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dates with me are all out of date.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." Bar may wa do our
| work, waethor x nall or graat, ag thorough!
as di» tant renoaned fisherman,
Bathune, who spent his suo ner resi angil
in the waters tha Poousand lees a
beating at their own craft thos wio Plies
it all your, and who the rest of his tims
ously praacied Christ in a paipit onl
tenn minutes fron waers | now stand an
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Curions Death Cu.loms of Fiji.
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islands his or ber soul is doomed to
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in the hand of the corpse, the missile
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