Connecticut western news., 1890-08-20

we must have some standard to guide us It is red standard that God has set at the other end of the field. It is the cross. Keeping your eye on that you will make straight furrow. Los ing sight of it you will make crooked furrow. Flow up to the cross. Aim not at either end of the horizontal piece of the cross, but at the upright piece, at the center 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, blow up to the cross
 SCATTERING THE SEEDS OF THE COS
 PEEL.
 Again I remark, in grace as in the field there must be a sowing In the autuInnA weather you find the farmer going across the field at Z. 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. It looks silly to man who does not know what he is doing He is doing very important work. He is scattering the winter grain, and though the snow may come the next year therc will be 8 great crop. Now, that is what we are doing when we are preaching the gospel-we are scatter ing the seed. It is the foolishness ot preaching, but it is the winter grain and though the snow of worldliness may come down upon 1t, it will yield after awhile glorious harvest. Let us 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. Iset us know the difference between wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane.
 The largest denomination in this country is the denomination of Moth ingaians. Their religion is a system ot negations. You say to one of them, ''What do you belicve" ''Well, don't believe in infant baptism" "What do you believe" 'Wen, don't believe in the perseverance of the saints Y "Wel, now tell me what you do be. lieve7' 'Wen, I don't believe in the eternal punishment of the wicked. ' So their religion is row of cyphers. Believe something and teach it; or, te resume the figure of my text, scatter abroad the right kind of seed.
 A minister in New York preached g sermon calculated to set the denomina, tions of Christians quarreling. He wal sowing nettles A minister in Boston advertised that he would preach ser mon on the superiority of transcenden tai and organized forces to untranscen dental and unorganized forces. What was he sowing? The Lord Jesus Chris1 nineteen centuries ago planted the di vine seed of doctrine. It spranl up. On one side of the stalk are al the churches of Christendom. On tn. other side of the stalk are all the ire, governments of the earth, and on thu top there shall be a towering milleniun after awhile. All from the gospel seet of doctrine. Every word that parent or Sabbath school teacher, or city mis sionary or other Christian worke speaks for Christ comes up. Yea, i comes up with compound interest you having one soul, that one saving ten, the ten hundred, the hundred { thousand, the thousand ten thousand the ten thousand one. hundred thou sand-on, on forever.
 A NARROWING AND REAPING.
 Again I remark, in grace as in tht farm there must be a narrowing. I re fer not to harrow that goes over tht field in order to prepare the ground fol the seed, but a harrow which goes ovel after the seed is sown, lest the birdl pick up the seed, sinking it down inte the earth so that it can take root There are new kinds of harrow, but the harrow as remember it was made of bars of wood nailed across each other and the under side of each bar wa. furnished with sharp teeth, and wher the horses were hitched to it it went tearing and leaping across the field driving the seed down into the eartl until it sprung up. in the harvest. Be reavement, sorrow, persecution are tht Lords halrows to sink the gospe truth into your heart. There were truth that you heard thirty years ago that hav' not affected you until recently. Som. great trouble came over you, and tn. truth was narrowed i'll, and it has cons up. What did God mean in this coun try in 18572 For century there wa! the gospel preached, but great dea l of it produced no result. Then Got harnessed wild panic to harrow O. commercial disaster, and that harrow | went down Wall street and up Wal street, down Third street and up Yhirl l street, down State street and up State l street, until the whole land was torn to pieces as it had never been before. l What followed the harrow2 A great l awakening in which there were 500, ,OOC souls brought into the kingdom of oul Lord. No harrow, no crop.
 Again 1 remark, in grace as in the farm there must be reaping. Many Christians speak of religion as though 1t were matter of economics or insur ance They expect to reap in the nex1 world. Oh no! Now is the time te reap. Gather up the joy of the Chris tian religion this morning, this after noon, this night. If you have not a! much grace as you would like to have thank God for what you have and pray for more.. You are no worse enslavet than Joseph, no worse troubled thar l was David, no worse scourged than wa: