Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-28

quickly. Once in a while / passed over som,
OF the sod without turning il, but 1 did no
jerk back the pillow with its rafting clevises
thought it made no difference After
while my father came along and said
why, this will never do; this isn't plowec
deep enough; there you have missed this and
you have missed that" And he plowed il
over again. The difficulty with a great
many people is that they are only scratched
with conviction when the subsoil pillow 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
pillow deepl pillow deepl
And if in your own personal experience
you are apt to take a lenient view of the
sinful side Of your nature put down into
your soul the ten commandments which
reveal the holiness of God, and that sharp
and glittering coulter will turn up your
soul to the deepest depths. II a man
breaches TO you that you are only little
out of order by reason of sin and that you
need only little fixing up, he deceives You
have suffered an appalling injury by reason
of sin. There are quick poisons 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 crop. Deep blowing
Broken soul or no harvest. Why was it
that David and the jailer and the publican
and Paul made such ado about their sins?
Had they lost their sensesg No. The plow-
share struck them. Conviction turned up
great many things that were forgotten. As
a farmer blowing sometimes turns up the
skeleton of a man or the anatomy of a mon
ster long ago buried, so the plowshare OF
conviction turns up the CHASTITY skeletons of
sin infnmhRn-
brought up from the depths OF the mountain
mightier ichthyosaurus or megatherium.
But what means all this crooked blowing,
these crooked burrows, the repentance that
amounts TO nothing, the repentance that ends
in nothingy Men groan over their sins, but
get no better. They weep but their tears
ara not counted. They get convicted, but
not converted. What is the reason2 / re-
member that on the farm we set standard
with a 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 crooked furrow. Keeping our
eyes on that we made a straight furrow.
Now in this matter of conviction We must
have some standard to guide us. 1t is a 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 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 centre OF it
the heart of the Son of God, who bore your
sins and made satisfaction. Crying and
weeping will not bring you through. Him
hath God exalted TO be Prince and Saviour
to give repentance Oh, pillow up TO the
cross,
Again remark, in grace as In the field
there must be a sowing. In the autumn
weather you find the farmer going across
the field at a stride Of about twenty-three
inches, and at every stride he puts his hand
into the sack of grain and he sprinkles the
seed corn over the field. II looks silly to a
man who does not know what he is doing.
He is doing a very important work. He Is
the winter grain, and though the
snow may come, the next year there will be
a great crop. Now, that is what we are
doing when we are preaching the Gospel
we are scattering the seed. 1t Is the foolish
ness of preaching but il Is the winter grain;
and though the snow OF worldliness may
come upon il. it will yield after a while |
slorious harvest. Letus be sure we SOW the
right kind of seed. Sow mullen stalk and
mullen stalk will come up. Sow Canada
thistles and Canada thistles will come up.
Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us
distinguish between truth and error. Let US
know the difference between wheat and he'll I
ebore oats and henbane.
The largest denomination in this country
Is the denomination Of Nothingarians Their !
religion is a system OF negations. You say
10 one of them; What do you believer I
''Well, / don't believe in infant baptism +
What do you believer well / don't be /
ieve in the perseverance of the saints /
'Well, now tell me what you do believer 1
well, don't believe In the eternal punish 4
nent of the wicked" 50 their religion Is a I
row OF cyphers. Believe something and /
each IL; or, 70 resume the figure Of my text /
icatter abroad the right kind of seed.
A minister in New York preached a SER
non calculated to set the denominations OF l
Christians quarreling. He was sowing net
les. A minister in Boston advertised that
ie would preach a sermon on the superiority
II transcendental and organized forces to un-
and unorganized forces I
What was he sowing' The Lord Jesus Christ
nineteen centuries ago planted the divine
eed OF doctrine. IL sprang up. On one side
4 the stalk are all the churches of Christen-
lom. On the other side of the stalk are all
he free Governments of the earth, and on
he top there shall be Towering milleD-
Iium after a while. All from the Gospel seed
4 doctrine Every word that a parent, or
teacher, OF city missionary,
n other Christian worker speaks for Christ !
ONES up. Yea, it comes up with compound
saving one soul that one saw
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the thousand ten thousand. the ten
thousand one hundred thousand-on. on for
yer
Again remark in grace as in the farm
here must be q narrowing. / refer now not
o harrow that goes over the field in order
o prepare the ground for the seed, but har-
ow which goes over after the seed Is sown,
est the birds pick up the seed, sinking it down
nto the earth so that it can take root. There
ire new kinds of harrow. but the harrow as
remember it was made of bars Of wood
JAILED across each other. and the under side
4 each bar was furnished with sharp teeth,
md when the horses were hitched to tit went
caring and leaping across the field, driving
he seed down into the earth until it sprung
Up In the harvest Bereavement, sorrow,
are the Lords harrows TO sink
he Gospel truth into your heart. There were
ruths that you heard thirty years ago that
lave not affected you until recently. Some
,reat trouble came over you, and the truth
vas narrowed in, and it has come up. What
lid God mean in this country in 1857 For
century there was the Gospel preached, but
great deal Of it produced no result. Then
sod harnessed a wild panic to a harrow of
disaster, and that harrow went
Town Wall street and up Wall street. down
Third street and up Third street down State
treet and up State street. until the whole
and was torn to pieces as it never had been
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