Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-08-21

teach II; OF, to resume the figure OF my
text, scatter abroad the right kind Of
seed.
A minister in New York preached .
sermon calculated to set Hhe denomina-
lions Of Christians quarreling. He was
sowing nettles. A minister in Boston
advertised that he would preach q SER
mon on the superiority Of transcendental
and organized forces TO untranscendental
and unorganized forces. What was he
towing? The Lord Jesus Christ nine
teen centuries ago planted the divine
seed Of doctrine. II sprang up. On one
tide Of the stalk are all the churches Of
IChristendom. On the other side Of the
stalk are all the free governments of the
sarth. and on the top there shall be
lowering millennium after while. All
from the Gospel seed Of doctrine. Every
word that a parent, or Sabbath-school
teacher, or city missionary, or other
Christian worker speaks for Christ comes
up. Yea, It comes up with compound
lnterest--you saving one soul, that one
saving ten, the ten q hundred, the hum
dred thousand, the thousand ten thou
sand, the ten thousand one hundred thou
sand-On. on forever.
Again I remark. in grace as in the
farm there must be narrowing. re-
fer now not TO q harrow that goes over
the held In order TO prepare the ground
for the seed, but harrow which goes
over after the seed Is sown, lest the birds
pick up the seed, sinking 1t down into
the earth 80 that 1t can take root. There
are new kinds Of harrow, but the harrow
as remember 1t was made Of bars Of
wood nailed across each other, and the
under side of each bar was furnished
with sharp teeth, and when the horses
were hitched to 1t 1t went tearing and
Ileaping across the field, driving the seed
down into the earth until 1t sprung up In
the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow,
persecution are the Lords harrows to
sink the Gospel truth into your heart.
There were truths that you heard thirty
Years ago that have not affected you un-
til recently. Some great trouble came
over yon, and the truth was narrowed
in, and it has come up. What did God
mean in this country in 1857? For
century there was the Gospel preached,
but great deal OF it produced no result.
Then God harnessed wild panic to q
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 the whole land was
torn to pieces as it had never been be-
fore. 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.
Il The Saviour folds lamb In his bosom.
The little child filed all the house with
her music, and her toys are scattered all
up and down the stairs just as she left
them. What II the hand that plucked
o'clocks out of the meadow is still? 1t
will wave the eternal triumph What II
the voice that made music in the home is
still? 1t will sing the eternal hosaRna.
Put white rose in one hand and q red
rose in the other hand, and wreath Of
, orange blossoms on the brow; the white
flower for the victory, the red flower for
the Saviour's sacrifice, the orange bios
SONS for her marriage day. Anything
! CHASTITY about that? Oh, no. The sun went
down and the flower shut. The wheat
threshed out of the straw. ''Dear Lord,
, give me Sleep" said dying boy. the son
: Of one Of my elders; "Dear Lord, give
, me sleep.
So it may be with us when our work is
all done. 'sDear Lord, give me Sleep
have one more thought to present.
have spoken Of the plowing, Of the
sowing, of the narrowing, Of the reap
: ing, of the threshing. must now speak
. moment Of the garnering.
Where Is the garner? Need tell you?
Oh, no. So many have gone out from
your own circles yea, from your own
family-that you have had your eyes on
that garner for many a year. What a
, hard time some Of them had! In Geth-
, semanes of suffering they sweat great
drops of blood. They took the ''cup Of
, trembling" and they put it to their hot
! lips and they cried: ''If it be possible,
let this cup pass from me-" With
tongues of burning agony they
! cried: 80 Lord, deliver my soulr'
But they got over it. They all
got over it. Garnered! Their tears
wiped away; their battles all ended
! their burdens lifted. Garnered! The
i Lord of the harvest will not allow those
sheaves to perish in the equinox. Gar
neredl Some of us remember, on the
! farm, that the sheaves were put on the
: top of the rack which surmounted the
: wagon, and these sheaves were piled
higher and higher, and after while the
) horses started for the barn; and these
. sheaves swayed to and fro in the wind,
| and the old wagon creaked, and the
} horses made struggle and pulled so
; hard the harness came up in loops OF
> leather on their backs, and when the
: front wheel struck the elevated floor Of
I the barn it seemed as If the load would
I 20 no farther until the workmen gave a
: great shout, and then with one last
} tremendous strain the horses pulled in
the load; then they were embarrassed
| and forkful after forkful Of grain fell
, | into the NOW. Oh, nay friends, our get
! ting into heaven may be pull, q hard
9 pull, very hard pull; but these sheayes
! are bound to go in. The Lord OF the
4 harvest has promised it. see the load
D at last coming in the door of the
0 Heavenly garner. The sheaves Of the
Christian soul sway to and fro in the
d wind of death, and the old body creaks
q under the load, and as the load strikes
8 the floor Of the celestial garner 1t seems
: as If it can go no farther. 1t is the last
. struggle, until the voices of angels ant
9 the voices Of our departed kindred ant
= the welcoming voice OF God shall sen6
v the harvest rolling into the eter1a
+ triumph, while all up and down the SKI
! the cry is heard: Harvest home
!, Harvest homep
. FICTITIOUS Boom.
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