Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-06-21

genius though hc might have been.Was /
not able to destroy The harvest Of his |
secret sin. How. then, can the ordinary /
young man who has sown the eYil /
seeds. hope to be declared gulltless |
when Charles Stewart Parnell had to /
reap from the 1esh harvest OF cor
rupion?
The physician in the sickroom VIII |
teach YOU that the sowcr Of the flesh |
always rcaps the corruption Of the |
flesh. Upon the bed Of suffering lies an
invalid. He may pray, he may groan'
lie may promise TO- do right in the III
ture. but the physician says: NO. my
friend; good intentions Do not eradicate
the physical wrongs Of the past You
must reap the seeds OF gluttony. the
seeds which once sparklcd in the wine
cup. the seeds OF late hours tie seeds
of the defiance Of E,gal laws Dying
man, YOU must reap thp harvest Of The
sins Of the flesh which you have soWn.
Stand with the minister in his pllpit
and he WIKI teach You the same lesson
He will tell you that though man
may repent of his sins he must up 10
the graves edge suffer from his past
misdeeds. God may forgive the sinner
and all the results Of the past evil may
cease when the sinner robes himself in
the white garments of the redeemed
but ali through the remainder Of the
sinners earthly career he must suffer
/ for the evil which ne has done. Ihe
minister viii tell you that one OF the
saddest sights Of Christian work is to
see an old man who has been converted
at the eleventh hour hobbling along
upon his cane through the haryests Of
corruption which surround him every
where. lie stumblcs through the har-
vests which have come from the seeds
/ Of his own planting.
! IncxnrnhIc Laws Of the Fields.
SThe seeds Of the flesh hy the incXora-
BILE laws Of the fields arc expected TO
produce more OF q harvest than the
original seeCs which have been soWn
It would be folly for the farmer TO SOW
4 300 kernels OF corn if he could only re-
ceive in return half dozen ears OF
corn: to plant twenty or thirty peas II
ne could gather in return but few
mods. or TO labor at'all if for every
nlanted seed there would come up only
zone kernel i'm return. Eut when the
farmer has a small bag OF wheat seed
he says to himself: Now if ! prop "
plow and harrow the ground and plant
those seeds right | will be able to gath
or n whole field Of golden grain. One
OF nv seeds will be able to reproduce
itself many. many times Benjamin
Fraaklin once said that the reproduc'
tive power. the prolifcness Of yegeta-
BILE life. is simply inconceiyable ana
without limit. We all remember Dahlei
De Foes story of.the shipwrecked sail
or He found half a dozen small wheat
seeds. From those few seeds he was
able to develop all the wheat he want
cd. both for himself and his negro sery-
ant.
1t would be a happy solution to the
sinner If when he sowed one evil seed
he should get back only one evil re-
.nlt. Sut that is rot thasyay the bar
vests of the flesh grow. One evil seed
will become the parent Of many evil
seeds. the grandparent of host OF eVll
seeds and the great at-grandparent OF
lifetime Of evil harvcsts. \ sower unto
the flesh always reaps more corruption
than he expected to gather
4 notorious pirate was hanged IN
, New York city about a century ago.
Inst before his execution he testlhed
that the first time he murdered man
his horror and remorse were so great
{ that he could not sleep for weeks. But
, after this monster had continued to
wet his lips with human blood he de-
clored that he could drive his sword
into the heart Of woman or htle
, child with no more compunction than
5 he would bury his teeth in piece Of
bread He would sleep as peaceiully
- after numbering Il ships crew as when
] babe he closed bis eyes in his moth'
er's arms. The first lie is the difficult
. lie to tell. not the tenth, not the twen-
, tiotb not the hficth II is the first
r glass of whisky which is the hardest
t fo drink. nor the one which the drunk
e nrd takes lust before he enters the rep
= file inhabited dungeons Of delirium ire
\ mons. II is the first seed Of sin which
D is hard TO sow. not the fiftieth nor the
1 one bundredth And each one Of the
fares sown in able to reproduce itsell
2 in evil habits millionfold n soWel
= alvays expects to reap more than he
t plants.
And if the evil results Of tare plant
a ing are so awful in reference to oul
n avn lives how much more awful mus
Y be the results when we plant those
T tares in the lives Of others. A woman
0 who had talked unjustly against hel
f neighbors cnce went to a priest fol
ronfegsion. After she told the prizes
!: he evil she had done her neishbors sh'
@ asked him what she should do to undo
@ me wrong. The priest gave her a hand
J. mi of nettle seeds and bade her 20 anC
n scotter those nettle seeds over helC
0 md then come back to him. After th'
|: Woman had done as she was told sh'
r same back to the priest "Now," saiC
, he priest. Ego and gather those nettl'
s ieeds up again "Oh," said the wo
u nan. "I cannot" "Neither." answered
e the priest. "can you ever undo th'
wrongs which you have done agains
70 your neighbors." Awful must be tn
It remorse when n converted man realize
z that by his sinful sowing he has dc
IS veloped a harvest Of corruption in th
l. hearts OF his neighbors. Ii he ha
planted there the evil seeds, some o
1t Enem will come up. The natural on
spiritual laws are the same.
~ Harvest Comes Sooner or Later
II The soeds Of the flesh DO not neccssi
t rilv produce the haryosts Of the ~"
ia instantcr \ long time may intarYci
u between the time Of planting ana
= reaping. Twice during the year Il
II farmer goes forth - soy. There Is {.