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


postponed the greater and the more ,
awful will be the harvests Of eorrup-
ton.
A Mothers RenDing.
/ once saw a woman reaping her har-
vest Of the flesh which she had planted
a fifth of a century before. 1t was in
our old Brooklyn home. The doorbell
rang. l went to the door and ushered
into the parlOr a 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. "Dr. Talmage," she said, Il
want you to plead with the governor
because my boys life is all the result
Of my past sins. When he was little
child, he was very sick. The doctors
gave him up and said he had to die.
Then l kneIt by my sons bed and de-
fed God. said: % God, will not let
him diel 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 / must reap the
results Of my past sins in my boys
uFr mill nf anln
with the governor 20 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 De 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 If
he himself had to gather in nll 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 for
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 no
results from his planting but straw.
which he uses for stall bedding. Six.
seven, eight months of the year you
/, may find unemployed men in the coun-
try. But during harvest time every
healthy man can lind work and big
wages. IL he is only willing to work
and knows how to WELD scythe or
how to tie up the sheaves Of grain.
: Who ure the reapers engaged be-
fOrehand to help the sOwer to the flesh
{ gather I'm his greatest harvest. which
d is to be garnered at the brink of the
i open grave? They are the demOniaC
y reapers They are Satan and all his
II evil spirits. They are the demons that
,, live in the impenetrable darkness Of
u lower world They are the demons
d who will gather only the most corrupt
81 Of harvests. 1t is said that the weel
81 before MaZarin, the sinful French car
K dinal, died he hobbled through his ar
p galleries crying and moaning: Mus
< leave you, oh, my beautiful pic
u lures? Must give you upY And tn
ne day before he died he had himsel
nc toused and painted, and his servant
- assed before him and bowed an
~ kissed his hand and mOGlingly tOl
him how we'll he looked. And when Il
- French statesman died he was be
mr. stored up in bed, playing game
- cards! But when the Satanic reape
- came to gather that mans harvest
m corruption they did not take alol
-. Mazarins pictures or his cardina
-. hat, which he had disgraced. TIL
y, only took away his sinful and deprav
- heart. Mazarin sowed to the fies
a., The Satanic reapers garnered the CO
"a ruptiOn.
~ The Way of Escape.
li1 WELL" says some discouraged so
',D convicted of his past sins. what an
L L, to do? fully realize my evil pa
,Hs Must 1 die an eternal death? Is the
~. no hope for meT' Yes, my broth
~ there is hope for you if you repent
~, your sins and throw yourself up
~ Christs mercy, as wide as the fOrgi
.n ness of God. l only quoted One-half
10, the verse from which my text was t
ene en-. The last half Of the verse re;
~ thus, "But he that sOweth to the sp
~ shall Of the spirit reap life everl1
'"e ing" The first half is u red light
warning flashed far out over the II
u bled sea Of sin. The second half
ana beacon inviting you up the NarrOws
the harbOr of Peace.
z First, my brother. you must get y
ssa- heart right for the spiritual seed pl'
lesh ing. In the far east the ancient p
sehe was made out of wood and not Fl
Oh iron. You must let the beam Of
the cross pillow up your sinful heart. II
tue having prepared the ground for
OaI- spiritual seed planting, you must g
Tue work for God with ten times, one
men dred times-aye. with thousand ii
lhe the zeal you have ever felt as d
nave pie Of sin. You must enlist your
'iuiy body, mind and soul, for the go
ou Jun. planting AS l said before. you
Tue But, oh, by the power Of the Holy
WI" it you can spirituHlize the future!
can make your last earthly days
We" ored days in heaven and on earth
'ne cause they have been lived for
- - and to help your sinful fellow
/ the ''Whosoever will. let him come
arm take of the water of life freely"
neat means you; that means me. We
all come.
lpet, mo" you answer. II viii not.
not, l dare not come to Christ nO'
= have had too black a past l
anu sOwn too many evil seeds to the
IN, unu / feel u great deal like that yOunl
'nlhA lege boy who was dying from an
es'el. dent in Edinburgh. When the
" ,ie''1 lain knelt by his bedside and said
, .Ons lad, will you repent Of your sins
i.e look to Christi he answered: M
l0cI / have served the devil all my life
leepes served him well. and now at thi
= anu moment would not be so mean
uO ask Christ to take my broken
ii'e - body and my wreck Of life. N
I would not be so mean"
q mast Sow to the Spirit Now.
ime in But my sinful friend. even wi
ecause your sinful past, is that right
been that what Christ would have 70
ny five If you had a hayward boy, and b
1usaDd run away from home and ira
nished. upon your bleeding heart for
Ter our years, would you want him to