The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-02-08
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Dr. Talmagc breaches a Sermon on
rs tho Story Of the Fishermen.
Christ's Disciples ms Fishers OK Men
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ICopyg1kht, !, 19o1, by Louis Kiopsch.1 IS
81 Ri. 3S SS Washington. Jan. n. is
sl in this discourse Dr. Talinage de-
acribeb the Gospe net ard hpW it is to
\ bio repaired after being damaged;,
n text, Matthew 4:21, g James, tho son Of
Y Zebcdee, and John, his brother, in q
4 ship with zcbedec their father, mend
+ ing their meta Il
\ 5s ! IT go a.dshing ~ cried Simon Peter
10 his comrades, aid tho most of tho
apostles had hands hard from tishing
tackle. The fisheries Of tho world Lave
always attracted attention. In the
third ccntnry tho queen of Egypthad
Eor pin money $470 900, received from
tho fisheries Of Lake Morris. And, If
tho time should ever come when the
lmmensity Of tho worlds population
could not bo fed by the vegetables and
msats 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 q food that by its phos-
pherus would make a generation
brainy and beyond any
khing that the world has ever imag-
ined. eMystextt takes US among the Cali
iean 1Bhermcn. Ono day Walter Scott,
whilo hunting in an old drawer, found
among some old fishing tackle the
manuscript Of his Immortal book,
"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 ut tho fishing 'tacl1lo in the text.
It is not q good day for fishing, md
three men are in tho boat repairing
the broken fishing nets If you arc
lshing with hook and line, and the
i -ash will not bite, it is good tilno to
put tho anglers apparatus into bctter
conditions. Perhaps tho last hsh you
hauled In was so large thnt something
snapped, or. If you were fishing with q
net, there was mighty Aoundcring
Of the scales OF an exposed nail on tho
aide of,the boat which broke some Of
tho threads and let part or all Of tho
onptives of tho deep escape into their
natural element. And hardly any
thing is more provoking than to nearly
land score or a hundred trophies
from the deep, and when you are in the
full CLEO OF hauling in tho spotted
treasures, through sono imperfcotion
4 Of tho net they splash back into the
wave. That Is too much OF n trial Of
@atience for most fishermen TO endure.
and many man ordinarily correct Of
speech In such circumstances comes to
an Intensity Of utterancc uninstiflable.
therefore no good fisherman consid-
nrn tho time wasted that Is spent in
mending his net Now, the Bible again
and again represents Christian work.
ora as fishers of men, and we are all
swceping through the sea of humanity
somo land of q not. Indeed there have
been enough nets out and enough fish
armen busy to have landed the whole
human race in the Kingdom, Of God
.ong before this. What is the matterp
s The Gospel IS all right, and it has been
good time for catching souls for thou
!. aandn OF years. Why, then, the fail
3 ures3 The trouble is with tho nets,
and most Of them need to be mendcd.
propose to show you what Is the mat
0sr with most OF the nets and how 10
\ mend them. In the text old Zebedee
2 and his two boys. James and John,
IS we're doing q good thing whom they sat
IN the boat Smending their nets.
:ss5Ss "a f. 9 trouble wi tn many OF our nets
3 ~ that tho meshes arc too large. If
O. fah can get his g1lls and half his
cody through tho network. he tears
ana rends and works hts way ont, and
leaves tho place through which he
o9ufrmed tangle Of broken threads.
IN our desire to make every thing so
3 easy Wo relax, we loosen, we widen.
we LOT men after they are once in
she Gospel net escape into tho world.
and 60 into indulgences and swim ali
around Gnlilee, from north side to
south side, and from east side to west
side. expecting that they will come
back again. We ought to make it casy
ror them to get into tho Kingdom ef
God, and, as far as wo can, make IL
impossible for them to get ont. ,rha
poor advioe, nowadays to many s..
"Go and do just. as you did he fore von
were captured for God and Heaven.
Tho net was not intended to be INV
restraint or any hindrance. What you
did before you were Christian do
now. Go to all styles OF amusemont
read all tho stylcs of books, onga ge
In al styles Of behavior aa before YOU
were converted" And so, through
ehose meshes Of permission and laxity,
they wrigglc out through this open
sng and that opening. tearing the net
q" they 60. and soon all the souls that
we expected to land In Heaven. be-
RoTo we know It, ara back in tho deem
asa Of the. world. Oh, when we go
a-GosPei fishing, lSt US make it as casy
40 possible for souls to got in and aa
hard as possible TO get out.
1S tho Bible language an unmeaninv
verbiage when It talks about self-de.
nial, and keeping the body under and
about walking tho narrow way and
entering tho strait gnte and about
carrying tho cross? IL there to be no
way Of telling whether a man is a
: ChHistiam except by his taking tho
communion chalice on sacramental
dayP May q man be as reckless a bout
his thoughts, about his words, about
his temper, about his amuse1nonts
after conversion es before? Alas. the
EvordD Of Christ are so lttlo needed
syhen Ho said: "Whosoever doth not
bsar his GROSS and come aftor me can
not bo my disciple" Tho church 10
&aSt becoming as bad as tho world.
3 nnd when 1t gets as bad as tho world
1t will be worse than the world by so
fnuoh, 40 It will add Hypocrisy OF a
taost appalling kind to its other de-.
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