Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-11
SOWING WILD OATS

SOWINU WILD UAISs lt-
The Inter Ocean publishes the follow
ing synopsis of recent sermon by Rev.
j. H. Barrows, of Chicago: - r7
"a BE not deceived. God is not Knocked, FOR
whatsoever man soweth that shall he also
reap. He that soweth TO the flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to
| the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life ever
lasting."-Gdi. vi, rs. -
Since that third epoch in creation.
when God made the fruit tree yielding
fruit after. its kind, the great law of
sowing and reaping that which has been
sowed has continued, and the Script
ures and human experience teach us
that this is the material side of an uni
versal law, as true i'm life and character
as in the garden, the orchard and the
corn-tield. HeFwho sows evil and hopes
to reap good is knocking at God. But
God cannot successfully be treated with
contempt. Chance does not rule in the
system of things under which we live.
We are under Il government of law and
order. The Eirmerwho plants corn in
May will not gather sugar-cane from
that seed in September. Nature is not
freakish mistress, but wise and or
derby mother, The reign of law, or. to
speak more actually, the reign of God
by law, Is universal -. -
Our homes, and schools, and stores.
and streets contain MANY who seem, to
imagine that they can sow idleness and
dissipation and yet reap the substantial
|, fruits of character and the enduring re- re,
wards of life, Human experience and
the word of God do not encourage men
to believe this doctrine. Thellate Presi-
dent Chadbourne, of Williams College,
said of General Garfield that he remem-
bered him as the student who never
. flunked, and he recalled the story
of Wellington, the hero of Waterloo,
who affirmed that that victory was won
on the Elton playground. Lord Ma
cauley said that, as a rule. the men
who stand first in the English unixersi-
ties have been the men .pre7eminent, in
the world of active life. That Liver
pool lad who led his class in Elton and
took the double-iiist degree in Oxford
is the Prime Minister of England to-
day and has long been "a -,.s..1
IJ}4 THE pillar of peoples hope. 80,
The center or the worlds desire"
The Commercial Club of this CITY
has in its membership sixty of the lead
ing business men of Chicago. represent
ing firms thut employ 4S,o00- persons.
A member Of this clubfoM me that he
had seen the great majority of these
sixty men when they came to Chicago
with scarcely dollar in their pockets.
Most of them are of New England
| Puritan stock-men who have no SYM
pathy with the notion that dissolute-
ness, Incidence and short-sighted ex-
traya9ance in youth are to be the seeds
OF honor and prosperity in middle life.
Most of these men and most of Chi
I cago's.most prosperous citizens to-day
have no sympathy with loose princi-
pies, and have the conviction that the
great majority of the sixty-four million
aires whose names were published the
flrst of this year have regard to the
Lords word, and will be found listen
ing to it on the Lord day.
Young men are often disposed to act
on the theory that the beginnings of
evil are harmless; that it will not be
| dangerous for them Just to sip little
| draught of forbidden pleasure. Owhat
multitudes are shared by a prurient
! curiosity! They want to s-see lfe', in
the great city, which means dabbling
in corruption, poisoning the mind with
! 1AupOiS SlSlllo anu n HAN
can not take fire into his bosom and not
be Burned The hospitals are filled
with loathsome wretches who only be-
gan by indulging in impure desires
The vast army of drunkards all came
+ from the immense ranks of the moder-
ate drinkers. The insane asylums are
filled with men who said: Zone glass
can never harm me-" There is no
danger" many a Young man says, sin
occasionally visiting the saloons" The
prisons are crowded with men who, be-
gan with little thefts and dishonesties.
| God is not Knocked. .....o,s -
/, We see men about us in political life
| who had by nature noble traits, gener-
Gus enthusiarfis, but who in the pres
ence of temptation let down the bars of
moral honor just ittle,f and are to-day
moral .bankrupts, the reproaeA of our
city, Ii we can get young men to
understand that the habits of mind and
life which hold to-day are the forces
which ares TO make the biessedness or
ruin of twenty years from now, we give
them the best part of their education.
God laws are not to be safely broken,
/ and you should so respect the Divine
earnestness and the Divine triIthfulness
as TO live for the future, fearing, among
other things to transgress the laws of
physical heaithIby llatec1hours little
sleep, Incorporate - eating, vicious
pleasures, the Indulgence of harmful
Injuries, and hundred other ways in
which young people are storing up for
middle life, if they ever reach, it, the
seeds Of weakness, disease and death.
Fearing God means that you are to
understand, that Gods laws are nototD
be altered for, the benefit of your; sins,
and that next year will not make ,up for
| to-day. sissssioo
Few habits formed in childhood and
youth are equally valuable with the
habit of reading good booksr II is the
gbeginningof thatculture which Matthew
Arnold defines as knowing the best that
has been thought and written. It is a
mental, employment. which saves the
mind from dissipation and the life from
ennui,a and often from vice. Carlyfe
says that his university course wHs
chiefly valuable to him in. that it taught
him TO read, TO read wisely, with a dis
flplined mind, in several languages.
And there is no surer sign 81 a bad edn-
cation than an indispositiop TO become
{ acquainted with some part Of tkewof1d' s
inteiiectual treasure house And there
Esisinething more perilous to young men
than the habit OF: filing the mind with
the scandal, and crime which certain
representatives of the Industrious ptess
scrape together from the four quarters
OF the globe. ~ ~ F.ss,ssss =, 5fs,s. =.
r. There is no question of greater mo-
ment to the American people to-day
than that of the reading which. is put
T into tlie hands Of the young. Let me
furnish the books which make up the
mental life of the rising generation and
i win shape the national future. There
| Is no excuse for not owning and reading
good books today. They.can be had al
Qne-ffth Their. former price. No great