The Monitor-register., 1896-10-23

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no difference. After awhile INV father
came along and said, "Why, this will
never do; this isn't plowed deep enough.
there you have missed this, and Won have
missed that. +" And he plowed it over
again. The difficulty with great many
people is that they are only scratched
with conviction when the subsoil Nov
OF Goa s 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 deepl
ana II IN your own personal experi.
ence you are apt to take a lenient view
OF the sinful side of your nature. mt
down into your soul the Ten Command.
ments, which reveal the holiness of God
and that sharp and glitteripp collier
VIII turn up your soul to the deepest
depths If a man breaches to you that
you are only little out of order bv
reason of sin and that you need only a
little hxlng up, he deceives. You have
suffered an appalling injury by reason
OF SIN. There are quick poisons and slow
polsons, but the druggist could give you
one drop that could kill the body. And
sin is like that drug; SO yirulent. So
poisonous, SO fatal that one dron is
enough to kill the soul.
Deep Flowing.
Deep blowing for crop. Deep pIow-
ing for soul. Broken heart or no re-
ligion. Broken soil or no harvest. Whv
| was 1T that David and the jailer and the
publican and Paul made such ado about
their sins? Had they lost their sensesp
No. The plowshare struck them. Con-
victlon 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 oonyic.
ton 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
blowing. these crooked burrows, 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 a
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 a
crooked furrow. Keeping our eye on
that, we made 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
straight furrow. Losing sight Of it,
you will make a crooked furrow. Pillow
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 satisfaction. Crying
and weeping will not bring you through.
"Him hath God exalted to be prince
and Saviour to give repentance. f" Oh,
pillow up to the crossl
The Sowing.
Again 1 remark, in grace, as in the
field, there must be sowing. In the
autumnaI weather you find the farmer
going across the field at a stride of about
% inches, and at every stride he puts
his hand into the sack of grain, and he
sprinkles the seed corn over the field. IL
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 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 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.
Let us know the difference between
wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane.
! The largest denomination in this
country is the denomination of Moth
ingarians. Their religion is a system OF
negations. You say to one of thetn.
"What do you believer" 'Well. Ideh't
believe in infant baptism" What do
you believer" "Well, don't believe in
the perseverance of the saints. swell,
now tell me what you do believer?
"Well, I 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 denomlI1a-
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 10 centuries ago planted the dl-
| vine seed of doctrine. 1t sprang up. On
one side of the stalk 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
| 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
| with compound interest-you saving
one soul, that one saving ten, the ten
| hundred, the hundred a thousand, the
thousand ten thousand, the ten thousand
4, one hundred thousand-on, on forever.
| The narrowing.
| Again I remark, in grace, as in the
farm, there must be narrowing. re-
fer 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 so that it can take root.
You know harrow. 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 n1tC06Q TO IL u ROos tSaftuS anu
leaping across the field, driving the seed
down into the earth until it springs up
in the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow.
persecution are the Lords harrows to
sink the gospel truth into your heart.
| These were truths that you heard 80
years ago. They have not affected you
until recently. Some great trouble came
over you, and the truth was narrowed
in, and it has come up. What did God
1 mean in this country in 1857? For q
century there was the gospel preached,
but great deal of it produced no re-