Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-02-02
Avoid penominntionai Strife.

their nets mended stay.
Avoid Denominationai Strife.
I notice that all who leave the gospel
boat and go ashore to mend their nets
stay there, or. If they try again to fish.
they do not catch anything. Get out Of
the gospel boat and go up into the
world to get your net mended, and you
will live to see the day when you will
feel like the man who, having forSaken
Christianity, sighed, 81 would give a
thousand pounds to feel as | did In
1920" The time will come when you
would be willing to give thousand
pounds to feel as you did in 1901.
These men who have given up their re-
ligion cannot help you bit.
These dear brethren of all denomina-
tions, afflicted with theological fidgets.
had better go to mending nets instead
of breaking them. Before they break
up the old religions let them go through
some great sacrifice for God that will
prove them worthy Of such a work,
taking the advice Of Talleyrand to a
man who wanted to upset the religion
of Jesus Christ and start new one,
when he said, "Go and be crucified and
then raise yourself from the grave the
third dayw Those who propose to
mend their nets by secular and skep-
tical books are like a man who has
lust one week for fishing and six or
the days he spends in reading lsaak
Walton's complete Angler" and
Wheatley's Rod and Line" and Scots
"Fishng In Northern Waters" ard
PuIlman's "Vade Mecum Of Fly Fish
ing For Trout" and then on Satur-
day morning, his last day out, goes to
the river to ply his art; but that day
the fish will not bite, and late on Sat
urday night he goes to his home/wNb
empty basket. Alas alas. If. when the
Saturday night Of our life drops on US,
it snail be found that we have spent
our time in the libraries Of worldly
philosophy trying to mend our nets.
and we have only few souls to report
as brought to God through our instrr
mentality, while some humble gospel
fisherman, his library made up of q
Bible and an almanac, shall come home
laden with the results, his trophies all
the souls within 10 miles Of his log
cabin meeting house.
The Fishers Crowned.
In the time Of great disturbance in
Naples in 1649, Massaniello, a bare
footed fishing boy, dropped his fishing
rod, and by strange magnetism took
command of that city Of 100000 souls
He took Of his fishing Jacket and put
on robe of gold in the presence oi
bowling mobs. He put his hanG or
his lip as a signal and they were silent
He waved his hand away from him
and they retired to their homes. Ar
mics passed in review before him. He
became the nations idol. The rapid
rise and complete supremacy Of thai
young fisherman, Massaniello, have nc
parallel in all history. But something
equal to that and better than that Is
an everyday occurrence in heaven. doo
takes some Of those who in this world
were fishers Of men and who toilec
very humbly, but because Of the way
they mended their nets and employed
their nets after they were mended, ht
suddenly hoists them and robes then
and scepters them and crowns then
and makes them rulers over many
cities, and he marches armies of saved
ones before them in review-Massa
niellos unhonored on earth but radiateC
In heaven. The fisher boy OF Naples
soon lost his power, but those people
of God who have kept their nets mend
ed and rightly swung them shall never
| lose their exalted place, but shall reigT
forever and ever and ever. Keep tha'