Connecticut western news., 1896-10-22

the world. If man speaks of sin as though it were an inaccuracy or mis- take instead of the loathsome, abom- inable, consuming, and damning thing that God hates, that man will never yield harvest of usefulness.
 When l was boy, plowed field with team of spirited horses. 1 plowed
 it very quickly. Once in while passed | over some of the sod without turning it, but I did not jerk back the blow, with its rattling devices. thought it made no difference. After awhile my father came along and said, "Why, this will
 never do; this isn't plowed deep enough; | there you have missed this, and you have l missed that" And he plowed it over again. The difficulty with great many I people is that they are only scratched with conviction when the subsoil blow of Gods truth ought to be put in up to the beam.
 My word is to all Sabbath school teachers, to all parents, to all Christian | workers: Flow deepl Flow deepl And if in your own personal experi- ence you are apt to take lenient view l 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 oolter 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 l 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 the publican aud Paul made such ado about
 their sins? Had they lost their senses? No. The plowshare struck them. Con-
 viction turned up great many things that were forgotten. As farmer blow 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 ghastly skeletons of sins long ago entombed. Geologists
 never brought up from the depths of the
 mountain mightier ichthyosaurus or | megatheriunl.
 But what means all this crooked blowing, these crooked furrows, the re- pentance that amounts to nothing, the 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 standard with a 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 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 It is red standard that God has set at the other end of the field. It is the cross. Keeping your eye on that, you will make straight furrow. Losing sight of it, you will make crooked furrow. Flow 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 1t, the heart of the Son 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, blow up to the crossl
 The Sowing.
 Again I remark, in grace, as in the
 field, there must be a sowing. In the
 autumnal weather you find the farmer
 going across the field at a 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. It
 looks silly to 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
 great crop. Now, that is what we arc
 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 snows of sworldliness may come down upon 1t, it
 will yield after awhile glorious harvest. Let us be sure we SOW the right kind of
 seed. Sow mullein stalk and mullein
 stalk will come up. Sow Canada missiles
 and Canada thistles will come up. Sow
 wheat and wheat will come up. Let us
 distinguish between truth and error Let us know the difference between
 wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane.
 The largest denomination in this
 country is the denomination of Noth- ingarians. Their religion is a system of
 negations You say to one of them.
 What do you believer Well. Idon't believe in infant baptism'' What do you believer "Well, don't believe in the perseverance of the saints. J ''Well, now tell me what you do believer" Well, don't believe in the eternal punishment of the wicked. So their
 religion is row of ciphers. Believe
 something and teach it; or, to resume
 the figure of my text, scatter abroad the
 right kind of seed.
 A minister the other day preached sermon calculated to set the denomina- tions of Christians quarreling He was
 sowing nettles. A minister the other day advertised that he would preach
 sermon on the superiority of transcen-
 dental and organized forces to untrans-
 cendental and unorganized forces. What
 was he sowing? Weeds. The Lord Jesus Christ 19 centuries ago planted the di- vine seed of doctrine. It sprang up On one side of the stalk are all the churches l of Christendom. On the other side of the stalk are all the free governments of the earth, and on the top there shall be
 towering millennium after awhile.
 All from the gospel seed of doctrine.
 Every word that parent, or Sabbath
 school teacher. or city missionary, or other Christian worker speaks for Christ comes up. Yea, it comes up