Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-22

tionS of Christians quarrrlng. He was
sowing ncttlcs. A minister in Boston
advertised that he would preach Il ser
mon on the superiority of transcendental
and organized forces to untranscendcnta
and unorganzcd forces. What was he
sowing? The Lord Jesus Christ nine
teen centuries ago planted the divine
seed of doctrine. 1t sprang up. On one
side of the stalk arc all the churches of
Chrstendom. On the other side of the
stalk are all the free governments of the
earth. and on the top there shall be d
Towering millennium after a while. All
from the Gospel seed OF doctrine. Every
word that parent, or SaEbath-school
teacher, or city missionary, or other
Christian worker speaks for Christ comes
up. Yea, it comes up with compound
intcrest-you saving one soul, that one
saving ten. the ten hundred, the hum
drcd a thousand, the thousand ten thou
sand the ten thousand one hlmdrn;, thou
sand-on. on forever.
Again | remark. in grace as II the
farm there must be a narrowing. ! re-
fer now not to harrow that goes over
the lleld i'm order to prepare the ground
for the seed, but harrow which goes
over after the seed is sown, lest the birds
pick up the seed, sinking it down into
the earth so that il can take root. There
are new kinds of harrow, but the harrow
as ! remember it was made of bars OF
wood nailed across each other, and the
under side of each bar was furnished
with sharp teeth. and when the horses
were hitchcd to it it went tearing and
| lcaping across the field. driving the seed
down into the earth until it sprung up in
the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow,
| persecution are the Lords harrows TO
sink the Gospel truth into your heart.
| There We're truths that you heard thirty
years ago that have not affected yon UNI
til recently. Some great trouble came
over yon, and the truth was narrowed
! i'm, and it has come up. What did God
mean in this country i'm 1857? For a
century there was the Gospel preached,
but great deal of it produced no result.
Then God harncsscd a wild panic to a
| harrow of commercial disaster. and that
! harrow went down Wall street and up
Wall street. down Third street and up
| Third street, down State street and up
! State street until the whole land was
torn to pieces as it had never been be-
fore. What followed the harrowo A
great awakening in which there were
of our Lord. No harrow, no crop.
The Saviour folds lamb in his bosom.
The little child filled all the house with
her music, and her toys are scattered all
up and down the stairs just as she left
them. What if the hand that pluckcd 4
o'clochS out of the meadow is still? 1t
will wave the eternal triumph. What if
the voice that made music in the home is
still? 1T will sing the eternal hosanm.
Put a white rose in one hand and Il red
rose in the other hand and a wreath of
orange blossoms on the brow; the white
flower for the victory, the red flower for
the Saviour's sacrifice, the orange bios
SONS for her marriage day. Anything
CHASTITY about that? Oh, no. The sun went
down and the flower shut The wheat
thrcshed out of the straw. ''Dcar Lord
give me Sleep said dying boy, the sol
of one of my elders; "Dear Lord, give
me sleep.
So it may be with us when our work is
all done. Dear Lord, give me sleep"
l have one more thought to present
/ have spoken of the blowing, of tho
sowing. of the narrowing, of the reap
ing, of the thrcshing. ! must now speak
a moment of the garncring.
Where is the garner? Need tell you:
Oh, no. SO many have gone out from
your own circlcs-yca, from your OWL
family-that you have had your eyes OF
that garner for many year. What ;
; hard time some of them had! In Gcth
semancs of suffering they sweat grca
drops of blood. They took the coup o
} trembling" and they put it to their no
lips and they cried: IF it be possible
let this cup pass from me-" Witt
tongues of burning agony the!
| cried: go Lord, deliver my soul!'
But they got over it. They al
got over it. Galnercd! Their tear
wiped away: their battles all ended
their burdens lifted. Garncrcd! Th,
l Lord of the harvest will not allow thos,
shcaves to perish in the equinox. Gar
ncred! Some of us remember, on tn,
farm. that the shcavcs We're put on TIL
top of the rack which surmounted TIN
wagon, and these sheavcs were pilet
higher and higher, and after while tn,
Q horses started for the barn; and thcs
. shcavcS swaycd to and fro in the wind
and the old wagon creaked, and TIL
horses made Il struggle and pulled 81
5 hard the harness came up in loops O
g leather on their backs, and when tn
: front wheel struck the elevated floor o
INC Darn III seemed as II inc lOdu WOult
I go no farther until the workmcn gave
great shout, and then with one las
a tremendous strain the horses pulled il
!: the load: then they were unharnesse,
i and forkful after forkful of grain fcl
!, into the NOW. Oh, my friends, our get
n ting into heaven may be pull, a har
G pull, a very hard pull: but these sheavc
u are bound to go in. The Lord of TIL
d harvest has promised it. l see the loa
o at last coming in the door of tn
Z Heavenly garner The sheaves of til
Christian coul sway to and fro in tn
q wind of death, and the old body creall
II under the load, and as the load strike
IS the floor of the celestial garner it seem
: as if it can go no farther. 1t is the las
IS struggle, until the voices of angels an
e the voices of our departed kindred an
Il the welcoming voice of God shall sen
" the harvest rolling into the ctcrna
l. triumph, while all up and down the SIX
l. the cry is heard: Harvest homo
?, Harvest homes
Fictitious Boom.
# Prominent kansan-Hang the luck
d They're goin' to put another passenge
q train on the P. y. @. Railroad