Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-24
Tho Pillow.


is only the plowshare turning up the
sins that have been rooted and matted
in the soul. A farmer said to his indo-
lent SOD, There are 500 buried deep
in that field. The son went to work
and plowed the field from fence to fence,
and he plowed it very deep. and then
complained that he had not found the
money. But when the crop had been
gathered and sold for 500 more than
any previous year. then the young man
took the hint as to what his father
meant when he said there was 500
buried down in that field. Deep plow-
ing for crop. Deep blowing for soul.
He who makes light of sin will never
amount to anything i'll the church or in
the world. If man speaks of sin as
though it were an inaccuracy or q mis-
take instead Of the loathsome, abom-
Unable, consuming, and damning thing
that God hates, that man will mover
yield harvest of usefulness
When was boy, I plowed field
with team of spirited horses,aEplowed
it very quickly. Onceina while 1 passed
over some of the sod without turning 1t,
but l did not jerk back the pillow, with
its rafting devices. l thought it made
10 difference. After awhile my father
came along and said, "Why, this will
never do; this ism plowed deep enough I;
thoro you have missed this, and you have
missed that. F." And he plowed it over
again. The difficulty with a great many
people is that they are only scratched
with conviction when the subsoil pillow
of Gods truth ought to be put i'll up to
the beam.
My word is to all Sabbath school
teachers, to all parents, to all Christian
workers. Plow deepl Plow deepl
And if in your own personal expert
ence you are apt to take lonient view
of the sinful side of your nature, put
down into your soul the Ten Command
ments, which reveal the holiness of God,
and that sharp and glittering Golfer
will turn up your soul to the deepest
depths. If man breaches to you that
you are only little out of order by
reason of sin and that you need only a
little fixing up, he deceives. You have
suffered an appalling injury by reason
of sin. There are quick poisons and slow
poisons, but the druggist could give you
one drop that could kill the body. And
sin is like that drug; so virulent, SO
poisonous, so fatal that one drop is
enough to kill the soul.
Deep Flowing.
Deep blowing for crop. Deep plow-
ing for soul. Broken heart or no re-
ligion. Broken soil or no harvest Why
was it that David and the jailer and tho
publican and Paul made such ado about
their sins? Had they lost their senses!
No. Tho plowshare struck them. Con-
viction turned up great many things
that were forgotten. AS farmer plow-
ing sometimes turns up the skeleton of
man or the anatomy of monster long
ago buried, so the plowshare of convic-
ton turns up the CHASTITY skeletons OF
sins long ago entombed. Biologists
never brought up from the depths Of the
mountain mightier ichthyosaurus or
megatheriul.
But what means all this crooked
blowing, these crooked burrows, the re-
pentance that amounts to nothing, tho
repentance that ends in nothing? Men
groan over their sins, but get no better.
They weep, but their tears are not
counted. They get convicted, but not
converted. What is the reason? I re-
member that on the farm we set q
standard with red flag at the other
end Of the field. We kept our eye on
that. We aimed at that. We plowed up
to that. Losing sight of that, we made a
crooked furrow. Keeping our eye on
that we made a straight furrow. Now,
in this matter of conviction we must
have some standard to guide us. 1t is
red standard that God has set at the
other end of the field. 1t Is the cross.
Keeping your eye ON that, you will mako
a straight furrow. Losing sight Of it.,
YOU will make a crooked furrow. Plow
up to the cross. Aim not at either end
of the horizontal piece of the cross, but
at the upright piece, at the center OF IT.,
the heart Of the>So Of God, who bore
your sins and made satisfaction. Crying
and weeping will not bring you through
"Him hath God exalted to be prince
and Saviour to give repentance. " Oh,
pillow up to the cross!
The Sowing.
Again remark, in grace, as IN the
field, there must be sowing. In the
autumnal weather you find the farmer
going across the field at stride of about
23 inches, and at every stride he puts
his hand into the sack Of grain, and he
sprinkles the seed corn over the field. 1t
looks silly to a man who does not know
what he is doing. He is doing very
important work. He is scattering the
winter grain, and, though the snow may
come, the next year there will be a
great crop. Now, that is what we are
doing when we are preaching the gospel
we are scattering the seed. It is the
foolishness of preaching, but it is the
winter grain. And though the SHOWS OF
worldliness may come down upon it, 1t
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.
kn+1 Al,
wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane.
The largest denomination in this
country is the denomination Of Moth
ingarians. Their religion is system OF
negations. You say to one of them.
what do you believer" well, ldon't
believe in infant baptism" "What do
you believer "Well, don't believe in
the perseverance Of the saints. " well,
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