The Forrest City times., 1890-08-23

~ o1l parents, to all ChFistinn Worxefa- piow deepi And II In your owr perenal experience you ara apt to taxo . lenicnt view of tho sinful side of your nnturc, put down into your scul the ten commandments which rcveal the holiness of God, and that sharp and glittorinR coulter will turn up your soul to the deepest depths. If 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 dcceives You have suffered an appalling injury by reason of sin. There arc quick poisons and slow poisons, but the druggist could give you one drop that would kili the body. And sin is like that drug, so virulent, so poisonous so fatal that one drop is enough to kill the saul,
 Deep blowing for crop Deep blow ing for. q soul Broken heart or no rclig- ion. Broken soul or no harvest. Why was 1t that David and the jaiicr and the publi- can and Paul made such ado about their sinst Had they lost their sensesi No The plowshare struck them. Conviction turned up great many things that were forgotten. As 6 farmer blowing some times turns up the skeleton of man or the anatomy of U m ,nster long ago buried, so tho plowshare of conviction turns up the ghastly skeletons of sin long ago entombed. Geologists never brought up from tho depths of tfid moiintair mightier ichthye- saurus or megatheriuna.
 But what means all this crooked blow ing, these crooked furrows, the repentance that amounts to nothing, the repentance that ends in nothingi Men groan over their sins, but get no better. They weep.
 but their tears are not counted. They get convicted, but not converted What Is the reasoni l remember that on tho farm wo set standard with red flag at the other end of thc tcid. We kept our eye on that. We aimed at that We plowed Up to that. Losing sight of that we made a crooked frrrow. Keeping our eyes on that we made a straight furruw. Now in this matter of conviction we must have some standard to guide us. It is red standard
 that God has set at the other end of the
 field It is the cross Keeping your eye on that you will make n straight furrow.
 Losing sight of it you will make crooked
 furrow. Plew up ts the cross. Aim not
 ht either end of the horizontal piece of tho
 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.
 'sHim hath God exalted to Do Prince and
 q Saviour to give repentance. Oh, blow
 up to the cross
 Again, remark, in grace as in tho field
 thcrc must be a sowing In the autumnal
 weather you find the farmer going across
 the field at a stride of about twenty-thrce
 inches, and at every stride he puts his hand
 into the sack of grain and sprinisles the
 secd-corn over the field. It looks silly to n
 man who does not know what he is doing.
 He is doing very important work. He is
 scattering the winter grain, and though the
 snow may come. the next year there will he
 great crop. Now, that Is what we arc
 doing when we are preaching tho Gospel
 we arc scattering tho seed. It is the fool
 ishness of preaching, but 1t is the winter
 grain; and though the snow of worldlincss
 may come down upon it, 1t will yield after
 awhile glorious harvest Let us be sure
 VIC SOW the right kind of seed. Sow mullen
 stalk and mullen stalk win come up. Sow
 Canada missiles and Canada thistles will
 come up. Sow wheat and wheat will come
 up Let us distinguish between truth and
 error. Let us know tke difference between
 wheat and helleborc. oats and henbane.
 The largest denomination in this country
 Is the Nothingarians. Their religion is q
 system of negations, You say to one of
 them, What do you believer s'well, |
 don't believe in infant baptism.r What
 do you believer 'swell, don't believe in
 the perseverance of the saintsi' Well,
 now tell mo what you do bcilcvein ssWell, don't believe in the eternal punishment of the wicked" " So their religion Is row of ciphcrs. Believe something and teach it. or to resume the figure of uly text, scat ter abroad the right kind of seed.
 minister In New York preached a sermon calculated te set the denominations of Christians quarreling He was sowing nettles, minister in Boston advertised that he would preach sermon on tho superiority of iranscsndeutai and organized forces to ountranseendcntal and unorganlxrd forces. What was he sowiugi The Lord Jesus Christ nineteen centuries ago planted the divine seed of doctrine. It sprang up
 On one side Of the stalk are ail the churches of Christsndom. On the other side of the stalk are ali the free governments of the
 earth, and on tho top there shall be flow. ering millennium after awhile Ali 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. ! tt ttbtt@ HF HAtu tfttffsANtaN lttttitct~@- RA l saving one soul, that one saving ten. the ten . hundred the hundred thousand, the thousand ten thousand, the ten thou sand ono hundred thousand--on. on for ever
 Again, remark, in grace as in the farm there must he reapug Many Christians speak of religion as though IL were a matter of economies or insurance They expect
 to reap in the next world. Oh, no Now
 issthe time to reap. Gather up the Toy of tho Christian religion this morning, this
 afternoon, this night. If yea have not as
 much grace as you would like to have thank
 God for what you have. and pray for more You arc no worse cnslaved than Joseph. no
 worse troubled than was David. no worse scourged than was Paul Yet amid tho rattling of fetters, and amid the
 gloom of dungeons, and amid tho
 horror of shipwrcck, they trinnphed in the grace of God. The weakest
 man here has 500 acres of spiritual Joy ali ripe Why do you not go and reap iti You
 have been grooming over your inilrinIties for thirty years. Now give one round shout over your emancipation. You say you have 1t so hard; you might have IL worse. Nou wonder why this great cold trouble keeps revolving through your sota, turning and turning, with black hand on the crank Ah, that trouble Is the grind stone on which you are to sharpen your sickle To the fields Wake up. Take of your green spcctaclcs. your blue spectacles,
 your black spectacles. Pull up the corners of your mouth us far as you pull them down. To tho fieldsI Reaps rcapi
 Again, l remark, in grace as in farming therc Is a time for threshing tell you hluntly that is death. Just as q farmer beats the wheat out of the straw. so death beats the, soul out of the body. Every sick ness k a stroke of the fail. and the sick bed is the thrcshing floor What, say you, is
 death to good man only, taking tho wheat out of the straws That is all. An aged man has fallen asleep. Only yesterday you saw him in the sunny porch playing with his grand children. Calmly he re- ceivcd the message to leave this world, He bade pleasant good by to his old friends Tho telegraph carries the tidings, and on xvssl fl rsait