The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-25

fence, and he plOwed it very deep, and
then complained that he had not found
the money; but when the crop had been
gathered and sold for al hundred dollars
more than any previous year then the
young man took the hint as to what his
father meant when he said there were
hundred dollars buried down in that
field. Deep plowing for crop. Deep
blowing for q soul. He who makes light
of sin will never amount to anything In
the church or in the world. If a man
speaks of sin as though 1t were an in
accuracy or a mistake instead or the
lOathsOme, abOminable, consuming and
damning thing that God hates, that man
will never yield a harvest of usefulness.
When was boy plOwed field with
team of spirited horses. l plOwed 1t
very quickly. Once in while l passed
over some of the sod without turning 1t,
but did not jerk back the plOw with its
rattling devices. L thought it made no
difference. After awhile my father came
along and said: why, this will never
do; this isn't plOwed deep enough; there,
you have missed this and you have missed
that" And he plOwed 1t over again. The
difficulty with a great many people is
that they are only scratched with con-
VictiOn, when the subSOil plOw Of Gods
truth ought to be put in up to the beam.
My word is to all Sabbath-schOOl
teachers, to all parents, to all Christian
workers: PlOw deep! PlOw deepl Aud If
in your own personal experience you are
apt to take lenient view of the sinful
side of your nature put down into your
soul the Ten COMMANDMENTS, which re-
| veal the holiness of God, and that sharp
| and glittering coulter wall turn up your
| soul to the deepest depths. IL man
breaches to you that you are only lit
tie out of order by reason of sin, and
| that you need only little fixing up, he
deceivesl You have suffered an appall-
ing injury by reason of sin. There are
| quick pOiaOns and slow pOisOns, but the
druggist could give you one drop that
would kill the body, and sin is like
that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, so
| fatal that one drop is enough to kill the
soul. Deep blowing for a crop, deep
| blowing for a soul. Broken heart or no
| religion; broken soil or no harvest. Why
was it that David the good and the pub.
| lican and Paul made such ado about
their sinsP Had they lost their sensesP
| No. The plOwshare struck them; cOnvic-
ton turned up great many things that
| we're forgotten, as farmer plOWing
sometimes turns up skeleton of man
| or the anatomy of a monster long ago
buried, so the plOwshare of conviction
turns up the CHASTITY skeletons of sins
long ago entOmbed. Biologists never
brought up from the depths of the noun
tain mightier ichtbyOsaurus or mega
therium.
But what means all this crooked plOw-
ing, these crooked furrOWs, the repent
ance that amounts to nothing. the re-
pentance that ends in nOthingp Men
groan over their sins, but get no better
They weep, but their tears are not
counted. They get convicted, but not
converted. What is the reason? 1 re-
member that on the farm we set stand.
ard with red flag at the other end OF
the field. We kept our eye on that
We aimed at that. We plOwed up to
that. Losing sight of that, we made a
crooked furrOw. Keeping our eye on
that, we made straight furrOw. Now, III
this matter of conviction we must have
some standard to guide US. 1t Is q
red standard that God has set at the
other end of the field. 1t is the cross
Keeping your eye on that, you will
make straight furrow. Losing sight
of it you will make a crooked furrOw
PlOw up to the cross. Aim not at either
end of the horizontal piece of the cross
but at the upright piece, at the center Oi
il, the heart of the son of God, who bore
J your sins and made satisfaction. Hin
hath God exalted to be Prince and 6
Savior, to give repentance" Oh, plOW
up to the crOssl
1 Il
: field, there must be a sowing. In thu
autumnal weather you find the farmer
going across the field at stride of abOu
, % inches, and at every stride he puts hi:
! hand into the bag of grain and sprinklel
! the seed corn over the field. 1t looks sill
ly to a man who does not know what hC
I is doing. He is doing very impOrtan
, work. He is scattering the winter grain
, and though the snow may come the mex
l l mir tharn Wi a
} that is what we do when we preach tht
!: gospel, we are scattering the seed. 1t il
! the fOOlishneSs of preaching, but it il
the winter grain, and though the snow
of wOrldlineSS may come down upon 1t
} it will yield after awhile glorious har
, vest. Let US be sure we SOW the righ
; kind of seed. Sow MULLEN stalk, ant
3 mullen stalk will come up; sow Canadi
thistle, and Canada thistle will up; sOv
l wheat and wheat will come up. Let u
} distinguish between truth and error.
The largest stdenOminatiOn in the cOun
, try are the nOthingarians. Their relig
ion is system of negatiOns. YOI: say L
> one of them: What do you believer
l "Well, don't believe in infant baptism
8 "Well, what do you believer" well,
don't believe in the perseverance of tn
8 saints" "Well, now, tell me what yOl
3 do believer" "Well, don't believe il
eternal punishment" SO their religion
9 a row of ciphers. Believe something an
!, teach 1t; or, to resume the figure of m
1 text,scatter abroad the right kind of seed
: A minister In New York the other da
!, preached a sermon calculated to set tn
i denominations of Christians quarrelinC
: He was sowing nettles. A minister i
Boston the other day advertised that h
would preach a sermon on the superior
r ity of transcendental and organized fol
3 ees to untranscendental and unOTgani
f zed forces. What was he sowing? Tn
q Lord Jesus Christ nineteen centuries ag
n planted the divine seed of doctrine.
, spTang up. On one side of the stalk ar
Q all the churches of ChristendOm; on tn
: other side are all the free government
9 of the earth, and on the top there sha
y be a towering millennium after awhil,
y All from the gospel seed of doctrine. EN
: cry word q parent or Sabbath-schOC
Il teacher or city missionary or OtherChrii
Q tian worker speaks for Christ comes vi
t Yes, 1t comes up with compound inteI
/ est; you saving one soul, that one savin
Q ten, the ten hundred, the hundred
II Thousand, on, on forever.
Again, remark, in grace as in tn
r farm thara muak ha a harrOWinO I r,