American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-06-30

through the sermon without falling to
sleep, and they begin to be converted all
round. Then the Wiseaores say, "See the
seed is coming up that was sown BY that
good old man that has gone to heaven"
Suppose q man, should take a bushel Of
ehaff, and go out into his fields and sow
chaff there. old matted grain, and patient
~ wait and say, "In the mysterious sover
eignity of God. my tillage don't seem to
bring any fruit. Still will wait patient
ly." The next spring he sowsmore chaff
more sproutsd grain, dead long ago. and
wonders that be does not get any harvest.
But he says. .God il Sovereign; tits ouI
duty to wait" So be goes on sowing his
useless Geld, and dies atlast, and one ofhiS
boys inherits the farm. He says 81 have
seen the old man try that plan long enough
will try some other" Hsgoes and sows
good sound wheat. In three or four weeks
up comes tie whsatall over the 6eld;wben
an old nsighbor looks over the fence, and
says, "Ah my boyl bless God for such a
father as you had; his grain begins to
grow" Is that the old mans sowing or
the young mans sowing? / believe that
under ordinary circumstances, every min
lister OF our Gospel is 10 work for the sake
OF immediate effects; and where he does,
he will have them, and he will have effects
for future generations. But where man
has full swing at the consciences and af>
fectiOns of bis people, and breaches the
truth Of God. you may be sure that If
lhereis no effect there is no cause, and
all the future harvests are rot TO be at
tributei to him, but to those who shall
sow right seed and get right barvests. In
short you cannot convict man of truths
except by exciting those feelings in whose
spheres the truths belong, and the right
way to do that everywhere. is to touch the
feelings, in preaching just as much as on
Change; in preaching just as much as in
the street: in preching just much as in
the household; and any man that attempts
to carry out wiser course by not touch.
ling the feelings, will soon find his wisdom
is folly. eyes
In The light Of this grea, truth I desire
to say one word iE respect to religious ex-
! elements. against which there is grea
prejudice in the minds Of many. Relig
ious excitements are thought TO be less
safe and less sound than those which are
wrought without excitement. Far be i
from me to say that there are not unjustl
fable and injurious excitements. Every
. thing good is susceptible Of fermentation
and becoming bad; and the most blessed
excitements are where the whole thing
turns on this: are the judgments which
! men form under powerful moral stimulanti
found 10 be move true or less true thar
! those formed without these moral excite
. ments? II there is any practical truth il
Q the principles which we have stated to
0 night, no judgment is so true as when mad
: under o state Of high moral excitement
: But you must remember that the powe
! aftsrward to embody that truth in life
: another thing. "A man under an excite
Q ment msy mark out plan of aotivit
9 which be may not be able afterward t
n carry out In SO far as these truths ar
!, concerned. no man will probably see s
u clearly as when he Is most stimulated i
: his moral feelings. A man, therefor
L that after the excitement Of sermon says
n II am thoroughly reused up, l seem my
}; self to see the immortal state, and stan
u before God; it will not do for me to max
= up my mind as to what is true now.
J will wait until my mind becomes cool. -
2 That is like the man that goes to the iorg
Z and puts in the irons aud gelsa weldiD
n heat uponithsm, and then Gays. 81 think
e : will not pound these now, but will wa
', ill they cool" What would you thin
ofthe smith that would do that? Yet no
% many men are there that, when their fee
- ings are up 10 the Welding point, say, >
n must 60 home-must forget these circun
'n stances, get out Of these influences; then
~ will make up my mindl" Then is ju
as the time To make up your mind. III
ne Judgment you form when your feeling
are at white heat-those intuitions are q
II next thing to the voice Of God, in 20,
70 ear. siS ss
II A man ought to be careful Of his judi
eTIments when he is under the influence
'h wicked feelings: never follow the judg