Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 May 1891 — Page 4

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msrtmiw TnxiiK rasra Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage Talks to the Fishers of Men, Tim Net* Wherewith Mankind are to be Drawn to Christ Should be Kept ■leaded with Threads of Lore and Common Sense* The following discourse was delivered by Bev. T. DeWitt, Talmage iia the new Brooklyn tabernacle* the test be* ing:. • James the son ol Kehedee, and John* his brother, In a ship with ZebedOe, tlieir father, mending their nets.—M ittheW IV., Jl. “I go a-fishing,” cried Simon Peter to his comrades, and the most of the apostles had hands hard from fishing tackle. The fisheries of the world have always attracted attention. In the third cen- - tury the queen of Egypt had for pin money four hundred and seventy thoU* and dollars received from the fisheries of Lake Moeris, And if the time should ever come when the immensity of the world’s population could not he 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 generation brainy and intellectual beyond any thing that the world has ever imagined. My text takes us among the (ialilean fishermen. One day Walter Scott, while hunting in an old drawer, found among some old fishing tackle the manuscript of his immortal book “Waverly.” which he had put away there as no worth, and who knows but that to-day we may find some unknown wealth of thought while looking at the fishing tackle in the text. It is not a 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 angler’s apparatus into better condition. Perhaps the last fish you hauled in was so large that something snapped. Or if you v.-ere fishing with a net, there was a mighty floundering of the scales or an exposed nail on the side of the boat which broke some of the threads and let part or all of the captives of the deep escape into their natural element. And hardly anything is more provoking than to nearly land a score or a hundred trophies from the deep, and when you are in full glee of hauling in the spotted treasures, through some imperfection of the net they splash back into the wave. That is too much gt a trial of patience for most fishermen to endure and many a man ordinarily correct of speech in such circumstances comes to an intensity of utterance unjustifiable. There

fore no good fisherman considers the time wasted ti.at is spent in mending his net. Now the Bible again and again represents Christian workers as fishers of men, and we are all sweeping through the sea of humanity some kind of a net. Indeed, there have been -enough nets out and enough fisherman %usy to have landed the whole human race in the kingdom of God long before this. What is the matter? The Gospel, is-all right, and it has been a good time for catching souls for thousands of years. Why, then, the failures.? The trouble is withj-tho nets, and most of them need to bfHmended. I propose to show yon-what is the matter with most of the nets, and how to mend them. In the text old Zebedee and his two hoys; James and John, were doing a good thing when they sat in the boat mending their nets. The trouble with many of our nets is that the meshes are too large. If a fish cau get his gills and half his body through the network, he tears and (•ends and works his way out and leaves the place through which he squirmed a tangle of broken threads. The Bible weaves faith and works tight together, the law and "the Gospel, righteousness tnd forgiveness. Some of our nets bare meshes so wide that the sinner floats in and out and is not at any moment eaught for the Ileavenly landing, in onr desire to make everything so easy we relax, we loosen, we widen. Wo let men after they are once in the Gospel net escape into the world and go into indulgences and swim all around Galilee from north side, to south side and from east side to west side, expecting that they will come back again. Wo ought to make it easy for them to get into the Kingdom of God and as far as wo can make it impossible for them to get out. The poor advice nowadays to many is: “Go and do just ns you did before you were captured for God and Heaven. The net was not intended to be any restraint or any hinderance. What you did before you were a Christian, do now. Go to all styles of amusement, read all the styles of books, engage in all the styles of behavior as before you were converted.” And so through these meshes of permission and laxity they wriggle out, through this opening and that opening, tearing the net as they go,and soon all the souls thaV^we expected to land in Heaven, before we know it are back in the deep sea of the world. Oh, when we go a Gospel fishing let ns make it as easy as possible for souls to .get in, find as hard as possible to get

Is the Bible language an unmeaning verbiage when it talks about self-denial and keeping the body under and about walking the narrow way and entering the straight gate and about carrying the cross? Is there to be no way of telling whether a man is a Christian except by taking the communion chalice on sacramental day? May a man be us reckless about his thoughts, about his words, about his amusements, about his dealings after conversion as before conversion? One-half the Gospel nets with which we have been, scooping the sea have such wide meshes that they have been all torn to pieces by the rushing out into the world of those whom a tighter net would have kept in. The only use of a net is to keep the fish from going back to where they were before and taking them where they could not have been taken by any other means. Alas, that the words of Christ are so little heeded when He said: “Whosoever doth not bear his cross and eome after me can not be my disciple.” The church is fast becoming as bad as the world, and when it gets as bad as the world it will It* worse than the world by so much as it will add hypocrisy of a most appalling kind to its other defects. Furthermore, many our nets are torn to pieces by being entangled with other nets. It is a sad sight to see fishermen fighting about sea-room, and pulling in opposite directions, each to get his net, both nets damaged by the struggle and losing all the fish. In a city like this, of more than eight hundred thousand, there arc least five hundred thousand not in Sabbath-schools or churches. And in this land, where there are more than sixty-four million people, there are at least thirty million not in the Sabbath-schools and churches. And in this world, of more than fourteen hundred million people, there are at least eight hundred million not in schools and churches. In such an Atlantic ocean of opportunity there is room for *J1 the nets and all the boats and , all the fishermen and for millions more. There should be no rivalry between churches, Each one does a work pe- i collar to itself. There should be no -- ‘ ministers. God — ‘

wo ministers atiKe, ana eaen one nas a work which no other man in the universe can accomplish, If fishermen are wise, the; will not allow their nets to eh tangle; or if they do accidentally get Intertwisted the work Of extrication should be kindly and gently conducted. What a glad spectacle for men and angels when on oha-recent dedication day ministers of denominations stood on this platform and wished for each other widest prosperity and usefulness. But there are citizens in this country where there is now going on an awfnl ripping and rending and tearing of fishihg nets. Indeed, all over Christendom at this time there is a great war going on between fishermen, ministers againstministers.

Off 1 UttVC UUUCTU UlttU CUU UUk fish and fight at the same time. He either neglects his net or his musket. It is amazing how much time some of the fishermen hare to look after other fishermen. It is more than 1 can do to take care of my own net You see the wind is just right and it is such a good time for fishing and the fish are coming in so rapidly that I have to keep my eye and hand busy. There are about two hundred million souls wanting to get into the kingdom of God, and it Will require all the nets and all the boats and the fishermen of Christendom to safely land them. At East Hampton. L. I., where 1 summer, out on the bluffs some morning we see the flags up; and that is the signal for launching out in to the deep. For a mile the water is tinged with that peculiar color that indicates whole schools of piscatorial revelry, and the beach swarms with men with their coats off and their seacaps on, nnd those of ns who do not go out on the wave stand on the beach ready to rejoice when the boats come back, and in our excitement we rush into the water with our shoes on to help get. the boats up the beach, and we all lay hold the lines and pull till we are red in the face, and as the living things of the deep come tumbling in on the sand, I cry out:- ‘■Captain, how many?” Add he answers: “About fifty thousand.” And we shout to the late comers: “Hurrah, fifty thousand!” lVe must have an enthusiasm something like that if we are ever to take the human race for God and Heaven. Aye. we ought to have that enthusiasm of the beach multiplied a hundred fold, and by so much as an immortal soul is worth more thau a blue-fish. O, brethren of ministry! Let us spend our time in fishing instead of fighting. But I 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 possibly while hauling souls into the kingdom. I had hoped that the millennium was about to dawn, but the lion is yet too fond of lamb. My friends. I notice in the text that James the son of Zebedee and John his brother were busy not mending somebody else’s nets, mending their own nets, and 1 rather think that 1 we who are engaged in Christian work in this latter part of the nineteenth centuary will require all our spare time to mend our own nets. G od help us in the important duty! In this work of reparation we need to put into the nets more threads of eommon sense. When we can present religion as a great practicality we will catch a hundred souls where now we catch one. Present religion as an intellectuality and we will fail. Out in the fisheries there are set across the waters what are called gill nets and the fish put their heads through the meshes and then can not withdraw them because they are caught by the gills. But gill nets can not 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 a 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. Do you know that the world's heart is bursting with trouble, and if' you could make that world believe that the religion of Jesus Christ is a soothing omnipotence the whole world would surrender to-morrow; yea, would surrender this hour. The day before J ames A. Garfield was inaugurated as president I was in the cars going from Richmond to Washington. A gentleman seated next to me in the cars knew me, and we were soon in familiar conversation. It was just after a bereavement, and I was

speamng so aim irom an uveruurueueu heart about the sorrow I was suffering'. Looking at his cheerful face, I said: “I guess you have escaped all trouble. I should judge from your countenance that you have come through freo from all misfortune.” Then he looked at me with a look I shall never forget and whispered in my ear: “Sir, you know nothing about trouble. My wife has been in an insane asylun for fifteen years.” And then he turned and looked out of the windoVv and into the night with a silence I was too overpowered to break. That was another illus-’ tration of the fact that no one escapes trouble. Wbv, that man seated next to you in church has on his soul a weight compared with which a mountain is a feather. That woman seated next to you in church has a grief the recital of which would make your body, mind and soul shudder. When you are mending your net for this wide, deep sea of humanity, take out that wire, thread of criticism and that horse hair thread of harshness and put in a soft, silken thread of Christian sympathy. Yea, when you are mending your nets tear out those old threads of gruffness and weave. in a few threads of politeness and gefliality. In the house of God let all the Christian faces beam with a look that means welcome. Say: “Good morning” to the stranger as he enters your pew, and at the close shake hands with him and say: “Dow did you like the music?” Why, you would be to that man a panel of the door of Heaven; you would be to him a note of the doxology that seraphs sing when a new soul enters. That man is a thousand miles from home, and he has just heard by telegraph that his child is sick with scarlet fever and his boy at college has got into disgrace, and he has "had business troubles, and is so homesick he can hardly keep from crying. Just one word of brotherly kindness from you would lift him into a small hoaven. . I have in other days entered a pew in church and the woman at the other end of the pew looked at me as much aB to say: “How dare you? This is my pew and I pay the rent for it!” Well, I crouched in the other corner and made myself as small as possible, and felt as though I had been stealing something. So there are people who have a sharp edge to their religion, and they act as though they thought most people had been elected to be damned and they were glad of it. Oh, let us brighten up our manner and appear in utmost gentlemanliness or ladyhood. The object in fly-fishing is to throw the fly far out, and then let it drop gently down and keep it gently rising and fyiHng with the waters, and not fik* a man-of-war's anchor;

usefulness. I know a man in New York who is more sunshiny and genial when he has dyspepsia than When he is not suffering from that depressing trouble. I have found out his secret. When he starts out in the morning with such depression he asks for special grace to keep from snapping up anybody that day, and puts forth additional determination to - be kindly and geniaU and by the help of God he accomplishes it. Many of our nets need to be mended in these respects, the black threads and the rough threads taken out and the bright threads and the golden threads of Christian geniality woven in. In addition to this, we need to mend our nets with more threads of patience. It is no rare thing for a fisherman to spend one whole day before he can take a St. Lawrence pike, or an Ohio salmon, or a Long Island pickerel, or a Cayuga black bass, ora Delaware catfish, and he does that day after day without parties ular discouragement But what a lack of patience if we do not immediately succeed in soul-catching. We are apt to give it up and say: “I will never try again.” Into all our nets we need to weave all along the edge, and all through the center, great long, stout threads of Christian patience. How ^patient God has been with us! Can we not be patient with our fellows? I had presented ma from Scotland a few days ago, an ornamented ink-stand, the wooded parts of wljich were made from a piece of a tree cut down by Mr. Gladstone, at Hawarden, and sent by him to Scotland by request The incident reminded me of the fact that a woman who had long been on Mr. Gladstone's estate had a wayward boy, and "in her despair she asked Mr. Gladstone to take the boy in hand. While prime minister of England, with all the mighty affairs of the kingdom in his hands, he took that hoy in his study and counseled him, and then knelt down and prayed with him, and the boy was saved. If we all had hearts of sympathy like that, what would be to us impossible? “Is it not delightful that I can sing so well?*’ said Jenny Lind, in a burst of joy that she could help others.: “Is it not delightful that I can sing so well?” And might we not all say in thankfulness to God: “Is it not delightful that we can sympathize with others, and encourage others, and save others?” Again, in mending our nets we need, also, to put in the threads of faith and tear out all the tangled meshes of unbelief. Our work is successful according to our faith. The man who believes in onlv half a Bible, or the Bible in spots; the man who thinks he can not persuade others; the man who halts, doubting about this and doubting about that, will be a failure in Christian work. Show me the man who rather thinks that the Garden of Eden may have been an allegory, and is not quite certain but that there may he another chance after death, and does not know whether <m not the Bible is inspired, and I tell you that man for soulsaving is a poor stick. Faith in God and in Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost, and the absolute necessity of a regenerated heart,in order to see God in peace, is one thread yon must have in your mended net. or yon never will he a successful fisher for men. Why, how can you doubt? The hundreds of millions of men and women now standing in the church on earth, and the hun

urvtts vi uutuuu& iu ucavcu air test the power of this Gospel to save. With more than the certainty of a mathematical demonstration, let us start out to redeem all nations. The rottenest thread that you are to tear out of your net is unbelief, and the most important thread that yon are to put in it is faith. Faith in God, triumphant faith, everlasting faith. If you cannot trust the infinite, the holy, the omnipotent Jehovah, who can yon trust? These dear brethren of all denominations, afflicted with theological fidgets, had better go to mending nets instead of breaking them. Before they break up the old religion and try to foist on us a new religion, let them go through some great sacrifice for God that' will prove them worthy for silch a work, taking the advice of Tal ley rand to a man who wanted to upset the religion of Jesus Christ and start a new one, when he said: “Go and be crucified and then raise yourself from the grave the third day!” Those who propose to mend their nets by secular and skeptical books are like a man who has just one week for 'fishing, and six of the days he spends in reading “Isaak Walton’s Complete Angler,” and “Wheatley’s Rod and Line,” and “Scott’s Fishing in Korthern Waters,” and “Pullman’s Vade Mecum of Fly Fishing for Trout,” and then on Saturday morning, his last day out, goes to the river to ply his art, but that day the fish will not bite, and late on Saturday night he goes home with empty basket and disappointed heart. Meanwhile a man who never saw a big library in all his life has that week caught with an old fishing-tackle enough to supply his own table and the tables of all his neighbors, and enough to salt down in barrels for the long winter that will soon come in. Alas! alas! If when the Saturday night of our life drops on us, it shall be found that we have spent our time in the libraries of worldly philosophy, trying to mend our nets, and we have only a few souls to .report as brought to God through our instrumentality, while some humble Gospel fisherman, his library made up of a Bible and an almanac, shall come home laden with the results, his trophies the souls within fifteen miles of his logcabin meeting-house.

UUll UU uvu opvuu JVIU #u**w uoutug with hook and line. Why did not James, the son of Zebedee, sit on the wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over the lake, and with a long pole and a worm on the hook dipped into the wave wait for some mullet to swim up and be caught? Why did not Zebedee spend his afternoon trying to catch one eel? No, that work was too slow. These men were not mending a hook and line, they were mending their nets. So let the Church of God not be content with having here one soul, and next month another soul brought into the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with nets, scoop nets, seine nets, drag nets, all-encom-passing nets, and take the treasures in by hundreds and thousands and millions, and nations be born in a day, and the hemisphere quake with the tread of a reasoning God. Do you know what will be the two most tremendous hours in our heavenly existence? Among the quadrillions of ages which shall roll on, what two occasions will be to us the greatest? The day of out arrival there wilTbe to us one of tha two greatest. The second greatest, I think, will he the day when we shall have put in parallel linea*before us what Christ did for us and what we did for Christ, the one so great, the other so little. There will be the only embarrassment in Heaven. My Lord and my God! What will we do and what will we say when, on one side are placed the Saviour's great sacrifices for us, and our small sacrifices for Him; His exile, His hnmil&tion, His agonies on one hand, and our poor, weak, insignificant sacrifices on the other. ; To make the contrast less overwhelming let ns quickly mend our nets, and, like the Galilean fishermen, may we be divinely helped to east them on the rifht tW* of thesbip.

| uunucnnmu diu uuno. .1 Those That Can Shoot Only Twelve JBkt Are Not la It. A man who makes the claim, boldly and badly, that his ancestor was one of the passengers in Noah’s ark entered the car at Cumberland street on Thursday morning, says the Brooklyn Eagle. He found a vacant seat beside a smokebegrimed clay pipe, with a red-whisk-ered man supporting it, pulled oiit d pamphlet bearing on its cover a disheartening representation of New York ; and Brooklyn blazing and bursting un- ; der the shells of a foe Located somewhere down near Norton's point, and began to make very audible comments on the excellence and accuracy of the picture. . He went so far, in fact, as to assert that over;? country in the world was so well equipped with naval guns ; that the great metropolitan center of j the United States was practically defenseless. He made no secret of the j fact that he got his information from a > source that supplies the inhabitants of menageries .with : startling news concerning their individna I . movements, and elaborated the theory that a Peruvian gunboat, with two horse pistols aboard, could knock the palatial public and private buildings of the sister cities into smithereens The friend and supporter of the clay pipe grew weary and remarked: “Sorra a bit ov it!” * “My friend,” observed the man with the pamphlet, “you evidently take me for an alarmist. But I am not. i don’t believe you’ve ever seen any of these guns that I refer to. Why. sir—” “Aisy, now,” said the passenger be- • hind the pipe. *T've seen more gnus in me days than ye ever looked at. How far, now, might that biggest wan ye was referrin’ to a short time ago shoot?” “Shoot, sir? Twelve miles, sir. Yes. sir, easily twelve miles, sir. And ’tavould knock the new post office into ruins before we knew what we were about.” “Twelve miles!” remarked the 'supporter of the pipe in a tone so scornful that the mustache on a cigarette smoker on the other side of the.car involuntarily curled. “Twelve miles! An’ ye call that a gun?” , “Nothing like it, sir. Ship, sir, way out in the bay, can bombard the sugar refineries in the eastern district and clean out Long Island City.” “Ye’ro gabblin' an’ ye’re gabbin’,” impressively observed the critical passenger. “Did ye ever see a gun, anyway? Talkin’ about twelve-mile guns! ' Lemme tell yo about a gun I saw me- | self at Dover. D’ye know where Dover • is? Over in Ingland forninst the Frinch coast. Well, be all that’s sound, I saw a gun there whose aqnal can’t bo found in the worruld. Ye may b’lave it or not, bnt on the barrel of the cannon was this—an’ I’ll never forget it: ‘Ram me tight and sponge me clane an’ I’ll send a bullet to Calais grane’—an’that’s twenty-one miles across the say."

LINCOLN’S KINDNESS. The Peculiar BUI He Ashed a Young Sol* <tler to l'ay. An anecdote showing Lincoln’s merci-. ful nature in a touching light, and re- | lated by Mr. L. E. Chittenden in his i “Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration,” from authentic sources, is the one of the sleeping sentinel, William Scott, the Vermont boy. | whose life Lincoln saved after he had j been condemned to be shot. Lincoln ' personally saw Scott and talked, with j him a long time. Seott would not talk to his comrades of the interview afterward until one night, when he had received a letter from home, he finally opened his heart to a friend in this wise: “The president was the kindest man I had ever seen. 1 was'seared at first, for 1 had never before talked with a great man. But Mr.-Lincoln was so | easy with me, so gentle, that 1 soon forgot my fright. * - * * He stood up anti he says to me: ‘My boy, stand up here and look me in the face.’ I did as he bade me. ‘My boy,’ he said, ‘you are not going to bo shot to-morrow. 1 am going to trust you and send you back to your regiment. I have come up here from Washington, where 1 have got a great deal to do, and what 1 want to know is how you are going ,to pay my bill.’ There was a big lump‘ in my throat. I could scarcely speak: But f got it crowded down and managed to say: ‘There is some way to pay you and I will find it after a little. There is the bounty .in the savings bank. 1 guess we could borrrow some money on a mortgage on the farm.' I was sure the boys would help, so 1 thought we could make it up if it wasn't more than five or sis hundred dollars. ’But it is a great deal more, than five or sis hundred dollars,’ he said. Then I said I didn’t see how, but I was sure 1 would find some way—if I lived. “Then Mr. Lincoln put his hands on my shoulders and looked into my face as if he was sorry, and said: ‘My boy, my bill is a very large one. Your friends cannot pay it. nor your bounty, nor your farm, nor all your comrades. There is only one man in all the world who can pay it, and his name is William Scott. If from this day William Scott does his duty, so that if 1 was there when he comes t o die, he can look me in the face os he does now and say I have kept my promise, and I have done my duty as a soldier, then lay debt will be paid. Will you make, that promise and try to keep it?’ I said I would make the promise, and, with God's help, I would keep it He went away out of my sight forever. 1 know 1 shall never see him again, but may God forget me if ever I forget his kind words or my promise.”

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