The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-03-19
"REMINISCENCES.
continued From First Pagel


soon have some of the big fields, which
have ceased to be very productive In
crops, set out in locust or common
forest trees, indigenous to their soil,
and then by careful cultivation and
good fertilization, many of them will
live to see not only the beauty of a
restored forest, but also the profit of
1t. But the best of 1t all will be that
their children and children's children
will arise and call them blessed for
doing SO.
Another thing which is being agi.
tated quite good deal and doubtless
will be adopted before very long In
every farming community is the
centralized graded school system.
Having one large school house to take
the place of several small ones. And
instead of having several ordinary
teachers, hiring less number of the
very best ones that could be obtained.
Where there are such schools, of
course the distance Is too great for
some of the children to go alone, so
carriages are provided, and 1t is made
someone's work to drive to the homes
of the children and take them to school
every morning and back hume at
night. They are thus saved from the
inclemency of the weather, and the
anxieties of the mothers are allayed,
regarding any mishaps which might
befall their children. Such school
could have many of the advantages
of our graded schools in towns and the
young people would not have to go
away from their homes and among
entire strangers before they we're old
enough to have become established in
the moral and christian teachings of
their parents or guardians, which is
the foundation of wisdom. And Solo
man says: "Wisdom is the principal
thing. Happy is the man that findeth
wisdom and the man that Peteth
understanding; she is more precious
than rubies and all the things thou
canst desire, are not to be compared
to her."
But this same wise man tells you
something still more important. He
says "the fear of the Lord is the be
ginning of wisdom"
Now my dear young readers If you
fnrnaf all nloa that
read of these sketches remem Der
these sayings of Solomon, and remem-
Der too that the Bible designates the
man as STOOL who says in his heart
there is no God"
l have told you great many things
about the farmer, but have left the
most important thing until the last.
The most important thing they ever
learned, in order that they might be
successful farmers, was Whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also reap"
he early learned that If he carelessly
sowed a great deal of cheat and seeds
of weeds and cookie with his wheat
that he would reap but little wheat,
but great deal of cookie and cheat
and weeds.
This is one of the most stubborn
facts in nature, and Paul made use of
this well-known fact to illustrate the
most important spiritual truths that
we're ever revealed to men which
were, that "He that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corrup-
tion but he that soweth to the spirit
shall of the spirit reap life everlast-
ing"
Now the works of the flesh are man.
ifest which are these Adultery, for
nication. uncleaness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, varience,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
beresies, enveyings, murders, drunk
eness, revelings and such like, of the
which | tell you before, as have also
told you in time past, that they which
do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of Cod"
But the fruit of the spirit is love,
JOY, peace, long suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temper
ance. SO you see re may be just as
certain of the kind of a harvest we
shall reap spiritually as the careful,
intelligent farmer who has judiciously
selected his grain may be of his har-
vest.
oh how the young should fear and
tremble when any of the fruits of the
flesh begin to crop out.
They should read the awfnl list
quoted above frequently, and care
fully examine themselves to see II
any such fruit is manifesting itself In
their lives.
They that pillow iniquity and SOW
wickedhess reap the same. Then be
careful what you SOW, boys and girls
For seed will surely grow, boys and girls,
The dew will fall, the rain willsplash,
The clouds will darken and sunshine fash,
| And the one who sows good seed today