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


set at the other end of the field. 1t Is
the cross. Keeping your eye on tiia'
YOU will make a straight furrow. Los
ing sight of it you will make crooked
furrow. Plow up to the cross. Ann
not at either end of the horizontal
piece of the cross, but at the uprigne
piece, at the center of it, the heart Oh
the Son of God, who bore your SINS
and made satisfaction. Crying ana
weeping will not bring you through.
s'Him hath God exalted to be Prince
and a Saviour to give repentance. On
plow up to the cross!
SCATTERING THE SEEDS OF THE Cos
PEI.
AGAIN I remark. in grace as In the
field there must be a sowing In the
autumnal weather you find the farmer
going across the field at a stride OF
about twenty three inches, and at every
stride he puts his hand into the sack oil
grain and he sprinkles the seed corn
over the field. 1t looks silly to man
who does not know what he is doing.
He is doing very important work. He
Is scattering tie winter grain, and
though the snow may come the next
year there will be great crop. Now,
that is what we are doing when we are
preaching the gospel-we are scatter
ing the seed. 1t is the foolishness of
preaching, but it is the winter grain;
and though the snow of worldliness
may come down upon it, it Will yield
after awhile glorious harvest. Let us
be sure we SOW the right kind of seed.
| Sow mullen stalk and mullen stalk will
come up Sow Canada thistles and
Canada thistles will come up. Sow
wheat and wheat will come up. Let us
distinguish between truth and error.
| Let us know the difference between
wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane.
The largest denomination in this
country is the denomination Of Moth
ingarians. Their religion isa system Of
negations You say to one of them,
"What do you believer "Well, don't
believe in infant baptism" "What do
you believe" "Well, l don't believe
in the perseverance of the saints. v
"Well, now tell Inc what you do be
leve" "Wen | don't believe in the
eternal punishment of the wicked" "
SO their religion is a row of cyphers.
Believe something and teach it; or to
resume the figure of my text scatter
abroad the right kind Of seed.
A minister in New York preached a
sermon calculated to set the denomina.
tions of Christians quareling. He was
sowing nettles A minister in Boston
advertised that he would preach ser
mon on the superiority of transcenden'
tai and organized forces to untranscen-
dental and unorganized forces. What
was he sowing2 The Lord Jesus Christ
nineteen centuries ago planted the di-
vine seed of doctrine. 1t spranp
up. On one side OF the stalk are all
the churches of Christendom On the
other side of the stalk are all the free
governments of the earth, and on the
top there shall be Towering millennium
after awhile. All from the gospel seed
of doctrine. Every word that parent,
or Sabbath school teacher, or city mis-
sionary or other Christian worker
speaks for Christ comes up. Yea, il
comes up with compound interest
you having one soul, that one saving
ten, the ten hundred, the hundred {
thousand, the thousand ten thousand
the ten thousand one hundred thou
sand-on, on forever.
A NARROWING AND REAP1NG.
Again | remark, in grace as in the
farm there must be a narrowing. | re
fer not to Il harrow that goes over tn,
field in order to prepare the ground fo
the seed, but harrow which goes owe
after the seed is sown, lest the bird
, pick up the seed, sinking it down int
the earth so that it can take root
: There are new kinds of harrow, bu
!; the harrow as | remember it was mad,
of bars of wood nailed across each other
} and the under side of each bar wa
furnished with sharp teeth, and wher
, the horses were hitched to it it wen
} tearing and leaping across the field
- driving the seed down into the eartl
J until it sprung up in the harvest Be
reavement, sorrow, persecution are til,
Lords harrows to sink the gospe
truth into your heart. There were truth
. that you heard thirty years ago that hav,
not affected you until recently. Som
great trouble came over you, and tn
p truth was narrowed in, and it has com
' up. What did God mean in this coun
{ try in 1857! For a century there wa
? the gospel preached, but great dea
( Of it produced no result. Then Go,
, harnessed a wild panic to a harrow o
, commercial disaster, and that harrow
} went down Wall street and up Wal
t street, down Third street and up Thir,
l street, down State street and up State
! street, until the whole land was torn tc
pieces as it had never been before
= What followed the harrow? A grear
{ awakening in which there were 500 00(
l souls brought into the kingdom of ouI
{ Lord. No harrow, no crop.
Again | remark, in grace as in tn,
farm there must be a reaping. Man,
Christians speak of religion as though
: it were matter of economics or insur
+ anee, They expect to reap in the mex
world. Oh, no. Now is the time t,
; reap Gather up the JOY of the Chris
tan religion this morning, this after
| noon, this NIGHT. II Won have NOT n