The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-06-22

Chicago, June 15.-The inevitable results
of wrongdoing are forcibly described in
the following sermon by Rev. Frank De
Witt Talmage from the text Galatians
vi, s, HE that soweth to his flesh shall
of the flesh reap corruption"
Some familiar texts are like powerful
tonics. They have a snap and strength
which we do not always find in the wa
ter of life when 1t is held in strange and
peculiarly labeled bottles. They are like
the lullabies with which we were sung
to sleep in childhood. They have been
repeated over and over again by the lips
of our departed loved ones, so that each
word is made sacred by holy associa-
lions. Every time we speak them 1t
seems as though these words were the
nshers 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
sermons of some famous minister. which
we have either read or heard
But ,aough many great preachers have
ppoken from tn.s text and though many
holy associations gather around it's words
YET i WOulu IAN Sptdh upOu IL iOt tWO
reasons: First. because I am passionate
y fond of the country. Therefore any
text which has In 1t the figure OF the
sower and the reaper. any smile which
Is scented with the smell of the new
mown hay or of the clover tops any fig
nre which echoes the song of the
wood robin or the call of the nightingale
any text which is glinted with the
golden colors Of the wheat fields or red
dened with the hectic flush Of the au-
tumn leaf has for me an intense and
suggestive fascination. My heart never
beats more exultantly than when 1t Is
keeping time to the music of the NOW
Ing machine or to the swish OF the
swinging scythe.
The second reason why I speak from
this text today Is because the spring
time of the year, when the Ameican
sower went forth to sow, is only few
weeks past The plows only a short time
ago had the rust of many months rubbed
off their shary noses. The harrow's
teeth are yet white from chewing and
breaking the sods And the sower,. with
his bag of seed hanging upon one arm
and his handful OF seed swinging at the
end of the other arm. only a short time
ago with measured tread. went across
the fields. scattering the seed TO the right
and to the left May God help us to
ton in the language of the spring plow-
ing.
The Seed and the Harvest.
The seed OF the flesh by the memorable
law of the fields can only produce the
harvest of the flesh. This statement Is
an axiom. a self evident fact 30 self
evident is the law that the seeds which
are planted only produce harvests after
their kind that United States agricul-
rural department has been established.
the chief purpose Of which is to intro
3uce into the different localities the right
xind Of seeds for the best development
Of the different kinds of crops. The OIL
.,al head OF this department Is a member
II the presidents cabinet Every year
1t public expense thousands Of seed
packages are scattered over the country.
Each congressman has an allotment for
vratuitous distribution among his rural
constituents.
as there is a spiritual law In the ma
ural world so there 10 natural law in
he spiritual world. And the sower to
the flesh has no more right to expect to
reap the harvest Of the sower to the
,pirit than a farmer has a right to ex-
oect to gather a crop of barley from
wheat seeds or a crop Of oats from corn
lseds or a crop Of rye from cotton seeds