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


and pulling in opposite directions, each
TO get his net, both nets damaged by
the struggle and losing all the fish.
In this land, where there are more
than 70,00O,OO0 people, there are at
least 30,000,0O0 not in the Sunday
schools and churches. In such an At
lantic ocean of opportunity there is
room for all the nets and all the boats
and all the fishermen and for millions
more. There should be no rivalry be-
tween churches. Each one does
work peculiar to itself But there are
cities in this country where there is
now going on an awful ripping and
rending and tearing of fishing nets.
Indeed all over Christendom at this
time there is gerat war going on
between fishermen, ministers against
ministers.
Now, | have noticed a man cannot
fish and fight at the same time. He
either neglects his net or his musket.
1t is amazing how much time some of
the fishermen have to look after other
fishermen. 1t is more than ! can do
to take care of my own net. You see
the wind is just right, and il is such
good time for fishing, and the fish are
coming in SO rapidly that have to
keep my eyes and hand busy. There
are about 1000, 900 souls wanting to
get into the kingdom of 6 cd, and it will
require all the nets and all the fisher
men of Chrstendom to safely land
them. Oh, brethren of the ministry,
let us spend our time in fishing in
stead of fighting. But if ! angrily jerk
my net across your net, and you jerk
your net angrily across mine, we will
soon have two broken nets and no fish.
The French revolution nearly destroyed
the French fisheries. and ecclesiastical
war is the worst thing possible while
hauling souls into the kingdom. My
friends, notice in the text that James,
the son of Iehedee, and John, his
brother were busy at mending some
body else's nets. and rather think that
we who are engaged in Christian work
in this opening century will require
all our spare time to mend our own
nets. God help us in the important
duty!
III lulS NbIh pl repair wv h'NN w
put into the nets more threads of com
mon sense. When we can present reli-
| gion as a great practically we will
/ catch n hundred souls where now we
catch one. Present religion as an in
tellectuality and we viii fail. Outin the
| fisheries there are set across the wa
ters what are called gill nets, and the
/ Il IA MI fbair hands through he I'M a. : N q
and then cannot withdraw them be-
cause they are caught by the gills,
But gill nets cannot be of any service in
religious work. Men are never caught
for the truth by their heads; it is by
the heart or not at all. No argument
ever saved n man and no keen analysis
ever brought "A man into the kingdom
of God. Heart work, not head work
Away with your gill nets! Sympathy
helpfulness, consolation, love, are the
names of some of the threads that we
need to weave in our gospel nets when
we are mending them.
When you are mending your net for
this wide. deep sea of humanity, take
out that wire thread, of criticism and
that horsehair thread OF harshness
and put in a soft silken thread of Chris
tian svmpatbv. Yea. when Won are
mending vour nets tear ont those old
tbroods nf urutTress and y,aova In q
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