The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-08-20

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year there will be great crop. Now,
that is what we are doing whom we are
preaching the gospel--we are scattering
the seed. 1t is the foolishness Of preach
ing, but II Is the winter grain; and
though the snow Of worldliness may
come down upon it It will yield after
awhile glorious harvest. Let us bc sure
we SOW the right kind Of seed. Sow null
len stock and mullen stock 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 helle-
bore, oats and henbane.
The largest denomination in this coun-
try Is the denomination OF Nothing
arians. Their religion is q system Of
negations. You say to one Of them,
What do you believer" well, ! don't
believe in infant baptism" what do
you believer swell, I don't believe
in the perseverance of the saints"
well, now tell me what you do be-
lieve." "WelI l don't believe in the
eternal punishment Of the wicked" So
their religion is row Of cyphers. Be-
lieve something and teach 1t; or, TO re-
sumo the figure Of my text, scatter
abroad the right kind Of seed
A minister in New York preached a
sermon calculated to set the denomina-
tions Of Christians quarreling. He was
sowing nettles., A minister in Boston
advertised that he would preach SER
mon on the superiority Of transcendental
and organised forces to untranscendentai
and unorganized forces. What was he
sowingp The Lord Jesus Christ nine
teen centuries ago planted the divine
seed Of doctrine. II sprang up. On one
side Of the stalk are all the churches OF
Christendom. On the other side Of the
stalk are all the free governments Of
the earth, and on the top there shall be
Towering millennium after awhile.
All from the Gospel seed OF Doctrine.
Every word that parent, or Sabbath
school teacher. or city missionary, or
other Christian worker speaks for Christ
comes up Yea, 1t comes up with com
pound interest-you sowing one soul,
that one saving ten, the ten hundred,
the hundred q thousand, the thousand
ton thousand the tan tbousaud one
hundred tbousand-on. ON forever.
Again, I remark, in grace as in the
farm there must be a narrowing. / refer
not now to harrow that goes over the
tba saed but a harrow which goes over
o,tar tba seed is sown. lest the birds
nick nm the seedsI sinking Il down into
tba aartb 40 that n cau talSe root There
ave- nav kinds of harrow. but the har-
row az 7 remember K vas made Of bars
Of wood nailed across each other. and
the underside Of eachi ibar was furnished
With sbarn teeth. and when the horses
were hitched to 1t, II won't tearine and
leaning across the field, driving the
seed down in the earth until Il sprung
M in the harvest Bereayement
sorrow, persecution arc the Lords
harrows TO sfnk the gospel truth
into your hesrk ! Theso we're truths
that You heard ifty years ago, that
have not affected YOU until recently.
Some rfcat trouble came over you. aad
the truth was narrowed in, and II has
come up. What aid God mean In this
country in 1s573 For a century there
was the gospel preached, but a great
deal OF Il produced no resnlt Then God
harnessed wild panic TO harrow Of
commercial disaster, and that harrow
went down Wall street and up Wall
street down Third street and up Third
street down State street and up State
street until tho whole land was torn TO
pieces as II had never been before.
What followed the harrow? A great
awakening in which there were 500, 900
souls brought into the kingdom OF our
Lord. No harrow, no crop. at
Again i renark I'm graoe. a. ON the
farm there must be reapine. MANY
Cbristians sneak Of religion "a though Il
were . matter Of economics or insur-
anco Tbov ernect 10 rean I'm the next
world. Oh mol Now is the time TO reap.
Gather nm the low Of the Christian relir.
ion this morninS. this afternoono this
njoht n Won have not az mnch grace
az Won would like 70 have. thank God
for what Won have. and pray for more.
Won ara ns vorxe enslaved than Josepb.
No vorsn troubled than was David. no
mora scouroed than was Paul. Yet
amid the rattlinp Of fetters. and amid
,ho Gloon, q, dnngeona md amid the
ho.,or =, shinv,acp thav tri,mnhad IN
oo. =. 1872 nS rS .nsf. -
nara b.s 600 acres Of spiritual nov ali
hua. Wby do YOU not 70 and reap Il? You
haye beef efoanine over your iniirmf.