Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-30

/ AfCNA - StS IL LHCHOtO, anu Will
go down TO: the public library and i
will see what the scientists say about
evolution and about the .survi, al of,the
fittest,' and j Will read up what the
thcologians say about advanced
thought / will leave the ship awhile,
and i will go ashore and stay there
tillmy net Is mended." Do that, my
brother, and youwil have no net left. In
stead of their helping you mend your
net, they Will steal the pieces that re-.
main. Better stay in the Gospel boat,
where you have all the means for mend
ing your net. What are they? do YOU
ask. l answer, all you need you have
where you are--namely. a Bible and
I place TO pray. The more YOU study
evolution and adopt what is called ad-
vanced thought, the more useless YOU
will be. Stay in the ship aud mend
your net. That is where James, the
son OF Zebedce, and John. his brother,
staid. That is where all who get their
nets mendcd STAY.
notice that all who leave the Cos
pei boat and go ashore to mend their
nets stay there. Or if they try again
10 hsh. they do not catch anything.
Get out of the Gospel boat and go up
INTO the world to get your net mend
ed, and you will live to see the day
when YOU will feel like the man who.
ing forsaken Christianity. sighed: II
would give a thousand pounds to fee!
as / did in 1920" The time will come.
when you would be willing to give a
thousand pounds to feel as YOU did in
1901. These men who have given up
their raliDinn Ill 4:
These dear brethren of al dcnomi-
nations. afflicted with theological fidg-
cts, had better go to mending nets in
stead of breaking them. Before they
break up the old religion and try to
! iolst on us new religion let them 90
through some great sacrifice for God
that VIII prove them worthy for such
! n work, taking the advice of Tallvrand
TO man who wanted to upset the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ and start n new
one when he said: Go ard be cruel
fled and then raise yourself from the
grave the third day." Those who
propose to mend their nets by secu-
lar and slleptical boots are like the
man who has just on1 week for fish
ing. and six of the days he spends in
reading lzaa< Walton's "Complete
Angler" and Wheatley's "Rod and
Line and SCOTS Fishing IN Northern
Waters" and Pullman's Wade Mecum
OF Fly Fishing for Trout" and then
on Saturday morning. his last day out.
goes to the river to ply his art. But
that day the fish will not bite. and
late on Saturday night he goes to his
home with empty basket. Alas. alas!
If when the Saturday night OF our
life drops on us it shall be found that
we have spent our time in the libraries
of worldly philosophy. trying to mend
our nets. and we have only n few souls
to report as brought to God through
our instrumentality. while some hum
bic fisherman. his library made up of
a Bible and an almanac, shall come
home laden with the results, his
trophies all the souls within Is miles
of his log cabin meeting house.
In the time of great disturbance in
Naples in 1919 Massanie!lo. a barefoot.
ed fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod
and by strange magnetism took com
mand Of that city of GOO.CGO souls. He
took eff his fishing jacket and put on
robe of gold in the presence of bowling
mobs. He put his hand on his lip as
a signal. and they were silent. He
waved his hand away from him and
they retired to their homes Armies
passed in review before him. He be-
came the nations IDOL. The rapid rise
and complete supremacy Of that young
fisherman, Massaniello, has no parallel
in AL history. But something equal to
that and better than that is an every
day occurrence in Heaven. God takes
some of those who in this world were
fishers OF men and who toiled very
humb!y. but because of the way they
mended their nets and employed their
nets after they were mended ii. sud-
denly hoists them and robes them and
scepters them and crowns them and
makes them rulers over many cities,
ard He marches armies of saVeu ones
before them in review.
But DO not spend your time fishing
with hook and line Why did not
james. the son OF Zebedee. sit on the
wharf at Cana his feet hanging over
the lake. and with a long pole and
worm on the hook dipped into the wave
wait for some mullet to swim ND and
be caught? Why did not Zebedee
| spend his afternoon trying { o catch one
eel? No. that work was too slow.
! These men were not mending a hook
and line; they were mending their
nets. SO let the church of God not be
content with having here one soul and
next month another soul brought into
the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with
nets-scoop nets. seine nets. draqnets,
| all encompassing nets, and take the
! treasures in by hundreds and thou.
sands and millions. and nations will be
born in day and the hemispheres
/ quake with the tread Of q ransomiue
! God. DO you know what will be the
! two most tremendous hours i'm our
Heavenly existence? Among ne quad
! riilious OF age, which shall roll on