The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
..Finhern of Men..

sHe saith unto them follow Me, and | will. make you fishers ofSmen."--
 We most truly follow Christ when we try to lead others to Him. It matters little what we are by nature, useful in in Hiss Kingdom He He can and
 We have Ills direct command Follow Me" This means that there is something to be done by us. and
 We must first belong to Him so that His design may be ours. We catch Ills spirit. for the closer our communion with Christ the greater our power with souls. Near follow ing means full fellowship.
 l"s metSod s oPTss Teach what Ts % as tausRt; isara Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. I have conefnanded you, z SMatt. xxviii. xkJ Teach as He taught of Me, for am meek and holy in souls a sMstt {, Si , 2s2 T. Teach Sh.ssssa such were too low for Him to teach. none too forlorn for Him to love. To the high l,f He gave warning counsel to the the
 There Is also something to be done by Him.. "I will make you." By fol- IOWlHk SSuby ne WILL 5ECuEG our c0a~ cation in soul winning He will mold conviction and faith in us; and will use our example as means to this end. Example is better than pre- cept." Is our example such that we would desire it to be thus used? If we will let Him. He will make us like Himself. He will guide us what. and when, and where, to speak. and low up carefully His leading if we would win men to Him.
 By His spirit He will. qualify us to reach men; for that spirit will teach and keep us close to Christ until our hearts burn with love to Him, and the souls He came to save He will us how to be true fishers of men. The man who would save souls is like a fisherman upon the sea: He is dependent on wind and weather. yet trust that success will crown his ef- forts. He must be diligent and preserving; intelligent and watchful; la6orious S and a seif-denying; full of he must be for he is no fisher who will bite only by day he must fish ash moonlight, then he must fish for them by moonlight. "To the weak became I as weak that I might gain the weak I might by all means save them" l trout fishing, and pulling them out bnsily, one after the other. "You manage 1t cleverly. old friend" said. q have passed many below who don't seem to be doing anything, The man lifted himself up. and stuck his rod in the ground Well: you fishing, and 'tis no good trying II ! you don't mind them. The first is keep yourself out of sight, and the second is, keep yourself farther out of sight: and the third is, keep your i you will do it.
 We are too apt to consider that this word belongs eXculsively to the min- ister But 1t is laid on all who pro- fess and call themselves Christains Let your object be to develop the Christ character in yourself, The bet ter the man. the more powerful vii be the sermon and the more farreach' ing. Grow like Jesus and you vii preach and teach like Him With purity of motive, tenderness of hear and clearness of faith you will b' given a like force of utterance. Thu by word and example you will leat others to Christ, Lord, speak to me, that may speal
 In loving echo of Thy tone;
 As Thou hast sought, so let me seel
 Thy errlng children. lost and lone. Oh. lead me, Lord. that I may lead
 The wandering and the waywar' Oh. feed aeI'i me. Lord, that I may feed
 Thy hungering ones, with mann'
 sent.
 Just as Thou wilt. and when' am Untii Thy blessed face I see.
 Thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share