REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Euiaeat Brovilyn Divine's sun day Sermon. snpbiect: “God Among the Fishes," Text: “And God said. Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving crea tures that hath life” -(anesis i. 20, What a new book the Bible is? After thirty-six years' preaching from it and dis- cussing over 30% different subjects founded on the word of God, the book is as frowh Ww me as when [ learned, with a stretch of in- fantile memory, the shortest versa in the Bible, “Jesus woot.” and [| opened a few weeks ago a new realm of Biblical interest that neither my pulpit nor any one sise’s had ever explored, and having spoken to you in this course of sermons on God every- where concerning the “Astronomy of the Bible; or, God Among ths stars.” the “ “hronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries," the *‘Oraithology of the Bible, or, God Among the Birds.” the “Mineralogy of the Bible; or, Gol Among the Amethysta” this morning, as { may be divinely helped, 1 will speak to you about the ‘Ichthyology of she Bible; or, God Among the Fishes” Our borses were Iathered and tired out, and their fetiocks were rad with the blood cut out by the rocks, and I could hardly get my feet out of the stirrups as on Saturday night we dismounted on the beach of Lake Galilee. The rather liberal suppy of food with which we had started from Jerusalem was well nigh exaausted, and the articles of diet remaining had by oft repetition three tize. I never want to see a fig again, and dates with me are all out of date. For several days the Arab caterer, who could speak but half a dozen Eaglish words, would answer our requests for some of the styles of food with which we bad been delec- tated the first few days by crying out “‘Fin- of fishiss; tho wamdroas starseons, former ly reserved for the tables of roval families, and the isinglass made out of their membrane: the tench, called the physician of fishes, be- ecanss when applied to human aliments it is said to be ¢Nreative; the lampreys, so tempt- ing to the epiourean that too many of them slow Henry Hl -—aye ths woole world of fishes! Enough of them floating up and down the rivers to feed the hemispheres if evory ear of corn and every head of wheat and every herd of quadruped and if every other article of food in all the earth wara destroyed, Universal drought, leaving not so much as a spear of gras on the round planet, would leave in the rivers and lakes and seas for the human race a staple commodity of food which, if brouzht to shore, would be enough not only to feed bus fatten the entire human race, In times to come the world may bs so populated that the harvests and vineyards and land animals may be insu ficient to feed the human family, anl the nations may be oblized to come to the rivers aad ocean beaches to seek ths living barvests that swim the deep, and that would mean more bealh and vigor ani berillinacy sod brain then the human races now owa, The Lord, by placing the fish in the first course of the menu in paradise, making it precede bird and beast, indicated to the world the importance of the fisa as an article of human fool. The resson that men and women lived thres and four and five and nine Luodred years was because they were keot on parcted corn and fish, We mix up a fantastico food that kill the most of us before thirty years of age, Cus tards and whipped sillabubs and Roman punches and chicken salads at midnight are a gantlet that few have strength to ran, Ve put on many a tomistons glowing eoithets saying that the person beaesath died religious work when nothing kilied the poor fellow Lut lobster satan at a party four hours after he ought to hava been sound asleep in bed, Therear: mea to-day in our strests so many walking hospitals who might have on fresh fish from Lake Gennesaretnh,” for you must know that that lake has four names, and it is worta a profusion of nomien- uereth, Tiberias, Geanesareth and Galilee, To our extemporized table on Sabbath morning came broiled perch, oniy a few hours before lifted out of the sacred waters, to the only Lreakfast that Christ ever pre- we breakfasted, Christ hat in those olds tng bright coals was Lhe consequence, out a fluttering fia or squirming scale. Bus Christ from the shore shouted to them an! fish rewarded them. baving cleaned brought them to the coals which Christ bad Simon and Nathaniel, wight and were chill and wet and hungry, sat down and began mastication. Al that morning, December, 1889, jast outside the ruins of ancient Tiberias and within souanl of the riopling Galilee, we breaklastel, Now, it is not straage that the Binle im- agery is so inwrought from the fisheries when the Holy Land is, for the most part, en inland region? Only three lakes—two bha- the one already mentionei-—anamely, the Daad Sea, whers fish cannot live at all, and as soon as they touch it they die, and alternateiy full sud dry. Only thres rivers ~ the Holy Land —Jabook, Kishoa aad Jer- n. About all the fish now ia the waters of the besu athletes if they had taken the hint of Lord's re- mark ant adhered to simolicity of diet, Tne reason that the couatry district: have furnished mast of the men and women of our Sima wao are doing the mightiest work in merchaniise, in machanicy in law, in me licine, in theology, in legisiative and congrasional halls, and all the presidents Tae worid must turn back 1 to get morals and parad saiac health, or angel cake, tish ia charged ani surcharged with phos- that which suines in the dears without burning What made tne tweive aposties such stal- wart men that they conid eadure anything and achisve everything? Next to divine ia- spiration, it was Dascauss they wer: nearly all fishermen and lived on fish and a few up swing the net and tarow tae line, must all utterances before the wisacres on Mars woved right on undaunted to certain martyr - Phosphorus, shining in the dark without bream, the minnow, the blsnay, the barbel #0 called because of the barb at its mouth), the chub, the aogfish, none of them worth a Weil, the world's geography has changed, and the world’s bill of fare has changed. Lake Galiles was larger and desper and bet- ter stocked than rivers were deeper and the fisheries were of far more importance then than tow, Let polled we (rom the temptation of killing deliea- cies, The men and women who sre to de- ani bai for breakfast this morning a similar inieed the only articies of food that Christ by miracle multiplied wera: bread and 7000 persons of the wildersess haodei over ~five barley loaves and two fishes, The ware salted or dried and brought mmland, and so much of that article of fod was sold in Jerusalem that a fish merket gava the same to one of the gates of Jerusalem pear out after having caught them himself, sit- ting wita his bare fest over the bask of the sities had graat reservoirs in which fish were kept alive and bred. The pool of Gibeon was a fish pool. Isaiah snd Solomon reler to fish pools, reservoirs, a ring having been rua through their gills, and that is the meaning of the Seripture passage which says, “Canst thou puts h into his nose or bors his jaw tarough with a thorn.” Bo important was the fish that the god Dagon, worshiped by th: Philistines, was made ball flab and baif man, and that is the raeaning of the Lord's indignation when in I Samuel we read toast this Dagon, the fish od, stood beside the ark of the Lord, and agon was by returned to him thas he had sarrea fers], Kuow also in order to understand the waters, as those of the Maditerranean, thers were monsters that are now extinet, The fools who become infidels becaus: they can sat Josah in 8 sea mouster might have history. of Jonsh was only a fable.” Say others: make the fish a god. Seripture passage, “The head of Dagon and both ths palms of his hands wera cut off up- on the threshold ; only the stump of Digon was left tohim.” Now, the stump of Dagon was the fish part, The top part, which was the figure of a man, was dashe! to pees, and Lord, by demolishing every thing but the stump or fish part of the idol, prac- know from the way | have demolisuned the rest of the idol that it is nothing divine. ™ Layard and Wilkinson found the fisa an object of idolatry all through Assyr.a and Egypt. The Nile was (ull of lish, and that explains the simughtered the fiany tribe all up ant dowa that river, waica has been and is now the rosin artery of Egypt's life. In Job you hear the plunge of the spec’ lato the wip. out, "“Canst thou fill his scin with barbad irons or his hemd with flab spear:”™ Yea, Others say: “It was a reproduc tion o! the story of Hercules devoured and then restored from the moaster.,” Ba: my reply is that history tells us that thers were Tas extinct jeathyosaurns of olaer ages the Maditerranean there floated monsters Tae shar has again and again been found to swallow a man en- A fisherman on the consi of Turkey I have seen in mae ne fen monasders large snough 0 take down a prophet, But | of His owa resurrscsion, ant | suposcis He ougne in Matthew xii, 40, Jesus Christ says, “For as Jonas was tares days and three nights in the whale's belly, #0 saail And tout satties it for me and for any mn who doss Notios also how the Old Testam mt writers of Genesis, where my text records, "Ani God said, Lat the waters bring forth abuni- antly the moving creature that hath life” you realize that the first thing that God created was the fish? It eceded the bird, the quadruped, the nman race, The fish has priority ot rasi- dence over every living thing, The next thing done after God had KRindled for our world the goldea caandelisr of the san sal the wiiver chandelier of the moon was to wake the fish, The first motion of the principle of life, ns principle that all the thousands of years since have not been able life—~was in a flan dekel, the four rivers of Paradise, the waters swirled with floes and brigatensi with scemler. AN the atirivutes of the lafinite God were cailsd into action for thy makiaz of that first fish. Lancoolate and traasic. cont micacie, not take the universe to prove a Gol fish does it. No wonder that Linvsus and “HRohold, 1 will sent for many fisiers ssito tiges fish imagery Lo propassy oRperily, “it shall come to pass that the fishers shill stand upon it from Kagel even to Fey. aim; there shall ba a pace to spread forth Kinde ae the fish of the great ses, excseding ta ragoaerated, and they will bs great placss Amos reproves idolatries by say- Mig, Pas aay shall come upon you whe rnosterity with flskhooks’ Holomoa, in Heolewmustor, declares that those captured of Indeed Solomon kaiw all about the finay tribe and wrote a treatise on jeathy ology woes has been lost, urtiermore, in order that you may une derstand the lohtuyology of the bLible, you must Know fast taere ware five ways of flsoing, Oaz was by a fence ol reeds and cane, with walch the flash wers caught. But the Herodie govarnment foronde that on Lace Galilee, lass pisasurs oats by weeexe i by thes stakes driven. Aaother mole was by spearing, the waters ol Galileo go clowr goo | aim coukt be taken for the transtixing. An , AS Waere b miso shall mourn, and yh : dra am w Haba. thrown from a Loat and drawn through the sen as the fishing smack sailed on. How wonderful all the wea i» the world, anl th fish are the souls, and God addresses us as Hs did Bimon and Andrew, saying, will make you fishers of men.” But wheniy the best time to fish for souls? To the nicht, Peter, why did you sav to Carist, Rave toiled all the night and have taken nothing” Why din vou not fish in the day- time® He replies, ‘You ought to know that the night is the best time for flshine.” At Tohyhanna Mill, among the moun. tains of Pepnaylvania, I saw a friend with hig hoots and fis ing teccle starting out at § o'clock at night, and I said, “Wherseare vou going?’ He answered, “Going to fish.” “What in thenight!” Heauswered, “Yes, in the night.” So the vast majority of souls captured for God ars taken in time: of re- vival in the night meetings. They might Just as well come at 12 delozk at noon, but most of them will not, Ask the ev anzelists of olden times, ask Finney, ask Nettleton, ask Osborn, ask Daniel Baker, and then gak time to gather souls, and thay will answer, “I'he night; by all olds, the night.” Not only the natural night, but the night of trouble, Suppose 1 go around in this audience and tima 1 lost my coild by membrancus croup, and it was the night of bersavemant” or tae answer would ba, “It was just after I the night of bankraptey,” or it would be, “it was during that time when I was down with that awful sickness and it was the night of physical uffsring.” or it woaid be, “It w= that time when slander took after me, aad i was maligned and abused, an! it was tive might of parsecution.” Ah, my hearers, that is the tims for you to go after souls whan A uight of trouble is on them. Miss not veat opportunity to save asou', for it is tan bast of all opportanitios, Coup along the Mohawk, or the Janiata, or ths Dalaware, or the Tounbighes, or the Bi. Lawrence right after a rain, and you will tind the fisherman all up and down the laces Why! Bscauss a good time to angle is sigont altsr toe rein, and that is a good tims to catch souls, right after a shower of misfortune, right after floods of disaster, And as a pool overshadows i with trees iss grand place for making « fins baul of fish, | #0 when the son! is unier the long dark shadows of anxiety and distress it is a good time to make a spiritual haul. People in i the bright suoshin: of prosperity are not so easily taken, But be sure before you stari out to the gospel fisheries to get the right kind of bait, { “Bat how,” youn say, “am I to get it¥ My answer ix “Dig for it” “Whoere shall ( { dig for it™ “in the ric: Bible grounds” We boys brought up in the country had to ! dig for bait belore we started for ths banks { of the Raritan, We put the sharp edge of | the spa ie against the grouod and thea put ! oar foot on the spade, and with oge tramen- { dous plunge of our strength of body and {| win we drove itin up to the handle ani then { turne i over tha sod, We had never read a Walton's “Complete Angler.” or Charles Cotton's “lustractions { How to Auge for Gravling in a Clear | Stream.” Woe koew nothing about the mod ern red hackle or the fly of orange colored | mohair, but we got the right kind of bait, | No use trying to angie for fish or angle for souls unless yon have the right kind of bait, and thers is pleaty of it in the promises, the | parables. the miracles, the crucifixion, the pan of the grand oid gospal. Yes not only must you dig for bait, but | uae only fresh bait. fou cannot do any. thing down at the pond with old angle worme., Naw views of trath, New views of God, New views of the sou!. There are | all the good books to help you dig. Bat { make up your mind as to whether you will take the bint of Habukkak sad Isaish and | Job and use book and line, or take the hint {| of Matthew and Luke sad Christ sud fish with a net. I think many jose their time by wantiag to fle with a net, and they never get a place to swiag the net. In other words they want | to do gospel work on a big scale or they will ipotdo itatall. [see feeble minded Chris | tian men going around with a Bagster's | Bible under their arm, hoping to do the work of an evangelist and ues the net, while they might be better content with hook and line and take one soul st a time, They are bad failures as evangelists. Ther would be | mighty successes as private Caristians, If you catch only one soul for God, that will be enough to fill your eternity with celebration. | All hail the fisherman with hook and line! { I have seen a man in rougbest corduroy | outfit come back from ths woods loaded { dowa with a string of fiany treasures huag | over his shoulder and his gamebag flied and a dog with nis teeth carrying the basket fille! with the surplus: of an aflarnoon’s angling, and it was all the resait of a book a line, and in the eternal world there wili be many & man and many a woman tha was never heard of outside of a village Sun | day-school or a prayer msstiog buriel in a | shurch bassment who will come before the torons of Gol with a multitude of souls ransomed through his or her . mentality, and yet the work all done | througa personal iaterview, ons by one, | one by one Yon do not know who that one soul may i be, tat it was Marca Lasser. Taomas Bilnes | brought salvation to ons soul, but it was Huazh Iatimer. An edge tox maker war thie means of saving | John Summerfield. Oar Glessed Lord healed | one bad eye at a time, cos paraiyssl arm aad raised from the dead one girl at a time, ons youag man ata time Admire the net | that takes in a great many ab ono, but do | pot despise tae hook and line, Got hep ur amd she gospel fitheries, waetner wa emp.oy hook or net, for the day | coneth waen wa shall #03 how much de {pendad on our fidelity, | giarel: “Tae king om of heaven ie like unto 1 mn net that was cast into the sea and gatherad | of every kin, which, when it was fall, they {tae goa! in the vessels, Dut cast the bad away, Br shall it be at the end of the | separats tha wickel from the just.” | Yes the fishermsa think it bast to keep | the wasfnl and wortaless of the haul in the amie nos until it Is drawn ason ths beach, | and taen the division takes place, and if itis throws out ani thy Bige lsh ant sand pre ino the water or thrown mip on ths bank as | naclean, while the pores ani tae carp and | the narosl are pus te pails tr be carried {| home for use, Ho in the chureh on sarth the suints and thas hypooritss, tae geusrous and the mean, | tas comets ant the uncesn, are kept in the | sume membership, bus at deatn the dividon | will be made, and the good will be gatherad | to eaves, and the bad, however many holy | comonagions they may asve calebrated, and | however many rostoricsl prayers they may | haves offered, and however many years their | uames may nave been on the cuurch rolls, ‘will be east away, Goi forbid itans any of ws should be fthe Yewst away." 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