Milford chronicle., 1901-02-01
MENDING THE NETS.
SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIAN WORK TYP.
FLED BY GALlLEAN FISHERMEN.

DR.. TaImage Describes the Gospel
Net and How 1t Should BE Kept In
Responsibilities Disciples as Fish
eRs of Men.
WASHINGTON, Jan. p. = In this dis
course DR.. Talmage describes the gospel
net and how it is to be repaired after be-
ing damaged; text, Matthew iv, p,
"James, the son Of Zebedee, and John,
his brother, in a ship with Zebedee, their
father, Eending their nets"
81 90 a-fshing" cried Simon Peter to
his comrades. and the most Of the apos-
ties had hands hard from fishing tackle.
The fisheries Of the world have always
attracted attention. In the third century
the queen of Egypt had for pin money
$4,000 received from the fisheries Of
Lake Aoeris. And, if the time should
ever come when the immensely of the
worlds population could not be fed by
the vegetables and meats Of the land, the
sea has an amount of animal life that
would feed all the populations OF the
earth and fatten them with a food that
by its phosphorus would make a genera
ton b~ainy and intellectual beyond any
thing that the world has over imagined.
My text takes us among the Galilean fish
ermen. One day Walter Scott. while hunt
ing in IN old drawer, focnd 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 today we may find
some unknown wealth of thought while
looking at the fishing tackle in the text.
1t is not good day for fishing, and
| three men are in the boat repairing the
| broken fishing nets If you are fishing
with a hook and line, and the fish will
not bite, it is a good time to put the an
/ gler's apparatus into better condition.
| Perhaps the last fish you hauled in was
so large that something snapped, or, if
! you were fishing with a net there was a
| mighty fiOundering of the scales or an ex
| posed nail on the side Of the boat which
broke some of the threads and let part OF
| all Of the captives of the deep escape into
| their natural element. And hardly any
thing is more provoking than to nearly
land a score or a hundred trophies from
the deep. and when you are in the full
glee of hauling in the spotted treasures
through some imperfectiOn of the ne
they splash back into the wave. That i
too much Of a trial Of patience for mos
fishermen to endure, and many man OF
dinarily correct of speech in such circum
stances comes to an intensity Of utter
ance unjustifable. Therefore no goo
fisherman considers the time wasted tina
is spent in mending his net. Now, tn
Bible again and again represents Chris
tan workers as fishers Of men, and W
are all sweeping through the sea of hi
5 manity some kind of net. Indeed theI
hive been enough nets out and enoug
, Fishermen busy to have landed the whol
human race in the kingdom Of God Ion
.'efore this. What is the matter? I'll
spei 10 al tight. and it has been goo
for catching souls for thousands {
IS. Why, then. the failures? tt
u Zle is with. the nets, and most
: - need to be mended. / propose
/.A%,9 you what is the matter with mo
= 2. nets and how TO mend them.
y 1t old Zcbedee and his two boy
and John, were doing good thin
they sat in the boat mending the