The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-08-20

Ibr0uDleS IN tho CnurcnOb ana IN feIOrH-
atory institutions comes from the disro-
gard Of this command Of the Lord:
Thou shalt not plow with an OK and an
ass together"
There were large amounts Of property
invested in cattle. The Moabites paid
100000 sheep as an annual tax. job had
1000 sheep, 5000 camels, 500 yoke Of
pxen. The time Of vintage was ushored
in with mirth and music. The clusters
pf the vine we're put In TO the wine press,
and then five men would get into the
press and trample out the Juice from the
grape until their garments were satu-
rated with the wine and had become tho
smblems of slaughter. Christ Himself,
wounded until covered with the blood Of
,ruciflxion, made use Of this allusion
when the question was asked: "Where'
lore art Thou red in Thine apparel and
Thy garments like one who treadeth the
wine vat?" He responded: II have trod-
aen the wine-press alone"
In all ages there has been great honor
paid to. agriculture. Seven-eights Of
the people in every country are disciples
Of the plow. A government is strong In
proportion as it is supported by an ath-
letic and industrious yeomanry. So
long ago as before the fall Of Carthage,
Strabo wrote twenty-eight books on
agriculture; Hesiod wrote poem on
the same subject-"The Weeks and
Days" Cato was prouder Of his work
on husbandry that Of all his military
conquests. But must not be tempted
into q discussion Of agricultural con-
quests Standing amid the harvests
and orchards and vineyards Of the Bible,
and standing amid the harvests and
orchards and vineyards Of our own coun-
try-I want 10 run out the analogy be-
tween the production of crops and the
growth Of grace in the soul-all these
sacred writer's making use Of that
analogy.
In the first place remark, in grace
as in the fields there must be plow.
That which theologians call conviction
is only the plowshare turning up the
sins that have been rooted and matted
in the soul A farmer said TO his in
dolent son: There are hundred dol
lars buried in that field" The son went
10 work and plowed the field from fence
TO- fence, and he plowed 1t very deep,
and then complained that he had not
found the money; but whom the crop
had been gathered and sold for hum
dred 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 plowing for a
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 1t was
an inaccuracy or mistake, instead Of h
loathsome, abominable, consuming, and
damning thing that God hates, that man
will never yield harvest Of usefulness.
When was boy l plowed field
with team Of spirited horses. plowed
II very quickly. Once in . while
passed over some OF the sod without
turning It, but did not jerk back the
plow with its rattling clevises.
thought It made no difference. After q
while 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 v
And he plowed 1t over again. The diffi-
Guilty with great many people is that
they are only scratched with conviction,
when the subsoil pillow OF Gods truth
ought 10 be put In up 10 the beam.
My word is TO all Sabbath-school teach.
ers, 10, all parents, TO all Christian work
ers--plow deep! And II in your own per
sonal experience you are apt to take q
lenient view Of the sinful side Of your
nature, put down into your soul the Ter
Commandments which reveal the boli'
ness OF God, and that sharp and glitter
ing coulter will turn up your soul TO the
deepest depths. II a man breaches to
you that you are only a little out Of order
by reason OF sin and that you need only
little fixing up, he deceivesl You
have suffered, an appalling injury By
reason Of the sin. There are quick poi
sons and slow poisons, but the druggist
could give you one drop that would kill
the body. And sin Is like that drug; SC
virplent, so poisonous, SO fatal that one
drop Is enough to kill the soul
Deep plowing for crop. Deep plow'
ing for soul Broken heart or no re-
ligion. Broken soul or no harvest
Why was It that David and the jailei
and the publican and Paul made suct
ado about their sins? Had they lost
their senses? No. The plowshare strucl
them. Conviction turned up great
many things that were forgotten. As I
farmer plowing sometimes turns up the
skeleton Of sman OIL the .apetQmylot
| iionstef lSng agd buried, ,is6 ne iplorf
sbAre Of LcoayiStion tSrns Sp the shhb Y,
skeletons OF am long ago entombed
Geologists never brought up from ths
depthso of the mountain mightier ichthyo
saurus or megatherium.
But, vHst means sli this crooked pillow
ing, these crooked burrows, the repent
ance that amounts 10 nothing, tho 70
pentance that ends In nothing7 Mer
groan over their sins, but got no better
They weep. but their tears are mo-
counted. They get convicted. but mo-
converted. What Ia the reason? 70
member that on the farm We set I
standard, ,Eithared fag. .at tho other ems
Eofth h6ld. We Kept our eye On that
! We aiued. y thA we ployed, up Z,
thkt Losfng sight OF that we made |