The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-02-08
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DR.. Talmage proaches a Sermon on
Us Is tho Story Of the Fishermen. S
& Chrikt'a Disciples as Fishers OF Hren
6sls.8 s-Thc Gospel Net and How II 81
H. Should 10 Kept In
tCopyrfEht, 3sot, by Louis Kiopsoh.] I
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8 " 54 Washington, Jan. ~
"a in this discourse DR. Talmago de-
acribeh tho Gospel net and how it is to
!, bio repaired after being damaged;
& kext, Matthew A: 81, ~ ames, tho son Of
!. Zebedee, and John, his brother. in q
4 ss6 ship With zebcdee, their father, mend.
Z Ing their nets. "a is !, ,s III 81 81
q, s. ''I go aedshing ,n caod Simon Peter
Stp his comrades, and tho most Of tho
Dpostlcs had bands hard from fishing
tackle. Tho fisheries Of tho world have
always attracted attention. In the
n third century tho queen OF Egypt had
: for pin money $47O, 900, received from
the fisheries OF Lake Mocris And, ii
tho time should ever come when the
immensity OF tho worlds population
could not DO fed by tho vegetables aud
meats Of the land, tho sea has an
amount Of animal life that would feed
all tho population Of the earth and fat
ten them with u food that by its phos-
pherus would make generation
brainy andSintelleotual beyond any
xhing that tho world has ever imag-
1ned. My text takes us among the Cali
dean fishermen. Ono day Walter Scott,
while hunting in IN old drawer, found
among somex old fishing tackle the
& manuscript Of his Immortal book,
II ''Waverley," which he had put away
there as Of no worth, and who knows
but that to-day we may find some un-
known wealth Of Thought while look
ing Mt tho fishing tackle III tho text.
~ It Is not a. good day for fishing, and
sRree men are In tho boat repairing
the broken fishing nets. If you arc
4 dyhing with n hook and line, and the
: Gsh will not bite, it is good tino to
put the anglers apparatus into better
conditions HPerhaps tho last fish YOU
hauled In was SO large that something
snapped tsor, If you were fishing with
S not, there was d mighty Houndering
OF the SCALES orfan exposed null on the
aide of.the boat which broke some Of
tho threads and let part or all Of the
captives Of tho deep escape into their
& aatuTai, elem eIitt. And hardly any
Sh1ng Is more provoking than 10 nearly
land o soore or a hundred trophies
from tho deep, and when you are in the
full CLEO OF hauling in the spotted
sraasures, through soino imperfeotion
3s or tho net they splash back into the
{ wave. That is too much of a trial Of
Ratienoe FOR most fishermen to endure.
and many man ordinarily correct OF
Rpaeoh In such circumstances comes to
an Intensity OF uttelance uninstifiablc
therefore no good fisherman consid-
ora tho time wasted that Is spent in
mend1ng his net. Now, the Bible again
and again represents Christian work.
ora an fishers of men, and We arc ali
sweeping through the sea Of humanity
Gomo kind of a not. Indeed there have
been enough nets out and enough fish
ermen busy to have landed the whole
Y human race in the kngd ON Of God
! kong before this. What IS the matter?
The Gospel Is all right, and it has been
b q good time for catching souls for hon
(. aandn Of years. Why, then, the fail
0resp The. trouble is with tho nets.
and most Of them need to be mendcd.
propose to show you what Is the mat
Ter with most OF the nets and how to
mend them. In the text old Zebedee
5& and his TIVE, boys. James and John,
q we're doing q good thing when they sat
q "a tho boat Smending their nets,
~ he fs,oublo with many OF our nets
f.F 50 80 That tho meshes are too large. If
y q O. itsh can get his gills and half his
# Body through tho network, he tears
ana rends and works his way out, and
leaves tho place through which he
aquirmed tangle Of broken threads.
IN IN our desire to make verything 60
easy wo relax, we loosen, we widen.
I'VE lot men after they are once iu
tne gospel net escape into tho world
3, ana go into indnlgonces and swim ali
around Galiloe, from north side to
Gouth side, and from east side to west
side, expecting that they will come
back again. We ought to make st easy
EoE them to get into tho Kingdom OF
500, and, as far as wo can, mako II
impossible, for them to get out. The
@oor advice nowadays TO many IS.
\ DO and do just as you did before Won
werc oapturod for God and Heaven.
TAe net was not intended to be anv
restraint or any hindrance. What Won
did before you were q Christian do
now. &c to all styles OF amusement.
ssad al tho styles of books, ongage
( IN Oh styles OF behavior rs before you
were converted" And so, through
Snese meshes of permission and laxity.
Shey wFiggle out through this open
ang an0 that opening. tearing the not
as Chey go. and coon all the eouls that
ws expected to land III Heaven. be-
Rere we know it, are back in the deen
sea OF tho world. Oh, when we 60
n-Gospel fishing, let lis make It as easv
no possible for souls to get in and aa
hard AS possible to got out.
' IN tho Bible language an unmeaniue
,verbiage when It talks about self-de.
nial, and keeping The body under and
( about walking tho narrow way and
entering tho strait gate and about
carrying tho cross? 10 there to be no
way Of telling whether man is a
NJ Christi sn except by his taking tho
co1nmanion chalioe on saoramental
day? May man be as reckless about
his thoughts, about his words, about
hte temper, ebout his amusements
after conversion as before2 Alas. The
+ FvordD OF Chrlst are SO little needed
II Hvhen He said: "Whosoeyer doth not
bear his GROSS and come aftor me can
not be my disciple" Tho church is
Sas1 becoming as bad as tho world
3 and when 1t gets az bad as the world
1t will be worse than the world by 80
Hlnuch, 90 1t will ADD Hypocrisy Of a
taost appalling kind to lits other de.
saata. u l2a &. Is Il
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