The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-30

at the right time we miIi get iy, I'ut my lunfs are sound, my digestion Is good. the examining physician of the life insurance Company says my heart beats just the right number of times \ minute. and I am cautious about sit- ting in a draft, and 1 observe all the laws of hygiene, and my father and mother lived to be very old, and come of q long lived family. So we adjourn and postpone until, like the farmer suggested by my text. we allow the seedtime to pass and sudden pne Irnonia or q reckless bicycle or an ungovcraed automobile piSs us out or Ire win all its magnificent opportunities ot de- ciding alright the question of everiast- ing residence. A Spanish provsro rays The road of By and By leads 10 the town of Never"f
 Decide Today.
 whether in your life 1t is south wind or north wind that is now blow ing, do you not feel like saying: This whole subject I now decide. Lord God, through thy Son Jesus Christ, my Sa- viour. lam thine forever. throw my self. reckless of everything else. into the fathomless ocean of thy mercy"
 But" says some one in frivolous and roiliSking way, ''T am not Ike the farmer you find in your text. l do :.ot watch the wind. What do care about the weather vane? am sowing now" What are you sowing my brother? Are you sowing evil habits? Are you sow ing infdel and atheistic beliefs? Are you sowing hatreds revenges discontents upclean thoughts or un- clean actiones? If so you will raise biz 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 will take root and come up in harvest of disappointment. in harvest of pain, in harvest of despair, in harvest of fire. Go right through some of the unhappy homes of Wash instorf and New York and all the cities and through the hospitals and peni- tentiaries, and you will find stacked piled together, the sheaves of such an awful harvest. Hosea. one of the fi'st of all the writing prophets. although four of the other prophets are put be- fore him in tho canon of Scripture. wrote an astounding metaphor that may be quoted as descriptive of those who do evil, .r-They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirl- wind" Some one has said, ''Chi dren may be strangied, but deeds never"
 There are other persons who truth fully say: T am doing the best I can. The clouds are thick and the wind blows the wrong way, but am sowing prayers and sowing kindnesses and sowing helpfuiness and sowing hopes of a better world.'' Good for you. ny brother. my sister! What you plant will come up: what you SOW will rise into harvest the wealth of which ycu will not know until you go up higher. hear the rustling of your harvest in the bright fields of heaven. The scft gales of that land, as they pass. bend the full headed grain in curves of beau ty. It is golden in the light of sun that never sets, As you pass in you will not have to gird on the sickle for the reaoing, and there will be nothing to remind you of weary! husban amen toiling under hot summer sun on earth and lying down under the shadow of the tree at noontide, 50 tired were they 60 very tired. No. no; your har-. vest will be reaped without any be- sweating of your brow. Christ in one of his sermons told hoy your harvest will be gathered when he said, "The rcspers are the angels"
 Copyright 1901, Youis Klopsch, N. Y.)