Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
SOWING SEED.

SOWING SEED.
Blessed are We that SOW beside all waters.-
ISAIAH 32:xx.
The bible often illustrates its teachings
by the habits and customs of the people
living at the time The ancient Egyp-
tians practiced but rude kind of hus-
bandry, and even in later times in those
parts of the country bordering on the
Nile, ploughing and furrowing are dis
pensed with. That river during its an
nual overflow deposits coating of mud
which proves an excellent fertilizer; and
after the inundation has subsidized, va
rious kinds of seed are scattered on this
mud, and the domestic animals are
turned out to trample in the grain,
which, thus sown and ploughed in, pro-
duces, in about four months an abundant
harvest. Jesus compared mankind to
sewers who 60 forth to SOW, and told his
disciples that the harvest would be at the
end of the world, and that the reapers
would be the angels. The blessing prom
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is only for those who SOW seed.
All mankind may be divided into two
classes, the sewers of seed and the sewers
of tares. From earliest childhood and
through the years of youth, manhood and
old age, always until death palsies the
hand, the husbandman is sowing seed or
tares. When a school boy is disobedient
or prefane he not only sins himself but
is also scattering tares in the paths OF
his mates When young man invites a
friend to drink with him, he may have
no thought of the consequences of this
indulgence of appetite; for himself it may
be harmless, but for the other, the be-
ginning of drunkard's career. "No
man liveth to himself" Every act is the
center of an ever widening circle Of infiu-
ence, which will reach beyond time. If
one crime only could be traced back to it's
inception, how small thing it would
often prove. Perhaps word: a look, or
an uncensidered act was the tare which,
when sown, brought forth such har-
vest in this world.
All criminals were once lnnO-
cent children, and who can tell if many
of them were not taught their first lesson
in deceit by their father. He did not in
tend to teach his boy to steal, but he loved
to make sharp bargains and he knew all
the tricks of trade, and while he was busy
making money, his child was learning
lessons of deceit and dishonesty. All the
sermons, intoxicating integrity that were
ever preached, have had less effect than
the life of one honest man. The merchant
in his counting house and the banker in
his office are putting in a large crop OF
good seed or tares, and time or eternity
will witness the harvest.
1t is pleasant thought that any worthy
act in life, however simple, is sowing
good seed as well as grander services.
To save life is Christ-like; it is ne less
Christ like to bless one. When the
possessor of a hasty temper controls it,
and in times of provocation gives a
"soft answer" is he not preparing
for more joyful Harvest Home
than the hero OF hundred battlesi
When the business man lets the dollars
and cents slip through his fingers rather
than retain them dishonesty; when be
instructs his employees that there shall be
no deviation from strict integrity in his
establishment, can there be any doubt OF
the seed he is sowingf
TO SOW beside all waters, is to improve
every opportunity to do good that pre-
SCENTS itself. 1t is to hold oneself in read
mess to do the best one can for all; il
NAV be only kind word or pleasant
smile, it may be but a cup of cold water
vet SHE shall in no wise lose his reward. D
The blessings promised to the sower OF
good seed do not wait on eternity. Nc
good deed performed, no kind word
spoken, no fault corrected, no vice eradi-
Gated but brings blessing in this world
as well. Is it no blessing to feel that
little children are taught by
vour example to love truth
and honor; that youths are
stronger to overcome temptation and to
endure trials; that the poor are relieved;
the sorrowing comforted; the wronged
righted, and the world better' No work
so worthy can engage the ambition OF
the young, or the energies OF manhood,
as this husbandry. There is much seed to
be sown, and time is short. AS they are
blessed "who SOW beside all waters" sc
also whatsoever man soweth that shall
he also reap"