The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-28
ushcrcd in with mirth and music. The

ushercd in with mirth and music. The
clusters OF the vlnc were put III TO the
wmcprcSs, and then five men would get
INTO the press and tramplc out the juice
from the grape until their garments were
saturated with the wine and had become
tho cmblCms ofslaughtcr. Christ Him
self, wounded until covered with the
blood OF crucilNion, made use Of this
allusiOn when the question was asked
''Whcrciorc art thou rcd in thine APP
parcl and thy garments like ono who
| trcadclh the wlnc-vat:' lie responded:
Il have troddcn the wiurprcsS alone"
In all ages there has been great honor
paid to agriculture. SCvcnth-ciyhths of
'hc people III every country are Disciples
OF the pillow. \ government Is strong in
| proportion as iii supported by an athlr-
tic and industrious ycomanry. 80 long
as before the fall OF Carthage. Strabo
wrote twcntY-ci"ht books on agriculture;
| llcslod wrote 4 poem on the same sub
| icct-''Thc Weeks and Days." Cato
was proudcr of his work on hu;han,lrv
than Of all his military cOnqucstS. But
| must not be tempted into Il discussion
OF agricultural cOnQucS;s. Standing
amid the harvcsts and orchards and vine
yards Of the Bill lc. and standing amid
the harvcsts and orchards and vineyards
oi Our own cOuntry--l want to run out
the analogy between the production Of
crops and the grC'wth of grace in the
Soul-all these sacred writer's making
use OF that analogy
In the first place | remark, in "racc us
in the fields there must be q plow. That
which thcologi,... cal, ron> tir,l Is only
the plowsharc tu&niny up the sins that
have been rooted and matted in the soul.
\ farmer said ito his indolrnt son
There arc q hdndrcd dollars buried
deep in that licHd." The SON went tn
work and plowcd the field from fence to
fence, and he Nlowcd it very deep. and
then complained that he had not found
the money; but when The crop had been
gathered and sold for Il hundred dollars
more than any previous year, then tl.r
young man took the hint as to what his
father meant when he SAID there were a
hundred dollars buried down IN that
field. Deep blowing for Il crop. Deep
pl"NinG for Il soul. He who makes
. 'F-ht of sin will never amount to ANY
thing in the church or in the world. If
man speaks of sin rs though it were
an inaCcuracv or Il mI~tHl>r instead OF
the loathsomc. abuminahlr. consuming.
and damnin~ thing that cod hates. tiat
man will never yield Il harvest 0fuSrtul-
ness.
When | was Il boy plowcd a field
with Il team of spirited horses. | plowcd
il very quickly. Once in Il while / pass
rd over some Of the sod without turnin.
IT. but did not jerk back the ulow with
lis rattlinG clcvi>cS. thought il ma,!c
no difference. Aitcr awhile my father
| rDInn plpIl,r nnl S,il y L..
never do; this isn't plowcd deep cnuu.,h:
there YOU have missed this and YOU have
missed that" And ne plnwcd it over
again. The difficulty with q great many
people is that they are only scratched
with conviction when The subSoil plov
OF Gods truth ought to be put in up to
the beam.
My word is to all Sahhalll-Sch"ul
teachers, 10 all parents, to all Christian
WorkcrS--plow deep! And il: in yunr
own personal experience You are alt to
take Il lcnicnt view Of the sinful side OF
Your nature, put down into Your soul
the ten commandments which reveal the
holiness OF God. and that sharp and
| ghttcrng coulter will turn up Your soul
TO the deepest depths. fla man breaches
To You that you arc only Il little out of
oi'N-i ~ VI Slil itltI lllll YOU llttil
only 4 little liNing-up. he drcrivcs! You
have suffered an appalling injury by
reason Of sin. There arc quick puisouS.
and slow poisons, but the dru"yi~t could
give YOU one drop that would kill the
body. And sin is like that dru": 50
rlrulent. 50 poisonous. so fatal thai one
drop is enough to kill The soul.
deep ploughn@ for 4 crop. Dryn
| nlnllIlllntr I\rn ~ .l-,,,,
no religion. Broken soul or 10 harvest.
Why was it that David and the iailrr
and the publican and Paul made such
ado about their sins : Had they lost
their senses: No. The pou.hshar,
struck them. Conviction turned up a
great many things that were forgotten.
AS a farmer plouGhm@ sometimes turns
up the skeleton of Il man or the anatomy
OF monster long AGO buried. so the
plou%hSharc of conviction turns up The
CHASTITY skeletons Of sin long AGO en-
tombcd. GcologiStS never brought up
from the depths of the mountain mi..l-
tier ichthyosaurus or mcgathcrium.
But what means all this crooked
plonghing, these crooked burrows. the
repentance that amounts TO nothing, the
repentance that ends In nothing: Men
; Sroan over their sins, but get no better.
1hcy weep, but their tears arrnot count
cd. They get convicted. but not con-
. vcrtcd. What is the reason? | rrmcm-
, Der that on the farm we set Il standard
with a red FLAG ut the other end Of the
. hcld. We kept ou. eye on that. We
aimed ut that. We plouGhcd up to that .
Losing sight of that We made Il crooked
lurrow. Keeping our eyes on that We
made a STRAIGHT filrrOW Now in t,is
matter of conviction we must have some
standard to guide us. II is Il red stand-
ard that God has set at the other end of
the field. 1t is the cross. Keeping your
eye on that you will make Il straight
iurrow. Losing sight OF it you will
make crooked lurrow. Plough up to
the cross. Aim not at either end of the
horizontal piece Of the cross but nj the