El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-22
Sowing and Reaping.

| eth that stall he also reap" Ga. VIZ
He said in p TT: Here is II teX5 which
no one can dispute. Ii needs not on,
So lab of defe ce. Neithe T ,aint no
sinner, cynic or unbeliever, en- uttel
successfully one word against the ter
rife logic o! what Oever man sOwetl
| that shall he also reap" TIE bible i
book of the open fields and the sea
side. Jesus was cons antly illustrate {
from corn fclds, vineyards, sowing
reaping, heos, chickens, fishes anC
nets. When farmer sows wbeat b,
expects to reap wheat. If he sOws
wheat with cookie in j., he reaps wheat
with cookie in it. No farmer sows 20
t. toes and expects to reap vatermcl rs
No farmers wife butts len eggs rnder a
setting hen and exp cts TO get cucbs or
geese Yet the world is flu of peo il
who are living the life of vice anC
think they can reap the rewards of viz
tue: who think they can live the f. OF
the fool and reap life everlasting. Goo
says this can not be done. Common
sense says it can not lie done. AL
science, all the powers of gavitation
can not change this law Of sowing and
reapiny. GCd made it thou ands of
years ago and be has YER apOlogized
for having made it. This is the way he
k cps the race alve-by cradies and
death. David commits adultery-sow-
ing. He has ore sen who is an a7ui-
terer, another who is murderer
-eaping. Valerian caused 80 Chris
tiaps to be sent to Sc, and burned to
Valerian when he
dies is burned alive-reaping. France
sows the seeds of inHdeli.y, sboli5hes
Sunday, enthrO1 es reason as goddess,
give power to corrupt church-sow-
ing. Then came the awful French
revolution when france rocked Ike
cedars N a t mpest and bod ran hot
AID red and dep in the cutters of Paris
.red ping.
With terrific earnestness does this
law work il bered ty. Children look
like their parents, walk like them. act
like them. Paren's transmit their
vices, til cir virus to their children
AS rule, the Gil drel If educatt d
parents are more easily educat d.
of stature, tallne IF stature
il transmitted from par, Mt to OGs prlng.
DR.. Dugdale has written g lit BOOK
On ''The Jukes Family" He ira :es in
that book 700 descendants in six geper-
a ions of one poor vicious neglected
girl. Nearly all the descendants Of this
bad woman became licent Gus. Owe.
81 PEI cent of the women were bariOts,
$50 bee 4me paupers, I6 were convicted
Of crimes and punished, and many q ore
led criminal lives. AS family they
all ms nner of terrible dis e lses
-sowipg aud reaping. The law OF
/ eredity should be turned into the sky
Of every parent and all who expect to
be pare hts There are many children
today who have 10 co terrible battle
against some tendo ncy to evil gwen
them by a vicious parent. He who
tries to Cisobey this law has the whole
universe to fight.
Take it in tie realm of the mind.
1t is true there. A we'll cultivated
mind is one of the grandest of all Gods
works. Yet here how ma Y sJw cookie
notice what people read and do you
wonder their minds are d:ugge1,
20 sOned, supplied. How few have
bati of cont nued Attention and con-
centra' iGn OF powers on subject until
they get the honey. How few cultivate
sn inquiring state Of mind that seeks
from reading, CONVERSE
lion, observation. How few make
areiul selection of subjects t. bring
avery power to bear upon. How many
olson that splJ ndid pOwer-the imagl
,ation, pay SO little attention to the
eason or that great faculty-tbe mem
,ry. How many read to forget. How
many read only novels till the miGd
yets shallow and the person gets false |
IDEAS of life, false feelings and create |
ne ntal habits which ruin memory and |
I'll the logical powers-all the while |
he great uneXplored stretches of |
history, biography, poetry, philosophy,
'elieion are never looked into.
sowing tares and expect wheat? Oh
f people, tired housek eepers, busy
men who find life so gazing and pain
III would only cultivate the mind more
hey could fly up, up and away to other
today counts for every
hing.
But look into the real NJ of morals and
ee the work ng Of sowing and reaplng.
I man is habitually intempers tie,
,ambles, is false to his marr age VOWS,
ets bis money dish oDestly, goes 10 the
Iarlot's house, he will reap an awful
harvest. He may fly high for time
rot he is like the soaring eagle who
makes for his mountain home; the ser
'eut will sting him to the heart and
,ripg him to t. dust. Unless Gcd has
eserted his throne punishm Mt is sure
o follow. | had friend of splendid
nind who gan to drink and kept it
Ipuntil his poor wrecked, shattered |
,ody was laid in grave il Pennsyl-
'Hnia hillside. His mother buried him
With d broken heart and never smiled
'SdiH. SOo 10 uOb uuUthSu. n nhu
wears AID subjects all things 10 a
keptical cynical C, it ci5m. Py and |
~ be loses his flee moral sentiments
nd gets so he has lost all power to ap-
,recate eoodDoss. A man who is i'm
moral has destroyed that fine sense in |
lin which will enable tim to give any
correct judgment on any question OF
'eligion or morals He who goes as
ray 70 virtue pois' rs is whole iCtal-
ec.ual, moral system. This is not
,u7h. 1t is scieG titic fact. Fal evell |
,ouug man if you go to the harlots
zone, you will r APP al awful barve t. |
Snch life Ike the rattle snake car
les its warning with it. He goes.
" at"h him by aud by. His eyes are
ed, face blotcbed, every nerve he |
,ome+ a V per with poisonous fang,
allure tut ms tormento~! He now curses |
Jld because be was not allowed to SOW |
| life of vice and reap the rewards of |
,irtue He dies an awful death in
ome lonely room and God writ the Sc
5ords on his coffin lid: He that
owe tn to tie flesh shall reap corrup- !
ion.'
Yes, our hope of heaven depends on !
Ieening this law Il runs into the |
word Heaven is a nrpnare5 |