Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-16

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rily produce the harvests of the flesh
instanter. A long time may intervene
between the time of planting and of
reaping. Twice during the year the
farmer goes forth to SOW. There is the
sprrng planting. Then the rye, the bar
ley, the oat seed is scattered. Then the
corn seed is placed in the ground. Then
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
fields everywhere are carpeted with
green.
But there is fall planting as we'll
as a spring planting. Just before the
summer birds migrate to the south in
order to escape the billiards. and the
bowling of the winter storms the farm
err goes forth and scatters his wheat
seed. These seeds lie dormant under
the SHOWS 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
seeds which have lain dormant so long
are reused by the blast of the springs
resurrection. And a wonderful fact
about natures laws is that the deeper
tho cnOu-c tho 1opOor tho vuin+or ond
the longer those wheat seeds lie dor
mant the stronger and more virile is
the grain when it begins to grow
So some of the tares or the sins of the
flesh which we have sown in the past
may seem to take very long time in
developing. We may think because
we have sinned and never yet been
punished and have kept on SHINING five
hundred, a 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
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
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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 Renping.
l once saw woman reaping her har-
vest of the flesh which she had planted
a fifth of century before. 1t was in
our old Brooklyn home. The doorbell
rang. 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 intercede 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, 81
want you to plead with the governor
because my boys life is all the result
Of my past sins. When he was q little
child, he was very sick. The doctors
gave him up and said he had to die
Then l knelt by my sons bed and de-
fed God. | said: % God, l 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 a sudden change to-
ward physical recovery. In spite of all
the doctors said, he got well. But, sir,
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 pair
must be employed in the reaping One
man can plant in a day what it will
take a score of men the same time to
reap. The sower would be helpless il
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 a large farm he rides around the
country engaging extra laborers fol
the reaping. When the wheat is ripe
it 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