Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-22

jerk la * the pillow with it's rafting
devices. thought it made no differ
ence. After while MY father came
along ana said: "Why. this will never
do; this isn't plowed deep enough;
there you have missed this, and you
have missed that" And he plowcd 1t
nvcr nPain The difficulty with Il great
many people is that they are scratched
with conviction, WHEN the stbsoil pillow
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: Plow deep! Plow deep'
And if in your own personal Ell peri
encc you are apt &c take lenient view
of the sinful sid. of your nature, put
down into your soul the Ten Com
mandmcnts, which reveal the holiness
of God, and that sharp and Flittefing
coulter will turn up your soul TO the
deepest depths. II man breaches 20
you that you are only a little out of
order 10y reason of sin, and that you
need only a little fixing up, he de-
ccives. You have suffered an appall-
Quick poisuns aud slow poisons, but the
druggist could give you one drop that
could kill the 10 iy. And sin is like
that drug. SO virulent, 81 poisonous, 80
fatal that one drop is enough III kill
the soul.
Deep blowing for crop. deep plow-
ing for soul Broken heart or no res
ligion. BrUlIcn soil or no harvest. Why
was it tnat David and the jailcr and
the publican and Paul made such ado
about their sins? Had they lost their
senses? No. The plowsharc struck
them. Conviction turned up n great
many things that were forgotten ts
n farmer blowing sometimes turns up
the skeleton of man or the anatomy
of a monster long ago buried, SO the
plowshare of conviction turns up the
CHASTITY skeletons of sins long ago en-
tombed. biologists never brought up
from the depths of the mountain
mightier ichthyosaurus or megothe-
rum
But what means all this crooked
blowing and these crooked fur
rows, the repentance 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? | remember 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 plowed up
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 a red standard that God has set at
the other end of the field. 1t is the
Cross. Keeping your eye on that you
will make n straight furrow. Losing
sight of it you will make a crooked fur
row. 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 Son of
God who bore your sins and made salts
faction. Crying and weeping will not
bring you through. Him hath God
exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour
to give repentance On, pillow up to
the Cross!
Again, remark. in grace as in the
field there must be a sowing. In the
autumnal weather you find the farmer
going across the field ut a stride of
about twenty-three inches, and at ev-
cry stride he puts his hand into the
sack of grain and he sprinkles the seed
l.. 4 Il Il
man who does not know what he is
doing. lie 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.
1t is the foolishness of preaching, but
it is the winter grain; and though the
SHOWS of worldliness may come down
upon it, it will yield after awhile glori-
Gus 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 this
ties will come up Sow wheat and
wheat will come up. Let us distin-
guish 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 Foth-
ingarians. Their religion is n system
of negations. You say to one of them:
What do you believer well, don't
believe in infant baptism" What do
you believer We'll. don't believe in
the perseverance of the saints" well,
now tell me what you do believer
punishment of the wicked" So their
religion is a row of ciphers. Believe
something and teach it; or, to re-
sumo the figure of my text, scatter
abroad the right kind of seed
A minister the other day preached a
sermon calculated to set the denomina-
tions of Christians quarreling. He was
sowing nettles. A minister the other
day advertised that he would preach a
sermon on the superiority of transcen-
dental and unorganized forces. What
was he sowing? Weeds The Lord
Jesus Christ 10 centuries ago planted
the divine seed of doctrine. 1t sprang
up. On one side of the stock are all
the churches of Christendom. On the
other side of the stalk are all the free
governments of the earth, and on the
top there shall be a towering millen-
mum after awhile. All from the Cos.
pei seed of doctrine. Every word that
| a parent, or Sabbath school teacher, or
city missionary, or other Christian
worker speaks for Christ comes up.
Yea, it comes up with compound inter-
est-you saving one soul, that one saw
ing ten, the ten n hundred, the hun
dred thousand, the thousand ten
thousand, the ten thousand one hun
drcd thousand-on, on forever.
Again, remark, in grace as well as
! in the farm there must be a har'
rowing. | refer now not to n harrow
ing that goes over the field in order to
prepare the ground for the seed, but a
harrow which goes over after the seed
Is sown, lest the birds pick up the seed
sinking it down into the earth SO that