The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-02-06
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mean 70 ses NY net nsn6ed. as VII
so down 70 the public library "0o
will see what the scientists say ao0us
evolution and about the 'sGTv!va! o. the
fttest, and ! VIII read up what the
thco.os;ans say about advanced
-houcL:. I wi. leave ;he ship awhile.
ana ! VII! go ashore and stay there
si,lnv ret is nended.' Do that, my
brother, and youwil have nonetlett. In
stead of their helping you mend your
pet, they viii 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? co You
ask. I answer. a.! you need you have
where you are-nanc!y. a B!b.e and Z
place to pray. The more you strcy
evolution and adopt what is ca..ed ac-
vaaced thought the more ussisSs you
will be. STAY IL the saip anC mend
your net. Tha: is where James, tie
son of Ze5eGee, a:d JOHN. h:s brother,
sta:d. That is where al who get their
nets nenGed stay.
notice that all who leave the Cos
pei boat ard go ashore to mend their
nets stay there. Or # 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 mend
ed. and you viii live to see tie cay
when you vii. feel Ike the nan who.
ing iorsaken Christianity, sighed: i
would give thousand pounds to Zee!
as I cid in 1920" TIE time VII come
when You would be willing to give a
thousand pounds to feel as you cid IN
1901. These men who have given Up
their religion cannot help you bit.
These Gear brethren Of a. Geno:ni-
nations, afflicted with Theological fog
cts, had better so TO rnerdins nets in
stead of breaking them. Before they
break I'D TIE old religion and try to
to;st on Us new religion let them 60
through some great sacrifice for God
that will prove them worthy foT such
a work. taking the advice Of TalyTand
70 nan who wanted 70 upset the re-
!igion of Jesus Christ aAd start rew
ore when he said: Go ard be c-Ucl-
fed ard then raise yourself from the
grove the third day. These WHO
propose to mend their 1ets by sscu-
lc- ard s!iept:cal books are Ike the
man who has Just one weSli Tor tsa-
irc. ard six cf the days he spends IN
reading Iz2ak Walton's "Co1Gp.ete
Anger" and Wheat!cy's "Rod and
! Line" and Scott's "Fishine in Northern
Waters" and Pullman's Wade Necan
Of F,r Fishing for Trout" and then
on Saturday morning. his .ast day out,
goes to the river to ply his art. Eut
that Gay the fish will net bite. and
late on Saturday night he goes TO his
home with empty basket. Alas, alas.
II when the Saturday night OF our
life drops on US It shall he found that
we have spent our time IL the libraries
OF worldly philosophy, trying to mend
orr nets. and we have only few souls
to report as brought to God through
our instrumenta!itv, while some hum
] bic fisherman, his library made up OF
q Bible and an almanac, shal! 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 1e4e Massaniello, barefoot
ed fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod
and BY strange magnetism took COM
| mard OF that city 20 100000 sous. he
took cT his fishing jacket and put on
! robe Of gold in the presence Of howHns
r.obs. He put his hard or his lip as
signal. and they were Silent. he
waved his hand away from him, and
thev retired 20 their homes. Armies
passed in review before him. He be-
came the nations idol. The rapid rise
and complete supremacy OF that young
! fisherman, MasSariello, has no parallel
In al historp. But something equal to
that and better than that is an every
day occurrence in Heaven. God takes
! some Of those who in this word were
fishers OF men and who toi!ed very
hpnb.v, but because CT the way they
meuG4d their nets and employed their
nets after they were mendea he sud
denly bo;s.s then and robes them and
scepters them and c-owEs them ane
| makes them rulers over man: cities,
ard lie marches armies OF saved ones
before them il review.
But CO not spend your time fishing
with hook and line. Why cid not
James, tie son OF ZebsGee. sit on tie
wharf al Cana. his feet hanging over
the lake, and with a lo0g pole and
worm on the hook dipped into the wave
wait for some nu!!et to swim up ard
be caught? Why cid no: ZebeGee
spend his afternoon trying TO catch one
eel? No, that work was tco slow.
These men were not mecdiHs a hook
| and line; they were nencing their
nets. So let the church Of Goo not be
! content with having here one soul anc
| next month another sou. brought into
the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with
nets-scoop rets, seine nets, crasnets,
all enconpassing nets. and take the
treasures in by hundreds and thou
SANDS and millions. and nations VII! be
born in a DAY and tie hemispheres
Quake with tie tread Of ransonlng
COD. Do you know what viii be the
two most tremendous hours in our
Heavenly existence? Among the quad
ril.ioDs OF ages which shall Tell on
what two occasions will be TO US the
greatest? Tie cay Of cur a-riva. there
will be 10 Us one OF the TWO greatest.
The second greatest, I think. viii oe
the Cay when we shall have PIT IN
parable. lines before Us what Christ cid
for US ard what We oiC for Christ, the
one 60 great, the other so little. That
VII. be the only embarrassment in
Heaven. Ny LORD and my Goc. Wha:
will we Go acd what vii. we say wien
on ore side are placed the Sa7;our's
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