Arizona republican., 1893-02-15
4 FISH HISTORY
related by an Over Zeal
Gus Convert.
Awful Consequence of
Sunday Fishing.
The Fisher is Called to Heaven
to Explain Things.
d. is Permitted to Return to Earth
His Promise to do Better. A
%. Modern Adam and Eve.

protracted meeting last night a
man who had comparatively recently
1sp induced to lead a different life
made talk for the delectation of his
b,,lhren and the edihcation Of I'M
kieysrs. 1t was monologue, OF the
bnrsc,er which is not likely to rebound
n the good of the cause the speaker had
a lately embraced. Looked at from
me side his narration was humorous.
Some years ago, he said, he was mar
red and no altar was erected in his
home. 1t appears though that the sins
If himself and wife were of the kind
Known as sins OF omission and not of an
o1lbreakng sort likely to amuse and
entertain the devil.
One Sunday the speaker confessed,
he and his wife went fishing and in
,aigrrlng to this episode las I night,
though bowed down under weight of
ODlrlion, there still remained enough
If the old Adam in him to Law the blame
% the woman. lie told Mary that it was
wrong to fish on Sunday. They fshed,
however, with what degree of success
he did not say, nor did he refer to any
extraordinary fish stories he might
si,erward have told his neighbur
which is after all the worst feature of
the fishing habit. They went a fishing
the next Sunday and again the speaker
warned Mary that il these Sabbath day
pisca,Orlal events were not cut short
1.-THE Lord would sit down on 'em
hWi." II appears that the only harm
which attended this excursion was the
vaug inflicted upon the speakers con-
science. On the next Sunday they
vent a.ishlng against the usual pro.
iss,alIons OF the husband. The third
time was the charm and on this day
disaster overlook him curiously enough
!. missed the modern Eve who had
tempted him, but spent its force upon
Lespeaker who had been inyolunntarily
drawn into wrong doing. lie was sud
denly taken sick in the very act Of
f,blng. lie was taken home where he
soon after died. His soul was trans
ported to heaven and brought before
God, who made dillgent inquiry con-
geuug the fishing done in the body.
The .ou was cOHtrite aud eloquent and
the oIeuse was condoned. The soul,
however wanted something else,
wanted to return to earth and lead
Uis which would have a tendency to
discourage Sunday fishing.
For the first time on record since the
Tebr.IOus angels were elected the
golden gates swung outward and the
Dll vas permitted to 90 back to earth,
where 1t rejOined the body and the
;peaSer again became an animate
beng.
lie iorswore fishing on Sunday, but
Is an Offset took TO gambling, drinking
ili altogether became an ontcast. lie
i.'ireated his wife and she left him.
and there was concensus of opinion
smOng his neighbors tina. it would have
been better all around If he had been
de'aned in heaven.
He's all right now and is trying in
OILS peculiar way to induce others to
walk IN the straight and narrow path.
Ils doubtful though j; it is wise and
proper to narrate such fairy stories as
i0i' one with the end in view of re-
1Imlng others. Outsiders are more
.lhey to look upon the narrator az an
imaginative individual whose part
,aa.I at last be in the lake which
0lrhe'h with fire and birthstone.