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

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 a 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 I
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.
IncxOrabIe Laws of the Fields.
The seeds Of the flesh by the inexOra-
bic laws of the fields are expected to
DrOduce more of harvest than the
original seeds which have been sOwn.
! It would be folly for the farmer to SOW
! 500 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, II properly |
Dlow and harrow the ground and plant 1
those seeds right will be able to gath /
err a whole field Of golden grain. One |
Of nv seeds will be able to reproduce
itself many, many times" Benjamin
Franklin once said that the reprOduc |
tive power, the prolifcness Of vegeta-
BILE life, is simply inconceivable and
without limit. We all remember Daniel
De Foes story of the shipwrecked sail
or. He found half 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 a 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 u host of evil
= seeds and the great-grandpurent Of a
+ lifetime of evil harvests. A sower unto
3 the flesh always reaps more corruption
,. than he expected to gather.
- A notorious pirate was hanged in
: New York city about a century ago
o Just before his execution he testified
a that the first time he murdered man
n his horror and remOrse were so great
! that he could not sleep for weeks. But
70 after this monster had continued to
y wet his lips with human blood he de-
a clared that he could drive his sword
If into the heart of a woman or little
child with no more conjunction than
he would bury his teeth in a piece OF
=. bread He would sleep as peacefully
40 after numbering a ships crew as wheT
a babe he closed his eyes in his moth
= er's arms. The first lie is the difficult
nj lie to tell. not the tenth, not the TWEEN
- tieth, not the fftieth. 1t Is the frs
al glass Of whisky which is the hardes
nc 10 drink, not the one which the drunk
81 ard takes just before he enters the rep
nj tile Inhabited dungeons of delirium tire
- mems. 1t is the first seed of sin whicl
ds IS hard to sow. not the fiftieth nor tn
a. one hundredth. And each one of tn
i; tares sown in able to reproduce itsel
10 in evil habits Il millionfOld. A sOwe
ros always expects to reap more than b
-cb plants.
~ And If the evil results Of tare plan
.ol ing are so awful in reference to gu
own lives how much more awful mus
Tho be the results when we plant thOs
o,v tares in the lives of others. A wOma
,er who had talked unjustly against he
not neighbOrs once went to Il priest f
tho confession. After she told the prize
ov. the evil she had done her neighbors 81
.oD, asked him what she should do to unC
ON, the wrong. The priest gave her han
TO-, full of nettle seeds and babe her go Al
- scatter those nettle seeds over a fie
.ing and then come back to him. After Il
;rit, woman had done as she was told 81
bu+ came back to the priest. "NOw," sa
the priest. 'go and gather those nett
seeds IN again." "Oh,"- said the W
t,on man, ''I cannot" Neither" answer
cow the priest, "can you ever undo t
> Of wrongs which you have done again
i n your neighbors." Awful must be t
# Of remorse when converted man realiz
pna. that by his sinful sowing be has
ked. velOped a harvest of corruption in
hero hearts of his neighbors. If he
o We planted there the evil seeds, some
an. them will come up. The natural 6
d in spiritual laws are the same.
into Harvest Comes Sooner or Later
said: The seeds of the flesh do not neces
ever rily produce the harvests of the fl
pro instanter. A long time may interv
mas between the time of planting and
'yOu reaping. Twice during the year
] the farmer goes forth to sow. There is
u ex- spring planting. Then the rye, the
= the ley, the Oat seed is scattered. Then
,ught corn seed is placed in the ground. I
wing the timothy seed is thrown over
was field, so that the farm stock can b
pord hay during the winter months. Hal
are these seeds placed in the gro
that than the spring showers make the
APPS a tender sprouts come up. Then
! the fields everywhere are carpeted '
Il tell green.
g be- But there is a fall planting as
think as a spring planting. Just before
anted summer birds migrate to the sOut
I'd be- order to escape the billiards. and
that bowling of the winter storms the fl
would er goes forth and scatters his W
d was seed. These seeds lie dormant u
His the SHOWS during the long Decen
. AL January, February and March mol
in the If any gravedigger on his way tc
TO fol- hume a Yorick's skull should stop
a. SO drive his pick into that wheatheld
I'm the examine those Seeds he might
ted mn they were as dead as the kings j.
lndays But when spring comes those "
,mpan- seeds which have lain dormant so
O have are reused by the blast Of the spI
O that resurrection. And a wonderful
of the about natures laws is that the d.
Come, the SHOWS, the longer the winter
awaits the longer those wheat seeds lie
mant the stronger and more viz
one of the grain when 1t begins to grow.
rseeing So some Of the tares or the sins
+ pro- flesh which we have sOwn in the
single may seem to take a very long til
parlia- developing. We may think be
ParneH we have sinned and never yet
zen, was punished and have kept on sinnin
of his hundred, a thousand. ten tho
rdinary times that we never will be pun
he evil that we never shall have to gath