San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-01
SOWING AND REAPING.
The Evangelist MoOdy's Eloquent
Discourse Last Night.
A Fixed Law Of Nature, What Shall the
Harvest Be2-Liquor Sellers Cannot
Afford to Sell Spirits.

than ordinary excitement and their well
come was a very enthusiastic one.
Three services were held yesterday at
the First Presbyterian Church, the first
at s O'Clock in the morning for Chris
tians, at 3 o'clock for women only, and
an night meeting for men only. All
three of the meetings were crowded and
before the services commenced, even
standing room was at a premium. The
meeting for men could not have
been attended by less than 800 persons,
and over 200 people were unable to
enter the church. The services were
conducted on the usual revival
plan, the choir singing the several
hymns selected for the evening very
creditably, and Mr.. Sankey was listened
attentively while he sang three solos,
his resonant and powerful voice fill
ing every corner of the editice
with melody. The congregation were
also requested by Mr.. Moody to join in
singing two or three bym and after
Offering up fervent prayer, Mr.. Moody
called the attention or the congregation
to a text to be found in the sixth chap
ter of Paul's letter TO the Galatians
and The 9TH verse, BE not deceived, God
is not Knocked; for whatsoever man
soweth, that shall he also reap Mr..
Moody said: 1 believed that text of 70
years ago and | believe it 100 times
more tonight than did then, it is one Of
The truths that has be n growing on me
and it burns deeper and deeper in my
soul. 70 the skeptiC who does not be-
lieve the Bible here Is line that you
might as we'll try to pluck the sun out
of the heavens as 10 pluck out this truth.
Close up the Bible and take history or
the daily papers and you will lind that
here is an unalterable law, 1t is newt
able and it applies to saint and sinner
alike. 1t is a decree OF eternal nature
that man shall reap the same kind of
seed that he sows, though the devil tries
TO tell you it is not SO. Mr..
Moody stated that he preached on the
same text some years ago, aud man
jumped up on his feet and said, II don't
believe it," That did not change the
fact, however; his not believing it, the
truth remained, and he went OUT, and
when outside he was arrested, TWO men
having a warrant for him; he was tried
for stealing and sent to the pententiary.
That thing was troubling him and he did
not like that kind of text, his conscience
troubled him; some of them might get
up and 90 out, but If they saw q man go
out tonight they might know he was
wounded Qaughter.)
Pointing to the crowd OF boys seated
in front of him, the evangelist said:
These boys know what it is TO he de-
ceived; they have been deceived by
their own hearts, but it was folly and
madness for a man to think he can de-
ceive the Almighty God who knows the
ways of all men; you cannot conceal any
thing from him, for he can read our
tn lights as we'll as you and ],
can read a book and the difference or
the God of the Bible and the God of this
World is right here; the God of this
World is the devil, and every man in
here tonight that ID away from God is
with the God of this World, and his own
deceitful heart; the God of the Bible
never has, never will and never can de-
ceive anyone, and when he tells you you
are going to reap what you sow you had
better believe it.
Mr.. Moody then divided this subject
of sowing and reaping into four parts:
THAT man expects to reap when he
sows.
2.-He expects to reap sometime.
3.-He expects to reap more than he
sows.
3.-Ignorance and crime will make no
difference.
He sows on hopes and looks forward
to the harvest, to the reaping time. A
man expects to reap the same kind of
seed that he sOws; if he sOws wheat he
did not look for corn, If he sowed pota-
toes he did not look for cucumbers.
If he stood there and told them he
sowed 10 acres of..wheat and barley
came up they would not believe
him, they knew it was fixed
law OF nature; if they SOW wheat, wheat
is going to come; if they sOwed tares,
tares are going to come. He wanted to
tell them he did not know of any other
truth in that book that was so solemn
to him, on this very fact Of God making
man reap the same kind Of seed that he
sows. The preacher cited the case of q
father telling hi5 son to tell neighbOr
that he was not in when he called and
said that If he taught the boy to lie to
some one else he would lie to him; if he
taught the boy to curse God, it would
not be long before he cursed him. "You
teach your clerks" continued the
preacher, to cheat your customers and it
won't be long before they will tell you
lies and stick their hand into your till and
take some money. | believe that is the
reason for the number of defaulters and
forgers; their oonsciences have been tam
pered with. On the subject of the Sab
bath dissertation Mr.. Moody spoke
earnestly, stating that employers
were teaching their clerks to
break the Sabbath and he did
NOT know which was worse, to steal
money from mans pocket or to steal
the Sabbath from God; one was black
a crime as the other.
II tell you this nation is going down
in blood, IL you give up the Sabbath. |
say to the working men, don't you give
up the Sabbath, or you will work and
get no more for seven days than you do
now for the six," and he referred them
to the workmen OF Paris for an example,
who were working for 70 cents day;
bod carriers and laborers who were lust
being ground down by capitalists. He
alluded to the many times sceptics had
come to him and brought up Jacob and
David as characters, derisively alluding
to them. That was justwhat the matter
was, they were stumbling over Jacob
to-day; II they took the lives of these
two men they would find they had TO
reap just what they sowed. They would
remember how Jacob lied to his old
father, and passed himself of as Esau,
and by his downright rascality and fraud
TO which his mother Rebecca was a
party, he got the birthright, but he
would tell them that when he did so, il
was the dearest bargain he ever had in
his life. II they got dollar dishonesty
IL WaR mighty hard tn kaan n