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SOWING AND

SOWING AND REAPING.
The Inter Ocean publishes the follow
j. H. Barrows, of Chicago:
BE not deceived. God is not Knocked, for
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
Since that third epoch in creation,
when God made the fruit tree yielding
fruit after its kind, the great law Of
sowing andreaping 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 in life and character
as in the garden, the orchard and the
corn-feld. He who sows evil and hopes
to reap good is hooking 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 a government of law and
order. The farmer who plants corn in
May will not gather sugar-cane from
that seed in September. Nature is not
q freakish mistress, but q 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-
wards of life. Human experience and
the word of God do not encourage men
to believe this doctrine. The late Presi-
dent Chadhourne, of Williams College,
said of General Garfield that he remem-
bered him as the student who never
"ffunked," 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 universe
ties have been the men pre-eminent in
the world of active life. That Liver
pool lad who led his class in Elton and
took the double-first degree in Oxford
is the Prime Minister Of England to-
day and has long been
1.-THE pillar of a peoples hope,
The center of 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 that employ $4,000 persons.
A member of this club told me that he
had seen the great majority Of these
sixty men when they came to Chicago
with scarcely a 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-
travagance in youth are to be the seeds
of honor and prosperity in middle life.
Most Of these men and most of Chi
cago's most prosperous citizens to-day
have no sympathy with loose princi-
pies, and l have the conviction that the
great majority Of the sixty-four million
aires whose names were published the
first of this year have regard to the
Lords word, and will be found listen
ing to it on the Lords 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 a little
draught of forbidden pleasure. 0 what
m%ultitudes are shared by a prurient
curiosity! They want to ssee life'' in
the great city, which means dabbling
in corruption, poisoning the mind with
impure sights and memories. A man
can not take fire into his bosom and not
be burned. The hospitals are filled
with loathsome wretches who only be-
gan by i%ndulging 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: Gone glass
can never harm me-" ''There is no
DANGER many a young man saws. sin
occasionally visiting the saloons" The
prisons are crowded with men who be-
gan with little thefts and dishonesties.
God is not Knocked.
We see men about us in political life
who had by nature noble traits, n
Gus enthusiams, but who in the pres
ence of temptation let down the bars OF
moral honor just a little, and are TO-DAY
moral bankrupts, the reproach 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 are to make the blessedness OF
ruin OF twenty years from now, we give
them the best part of their education.
Gods laws are not to be safely broken,
and you should SO respect the Divine
earnestness and the Divine truthfulness
as to live for the future, fearing, amono
other things, to transgress the laws 81
physical health by late hours, little
sleep, Incorporate eating, vicious
pleasures, the indulgence Of harmful
Injuries, and a hundred other WAYS If
which young people are storing up fol
middle life, it they ever reach it, the
seeds OF weakness, disease and death,
rearing God means that you are te
understand that Gods laws are not tc
| be altered for the hanafit Of ua.. -