The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-19

! Will never NleId q harvest OF uccl uilieos.
/ When l was boy ] plowed a field with
team of spirited horses. / plowed il
| very quickly once in a While ] passed
! over some of the sod without turning It,
/ but did not jerk back the pillow with its
! rafting devices. ] thought il made no
difference. After awhile my father came
| along and said, "Why, this viii never do
this isn't plowed deep enough; there you
have missed this and you have missed
that" And he plowed it over again. The
difficulty with a great many people is that
they are only scratched with conviction
when the subsoil ploW of Gods truth
ought to be put in up to the beam.
My word is to all Sabbath school teach
ers, to all parents. to all Christian work.
ers-P.ow deep! Pillow deep.
And if in your own personal experience
you are apt to take lenient view Of the
sinful side of your nature, put down into
your soul the ten commandments when
reveal the holiness of God, and that sharp
and Elittcriug coulter viii turn up Jour
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 fixingup, he decetves.
You have suffered an appalling injury by
reason of sin. There are quick pOisOns
and slow poisons, but the druggists could
give you one drop that could kill the body.
And Sin is like that drug; so viruent so
to kill the soul.
Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plow-
ing for soul Broken heart or no reig-
ion. Broken soil or no harvest. Why
was it that David and the jailer and the
publican and Paul made such ado about
their sins? Had they lost their senses?
No The plow-share struck them. Con-
vctlon turned up a great many things
that were forgotten. AS a farmer plow-
ing 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 entombed. Biologists never brought
up from the depths of the mountain
mightier ichthyosaurus or megatherium.
But what means all this crooked plow-
ing these crooked burrows, 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? l remember that on the farm we
set standard with a red flag at the other
end of the field. We keep 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. 1t is a red standard
field. 1t is the Cross. Keeping your eye
on that you will make 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, a the
center Of it, 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 a Saviour to give repentance"
Oh, pillow up to the Cross.
Again, l 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 twenty-three
inches, and at every stride he puts his
hand into the sack of grain and he sprink-
les the seed-corn over the field. 1t looks
silly to a man who does not know what
he is doing. He is doing a 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 preach
ing the Gospel-we are scattering the seed.
II is the foolshness of preaching, but ii is
the winter grain; and though the SHOWS of
worldliness may come down upon il, it 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 thisties and Can
ada 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 coun-
try is the denomination of Nothingarians
Their religion is a system of negations.
You say to one of them, What do you
believer" well, L don't believe in infant
baptism" What do you believer"
We'll, l don't believe in the perseverance
of the saints" well. now tell me what
you do believer" "Well, I don't believe
in the eternal punishment of the wicked. -
So their religion is a row of ciphers. Be
lieve 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 a SER
mon calculated to set the denominations
of Christians quarreling. He was sowing
nettles A minister the other day adver-
tised that he would preach sermon on
the superiority of transcendental and or
ganized forces to untranscendenta and
unorganized forces. What was he sow
ing? Weeds. The Lord Jesus Christ nine
teen centuries ago planted the divine seed
of doctrine. 1t sprang up. on one side of
the stalk are all the churches of Christen-
dom. On the other side of the stalk are
all the free governments of the earth, and
on the top there shall be Towering mil
seed of doctrine. Every word that a par
emit, or Sabbath school teacher, or city
missionary, or other Christian worker
speaks for Christ, comes up. Yea, it comes
up with compound interest-you saving
one soul, that one saving ten, the ten a
hundred, the hundred a thousand, the
thousand, ten thousand, the ten thousand
one hundred thousand-on, on forever.
Again, l remark, in grace as in the farm
there must be a narrowing l refer now
not TO harrow that goes over the field In
order to prepare the ground for the seed.
but harrow which goes over after the
seed is sown, lest the birds pick up the
seed, sinking it down into the earth 50
that it can take root You know a har-
row. 1t is made of bars of wood nailed
across each other and the underside OF
each bar is furnished with sharp teeth.
and when the horses are hitched to it, il
goes tearing and leaping across the 1eld,
driving the seed down into the earth until
II springs UP i'm the harvest. BereaVc-
ment, sorrow, persecution are the Lord s
harrows to sink the gospel truth into your
heart. These were truths that you heard
thirty years ago, they have not affected
you until recently Some great trouble
came over you, and the truth was harrow
ed in. and it has come up. What did God
mean in this country in 1857? For a cen.
fury there was the gospel preached, but a