The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-02-08
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Will SEQ what The scientists sa about
evolution and about lie ssuryly6 of Tho
flttest,' and II 81 iii eread gut M, hts i &
Etheologians' 3 shy about .asdi yanen,6
/ thought! I will leave, tho shi p awhile,
and I will go ashore and st aty' til sSrsastt
tilimy net 10 mended,p Do that, my
brother,and yonwil hays monet left. In.
stead Of their helping you mend your
net, they will steal the pieces that re-
main. Better stay lii the Gospel boat,
where you haye,all the means forlncnd-,
ing your net. What are they? 90 you
asks 7 answer all you need youhaye
who're you are-namcly, q Bible and a
place to pray. The moro you study
evolution and adopt gwhatSis called ad-
yansed thought, the moro useless you
will be. Stay in tho ship and. mend
your net. That is where, james, tho
son Sof Zebedee, and John, hisilro other,
staid. That is where MI who get their
nets mended stay. A4
notice that oil who loayc the Cos
pei boat and golashore to mend their
nets stay there. Or. ii they try again
to fish they do not catoh any thing.
Get out Of the Gospel boat and go up
into tho world to get, your net mend
ed, and you will live to sec the day
when you will feel likc tho man. who,
ing forsakcn Christianity, sighed: 81
would give thousand pounds to feel
as did in 1920" The time will come
when you would bo willing to give a
thousand pounds to feel rs you did III
1901. These mon who havo given up
their religion cannot help you bit.
'sf These dear brethren Of MI dcnomi-
nations, afflicted with theological fidg-,
cts, had better go to mcniling ,lets 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 Tallyrand
to man. who wanted to upset the re-
ligion Of Jesus Christ and start new
ono when no said: s"Go and be cruci-
fed and then raise yourself from the
grave tho third dnyi" Those who
propose to mend thoir nets by seci-
lar and skeptical books are like the
man who has just one week for fish
ing. and six Of tho days he spends in
reading Izaak yyalton's Complete
Angler" and 'vheatley's ''Rod and
Line" and Scott's Fishing in Northern
Waters" and Pnllman's s'Vade Nfecum
Of Ely Fishing for Trout and thon
on Saturday morning, his last day out,
goes to tho river to ply his art. hut
that day tho fish will not bite, and
late on Saturday night he goes to his
home with empty basket Alas, alas!
If when tho Saturday night Of our
life drops on us 1t shall bc found that
wo havo spent our time In the libraries
Of worldly philosophy, trying to mend
our neta, and we have only a few souls
to report as broughtsto God through
our fundamentally, while.somo hum
bic fisherman, his library. made up Of
a Biblo aud an almanac, shall come
homo laden with tho results, his
trophies all tho souls within IS miles
Of hiselog cabin meeting house.
InftRe tilno, Of great disturbance In
Naples in 1e4a Massanlello, o bnrcfoot-
ed fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod
and by strange magnetism took COM
mnnd Of that city CO 100000 souls. He
took off his fishing jacket and puton a
robe Of gold in the presence of bowling
mobs. He put his hand on his lip us
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 all 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
fishors OF men and who toiled very
humbly, but because Of the way they
mcnded their nota and employed their
nets after they were mended He sud
denly hoists them and robes them and
soeptcrs them and crowns them ant,
makes them rulers over many cities,
and Hc marches armies Of saved ones
before them in review. VI, tf$4, !,
But do not spend your time fishing
with hook and line. Why did not
James. the son Of Zobedce, sit on the
wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over
the lake, and with long pole and a
worm OH the hook dipped into the wave
wait for some mullct to swim up and
be caught? Why did not Zehedec
spend his afternoon trying to catch one
eel? No, that work was too slow.
These men wcro not mending 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 broughtinto
the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with
nets-scoop nots, seine nets, dragnets,
all encompassing nets, and take tho
treasures in by hundreds and thou
sands and millions, and nations will be
born in day and the hemispheres
quake with the tread Of n ransoming
God. Do you know what will be the
two most tremendous hours in, our
Heavenly existenoe2 Among the quad
rillions Of ages which shall roll on
what two occasions will be to lib tho
greatest? The day Of our arrival there
will be to us one of the two greatest.
The second greatest, i ,thinls will he
tho day whom we shall have put In
parollel,lines before us what Christ did
for us and What ws,did for Christ, the
ono so great, the otherso little. That
will bo the only embarrassment sin
Hoaven. Ny Lord and my God g What
will we do and what will no say when
on one sido are placed the. Sayiour's
great sacrifices for lis and our SIN all
sacrifices for Him; His exile, His hui
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