The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-08-11
PUSH OUT INTO THE DEEP AND LOW
Err YOUR NETS.-LUKE 5.

who had spent a fruitless night, fish
ing in the shallow. The command
like all the lessons given by Christ, /.
applicable to every human effort, and
To every thought and aspiration OF
the human mind.
The object OF this article will be to
direct 1t In a business way to the PEG.
pie OF Mississippi, and particularly to
Scranton and P~ascagoula, who have
been fishing on the shallow beach for
more than a century and caught moth
ing. Not a man, or at least, but few
OF the people who occupy and
have interests along and within the
bounds OF the beach, Pascagoula riv.
er, Dog river and Bayou Casotte, fail
to have the opinion that GREAT
HARBoR exists in their front into, and
from which the ships and railroads of
the world should bring great com.
mcrce for exchange between nations.
This is asserted in private and in
public; this is a subject for town
meetings, newspaper leaders and
stump speeches. II empty resolutions
had proved efrectual Dewey and his
great Olympia might to-day be invit-
ed to sail through the Horn Island
Pass to Moss Point in forty feet of
water. But the people though they
listen weekly and read nightly the
lesson given to Peter and believe all
the teaching Of the divine lesson, have
failed to heed, and are yet. fishing in
the shallow waters where their faith
ers failed TO catch.
Tissot, with divine art has trans
ferred to canvass the scene of Peter
and Andrew after a weary night Of
fruitless effort. Upon that canvass
Peter Is made to stand with rivited
attention upon the August Teacher,
while Andrew STOPPING to lift his
empty net is caught with the inspira.
ton of a new idea-"Push out into
the deep and lower your net"
"Master, through the whole night
we toiled and took nothing" was the
voice OF despair. push out 10 the
deep" This was not given alone to
Peter and Andrew, but it was given
to Dewey, Edison, Columbus, Jcffer-
son, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis
and Young America has pushed out
in the deep and is pushing out deeper
and deeper. Scranton, Moss Point
and Pascagoula must PUSH OUT DEEP
ER If they would make a catch.
Peter had failed as IA fisherman. A
great night Of unsuccess had made
him ready to receive the great lesson
the world must learn, "Push out in
the deep" He obeyed. His catch
(symbolical OF course) was phenomenal
and for nineteen centuries Peter has
been pushing out.
Apply the lesson to ourselves. For
an hundred years, we have been on
these shores fishing on the shallowest
shoals of the Notwithstanding we
might say-aDd well might We say,
master. we have t0i!ed through this
long night and took nothing"
Let us read the lesson and fish
deeper.
Let us as n man push out into the
deep and fish for men to come and
help US drag the net of prosperity.
The lesson given through Peter is not
merely a religious teaching, it is a
business teaching OF the highest or.
der. Let us cut lOsse from old GUS
toms and try the new. Who are our
great mcn in finance, art and science?
Gould looked not to standard dollars,
but he made standard stocks, which
multiplied by ten remained standard
in value.
Edison made Il sounding board, but
he pushed his boat out to the deep and
made the telephone. Art hitched a
mule to wheels and called it a street
car, but it pushed out to the deeper
and turned the mule out to grass with
a trolley. Our great men are those
who depart from old methods to try
the new.
Peter tried the new or followed d.
vine truth, and after nineteen centu.
ries is Pushing out to the deeper.
We should not suspend all action,
and wait for something to turn up,
but we should 60 on and make some.
thing turn up.
Chicago has built the great city OF
the world. She began in a swamp,
she pushed out into the deep and
caught her nets full Of big 1sh-big
rallr0ads-and to-day she needs a
DEEP SEA PORT and PASCAGOULA
has n to let. Let us help Chicago to
catch. Let US help Chicago out to
the deep sea.
At the cost Of procuring and keep.
ing his nets clean Peter went out to
catch fish and toiled often with no
success. We cannot catch without
cost. 1t cost Peter all his valued nets.
1t cost Peter his lifelong trade. 1t
cost Peter a change Of all his cherish.
ed methods to push out to the deep
sea, but he made the change and
snapped his fishing tackle for the
Saints aspiration.
II we would succeed, let us bid for
the enterprise that is seeking place
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