San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-21
WHAT ARE YOU SOWING.

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Easter is past and the Spring.
time is fully come. Nature puts
on her beautiful garments and the
groves are vocal with the voice of
birds, the hum of bees and notes Of
gladness. The GOODNESS and dead
ness Of winter is gone and in it's
stead is the warmth and life of
Spring. This is the season in which
the farmer scatters his seed, which
terminating in the moist soil and
quickened by the heat sprouts into
growth; first the blade, then the
ear, after that the full corn in the
ear. Who can tell as he sows his
grain. scattering it far afield,
whether shall prosper, this or that,
or whether they shall be alike
good?
This budding, poisoning, sprout.
ing Springtime has ever been chos.
en- as the emblem of human seed
time, in which the seeds Of char.
acter and conduct are to be sown
in the warm and kindly soil of the
heart, to terminate under such un-
certainties of sun and rain as to
render the harvest a most uncer.
tain one. The Spring time of life,
its youth and early freshness, are
typed in the Spring season of earth.
According to the sowing so shall
the reaping be. Some are sowing
good seed in the soil of their ma
lures, some are sowing bad, and all
OF US are sowing them mixed good
and bad. What shall the harvest
be?
AS man sows in his fields so
shall he reap, corn or wheat or coz
ton or potatoes or whatever'he
sows. As a man sows in hislife so
shall he reap, peace or pain or re-
morse or Joy or sorrow or increase
or decrease or lovelor hate or good
or evil or hell or heaven, just as
he sows. Not the heaven OF the
superstitious or the hell OF the ter
rified, but the heaven Of good that
there is in all good things and the
hell of i'll that there is in all that
is in itself evil. Man is his own
heaven and his own hell.
You are sowing all the time,
sowing either good or evil. Sow
ing it in every word that you speak,
in every act that you do, in every
temper that you display, in every
bargain that you make and in
every thought that you think.
What is good and what is evil?
The preacher will tell you one
thing and the politician another.
Churches will not agree on this
any more than on other things, and
definitions have divided them ever
since churches were. What is
good? What is evil? That is alone
good which does good, both to ones
self and to his fellows. That alone
is evil which does wrong and hurts,
both ones self and ones fellows.
To do good is the only religion that
Christ taught. If you are Christ
ian, you can do good because he
said SO. Ifyou are not, you can do
good because it is good. To be a
Christian is only to have name.
To do good is to have life. There
is wide difference.
This Sabbath morning what are
you sowing? The LIGHT has a
word for you this morning for you
are a member OF its great congre-
CATION. 1t is the largest congrega.
ton in San Antonio, and the freest.
You - think as yon please and
~ as you please. and belong to the
LIGHT's congregation, but it would
be better to do right and to sow
good seed rather than to do evil
sowing in the hearts Of the little
and SOW bad seed.
Fathers and Mothers, who read
the LIGHT what kind Of seed are you
ones this morning? Are they seeds
OF gladness that will make the day
more pleasant, the hours fuller OF
gIadhess, the home life fresh with
the fragrance Of affection? Are
z they seeds Of loving example, Of
real tenderness toward them and
eachotber? VIII the harvest from