Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-09-04

have been rooted shd matted in the. .souks
A farmer said to his indolent son: 'Thefo
are hundred dollars buried deep in that
field" The son went to work and he
plowed the field from fence to fence, and
he plowed it very deep, and then COM
planned that he had not found tho money;
but when the crop had been gathered and
sold for q hundred dollars more than any
previous year, then the young man took
the hint as to what his father meant when
he said there were hundred dollars bur-
ried down in that field. Deep blowing for
a crop. Deep blowing for soul. He who
makes light Of sin will never amount to
anything in the church or in the world. II
man speaks Of sin as though it were an
inaccuracy or o mistake, instead of the
loathsome, abominable, consuming and
damning thing that God hates, that man
will never yield harvest Of usefulness.
When was boy plowed field with
team Of spirited horses. plowed it very
quickly. Once in a while I passed over
some Of the sod without turning it, but
did not jerk back the pillow with its rattling
clevises. l thought it made no difference.
After awhile my father came along and
said: 'Why, this will never do; this isn't
plowed deep enough; there you have missed
this and you have missed that" And he
plowed it over again. The difficulty with
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.
NV word is to all Sabbath-school teachers,
to all parents, to all Christian wol ..,cs-
Pillow deep! And if in your own personal
experience you are apt to take 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. If q man
breaches to you that you are only little
out of order by reason of sin and that you
need only little ixing-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 plow-
| ing for a soul Broken heart or no relig-
ion. Broken soul or no harvest. Why was
it that David and the jailer and the publ
can and Paul made such ado about their
sins! Had they lost their sensesa No.
|
turned up great many things that were
forgotten. AS farmer blowing some
times turns up the skeleton Of a man or the
anatomy Of a monster long ago buried, so
the plowshare Of conviction turns up the
CHASTITY skeletons of sin long ago entombed.
Biologists never brought up from the
depths of the mountain mightier ichthyo-
saurus or megatherium. g
| But what means all this crooked plow-
ing, these crooked burrows, the repentance
that amounts to nothing the repentance
that ends in nothing! Men groan over
their sins, but get no better. They weep,
but their tears arc not counted. They
get convicted, but not converted. What is
the reason! I remember that on the farm
we set a standard with 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 a
crooked furrow. Keeping our eyes on that
we made straight furrOw. Now in this
matter Of conviction we must have some
standard to guide US. 1t is 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 q straight furrow.
Losing sight Of it you will make O crooked
furrow. Plow up to the cross. Aim not
at either end of the horizontal piece Of The
cross but ut 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
a Saviour to give repentance" Oh, plow
up to the crossl
Again, remark, in grace as in the field
there must be sowing In the autumna
weather you find the farmer going across
the field at a stride Of about twenty-thret
inches, and at every stride he puts his hand
into the sack Of grain and sprinkles the
sced-corn over the field. 1t looks silly to {
man who does not know what he is doing
He is doing very important work. He il
scattering tho winter grain, and though thu
snow may come, the next year there win bt
great crop. Now, that is what we arr
doing when we are preaching the Gospel
we are scattering the seed. It is the fool
ishness OF preaching, but it is the white,
. grain and though the snow Of worldlinesl
may come down upon it, it will yield afte
awhile glorious harvest. Let US be sur,
we sow the right kind Of seed. Sow mule,
stalk and mullen stalk will come up. Sow
! Canada thistles and Canada thistles viii
come up. Sow wheat and wheat will com
up. Let US distinguish between truth an,
error. Let us know the difference betwee,
wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane.
The largest denomination in this countr.
is the Nothingarians. Their religion Is
system Of negations. You say to one o
them, What do you believer" "Well,
, don't believe in infant baptism" "Wha
/ do you believed" swell, don't believe Il
the perseverance Of the saints" "Well
now tell me what you do believea" "Wel
= don't believe in the eternal punishment
of the wicked" So their religion is a no,
/. Of ciphers. Believe something and teac
0 it; or. to resume the figure Of my text, scat
d ter abroad the right kind of seed.
, A minister in New York preached
|. sermon calculated to set the denomination
( of Christians quarreling. He was sowin
0 nettles A minister in Boston advertise
Q that he would preach a sermon on tn
. superiority of transcendental and organize
forces to untranscendental and inorganic
Q forces. What was he sowing. The Lor
h Jesus Christ nineteen centuries ago plante