Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-20


Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby- |
terrain Church, Chicago |
Chicago, June 15.-The inevitable re-
suits Of wrongdoing are forcibly de-
scribed in the following sermon by |
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage from the
text Galatians vi, s. "IIe that soweth to
his flesh shall Of the flesh reap colup-
ton"
Some familiar texts are like power.
ful tonics. They have a snap and
strength which we do not always ind
in the water of life when it is held
in strange and peculiarly labeled Dot
ties. They are like the lullabies with
which we were sung to sleep in clild-
hood. They have been repeated over
and over again by the lips of our de-
parted loved ones, so that each word
is made sacred by holy associations.
Every time we speak them it seems as
though these words were the ushers
welcoming us into the vestibule of the
church in which the service was held
when we gave our hearts to God. Or
these texts are associated with the scr
mons of some famous minister, which
we have either read or heard
But though many great preachers
have spoken from this text and though
many holy associations gather around
it's words yet l would fain speak upon
it for two reasons: First, because am
passionately fond of the country.
Therefore any text which has in it the
figure of the sOwer and the reaper, any
emile which is scented with the smell
Of the new mown hay or of the clover
tops, any figure which echoes the song
of the wood robin or the call Of the
nightingale, any text which is glilted
with the golden cOlOrs Of the wheat
fields or REDEEMED with the hectic flush
Of the autumn leaf, has for me an III
tense and suggestive fascination. My
heart never beats more eXultantly thar
when it is keeping time to the music
Of the moving machine or to the s'@isl
Of the swinging scythe.
The second reason why J speak iron
this text today is because the spring
time of the year. when the American
sower went forth to sow, is only few
weeks past. The plOws only shOr
time ago had the rust of many month
rubbed off their sharp noses. The han
rows teeth are yet white from chewin
II and breaking the sOds. And the sewer
with his bag of seed banging upOr on
arm and his handful Of seed swiT gin
at the end of the other arm, only
short time ago. with measured treat
went across the fields. scattering I'll
seeds to the right and to the left. Ma
God help us to teach the lessons Of
sinners retributiOn in the language
, the spring blowing.
The Seed and the Harvest.
The seeds Of the flesh by the inc SOr
BILE law Of the fields can only prcdul
Il. the harvests of the flesh. This stat
y. ment is an axiom. a self evident fax
On So self evident Is the law that Il
a seeds which are planted only produ
= harvests after their kind that Unit
States agricultural department b
been established. the chief purpose
which is TO introduce into the differe
localities the right kind of seeds fer t
Test development of the different kin
~. of crops. The official head of this {
IN partment is a member of the pre-
wn dents cabinet Every year ut hub
expense thousands of seed paclial
are scattered over the country. Ea
congressman has an allotment for g
tuitous distribution among his III
constituents.
lgs AS there is a spiritual law in
avs natural world so there is Il natural
me in the spiritual world. And the HOv
. to the flesh has no more right to exp
to reap the harvest of the sOwer 10
l9 spirit than farmer has right to
pect to gather a crop of barley fl
wheat seeds or a crop Of oats fl
rior corn seeds or crop Of rye from cot
ten seeds or Il crep Of potatoes from mU
&C, melon seeds. Any sinner who is Try
cest to argue himself into a different sp
,p'r. ual belief is not only hooking God,
- making himself ridiculous.
n Elon Foster tells us that one da
sinful Roman master told his Chris
nan slave to go into certain fielC and
''O-' u crop Of barley. When the time
harvest came, the master returned
that field and found there harry es
M, oats ready to be garnered. In indil
ton he called his slave and us
rC did l not command you to sow
EOI field of barley? Why, then. hiIv
sown oatsT' The Christian slave
swered. "Master, ! sOwed Oat see
the hope that they would grow up
barley" His master grutfiy
What foolishness is thisY Has
rate. my one heard that Oat seeds will
duce a harvest of barleyT "Ah,
=r ter" replied the Christian slave,
esti. yourself are constantly sowing in
lders' world the seed Of evil. and yet yol
IRE ntbsr pect to reap in the resurrection da.
yenty fruits OF virtue. Therefore tlO
e SsoTd also that might get barley by 80
oats" And the sinful master
abashed and could not answer a v
" ga Few wild Oats."
EYS Go where you will you will find
the s.. Her to the flesh always LEI
harvest of corruption. Sit will
ICEV Judge upon the bench. and he wi
O''- you that the young man standln
fore him for sentence did moi.
that the seeds of sin which he )l
y. IN secret would ever take root III
-. gin to sprout He did not think
''""S' his sowing few wild oats"
/. 1 Jobp ever cause his downfall. Yet Co
atisfac- watching him sow those seed s
' Rodiss employers were watching him
Of ice. most every largo business HOUSE,
o oTs1s n great cities has spies detailed
. wife's low the tracks Of its employees
when the money disappeared f'C
cations sufe the detectives naturally hun
nj bills the young man who spent his 81
at the races, the one whose &C
hing in ions were not what they ought t
been. They naturally came t
DEL. young man and put the hands
- law upon his shoulder, saying:
O0M young man. The cOnvict's eel
1UNy you. Conner
Charles Stewart Parnell was
the keenest, shrewdest, most ia
parliamentarians Ireland eve