The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-08-29

.s.H"" va s,H au" thut SoM Hecu Ohly llttle
fixing up, lie dcccivcs. You have suffered
m appalling injury by reason ofsin There
are quick poisons and slow poisons. hut the
druggist could give you one drop that would
kill the body. And sin is like that drug: SO
rirulent, NO poisonous, so futal that one
drop is enough to kill the soul
Deep Plonghing for n crop Deep plough
ing for soul. Broken lienrt or no religion.
broken soul or no harvest. Why was i, that
David and the jailcr and the publican and
Paul made such ado about their sins. Hail
they lost their senses" No. The plough.
share struck them Conviction turned up IL
great many things that were forgotten. As
u farmer rloughing sometimes turns up the
Skeleton ot u man or the anatomy of II
monster long ago buried, 30 the plough
sliar" of conviction turns up tho ghnstly
skeletons % sin long ago rntomhe,l. Ge0lO-
gists never brought M from tho depths of
the mountain mighticr ichthyosuurus or
meEut herum.
But what means all this crooked plough
ing, these crooked burrows. the Repentance
That amounts to othng? Men groan over
their sins. but get no better. They weep, hut
their tears ARE not counted. They get con.
vlct"d. but not converted. What is the re,l-
son: remember that on the tnrm We got u
red liag ut the other end of the field We
Kept Mp our eye on that; We aimed Mt that.
We ploughel up to that. Losing sight of
that We made u crooked furrow. Keeping
our eyes on that We mule IL straight ;urrow.
Now, in this mHttcr of conviction we must
have some standard to guide us. 1t is the
red staniar,l that God has net ON the other
end o! t'ie field. II is the crnss Keeping
your eye Oh that you will make II straight
fnrrow l.osingsiSht off you make crook.
"d lurrnw. f'nush ur I" the cross. Aim not
ut either rn'l of the horiznntal piece
of the cross, hut al the upright
piece. at the center of it, the heart
OF tho Son o. God who bore your sins and
made salts action. Crying ana weeping will
not bring you through. "lIim hnth God
exalted To be II Prince and II Savior to give
rprnnnrr." nh, plough upto the GROSS!
Again. ! remark, in grace az in the field
there must l"a sowing. In the u,tumnul
weather yon lind III" TURNER going across
the field NJ u sind" ofnbnut % inches, and
ut every stride Ii" puts hs hand into the sack
o! grain and he spr;nklrs the sce,l-cOrn over
the field. II looks silly to Il man who does
not know what he is doing lie is doing u
very important work.
II" IL scattering the wlntur grain, and
though tile SNOW may come. the next year
there will lie great crop. Now this is whit
we ARE doing when we are preaching the
gospel. We are scattering the seed, 1t is
the !ooiShness ot preaching. hut it is the
winter grain, AMI though the snow OF the
wors'lliness may come down upon it. it will
yield after Il willie glorious harvest. Let us
hr sure We SOW the right kind OF seed. Sow
mullen stalk aud mullen stalk will come up.
Sow CanaGa thistles and Canada tliistlrs will
come up. Sow wheat and wilsut will come
up. Let us distinguish between truth and
error. l.ct us know The difference betwecn
wheat nnd lrllrhnre, oats aud hrnbane.
lhs largest denomination in this country
Is The denomination oi Nuthingariuns. Their
religion il u system 0i irgat o,is. You say
toonr OF them. What do yon hrIrvc..''
W,,l 4 Il. ...f
What do you hcicvr?" "Well, don't he
icve in the perseverance of the saints. ~
We'll, now tell mo what you belcvc?" well.
don't leeve in the eternal punishment
o: the wicked" So their religion is u
row of cyphrrs. Rrlievc something and
teach it; or. to resume the figure of my
text. scatter abroad the right kind of seed.
| minister of New York preached n sermon
calculated to set the denominations of
Christian Iuarrllng. llo was sowing net
ties \ minister in Boston advertised that
he would pr"nch II sermon on the superior
ity OF trnnscrntlental and organized forces.
What wus he sowing: The Lord Jesus
Christ - centuries ago planted the divine
seed OF doctrine. 1t hprans up. On on.
side OF the stalk arc all the churches of
ChirstiandOm. On the other rido of the
stalk are NIL the free governments OF the
enrth, and on the top there shall be II flow
ering millennium alter awhile. All from the
EOsiml seed of doctrine.
! Every word that n parent or Sabbath
school tcacfcr, or city missionary, or 0t her
! Ghristihn worker spcnks ur Christ comes up.
Yes, it. comes up with compound interest
you saving one soul, that one snving ten, the
ten n hundred. the hundred "a thousand. the
, thousand ten thousand, the ten thousand
one hundred thourand-on, on forever.
Again, remark, i'll grure ns in the farm
there must be n narrowing. | refer now not
to II harrow thut goes over the field in order
! to prepare the ground for tho seed, hut II
harrow Which goes over after tho seed il
sowi. lest the birds pick up the seed. sink
ing il down into The earth so that il cnn take
root. There are new kinds of harrow, but
the harrow as | remrmher it was nude of
bars of wool nuilo'l across aurh other anl
til" un'lrrsidc OF each bar was furnished with
Rharpt,cth, and when thrhorscs were hitrhrd
to it. il went touring md lcnping across he
field. driving the seed down into tho earth
until il sprung up in the harvest. i,rrcavc.
tneht. sorrow, persecution are the Lords lInr-
rows toslnk the rgnsrr truth into y0nr heart.
! There w"ro truths that you heard 30 years
ngo. hat have not affected you unit il recently.
Some great trouble cnmr over yom, and hu
truth WIS narrowed in. nn,l it. has com" up.
What did God mrini this country in 1851!
For II century il,er" WAS the gnsprl preached,
but great deal of it produced M result.
Th"nGul nnrn"Ssrl panic to II harrow of
coinnrrrial disaster. and that harrow went
down Wall street and up Wall street, down
Third street aud mp Third street, down Stat.
street and np Stnte street, until the whole
land WAS torn tO pieces as il had never been
before" What followed the harrow? Agrrnt
awakening in which there were 800 900
souls lironght into the Kingdom Of our
Lord. No harrow, no crop.