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

revival In the night meetings Tbe)
might Just as well come at i2 o'clock q
noon. but most Of them will not. Asl
The evangclists Of oiden times. asl
Finney. ask Nettleton. aek Osborn, asl
Daniel Baker. and then ask oil th'
modern eyangelipts which Is the bes
time TO gather souls, and they viii
anewer. "The night; by all odds, th'
night" Not only tho natural night, but
the night ~ trouble.
Suppose I go around in this audience
end osk these Chrittions when they were
converted 20 God. One would answer
at was at the time lost my child BY
membranous Group, and II was the
night Of bereavement" or the answer
would be, ut was just after was swim.
died out Of my property, and II was the
night of bankruptcy" or II would be, at
was during that time when was down
with that awful sickness, and IL was the
night Of physical suffering" or II would
be-. ut was thct time when elander took
after me. and was maligned and abused,
and IL was the night Of persecution. .
All. my hearers, that is the time for you
TO 20 after souls, when night Of trou-
bic il on them. Miss not that opportu-
nifty to save soul, for 1t Is the best of all
opportunities.
Go up along the Mohawk, or the
Juniata, or the Delaware, or the Tombig-
bee. or the st. Lawrence right after q
rain, and you will find the fishermen all
nj ho la lxvc d.
cause n good time to angle is right after
the rain, and that Is agood time TO catch
souls, right after shower Of misfortune,
right after foods of disaster And as a
pool overshadowed with trees Is grand
place for making fine haul Of fish, 50
when the soul is under the long dark
shadows Of anxiety and distress it is a
good time to make spiritual haul.
People in the bright sunshine Of pros
perity are not so easily taken.
THE BEST FISHERS OF MEN.
But be sure before you start out to the
gospel fisheries to get the right kind Of
bait. But how" You say, "am to get
itT' My answer is, "Dig for it." Where
shall | dig for ity' "In the rich Bible
grounds" We boys brought up in the
country had to dig for bait before we
started for the banks Of the Raritan.
We put the sharp edge Of the spade
against the ground and then put our
foot on the spade, and with one tremen-
dous plunge of our strength Of body and
will we drove it in up to the handle and
hen turned over the sod
We had never read Walton's Com
plete Angler or Charles Cotton's "In-
8 ructions How to Angle For Grayling
In Clear Stream" We knew nothing
about the modern red hackle or the fly
Of orange colorcd mohair, but we got the
right kind Of bait. No use trying to an
gle for fish or angle for souls unless you
have the right kind Of bait. and there is
plenty of 1t in the promises, the para
bles. tho miracles, the crucifxion, the
heaven of the grand old gospel.
Yes, not only must you dig for bait,
but use only fresh bait. You cannot do
anything down at the pond with old
angleworms. New views of truth.
New views Of God. New views of the
soul. There are all the good books to
help You dig. But make up your mind
rs to whether you will take the hint of
uabuhkuk and Isaiah and Job and use
hook and line, or take the hint of Mat
thow and Luke and Christ and fish with
q net.
think many lose their time by want
ing to fish with net, and they never get
a place TO swing the net In other words,
they want to do gospel work on big
scale or they will not do it at all. see
feeble minded Christian men going
around with a Bagster's Bible under
their arm, hoping to do the work of an
and use the net, while they
might be better content with hook and
line and take one soul at n time. They !
are bad failures as evangelists. They |
would be mighty successes as private
Christians. If you catch only one soul
for God, that will be enough to fill your
eternity with celebration. All hail the
fisherman with hook and line!
have seen man in toughest cordu- |
roy outfit come back from the woods
loaded down with string of finny treas.
rres hung over Las shoulder and his
filled. and dog with his teeth
carrying the basket filed with the sur.
plus OF an afternoons angling, and il
was all the result Of hook and line, and
IN the eternal world there will be many
b man and many woman that was
never heard Of outside of village Sun
lay school or a prayer meeting buried in
church basement who will come be-
fore the throne of God with multitude
Of souls ransomed through his or her in
'trumentality, and yet the work all done
through personal interview, one by one.
,ne by one.
You do not know who that one soul
nay be, Staupitz helped one soul into
he hight, but IL was Martin Luther
Thomas Bilney brought salvation 10 one
'oul, but II was Hugh Latimer. An
'dge tool maker was the means Of saving
me soul, but il was John Summerfield.
)ur blessed Lord healed one blind eve
u time, one paralyzed arm az a time
me dropsical patient at a time. and
aised from the dead one girl at time,
me young man at time Admire the
let that takes in great many at once,
'ut do not despise the hook and line.
rnR APPLICATION To CHRISTIANITY.
God help us amid the gospel fisheries
whether we employ hook or net, for tho
lay cometh when we shall see how much
epcn0el ON Our fidelity Ch,;ss li....-,s