Idaho semi-weekly world., 1891-02-13


hook in his nose.
This was the rule in regard to the
culture of the ground: ''Thou shalt not
plow 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 unmanageable. The vast majority
of troubles in the churches and in re-
fonnatory institutions comes from the
disregard of this command of the Lord:
"Thou shalt not plow with an OK and
an ass together"
There were large amounts of proper
ty invested IN cattle. The Moabites
paid 100, 600 sheep as an annual tax.
Job had 600 sheep, 5000 carnels, 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 traInple out the
Juice from the grape until their gar
ments were saturated with the wine
and had become the emblems of
slaughter. Christ himself wounded
until covered with the blood of the
crucifixion 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 vatp He responded, II have
! trodden the wine press alone.
DISCIPLES OF THE PLow.
In all ages there has been great honor
paid to agriculture. Seven-eighths of
the people in every country are dis
ciples of the plow. 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 - THE
| Weeks and Days" Cato was prouder
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 of
the Bible, and standing amid the har-
vests and orchards and vineyards OF
our own country want to run out
the analogy between the production OF
crops and the growth of grace in the
soul-all these sacred writers 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 indo
lent son, '"There are hundred dollars
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 moi
found the money; but when the croE
had been gathered and sold for hun
dred dollars more than any previous
! year then the young man took the hint
us to what his father meant when he
J said there were u hundred dollars
, buried down in that field Deep plow
ing for crop. Deep plowing for {
soul. He who makes light of sin viii
never amount to anything in the churcl
} or in the world. If man speaks o
sin as though it were an inaccuracy
: or mistake, instead of the loathe
some, aboninable, consuming ant
: damning thing that God hates, tha
} man will never yield harvest of use
} fulness.
When l was boy plowed fielt
; with q team of spirited horses. IploweC
! it very quickly. Once in a while
, passed over some Of the sod withou
= turning it, but did not jerk back tn,
plow with its rattling clevises.
5 thought it made no difference Afte
while my father came along and said
"Why, this will never do. This ism
} plowed deep enough There you hav'
missed this and you have missed that
And he plowed it over again. Tn
l difficulty with a great many people i
, that they are only scratched with con
, viction when the subsoil plow of God
, truth ought TO be put in up to tn
? beam.
, My word is to all Sabbath schoo
1 teachers, to all parents, to all Chris
3 tian workers: Plow deep! Plow deep
, THE FATAL DRUG OF SIN.
And if in your own personal expert
: ence you are apt to take a lenient viey
of the sinful side of your nature pu
1 down into your soul the ten command
Q Waats, which reveal the holiness O
God, and that sharp and glitterin
! coulter will turn up your soul to th
i deepest depths, If man breaches t
. you that you are only little out o
I order by reason of sin, and that yo
l need only a little fixing up he deceives
You have suffered an appalling injur
by reason of sin. There are quick po
sons and slow poisons but the druggis
could give you one drop that woul
kill the body. And SIN is like tina
drug: so virulent, so poisonous so fata
that one drop is enough to kill tn
soul.
Deep plowing fora crop, Deep pillow
; ing for soul. Broken heart or no IT
' lgion. Broken soul or no harvest
> Why was it that David, and the jailel
and the publican and Paul made sue
ado about their sins1 Had they los
their senses? No. The plowshar
struck them. Conviction turned up
n great many things that were forgotten
@ As farmer plowing sometimes turn