Connecticut western news., 1902-06-19


 cup, the seeds of late hours, the seeds of the defiance of moral laws. Dying man, you must reap the harvest of the sins of the flesh which you have sown."
 Stand with the minister in his pulpit, and he will teach you the same lesson. He will tell you that though man may repent of his sins he must up to 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 all through the remainder of the sinners earthly career he must suffer for the evil which he has done. The minister will 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 harvests of corruption which surround him every where. He stumbles through the har vests which have come from the seeds of his own planting.
 Inexorable Laws of the Fields.
 The seeds of the flesh by the inexora- ble laws of the fields are expected to produce more of a harvest than the original seeds which have been sown, It would be folly for the farmer to SOW 800 kernels of corn If he could only re ceive in return half a dozen ears of corn; to plant twenty or thirty peas if he could gather in return but a few pods, or to labor at all if for every planted seed there would come up only one kernel in return. But when the farmer has small bag of wheat seed he says to himself: "Now, If properly blow and harrow the ground and plant those seeds right will be able to gath CT a whole field of golden grain. One of my seeds will be able to reproduce itself many, many times" Benjamin Franklin once said that the reproduc- tive power, the proliicness of vegeta- ble life. Is simply inconceiyabie and without limit We all remember Daniel 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 ed, both for himself and his negro serv- ant. ...
 It would be happy solution to the sinner if when he sowed one evil seed he should get back only one evil re suit. But that is not the way the har- vests of the flesh grow. One evil seed will become the parent of many evil seeds, the grandparent of host of evil seeds and the great-grandparent of a lifetime of evil harvests. A sower unto the flesh always reaps more corruption than he expected to gather.
 A notorious pirate was hanged in New York city about century ago. Just before his execution he testified that the first time he murdered a 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 clared that he could drive his sword into the heart of q woman or little child with no more compunction than he would bury his teeth in a piece of bread He would sleep as peacefully after numbering ships crew as when a babe he closed his eyes in his moth. CTS arms. The first lie is the difficult lie to tell, not the tenth, not the twen- tieth, not the fiftieth. It is the first glass of whisky which is the hardest to drink, not the one which the drunk. ard takes just before he enters the rep tile inhabited dungeons of delirium tre- mens It Is the first seed of sin which is hard to SOW, not the flftieth nor the one hundredth. And each one of the tares sown in able to reproduce itself in evil habits a millionfold. A sower always expects to reap more than he plants,
 And if the evil results of tAre plant. ing are so awful in reference to our own lives how much more awful must be tho results when we plant those tares in the lives of others- A woman who had talked unjustly against her neighborS once went to . priest for confession. After she told the priest the evil she had done her neighbors she asked him what she should do to uiado the wrong. The priest gave her hand full of nettle seeds and bads her go and scatter those nettle seeds over q field and then come back to him. After the woman had done as she was told she came back to the priest. Now" said the priest, "go and gather those nettle seeds up again." "Oh," said the wo- man, 'I cannot" Neither" answered the priest. 'can you ever undo the wrongs which you have done against your neighbors." Awful must be the rensorse when converted man realizea that by his sinful sowing he has de. velDped a harveit of corruption in the hearts of his ileighbors. If he has planted there the evil seeds, some ot nAn will come up The natural and sphitual laws art the same. -.G
 Harvest Comils sooneD or Later. The seeds of tle flesh d0 not necessa- fily produce the harvests of the flesh instAnter. A loig time nay intervene between the tine of plaating and of Reaping. Twice during 0Ae year the farmer goes forth to sow. There Is the apring planting. Then the rye, the bar ley, the oat seed is scattered. Then the corn seed is placed in the ground. Then the timothy seed is thrown over the field. so that the farm stock can have hay during the winter months. Hardly are these seeds placed in the ground than the spring showers make the little tender sprouts come up. Then the Aelds everywhere are carpeted with 1 green.
 But there is a fall planting as well as . spring planting. Just before the | summer birds migrate to the south in order to escape the blizzards and the bowling of the winter storms the farm sr goes forth and scatters his wheat aaed. These seeds lie dormant under tho snows during the long December, January, February and March months. If any gravedigger on his way to ex- hume a Yorick's skull should stop and drive his pick into that wheatfield and examine those seeds. he might think they were as dead as the kings jester But when spring comes those wheat l seeds which have lain dormant so long