The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29
LITTLE SERMONETTES
BY THE PASTOR.

Whatsoever one soweth that shall
he also reap" This is a universal law
of nature. And yet there is hardly n
law in nature that is so frequently ig
nored. Man ignores this law with as
much impunlty as many people do n
city ordinance or a legislative enact
ment. But the wilful, persistent viola
tion Of this law seems to be confined
solely to creatures of intelligence. If
this law is ever violated by unintelli
gent creatures it is by accident and
nnconsciously But intelligent creatures
like man, for instance, unhGsitatingly
and unblushingly look with contempt
upon this law. And man does this in
the face of the fact that he tries to
find out and to act i'll accord with this
law in everything except himself, But
nature is not mocked. Nor is the God
OF nature Knocked. "For whatsoever a
man sows, that shall no also reap
When man sows wheat he expects
to reap wheat, When man sows bar
ley he expects to reap barley. When a
man sows oats he expects to reap oats.
What he sows in kind he expects to
reap in kind. But while he expects to
reap In KIND he does not expect to be
confined to the quantity sown If man
does not reap enough TO replace in the
granarY time and labor spent, with
something of n surplus for profit, the
chances are that he would not SOW the
grain at all. For this is IN accord with
nature IS plan.
We read somewhere that "sow an
act and You will reap n habit; SOW a
habit and you Will reap a character;
sow character and you will reap d
destiny The same in kind but i'm
measurably different in quantity. Sow
one act of disobedience and let it 90
unhindered Ct needs no cultivation)
and you will soon have u firm habit of
disobeying. The requests and then the
commands of parents will be ignored,
the claims and order of society Will be
held in disc lin and finally the law of
the land win be trampled uron with
contempt And thus the individual has
a character Of disobedience, not merely
reputation for disobedience, but as
character is what . person is with him
self and before God, he will have
character for disobedience. Sow
falsehood, let it 90; do nothing to dc
while until falsehoods will be coming
thick and fast and the child soon has
a habit of lying Yes, just plain lying,
with no sugarcoating, no covering. 1t
will not be long until the person,
whether child or grown-up, will lie
when the truth would do them Far bet
ter service, even from that person s own
standpoint, One lie calls for another
lie to cover it up and this one for still
another lie until the whole life becomes
a tissue of falsehoods. Falsifyiug be-
comes q part of the individual s very
being and is a part of the character.
An act of elfindulgence left without
correction or reprimand by the indi-
vidual will or the kind hand of the
dominates the life and we have strong
chains of Indulgence, binding the
individual down to lustful qualification.
And as soon as these become firmly
fixed it passes from the mere matter OF
habit to being a fixed purpose in life
and another character is tho harvest
reaped. For whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap" Habits are
acquired and characters formed in this
life. Destiny is what man reaps in