Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-08-29


Jerk back the plow with its rattling clevises.
thought 10 made no difference. After
while my father came along and said:
''Why, this will never do; this isn't plowed
deep enough; there you have missed this aud
YOU have missed that" And he plowed IL
over again. The difficulty with great
many people is that they are only scratched
with conviction when the subsoii pillow OF
Gods truth ought to be put in up TO the
beam.
NV word is to all Sabbath-school teachers,
10 al parents, 70 all Christian workers
plow deep! plow deep!
And IL in your own personal experience
you are apt to take a lenient view OF the
sinful side OF your natura put down into
your soul the ten commandments which
reveal the holiness Of God, and that sharp
and glittering coulter will turn up your
soul to the deepest depths. II man
breaches 10 you that you are only little
out Of order by reason of sin and that you
nesi only little fixing up, he deceivesl You
have suffered an appalling injury by reason
OF sin. There are quick poisons and slow
poisons, but the druggist could give you one
| drop that would kill the body. And sin Is
like that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, 50
fatal that one drop is enough TO kill the soul
Deep blowing for crop. Deep plowing
| for a soul. Broken heart or no religion.
| Broken soul or no harvest. Why was 1t
that David and tha jailer and the publican
and Paul mad such ado about their sinsl
| Had they lost Ia sir sensssl No. The plo~-
share struck thsm. Conviction turned up
great many things that were forgotten. As
q farmer plowinS sometimes turns up the
| skeleton OF a man or the anatomy OF mon
tter long ago buried, 50 the plowshare OF
conviction turns up the ghastly skeletons OF
sin long ago int9mboj. Biologists never
brought up from the depths of tbs mountain
mightier ichthyosaurus or megatherium.
But what means all this crooked plowing.
these crooked burrows, 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 re-
member that on the farm we set q standard
with red flag at the other end OF the field.
We kept our eye on that. We aimed at that
We plowed up to that. Losing sight Of that
we made q crooked furrow. Keeping our
ewes on that we made a straight furrow.
Now in this matter Of conviction we must
have some standard to guide u.s. 1t Is a red
standard that God has set at the other end
of the field. II Is the cross. Keeping your
eye on that you will make straight furrow;
Losing sight Of it you will make crooked
furrow. Plow up to the cross Aim not at
either end OF the horizontal piece Of the cross
but at the upright piece, at the centre OF it
the heart OF the Son of God, who bora your
sins and made satisfaction. Crying and
weeping will not bring you through. Him
hath Goo exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour
to give repentance" Oh, piow up to the
crossl
Again remark, in grace as in tho field
there must be a sowing In the autumn
, weather you find the farmer going across
! the field at a stride of about twenty-thres
! inches and at every stride he puts his hand
into the sack Of grain and he sprinkles tn,
| seed corn over the field. 1t looks silly TO Q
, han who does not know what he is doing
He is doing very important work. He
scattering the winter grain, and though thu
/, snow may come, the next year there will b:
a great crop. Now, that is what We ar,
I doing when we are preaching the Gospel
we are scattering the seed. 1t is the foolish
! ness OF preaching, but 1t is the winter grain
D and though the snow OF worldliness maj
come upon IT. it will yield after whil
\ glorious harvest. Let be sure we SOW tn
I right kind OF seed. Sow mullen stalk AM
b mullen stalk will come up. Sow Canad
q thistles and Canada thistles will come up
u Bow wheat and wheat will come up Let u
:. distinguish between truth and error. Lot u
u know the difference between wheat and hel
d (ebore oats and henbane.
" The largest denomination In this countr
y Is the denomination of Nothingarians Thei
aI religion Is system OF negations. You sa
"well, don't believe In infant baptism.
81 what do you believer "Well, don't b,
i, Iievs in the perseverance Of the saints.
v "Wsll, now tell me what you do believed
Il "well, don't believe in the eternal punist
y ment OF the wicked" So their religion is
Q row OF cyphers. Believe something an
b, teach 1t; or, to resume the figure Of my tex
a scaeter abroad the right kind Of seed.
n | ,ix,io In Ma aa
ei mon calculated to set the denominations
es Christians quarreling. He was sowing ne
Of ties. A minister in Boston advertised tn,
Of he would preach a sermon on the superiorit
Of transcendental and organized forces TO III
a transcendental and unorganized force
ey What was he sowing. The Lord Jesus Chri
O. nineteen centuries ago planted the divir
b, seed OF doctrine. 1t tsprang up. On one sic
III of the stalk are all the churches OF Christel
ou dom. On the other side of the stalk are a
~ the free Governments of the earth, and @
ar the top there shall be a Towering millel
eli MUM after while. All from the Gospel SEQ
ii, of doctrine. Every word that . parent
nd Sabbath school teacher, or city nissionar
lie or other Christian worker speaks for Chri
comes up. Yea 1t comes up with compour
II, interest-you saving one soul, that one sa
an ing ten, the zen hundred the hundred
Ily thousand the thousand ten thousand the +,
nd thousand one hundred thousand-on, on fo
rn ever
ny Again remark, In grace as in the far
Ia. there must be a narrowing. | refer now n
oi to harrow that goes over the field In ord
io' to prepare the ground for the ssei, but ha
row which goes over after the seed Is SOW
IN, lest the birds PICK up the seed sinking it dov
NV into the earth so that 1t can take root, The
ep, are new kinds Of harrow, but the harrow
oi remember IL was made of bars Of wo
nc. nailed across each other, aud the under 81,
me Of each bar was furnished with sharp teet
ito and when the horses we're hitched to it il we
M M.ns tearing and leaping across the field, drivil
seo the seed down into the earth until 1t spru
my my up In the harvest. Bereavement sorro
iI persecution are the Lords harrows TO si
lde the Gospel truth into your heart. There we
SM truths that you heard thirty years ago th
aP have not affected you until recently. Soi
au great trouble came over you, and the tru
we was narrowed In, and 1t has come up. WI
:, did God mean III this country in 1857 Fo
M Ma,u century there was the Gospel preached,
PIE q great deal Of it produced no result TIL
a God harnessed q wild panic to harrow
10 commercial disaster and that harrow W,
ous down Wall street and up Wall street. do
N Oh Third street and up Third street down st,
oks street and UP State street, until the VIII
One land was torn to pieces as 1t never had bt
aVo before. What followed the harrow
IAN great awakening in which there were 800,
no! souls brought into the kingdom Of our Lo
M Mra, No harrow, no crop.
md Again remark, in grace as in the ia
md there must DO reaping. Many Christi
run speak Oh ren3ion as tnouSn IL "ers 1,
IL expect to reap in the next world. oh,
hat Now Is the time to reap Gather up
Joy of the Christian religion this morni
IN this afternoon, this night. IL you have
ich as much grace as you would like TO ha
wv. thank God for what you have, and p
oo,, for more. You are no worse enslaved Il
ner oo'ePn, Nv a.i .nae @ snan p a9 Ia,
Tha amid the rafting Of fetters, and al
.oro the gloom Of dungeons, and amid
eau O horror Of shipwreok, they triumphed