Connecticut western news., 1890-08-20

sell very independent, but some time ln his life or in the hour of his death he will find that the Lord Almighty has hook in his nose.
 This was the rule in regard to the culture of the ground: 'Thou shalt not blow with an OK and an ass together," illustrating the folly of ever putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with the stubborn and the manageable The vast majority of troubles in the churches and in re- formatory institutions comes from the disregard of this command of the Lord: ''Thou shalt not blow with an OK and an ass together.
 There were large amounts of proper ty invested in cattle. The Moabites paid 100, 900 sheep as an annual tax. Job had 1000 sheep, 5000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen. The time of vintage was ushered in with mirth and music. The clusters of the vine were put into the winepress and then five men would get into the press and trample out the juice from the grape until their gar ments were saturated with the wine and had become the emblems o1 slaughter. Christ himself, wounGed until covered with the blood of the crucifxion, made use of this allusion when the question was asked, "Where- fore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like one who treadeth the wine vat9" He responded, ''I have trodden the wine press alone"
 DISCIPLES OF THE FLOW.
 In all ages there has been great honor paid to agriculture. Seven-eighths oi the people in every country are dis ciples of the blow. A government is strong in proportion as it is supported by an athletic and industrious yeo manry. So long ago as before the fall of Carthage Strabo wrote twenty eight books on agriculture. Hesiod wrote a poem on the same subject = 'sThe Weeks and Days" Cato was proudel of his work on husbandry than of his military conquests. But must not be tempted into discussion of agricult
 ural conquests. Standing amid the harvests and orchards and vineyards o1
 
 vests and orchards and vineyards o1 our own country-I want to run out the analogy between the production o1 crops and the growth of grace ill the soul-all these sacred writers making use of that analogy.
 In the first place I remark, in grace as in the fields there must be a blow. | snts is only the plowshare turning up the sins that have been rooted and matted in the soul A farmer said to his indo, ] lent son, 'There are hundred dollara buried deep in that field" The son went to work and plowed the field from fence to fence, and he plowed it very deep, and then complained that he had not
 found the money; but when the crop
 had been gathered and sold for hun
 dred dollars more than any previous year then the young man took the hint 1 as to what his father meant when he said there were hundred dollars buried down in that field. Deep blow ing for crop Deep blowing for a l soul He who makes light of sin will l never amount to anything in the church. l or in the world If man speaks o1 l sin as though it were an inaccuracy or mistake, instead of the loathe- some, abominable, consuming and damning thing that God hates, that l man will never yield a harvest of use. 1 fitness
 When I was 8 boy plowed a field with team of spirited horses. Iplowed l it very quickly. Once in while l passed over some of the sod without turning 1t, but did not jerk back the 1 blow with it's rattling clevises. l 1 thought 1t 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 and you have missed that. " l And he plowed it over again. The difficulty with great many people is
 that they are only scratched with con
 viction when the subsoil blow of Gods truth ought to be put in up to the l beam.
 My word is to all Sabbath school
 teachers, to all parents, to all Chris
 tian workers: Flow deep! Flow deep
 THE FATAL DRUG OF SIN.
 And if in your own personal expert
 ence you are apt to take lenient view
 of the sinful side of your nature put
 down into your soul the ten command 1 ments, which reveal the holiness o1 1 God, and that sharp and glittering coulter will turn up your soul to the
 deepest depths. If man breaches to 1 you that you are only a little out o1
 order by reason of sin, and that you
 need only little fixing up, he deceives
 You have suffered an appalling injury
 by reason of 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: so virulent, so poisonous, so fatal
 that one drop is enough to kill the
 soul.
 Deep blowing for a crop. Deep blow.
 ing for soul Broken heart or no re-
 li2ion. Broken soul or no harvest.
 Why was it that David, and the jailer,
 and the publican and Paul made such
 .do about their sins2 Had they lost
 their senses9 No. The plowshare
 struck them. Conviction turned up a
 great many things that were forgotten.
 As farmer blowing sometimes turns
 up the skeleton of d man or the anat-
 omy of monster long ago buried, so
 the plowshare of conviction turns up
 the ghastly skeletons of sin long ago in
 tombed. Geologists never brought up
 from the depths of the mountain might
 fer ichthyosaurus or megatherium.