Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-09
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AS MEN SOW, so SHALL THEY
REAP.D

REAp.u
That amid the apparent confusion
and Uncertainty Of things IN lie, there
IL an undercuIunt Of law and order, of
cause and effect, tho thinker will
every where admit. Even when the
connection Ia not visible, backward
reasoning might discover unexpected.
ly the hidden SECRET Of present.
We have heard reasons given ior the
surroundings aud conditions OF this
life. Some hold that they are as the
Inevitable Of a past probation, aud that
the future will be ne projection OF
The prcaeut, or the results thereof. 10
far IA mind eau reach. When the
former Is admitted II IL comparatively
easy 10 reach tho latter. 10 the oue IL
true gnd based on sound philosophy
surely both can DO alike assume! 10
thisiaa Divine order Il IL au o,erual
one, ami always operative. Al
though II ia said that "thu mills Of the
Gods grind slowly" they are uncras.
ipgIy at work ana there II no
evasion u penalty or blessing %
for as Ia revealed at present. IL,
might DO concluded that there
is something which appvars to be arbl.
trafy aud OF iatalisiio character In
this. Certainly II assumes To belong 10
tue inevitable. but some oonclusions
ia regard 10 the pre.existtnt condition
modify this view, Tor agency must
have been as active ani potent there
a. here ut least, and an understanding
Of law aud IT, penalties, OF obedicnou
ami It's rcwardg, WIS probably clearer
and more comprehensive then than
now. The lesson II learned on earth,
painfully aud gradually; contact with
material thingp, with liie'stompla,lons,
with the faint OF heredily, with the
accumulated Virus OF ages, are, when
heavy, 10 many obstacles In tho path
OF pr0grrfs, or when light, as an incuu-
tive 10 EFFORT and assurance that all
things may BIO oyerc0mL one thing
ia assured to the understanding that
divinily-unliko man-i0cs not tex
pcct to gather where It hath not
slrcwed." The highest economy says
that "where much Is givon much Will
le required" while "whpro little h
given, little only Is require !"
There Il "a DISPOSITION to admit In the
moral world at large this overriding,
iaf-reachlng force OF law. Men believe
that II can be applied 10 eras Of history
TO nations, TO great communities, but
that individual lilo Is too insignificant
on the one hand, or too numerous on
the othor to guarantee tho potency
or efficacy OF this law In detail; and
this isuo new feature or phenomenon
0t humanity, Tor "the preacher" 10
EcUlrsInBuca said from observation,
"Bygautp Judgment is not speedily
executed against an evil work, there.
lore tUr hearts " men are oct upon 10
dU CHAT which 10 oyl.Y" hut from the
beginning oven until now all the ex-
/ pouuuu % the Divine viii have been
emphatic a. TO tho Intimacy between
violation u law anu 10 penalty, or on
tho contrary, obedience ana consequent
bIynIngl
"Say go to the righteous that II shall
be- we'll with him, for he shall cat OF the
Tuig Of his doings," Is no more per
maucut in tho nature VI things than Is
. Doe opposite, "W0o unto the wicked, IL
SHALL bo IN with him, for the
reward OF hls hands shall be-
gwen him.n And the nrgu'
muut OF the great Teacher "ie c.nuoi
gather grapes Of thOul or hgs
%. ,h.s,lys," was ineontrOvertlble by
. Ills Ultgtest foes. The individual al-
| pIpstl0n or tho Bringing home OF au
/ admittedly eygI-pIosent truth In other
directions, was the difficulty then as 10
/ is today, Hosea had charged bile
/ uguplu that 'If they howed to the wind
| they would reap the whiflwinti' aud
| Paul, cchoing the same great tru.l in
uls matchless way, declared 60 the
early Christians that 70 "sow 10 tho
uesh would be- TO reap cofrupHJn,"
whereas n they "sowsd to the spirit,
they should Of the Spirit reap oycrlasI-
LOG ltl" ..b
II might be concluded, from all the
above quotations being scripture, that