Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-02-16

so GOWN 10 ire Ruottc iiok8r! eo4
will see what the scientists say about
evolution and about the survival Of the
fttess.' and | VIII read up what the
theologisns say about advanced
thought I will leave the ship awhile.
aud l will go ashore and stay there
till my net is mcnded." Do that, my
brother. and You vii 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. I answer. all you need you have
where you are--nsmeiy. a Bible and
place 10 pray. The more you study
evolution and adopt what Is called add
vancec thought. the more useless you
will be. Stay in the ship and mend +
your net. That is where James. thsY
son of Zebedee. and John. his brother.
stsid. That is where all who get their
nets mended stay.
notice that all who leave the Cos
pei boat and go ashore 20 mend their
nets stay there. -Orh 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 20 see the day
when you will feel like the man who,
| ing forsaken Christianity, sighed: "1
would give thousand pounds 20 feel
as l did In 1920" The time will come
when you would be willing to give q
| thousand pounds 20 feel as you did in
| 1901. These men who have given mp
| their religion cannot help you bit.
| These dear brethren OF al denomi-
| nations. afflicted with theological fidg-
cts. had better 20 10 mending nets in
stead Of breaking them. Before they
break up the old religion and try to
foist on us a new religion let them 60
through some great sacrifice for God
that will prove them worthy for such
a work. taking the advice of Tallyrand
10 man who wanted TO upset the re-
ligion Of Jesus Christ and start new
one when he said: GO and be cruel
ied and then raise yourself from the
grave the third day," Those who
propose 70 mend their nets by se&l-
lar and sl<eptical books are like t6N
man who has just one week for fish
ing. and six OF the days he spends in
reading Izaak Walton's "Complste
Angler" and wheatley's Rod and
Line" and Scott's Fishing in Northern
Waters" and Pullman's Wade Mecun2
OF Fly Fishing for Trout" and the 4
, on Saturday morning. his last day out.
goes TO the river 20 ply his art. But
+ that day the FISH will not bite. and
s late on Saturday night he goes 20 hi'
h. home with empty basket Alas. alas!
,. n when the Saturday night OF our
b life drops on us IL shall be found that
{ we have spent our time IN the libraries
y OF worldly philosophy. trying 20 menc
I | our nets. and we have only few souls
IS 20 report as brought 20 God through
u our fundamentally. while some hum
(. Bile fisherman. his library made up o
y a Bible and an almanac, shall com
e home laden with the results, hi
.e trophies all the souls within IS mile
n OF his log cabin meeting house.
In the time of great disturbance j
Or Naples in l649 Massaniello. barefoot
.e ed fishing boy, dropped his fishing TO
ID and by strange magnetism took con
- mand OF that city OF 600. 900 souls. II
s. took CT his fishing jacket and put on
re robe Of gold in the presence of howlin
ID mobs He put his hand on his lip 4
a signal. and they were silent.
\. waved his hand away from him. or
an they retired 10 their homes. Armi'
n passed in review before him. He b
he came the nations idol. The rapid ri
al and complete supremacy of that your
nd | fisherman. Massaniello. has no parall
." in all history. But something equal
lei that and better than that is an ever
10 dav occurrence in Heaven. God TAX
ar some Of those who In this world We
,v- fishers OF men and who toiled We
Cd humblv. but because OF the way tn
IN mended their nets and employed the
al nets after they were mended He 81
p9 | denly hoists them and robes them a
for scepters them and crowns them a
or makes them rulers over many cii
os- and He marches armies OF saved on
.en | before them in review.
go. But do not spend your time nshi
re- with hook and line. Why did I
,ev James. the son of Zebedee, ait on
TED wharf at Cane. his feet hanging o'
il. the lake, and with long pole sn'
md worm on the hook dipped into the w'
dv- / wait for some mullet TO swim up q
be caught? Why did not Zebe'
eed spend his afternoon trying 10 catch
and | eel? No, that work was too sl'
I'M These men were not mending h'
,rd- and line; they were .mending IN
be- nets. So let the church Of God net
ibie content with having here one soul I
an next month another soul brought i
Who the kingdom. Sweep all the seas "
sbt- nets-scoop nets. seine nets, dragn
in ali encom passing nets. and take
who | treasures in by hundreds and I'll
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