The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11

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said to his indolent son, There are a hum
bred dollars buried deep in that field" The
son went to work and plowei the field from
fence TO fence, and he p!owed it very deep
and then complained that he had not found
the money, but when the crop had been
gathered and sold for a 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
buried down in that field. Deep blowing for
crop. Deep blowing for soul. He who
makes light of sin will never amount to any.
thing in the church or in the world Ii
man speaks of sin as though it we're an mac.
curacy or mistake, instead of the loath-
come, accountable. consuming AMI lamnuy
thing that God hates, that man will nsver
FIELD harvest of usefulness
When l was q boy | plowed a fell with q
team OF spirited horses. I plowed it very
quickly. Once in q while passed over some
81 the sod without turning it, but l did MOI
Jerk back the pillow with its rafting clevises
thought it made no difference. After a
while my father came along and said:
why, this will never do; this isn't plowed
deep enough; there you have missed this and
Tou have missed that" And he plowed it
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
oeam.
Ny word is to all Sabbath-school teachers.
TO all parents, to. all Christian workers.
plow deep pillow deep, -+''<
And n In your own personal experience
you are apt to take q lenent view of the
sintul 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 ons
crop that would kill the body. And sin il
IKE that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, 80
iaIai that one drop is enough to kill the soul
Deep blowing for crop. Deep blowing
for soul. Broken heart or no religion.
Broken soul or no harvest. Why was II
that David and the jailer and the publican
ana raul made such ado about their SINS
Had they lost their senses, No. The plov.
share struck them. Conviction turned nm
great many things that were forgotten. Az
farmer blowing sometimes turns no the
skeleton Of man or the anatomy of a mon.
sSer long ago buried, so the plowshare Of
conviction turns up the CHASTITY skeletons of
sin long ago intombed. Biologists never
brought up from the depths of the mountain
mignuer lchthyosaurus or megatherium.
But what means all this crooked plowino
these crooked burrows the repentance that
amounts TO nothing, the repentance that ends
IN nothing! Men groan over their sins, but
are not counted. They get convicted. bur
not converted What is the reasons re-
member that on the farm we set a standard
with red flag at the other end of the field
", ne Kept our eye on that We aimed at that.
we piowed 10 to that. Losing sight of that
we mace crooked rurrow. Keeping ou
eyes on that we made q straight furrow
NOW IN this matter of conviction wa mns
nave some standard to guide us. Il is a rex (.
standard that God has set at the other en- |
OF the HELD. 1t Is the cross. Keeping yor |
eye on That you will make straight furrow !
losing Sigat OF it you will make a crooke, |
Iu.row. Flow up to the cross. Aim not a
either end OF the horizontal piece of the eros !
put at the upright piece, at the centre of IL
tue heart OF the Son Of God, who bore YOU !
sins aud made satisfaction CRYING an,
weeping Will not bring You through. Hin |
nath Goo exalted to be Prince and Savior
70 give repentance" Oh, p,ow up to th |
cross! w Wv
4, AGAIN remark, in grace As in the fell |
eueIe must De a sowing. In the autumn
weather you find the farmer Going acros
she field at a stride of about twenty.thre,
.ocneS, and at every stride he pets his hand
111o tne SOCK OF grain and he sprinkles tbs
seed corn over the field. It looks silly To q
man who does not know what he is doing
de Is doing a very important work. He i
scattering the winter grain, and though this
snow may come, the next year there will bs
a great crop Now, that is what we are
dong when we are preaching the Gospel
we are scattering the seed. It is the foolish.
ness OF preaching, but it is the winter grain:
and though the snow of worldliness NAV
como upon it, il will yield after a Will,
glorious harvest. Let us be sure we sow the
right kind of seed. Sow mullen stalk and
mullen stalk Will come up. Sew Canada
thisties and Canada thistles will come up
Sow wheat and wheat will come I'D. Let ms
distinguish between truth and error. Let ne
know the difference between wheat and he'll
lebore; oats and henbane
The largest denomination in this country
Is the denomination of Nothingarians. Their
Iehsion IS system OF negations. You say
well, | don't believe in infana baptism,
:, What do you believer "Well, don't be.
lleve in the perseverance of the saints N
w eil now tell me what you do believer
wv ell, don't believe in the eternal punish.
ment OF the wicked" So their religion is a
row OF cyphers- Believe something and
teach 1t; or, to resume the figure Of my text.
scatter abroad the right kind of seed.
a minister in New York presched a ser.
mon calculated to set the denominations of
Christians quarreling He was. sowing net
ties A minister in Boston advertised that
ne would preach q sermon on the superiority
OF transcendental and organized forces to un.
and unorganized forces.
What was he sowing? The Lord Jesus Christ
centuries ago planted the divine
seed OF doctrine 1t sprang up, On one side
OK the stalk are all the churches of Christen-
dom. On the other side of the stalk are ali
the free Governments Of the earth, and on
che top there shall be a Towering millep-