Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-06-28
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY JUNE q, 1901.

somewhere, somehow-ten centuries. q
million centuries, a quintillion of centu.
ries? We are all determined to get ready |
for the longer life we are to live after ouI
exit from things sublunary. We are |
waiting for more prOpitiOus opportunity. |
We have too much business to attend tc |
now or too much pleasure to allow any. |
thing to interfere with its brilliant prog.
ress. We are waiting until the wind |
blows in the right direction. We are GO !
ing to SOW and SOW the very best grain, /
and we are going to raise an eternal har. |
vest Of happiness. We like what you
say about heaven. and we are going |
there, and at the right time we will get
ready. But my lungs are sound, my di. |
gestiOn Is good, the examining physician |
Of the life insurance company says my
heart beats just the right number OF
times a minute, and / am cautious about
sitting in a draft, and l observe all the
laws Of hygiene, and my father and
mother lived to be very old, and / come
Of a long lived family. So we adjourn
and postpone until, like the farmer sug-
gested by my text, we allow the seed
time to pass, and sudden pneumonia or a
reckless bicycle or an ungoverned auto.
mobile puts US out OF life with all its
magnificent opportunities Of deciding
Alright the question Of everlasting resi-
dence. A Spanish proverb says. 1.-THE
road OF By and By leads to the town OF
Never"
Christ's FathOmlesa Mercy.
Whether in your life it is a south wind
or a north wind, a west wind or an east
wind, that Is now blowing, do you not
feel like saying: This whole subject ]
now decide. Lord God. through thy Son
Jesus Christ, my Saviour, am thine for
ever. throw myself, reckless Of every.
thing else, into the fathomless ocean OF
thy mercy"
But" says some one In a frivolous
and rOllicking way, Il am not like the
farmer you find in your text. do not
watch the wind. What do l care about
the weather vane? l am sowing now"
What are you sowing. my brother? Are
you sowing evil habits? Are you sowing
iniidel and atheistic beliefs? Are you
sowing hatreds, revenges. discOntents, IN
clean thoughts or unclean actions? If so
you will raise a big crOp-a very big
crop. The farmer sometimes plants
things that do not come up. and he has
to plant them over again. But those evil
things that you have planted viii take
root and come up in harvest Of disap
pOintment. In harvest of pain. In harvest
Of despair. In harvest Of FIRE. Go right
through some of the unhappy homes OF
Washington and New York and all the
cities and through the hospitals and pen.
itentiaries. and you will find stacked up
piled together. the sheaves Of such an
awful harvest. Hosea. one Of the first
OF all the writing prophets, although -four
OF the other prophets are put before him
In the canon Of Scripture. wrote an as
founding metaphor that may be quoted
as descriptive of those who do evil!
'They have sown the wind. and they
shall reap the whirlwind," Some one
has said, Children may be strRngled
but deeds never"
There are other persons who truthfully
say; II am doing the best / can. The
/ clouds are thick and the wind blows the
wrong way, but ! am sowing prayer
and sowing kindnesses and sowing help.
fulness and sowing hopes Of a better
world" Good for you, my brother. my
sisterl What you plant win come up
What you SOW will rise into a harvest
the wealth OF which you will not know
until you go up higher. hear the rus
Ting Of your harvest in the bright fieldl
Of heaven. The soft gales OF that land
as they pass, bend the full headed graiT
In curves Of beauty. It Is golden Ia thC
light Of a sun that never sets. As yoJ
pass in you will not have to grid on the
sickle for the reaping. and there will b.
nothing to remind you OF weary hus
bandmen toiling under hot summer sur