St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-03-02

| in simmer time. 1t WAS EneiI nveiS
hood and that OF their families. IneJ
] mended their nets where tpey were
| in the ship. "Oh." says sone one, .,' =
mean to get my net mendeds ana wn
90 down to the public libsary ana
will see what the scientists say .Dou'
evolution and about the 'surfivai OF .ne
Httest.' and / will resd uH what the
theoloeians ssy about advanced
thought I will leave the ship awhile
and 1 will go ashore and sfay .nel,
till nv net is mended." Do fnat my
brother, and youwil have no yet lett. In
stead of their helping you Haeno your
net, they will steal the pieces tna' fe
main. Better stay in the Gospel ooa.'
| where you have all the meanSfor mend
ing your net. What are they? do you
ask. answer, all you neef you have
where you are-namely, . tliole ana >
place to pray. The more ou stnoy
evolution and adopt what 1sscaileo ao-
vanced thought, the more uFeiess 20.
will be. Stay in the ship and memo
your net. That is where James, tne
SON of Zebedee, and John. his brofher'
staid. That is where all who get tnelF
nets mended stay.
notice that all who leave the Ooe
pei boat and go ashore to Weno tneih
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 menu
ed, and you will live to see the Gay
when you will feel like the lnan VINO.
ing forsaken Christianity, sighed:
would give thousand pounfs TO 1eei
as did in $780," 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 religion cannot help yotl but.
These dear brethren of all denomi-
nations, afflicted with theological fdg-
cts. had better go to mendinf nets in
stead Of breaking them. Before they
break up the old religion and try to
foist on us a new religion let. them go
through some great sacrifice. for God
that will prove them worthy for such
a work, taking the advice Of 1allyrand
to a man who wanted to upset the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ and stert . new
one when he said: ''Go and be cruci-
fed and then raise yourself from the
grave the third day!" Thdse who
propose to mend their nets by secu-
lar and skeptical books are like the
man who has just one weeksfor Ash
ing. and six Of the days he Spends in
reading Izaak Walton's Complete
Angler" and Wheatley's "Rod and
Line"and Scott's Fishing in Northern
Waters" and Pullman's "vade Mecum
of Fly Fishing for Trout" snd then
on Saturday morning, his last day out.
goes to the river to ply his art. But
that day the fish will not Pite. and
late on Saturday night he gees to his
home with empty basket. Alas, alas!
If when the Saturday nigh4 Of our
life drops on us it shall be found that
we have spent our time in tho libraries
Of worldly philosophy, trying 1Rend
our nets, and we have only = Jew souls
to report as brought to God through
our instrumentality, while some hum
bic fisherman, his library m3de up Of
q 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 1649 Massaniello. abarefoot-
ed fishing boy, dropped his fshing rod
and by strange magnetism took COM
mand of that city of 600, 900 touls. He
took CT his fishing jacket and put on
robe of gold in the presence Of bowling
mobs. He put his hand on his lip AZ
a signal. and they were silent. He
waved his hand away from lhim, and
they retired to their honest Armies
passed in review before hin3. He be-
came the nations idol. The rapid rise
and complete supremacy Of tHat young
Massaniello, has 70 parallel
in all history. But something equal to
that and better than that il Jan every
day occurrence in Heaven. fod takes
some of those who in this world were
fishers OF men and who toiled very
but because of the way they
their nets and employed their
nets after they were mended He sud-
denly hoists them and robesithem and
scepters them and crowns them ane
makes them rulers over many cities,
and He marches armies Of saved ones
before them in review. Msssaniellos
nnhonored ON earth. but r3diated in
Heaven. The fisher boy Of Nipples soon
lost his power, but these people Of God
who have kept their nets minded and
rightly swung them shall lever lose
heir exalted place, but shall reign for
.ver and ever and ever. Keep that re-
ward in sight.
But do not spend your time fishing
with hook and line. Whyi did not
James, the SON Of Zebedee, sit ON the
wharf at Cana, his feet haiaging over
he lake, and with q long pole and .
worm ON the hook dipped intp the wave
vait for some mullet to swim up and
,e caught? Why did noS Zebedee
spend his afternoon trying t4catch one
.el? No, that work was zoo slow.
These men were not mendipg . hook
md line; they were mendtng their
lets. So let the church Of God not b
content with having here one soul and
lext month another soul brought into
he kingdom. Sweep all the seas with
nets, seine nets. dragnets,
III encompassing nets, and take the
reasures in by hundreds tnd thou
ands and millions, and nations will be
,orn in a day and the hemispheres
quake with the tread Of .ansoming
;od. Do you know what sin be the
wo most tremendous houss in our
existence? AmonS the quad
illions Of ages which shall roll ON
What two occasions will b4 to us the
,reatest? The day Of our arrival there
will be to US one of the tvs greatest.
rhe second greatest, thiak, will be
he day when We shall have put in
parallel lines before MS what Christ did
or us and what we did for Christ, the
me so great, the other so little. That
will be the only embarrassment in
Heaven. Ny Lord and my God. What
sill We do and what will We say when
N one side are placed the. Saviour's