, in the waters of which
no fish can live, but the prophet says
that the time will come when these
waters will be regenerated, and they will
be great places for fish. Amos reproves
idQ1atries by saying, 1.-The day shall
co1he upon you when he will take you
away with hooks and your po5terity
with fishhooEs." Solomon, in Ecclesi-
astes, declares that those captured of
temptation are as fishes taken in an evil
net. Indeed Solomon knew all about
the fnny tribe and wrote treatise on
ichthyology which has been lost.
TIE ANCIENT FISHERMEN.
Furthermore, in order that you NAV
understand the ichthyology of the Bible,
you must know that there were five
ways Of fishing. One was by fence of
reeds and canes, within which the fish
were caught. But the Herodic govern
ment forbade that on Lake Galilee, lest
pleasure boats be wrecked by the stakes
driven. Another mode was by spearinc.
the waters of Galilee so clear good aim
could be taken for the transfxing. An
other was by hook and line as where
Isaiah says, THE fishers also shall
and they that cast angle into the
brooks shall lament" And Job saws.
s'Canst thou draw out leviathan with a
hook And Habakkuk says, '.They take
up all Of them with the ANGLE
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