The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-16
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
rev. Bascom AnthOny's Sermon on
Sowing and Reaping.


Sowing and Reaping.
Rev. Bascom Anthony preached upon
reaping and sowing at last nights
service at Trinity Church, showing the
analogy between the work of the hus-
bandman and the life of all men. The
sermon abounded in good advice and
warning to those who had not sought
to sow in way that might insure
good harvest.
The pastor prefaced his sermon with
the statement that Rev. Mr.. Ellis, the
new presiding elder of the Savannah
district, would be in Savannah next
sunday for the first time since his ap-
noiptment to the district charge, and
that he would preach in the morning
at Trinity Church. Mr.. Anthony
urged the attendance of his congrega-
ton, saying that he desired the pre-
siding elder to be heard by many upon
the occasion of his first service at the
church.
In the highest terms Mr.. Anthony
commended the presiding elder, who, he
said. is thoroughly capable and eff
cient. He is a young man, a fact over
which the pastor was disposed to re-
joice. He said that he had been sur
prised, but greatly gratified, 10 hear
the Bishop announce Mr.. Ellis appoint
ment to the district
The pastors sermon was based upon
the text drawn from Psalm 1875, fifth
and sixth verses: "They that SOW in
tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth
forth and weepeth, bearing precious
seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him."
M Apthnpv dweIt ,,por tho i,,onort
ance of hard and continuous work of
preparation for any excellence, declar-
ing that success could not be achieved
without that essential. He said some
might admire Edison, the great cleo
trician, believing that his inventions
had been evolved from a brain that
had not poured for years upon the
great problems it had mastered, but
that they should recall how he had
gtrtyen for the iaee that his genius
and his application have won him. He
referred to a Savannah business man,
who from the humble beginning of
peddling chickens on the street, has
gained a fortune by dint of persever-
ance, close attention to details and
sparing no pains in the sowing for the
fruition of the harvest he is now reap
ing.
Let twelve young men," said Mr..
Anthony, come to savannah 10 De-
gin life, and note how few of them
will adopt the right paths. The great
majority will be attracted by the
snares and pitfalls that beset the way.
Possibly two of them will determine
to amount to something. They will
think too much Of themselves to throw
themselves away. They will give strict
attention to their work and will save
their earnings. The other ten will de-
eide to have good time. They will
wander down upon Broughton street
at night and will turn to this and to
that attraction that flaunts itself there.
They will have no thought or desire
to earn the respect of the people that
will fall to the two who adopt the
other course. For a year or two there
may be no material difference. Peo-
pie may not observe that the two are
any better than the ten, but year by
year the difference will become more
manifest, until the two will be occu-
pying respectable positions in the COM
munity, admired and respected, while
the ten will be low and degraded"
The pastor urged his hearers not to
shrink from the labor of the planting,
but to gather courage from the pros
pect of the harvest. The harvest time,
he said, will come to all If they but
sow the seed faithfully.