The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-28

consuming and damag-
ing thing that God hates, that man
will never yield harvest OF useful
ness.
When 1 WAS a boy, I plowad a field
with team Of spirited horses. l
plowed it very quickly. O9ce IN
awhile I passed over some OF the Soa
without turning it, but did not JERK
back the plow, with It's rafting oe-
vices. l thought it made no oiller-
ence. After awhile my father came
alone and said: Why this will new
err do T1is isn't plowed deep enough.
Tbe-a Won have missed this, and you
hava missed that" Aud he p!owed
il over again. The difficulty with
great many people is that they are only
Scratched with conviction, when the
s1bsoil plcw OF G DDS truth ought to
be put 10 up to the beam.
NV word is to all Sabbath school
teachers, to all parents, to all Chrls-
tian workers: Piow deep; plow deep,
Aud if in your own personal expert
ence you are aptto take lenlent view
OF the sinful side Of your nature, put
down into your soul the Ten Com.
nandments, which reveal the holiness
of God, and that sharp and glitterlng
Golfer will turn up your sou! to the
deepest depths. Il a man breaches to
YOU that you are only little out OF
order by reason of sin and that you
need only little fixing up, he de-
ceives. You have suffered an appall-
ing 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, 50
poisonous. so fatal that one drop IS
enough to kill the soul.
Deep blowing for a crop. Deep
blowing for soul. Broken heart or
no religion. Broken soil or no harry
est. Why was it that David and the
iailer and the publican and Paul made
such ado about their sins2 Had they
lost their senses2 No. The plowshare
struck them. Conviction turned up
a great many things that were forgot
ten. As farmer plowing sometimes
turns up the skelton Of man or the
anatomy Of a monster long ago buried
so the plowshare of conviction turns
up the ghastly skeletons of sins long
ago entombed. Biologists never
brought up from the depths OF the
mountain mightier ichthyoSaurus or
megatherium.
But what means all this crooked
blowing, these crooked furrows. the
repentance that amounts to nothing,
the repentance that ends in nothings
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? l
remember that on the farm we set a
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
eve on that, we made straight fur,
row. Now, in this matter Of convlc-
ton we must have some standard to
guide US. It is a red stand ard that
God has set at the other end Of the
field. It is the cross. Keeping your
eve on that. you will make straight
furrow. Losing sight of it, you vii!
make a crooked furrow. Piow up to
the cross. Ain not at either end OF
the horizontal piece ofthe cross, butts
the upright piece, at the center OF 1t,
the hesrf of the Son of God bore your
sins and made satisfaction. Crying
and weeping will not bring you
through Him hath God exalted to
be prince and Savic1r to give re
pentance." Oh, plow up to the cross,
Again, remark, in grace, as IN the
field, there must be a sowing. In the
autunnal weather you find the farmer
Going across the field at stride OF
about 90 inches, and at every stride he
puts his hand into the ssck of grain,
and he sprinkles the seed corn over the
field. It looks silly to man who does
know what he is doing. re is doing
very important work. He is scatter
ing 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 scatter
ing the seed. It is the foolishness ol
preaching, but it is the winter grain
and. though the SHOWS of worldliness
may come down upon 1t, 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 Canads
thistles, and Canada thiStles vii
come up. Sow wheat, and whea
will come up. Let us distinguish be
tween truth and error. Let US know
the difference between wheat anl
hellebore, oats and henbane.
| The largest denomination in TINS
country is the denomination OF Moth
ingarians. Their religion is system
of negations. You say to one OF then
What do you believer We'll,
don't believe in infant baptism.
"What do you believe2 "Well, I don
believe in the perseverance of SAINTS.
"Well, now tell me what you do be
lieve." "Well, I don't believe in the
eternal punishment OF the wicked.
So their religion is a row OF ciphers
Believe something and teach it, or, tc
resume the figure of my text, scatter
abroad the right kind of seed.
A minister the other day preached s
sermon calculated to set the denoml
nations of Christians quarreling. Hf
was sowing nettles. a minister the
other day advertised that he woule
preach sermon on the superiority o1
transcendental and organized forces t
untranscendental and unorganizec
forces. What was he sowing2 Weeds.
The Lord Jesus Christ 19 centuries age
planted the divine seed of doctrine. L
sprang up. On one side Of the stall
are all the churches Of Christendom
On the other side of the stalk are al
the free governments of the earth, anc