The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-08
THE RECENT DEFALCATION
Calls Forth Some Sound Les.
sons
For Young Men-Every Man the Author
OF His Own Rise and Ruin-CarnaI
Sowing Means Harvest of Corrup.
ton.

There is text in scripture which
always was true snd always will be
rue, "Be Sure Your Sins Will Find
You Out" In the late occurrence that
happened at the First National Bank
at Roanoke, does it not prove this to
be true? and is warning to others
what God is, and is their sign marks on
the road, but man looks in the mirror
and sees his face, and goes away and
forgets what kind Of man he is.
There is close analogy between the
world of nature and the world OF spirit.
They bear the impress of the same
hand, and hence the principles Of ma
ture and its laws are the types and
shadows of the invisible. Just as two
books, though on different subjects. pro-
ceeding from the same pen, m anifest
indications OF the thought of one mind,
so the worlds, visible and invisible. are
two books written by the same finger
and governed by the same idea, Or
rather they are but one book, separated
into two only by the narrow range of
our ken. For it is impossible to study
the universe at all without perceiving
that 1t is one system. Begin with what
science you will, as soon as YOU yet
beyond the rudiments you are con
strained to associate with another,
| hence the warning.
BE not deceived, God is not Knocked,
| for whatsoever a ma soweth, that shall
he also reap. He that soweth to the
flesh, shall OF the flesh reap corruption,
but he that soweth to life, shall reap
life everlasting" How beautifully are
| the spirit truths brought out and en-
brace natural things as their laws.
1t was upon this principle that Christ
taught. Truths come from His lius, not
stated simply as authority, but based
| on the analogy of the universe. His
human mind, in perfect harmony with
the Divine mind with which it is mixed,
discerned tho connection of things and
read tho eternal will in the simplest
laws of nature. For instance, if it were
Il question whether God would give His
spirit to them that asked, it was not re.
piled to by truth revealed on His
authority; the answer was derived from
the facts lying open to all mems obser-
Walton. Behold the fowls OF the air.
"Behold the lilies OF the field" learn
from the answer to Your question.
principle was there. God supplies the
wants which He has created He feeds
will feed with His spirit the craving
spirits Of His children.
Ii was on this principal of analogy
that st. Paul taught in this text. He
tolls us that there is o law in nature
according to which success is propor-
toned to the labor spent upon the work.
In kind and in degree, success is at
tanned in kind; for example he who has
sown his field in wheat does not reap a
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sown in the ground, SO will be the har-
vest. He who studies much will know
moro than no who studies lutte. In
most all departments it is the diligent
hand which maketh right.
The keen eye of Paul discerued this
principle reaching far beyond what is
seen into the spiritual real which is un-
seen. AS tare-seed comes up tares, and
wheat-seed wheat, and as the crop in
both cases is in proportion to two con-
ditions, the labor and the quantity COM
nitted TO the ground, so in this spirit
ual, too, whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap. Not something
else, but that" The proportion holds
in kind; 1t holds too in degree, in
spiritual things as in natural. "He
which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bounti-
fully shall reap also bountifully" If
| "o Souio uuucrSIauu anu rl2QClY OK
pound that principle we should be saved
from much OF the disappointment and
surprise which come from extravagant
and unreasonable expectations. What
ever scene appears on the road men
will look and laugh at and pass by.
VIII others take warning from what
has been? No, no; the Savior said
Though one rose from the dead they
will not believe" The principle is
this: "God Is not Knocked, for whatso-
ever man soweth, that shall he also
reap"
There are two kinds OF good possible
to mon: One enjoyed by our animal
being, the other felt and appreciated by
our spirits. Every man understands
more or less the difference between
these two, between prosperity and we'll
doing. between indulgence and noble
ness, between comfor. and inward peace,
between pleasure and striving after per-
lection, between happiness and blessed
ness. These are two kinds OF harvest
and the labor necessary for them re-
spectively is OF very different kinds.
The labor which procures the harvest
OF one has no tendency to secure the
other. 1t is not said that the pure in
heart shall be made rich; nor thew who
mourn shall rise in life and obtain dis
tinction. Now notice closely, each de
partment hasits own appropriate hsr-
vest, reserved exclusively to its own
method Of sowing.
Everything in this world has it's price.
and the price buys that. nothing else.
Every harvest demands it's own prepara-
ton and that preparation will not nro-