Daily Republican., 1882-11-21
An EIOqnenI hermOn.
For the RRPUpLIoAN.

FOR the hRPUBLICAN.
Rev. 7. McCants Stewart Of NewYorl
city preached one Of the most eminent
ly practical sermons at Bethel A. M
f. Church on Sunday evening we hav,
ever heard. His text was from Gal. 6tl
Chapter, 7th verse:
"Be not deceived. God is not mock
ed. Whatsoever man soweth that al.
so shall he reap"
He pictured the building up process
in architecture and the unfolding o.
Naturo's growth little by little; that By
these slow processes nature an d ar
achieved their highest perfection.
He then pOiDt3l out the analogy he.
tween spiritual and mental growths
and the physical; tue slow accumula-
tion Of learning being but fair repre-
sentation OF what we should logically
expect in the spiritual nature; character
being Euilt up day by day, each emo
tiop or uniformed thought doing Its
share in the formation of character
hose most secret evolutions are Oper
10 the All Seeing, All Searching eye o.
God, who is not Knocked by outward
professions but judges us all as we are
be referred TO the Grecian theology
which tlltters its believers that they
can hide their secret intent from tbt
Grecian Col, But we cannot deludt
ourselves wltd so unsafe q faith
Whatsoever man soweth that shal
he also reap" He illustrated by TAX
ing us through the several States of the
South in spring.
He pictured the exquisite beauty OF
Natures Unfoldment in language poel
might envy. He took us through the
rice, cotton, tobacco and orange fields
returning with US in the fall or harvest
time, he tried to convince US that the
orange grove furnished a harvest ol
bananas that the rice fields sent In
rich harvestS Of corn, that the cotton
pickers gathered grapes, and the TO-
baCco workers harvested o luscious
fruit. He pictured our doubt o. such
harVests from such sowing. Was he
crazed that he could hope to have us
believe go absurd a result =? Not more
crazed than for US to hope for 80 un-
Datlral harvest as We expect to reap
when we sow through life, avarice, in
justice, jealousy, hatred, immortality
and vices of every shade and descrip-
tioH and then hope to come to our dy-
ing bed to reap such harvest of bless
edness as belongs only to those who
have sown all through their lives the
holy seeds Of righteousness in all its
beauleous varieties.
He proved TO us, how, in the building
up Of our character. we grew strong by
the exercise of any spiritual quality,
even as In our physical nature the aC-
tive exercise Of our muscular system
causes strength, suppleness and endur-
ance to bo our favored portion, while,
if we fail to use our physical powers,
inaCtiOn causes weakness and stiffness
and general prostrat,or OF usefulness.
The good in our spiritual grows con-
sCaLtIy better being tested by the
strength of the temptations to evil The
stronger the evil resisted, the greater the
manifestation of grace. SO also the
evil, ii Encouraged, grows in power and
ii we reach middle life or old age, before
turning aside from unrig ghteousness our
relapse into evil doing isalmost certain;
u pardOned sinner making but a weak
saint. He proved the tallacy Of death
bed repentance by citing two thousand
cases of such repeL lance, which under
Unexpectedly favorable circumstances
only two OF whom remained true to
their professions.
Now is the appointed time. Let good
aud not evil be your end and aim.