Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19

thay were % dead rs tn k1Axs }exesr.
But when spring o6aosA those wheat
seeds which have lain dormant so hong
are reused by the blast Of the springs
resurrection. And wonderful fact
about natures laws is that the deeper
the SHOWS, the longer the winter and
mant the stronger and more virile Is
the grain when It begins TO grow.
So some Of the tarcs, or the sins Of the
flesh Witch we have sovyn in the past
may seem to take very long time in
developing We may think because
we have sinned and never vet been
punished and have kept on SHINING five
hundred, thousand. ten thousand
times that we never will be punished,
that we never shall have to gather our
harvests of corruption. But we WILL
AS the Lord God Omnipotent liveth
we will! Christ in the parable Of the
tares explicitly states this fact. As
the householder he babe his servants
let the tares continue to grow by the
side Of the wheat. but when the reap
ers come. they will first gather the
tares into bundles and destroy them.
Sinner, do not deceive yourself. God is
not Knocked. Do not think because the
day of retribution has been postponed
that the seeds of the flesh are dead
when they are merely dormant As the
long delayed wheat harvest Is the
strongest harvest, so the longer the
punishment Of the sins of the flesh is
postponed the greater and the more
awful will be the harvests Of corrup-
ton.
A Mothers Rcnping.
once saw a woman reaping her har-
vest of the flesh which she had planted
a fifth of a century before. 1t was In
our old Brooklyn home. The doorbell
rang. I went to the door and ushered
into the parlor lady dressed in deep
mourning. Her face revealed the
marks of intense suffering. When my
father came down in answer to my
summons, the lady began to plead with
him to interccde with the governor for
the life Of her boy. He was a young
man under sentence Of death. He was
to be and was electrocuted within six
weeks. CDR. Talmage," she said, II
want you to plead with the governor
because my boys life is all the result
Of my past sins. When he was little
child, he was very sick. The doctors
gave him up and said he had to die.
Then I knelt by my sons bed and de.
fed God. 1 said: % God, will not let
him die! He shall not die! You can de.
stroy his soul, you can destroy mine,
but l will not and shall not give him
up Then, strange to say, DR.. Tai
mage, the boy had sudden change to-
ward physical recovery. In spite Of all
from that minute my life was changed
toward God, and now l must reap the
results Of my past sins in my boys
execution. Oh, sir, will you not plead
with the governor to pardon my boy
on account Of his mothers sins" That
woman reaped the harvest Of her cor.
ruption twenty-five years after the
seed Of sin was sown. So when we SOW
to the flesh sooner or later we shall
all reap our earthly and eternal har
vest Of agony.
The seeds of the flesh always pro
duce such great harvests that many
pairs Of hands instead Of one pail
must be employed in the reaping. One
man can plant in a day what it will
take a score of men the same time tC
reap. The sower would be helpless II
he himself had to gather in all the re-
suits Of his sowing. So every farmer
has to look ahead to prepare for the
harvest time. And if he is the owner
Of large farm he rides around the
country engaging extra laborers for
the reaping. When the wheat is ripe
| 1t must be cut and carried into the
barns right away, else the grain will
| fall off and the farmer will have nc
results from his planting but straw
which he uses for stall bedding. Six
seven. eight months Of the year you
may find unemployed men in the coun
try. But during harvest time every
healthy man can find work and big
wages, If he is only willing to work
and knows how to WELD scythe OF
how to tie up the sheaves Of grain.
Who are the reapers engaged be-
forehand to help the sower to the flesh
gather in his greatest harvest, which
Is to be garnered at the brink Of the
open grave? They are the demoniac
reapers. They are Satan and all his
evil spirits. They are the demons that
live in the impenetrable darkness OF
lower world. They are the demons
who will gather only the most corrupt
of harvests. 1t is said that the week
before MaEarin, the sinful French car
dinal, died he hobbled through his art
galleries crying and moaning: Must
leave you, oh, my beautiful pic
lures? Must give you up?" And the
day before he died he had himself
reused and painted, and his servants
passed before him and bowed an
kissed bis hand and mockingly toll
him how well he looked. And when tn
French statesman died he was bo
stored up in bed, playing a game O
cards! But when the Satanic reaper
came to gather that mans harvest o
corruption they did not take alon
Mazarins pictures or his cardinal
hat, which he had disgraced. The,