Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Sowing the Seed.
AN APPRoPRiATES SCHOOL
TALK TO THE CHILDREN.
Cauaty Clerk ]. V. Williams Describes
the Blessiags Brought About by
the Sabbath SchOai-The Great
Convention nj 81. Louis.

dress by ]. Y. Williams was to have
been delivered at a union Sunday
School picnic of Washington Sun
day School on Friday, Sept. LIST,
but official business prevented Mr.,
Williams attendance. He handed
our typewriter his manuscript that
it might be copied so he could keep
it. We deem it worthy of a close
reading by every Sunday School
child in the country and take the
liberty of publishing it without ask
ing his consent.
My DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS: 1t
is very dry and very dusty to-day
and the ground is very hard, but in
spite of all that, l have come out
here in the country to sow some
seed. "What! SOW seed now?"
says hat little farmer boy, for |
fear he knows more about farming
than l do. "Why, in town the
people don't know how to SOW
seed, or when to sow seed, or any
thing about sowing seed. You'd
better GO back to Mexico" Well,
wait awhile, my little friends. The
kind of seed | have to SOW can be
sown any time in the year. 1t will
sprout and take root when the ice
is twelve inches thick or the snow
is three feet deep; but | have been
trying to SOW this seed for twenty
five or thirty years and | find the
! best time to SOW it is in the spring
time. 1t takes root quicker then
and gets a firmer hold than at any
other time. The seed | want to
SOW is not turnip seed, or beet seed,
or radish seed, or seed wheat. In
one sense it is like the seed
that produces the bread, which we
call the staff of life; for the seed
that l would SOW produces the
bread of life which, if you eat, you
will never hunger again. And ]
find that this seed, which | want to
SOW, grows stronger and is less
liable to die out in new ground, o.
groundthat has not been ploughed tt
death. Don't you know, boys
that there is some ground arounG
even in this neighborhood of ricf
farms that has been worked tt
death? 1t wont sprout black-eyet
peas; and the kind l speak of hal
been broken up every week; yes
they ploughed and narrowed ever
on Sunday for thirty or forty year
. until it has lost its strength, and
say it amt worth working any Ion
ger. Just take away the fence tina
you've had to keep up around i
for all these years and turn it GU
to the commons, for it costs some
thing to keep up fences, and t
work ground. But l see the groun.
in which I want to SOW the seet
this evening is new ground. Som
of it second year ground, and
know if | SOW in faith that som,
day an abundant harvest will b
reaped; | want to tell you, hoy
and girls, hat your mothers ant
sisters, even though their hands b
so white and tender, do gather tn
harvest from the seed that | woul,
sow, and oh! how happy they ar
when the harves. time comes
Their hearts are light as blossom
in June, and the household re
sounds with merry songs of thanks
giving and praise, yes, real Low
songs, for when we harvest from
the sowing of this seed we low
everybody and not a wave of troubl
rolls across u peaceful breast
But sometimes bad seed is sow
on the same ground hat the goot
seed is sown on and this bad seet
is usually sown in the night; but i
grows all the same and the thorn
and cookie burs that come up from
this bad seed that is mostly sowl
in the night time choke out tn
good seed and a worthless crop i
the result-not worth saving and il
lost. Now, children, your Sunda,
School Superintendent and Sunda,
School teachers and your preache.
has been sowing this seed in you
neighborhood for years and a good
ly harvest has it yielded. The seet
that l would soy to-day and tina.
they for years have been sowing
are seeds of kind deeds, love fol
each other, sympathy for those
who are in trouble, charity, temper
ance, peace, and most of all, love fol
Him whose hand shields you from
all harm and whose eye watches
over you when your eyes are shut
in silent slumber. Oh, how dark
and lonesome it is IN the night and
you know how we are scared in
the night time. Well, this dear
hand that protects US in the night
once came down to earth and for
years sowed these seeds of kindness.
He took little children and blessed
them and millions of little children
like you have been told about this
act of Glowing kindness" which
this one did, who belonged in
Heaven but who lived on earth.
Yes, millions of children have been
told about it and they all love Him