The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-02-01

Will see NndI lnt SCltullSlb SHY dDOuA
evolution and about the survival of the
fttest, and / will read up what the
theologians say about advanced
thought. | will leave the ship awhile,
and | will go ashore and stay there
till my 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. / answer, all you need you have
where you are-namely, a Bible and a
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 and mend
your net. That is where James, the
son of Zebedee, and John, his brother,
staid That is where all who get their
nets mended stay.
I notice that all who leave the Cos
pei 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 mend
ed, and you will live to see the day
when you will feel like the man who,
ing forsaken Christianity, sighed: 81
would give a thousand pounds to feel
as l did in 1890" 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 you bit,
These dear brethren of all denomi-
nations, afflicted with theological fidg-
cts, had better go to mending nets i'm
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
work, taking the advice of Tallyrand
to man who wanted to upset the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ and start a new
one when he said: go and be cruel
fled and then raise yourself from the
grave the third day." Those who
propose to mend their nets by secu-
lar and skeptical books are like the
man who has just one week for fish
ing, and six of the days he spends in
reading Izaak Walton's Complete
Angler" and Wheatley's "Rod and
Line" and SCOTS Fishing in Northern
Waters" and Pullman's "Vade 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!
II when the Saturday night of our
life drops on MS 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 fundamentally, while some hum
BILE 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.
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Naples in 1G40 Massaniello. n barefoot
ed fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod
and by strange magnetism took COM
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