The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-12-08
RELIGIOUS REVEALS.
Talmage Calls Them the Gateways
for Recruiting Christ's Army.
Opposition to Them Comes from Uncon'
verified Ministers and sterile-Heartsd
Professors of q Faith They
Have Never Felt.

Have never reus |
The latest sermon given out by Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage was upon the sub,
ject of OBJECTIONS to Religious Re
v~ivals,'' the text being from Luke, ". 6:
''They inclosed a great multitude OF
fishes, and their net brake"
Simon and his comrades had expert.
enced the night before what fishermen
call poor luck" Christ steps on board
the fishing smack and tells the sailors
to pull away from the beach and
directs them again to sink the net.
Sure enough, very soon the net is
full of fishes, and the sailors begin to
haul in. So large a school of fish was
taken, that the hardy men begin to
look red in the face as they pull, and
hardly have they begun to rejoice at
their success when snap goes a thread
of the net, and snap goes another
thread, SO there is danger not only of
losing the fish, but of losing the net.
Without much care as to how much
the boat tits, or how much water IL
splashed On deck, the fishermen rush
about, gathering up the broken meshes
of the net. Out yonder there Is Q ship
dancing on the wave, and they hail it:
'Ship ahoy! bear down this way"
The ship comes, and both boats, both
fishing smacks, are filed with the
houndering treasures.
"Ahr" says some one, ''how much
better it would have been if they had
stayed on shore, and fshed with hook
and line, and taken one at q time. In.
stead Of having this great excitement,
and the boat almost upset, and tho net
broken, and having to call for help. and
getting sopping wet with the sear
The church is the boat, the gospel 10
the net, society IL the sea, and Q great
revival il q whole school brought In at
ton for that man who goes out with .
hook and line to fish. I admire
the way he unwinds the reel,
and adjusts the bait, and
drops the hook in q quiet place On .
still afternoon, and here catches one
and there one; but I like also . big
boat, and q large crew, and . net .
mile long, and swift oars, and stout
sails, and q stiff breeze, and Q multi
tude Of souls brought--so great . null
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