Arizona republican., 1899-01-23

poca I ero out here and find man sow
 inc seed and I say to him, What are
 voD sowing?' Oh he says, I am
 sowing seed Well; say, what XII kInd
 kind Man. U)n't you know whether
 # is good or bad?' and he says, No,
 sir well. where did you get it?'
 eOb. some one sent it 70 me- Well,
 who sent it? Was he friend of
 vours?' Oh. I don't know. Don't t
 vclf know whether you are sowing Ifares or thistles?' an l he goes on sow ing. There is not man O. woman Tn this audience tonight but what would
 say this man is mad. And l want to ask if you think that man is half as
 mad as the man that is not only sowing for time, but for eternity. This man
 in the field is only sowing for time; his
 work will come to an end so far as he
 is concerned, buh the seed we are now
 sowing we shall have to reap in the
 life to come as well as in this life.
 Hadn't we better look well to the kind
 of seed we SOW? Oh, I wish l could | arouse this audience tonight to get
 you to put the question to yourselves,
 old and young, saint and sinner, What | kind of seed are you sOwing| we are | the sewers virtually sowing either
 good or bad seed, and if you will an-
 
 what kind of a harvest you are going to reap I am not prophet nor the
 son of a prophet; never was prophet in the Moody family But I don't have to be to know that. Tell me where you spend your SaEbaths, and l will tell
 you what kind of harvest you are go- ing to have. I made discovery when
 coming out here. People have an idea that the God of the west is altogether 1 G0I in, re-t
 They think you have a strange God out here. Jeremiah says, will man
 change his God?' You people have a
 strange idea out here, that is the young men don't have an idea Cf going near
 the church. They think that the min isters are a sort Of a back number;
 that they come from the past ages and
 were good enough then, but that we have now an enlightened age and that
 they can get on a great deal better without them. They say, We will take our bicycles and take a spin out into the country and worship the god Of nature; that the old religion was good enough foC their fathers and mothers But I say this new kind of religion is cheap stuff. They say these old white haired deacons are sort Of old fogies. Do old fcgies belong to the devil? No, and the reason is that he always kills them off before they ges old. Where are tie young men today who forty years ago said with a sheer that the deacOns and elders were old fogies? I will tell you where they are. They are now dead and forgotten; have been in their graves thirty years It is easy enough for a man to drink himself into his grave and to talll about the ministers and deacOns and elders being old fOgies; it is easy to do that.
 ''Tell me how you treat your parents and I will tell you what kind of mar vest you are going to have. I have lived to be sixty years Of age and 1 1 have neve. found a young man who i'll treated his parents, 70 be prosperous. : l never knew one Cf these runaway marriages to turn out to be any good | in life. Honor thy father ard mother l that thy days may be long upon the | land which the Lord thy God giveth | thee I don't need now 10 Ee told what | your harvest will be. I have utter contempt for a man-I cant express my indignation for man that is | around town talking against his moth ! CT and father, saying that his mother | crammed religion down him and how | he got all he wanted Of it when he was | little boy. l have three children and | l maybe have made a mistake in my | training of them and been too religious, ! but I think it would be cOntemptible i in them to tell the outside world that | l was t0o religious There is not a | man here but that would say that your father or mother, if they did make a mistake, they made it with their head | and not with their heart. Ard suppose they did make mistake; it is mighty mean business for you to go around and talk with the boys and call the father the old man and your mother the old woman.'
 'I was in London some time ago and some one told me that they had the advantage over us here in America be- cause they had great respect for the law; We hang our murderers here, and l said, You hang only your best mur- derers.' What do you mean?' said he. I'll explain: If man comes into my house and drives dagger into me for my money, he is an angel when com pared with the young man who comes home late at night after a debauch and knows that his father 2nd mother can't get any sleep uni he comes. He is killing them by inches. l say that he IS the meanest murderer; what do you say? Isn't he a Gneaner murderer than the stranger who kills me fer my money? For he has certainly crushed out the life Of the father and mother
 Do you write to your ia her and mother Cften, or do you tell them that you are too busy and simply sign your name to few lines, Yours in haste?' Don't you know that there is not an hour in the day when you are not in the thougkts of your dear old mother and father? They don't let day pass without thinking of you they are per haps in their closst praying for you tonight for a blessing to rest upon you ;
 ''Dr. Hall, who died in New York city awhile ago, told a story of a wo- man who mad an only child She was determined to give hat child an educa ton and worked and worked, toCk in { washing and finally got him through the academy and got him off to college.