Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
Presbyterian Church.

$ rmCn by JOln F. Fry. The LAW
 f the Harvest Gal 6.7-S.
 The desire to advance. to improve Un he past record, IS a common one. in
 cry exce eptional cases one may delib-
 ratcly set about to lose life. But he exception only serves to empha-
 ze the rule. The desire is present But tlere gre hindrances to the reali- .ation of it One of the great ain .ances Is the feeling that progress is argely the matter of chance. while the truth is that 1t is altogether a matter of law. Not by good wishing, nor by favorable circumstances, but by ,bedience to a certain definite law gill the old be improved upon. This aw is set forth by Paul when he says, Whatsoever a man soweth. that shall
 e also reap" That is the law of the
 arvest' in the natural, and also in
 he SD ritual realm.
 There is a relation between reaping md sowing 1t is seen in the mat
 CT of kind. We reap what we SOW,
 nd not something else. IL is this re ation that enables the farmer to look head, to plan his crop. He can count n gett ng from his sowing something Of the same nature as that winch he owed. It holds just as good in other matters. physical, mental, spiritual But the relation is just as close in the matter of amount. The farmer knows that and practices it. He docs iot deceive himself into expecting a bountiful crop from spare sowing. No moro should one deceive himself in .tner realms. Occas' 'onal exercise of lody or mind has never given strength to either. So, too, of the soul Spirit dal power is dependent upon the patient. and abundant sowing of many days and years.
 IL is the application Of this law, in these two reiat' Ons, that hope of prog 1ess lies. And it is just here that mis-
 understanding and deception comes in. We SOW il one realm and expect to reap in anot1e.-. while all the time God declares that we shall reap that, and only that. which we SOW lf we SOW to the flesh we must not expect o reap unto the spirit The law is against any such outcome. Nor If we SOW to the sp.r should We expect to reap unto tle flesh. But this very in consistency many seem to expect- Men of faith, sowing to the spirit, and troubled because they do not prosper in Q worldly way, forgetting that the way to such prosperity lies in a different k nd of sowing. Men of the world. sowing to the flesh, rGapiug abundantly of material things, cannot understand why tleir spiritual life is at such a low tide. From their cccas. .onal feed ug of their soul, they have expected more strength than the law makes possible. Each needs 10 realize anew tde law of the harvst' emphasizing as it docs that enc can reap only that which hc sows. and that the reaping is dependent upon the quantity of the sowing as wei as the quality We get out what we put in, and according to what We put in.
 This means that we have the futorc largely in our own hands. Chance and uck VII not determine it for us. but obedience 10 8 fixed law of the harvest. Such a law is a warning to all who are decciviug themselves by expecting one thing while sowing an other. Wild oats have never yet. and never will, product anything but g. crop of the same character. We may excuse the foolish. sinful conduct or the young. but he will reap neverthe- less just what he has sewn. It is also an encoura cement, especially to such as are HncliUed to grow weary n well doing. The assurance is given us that we slall reap if We faint not" and the duty is plainly one Of | perseverance, of continuance in we'll dOing. What the year before us. Is to Eold in store for each of us, then, 1 depends exactly on what We give our selves to. God calls us to an obed'- ence to His will. that will make for strength. and peace, and life. Let us obey the call.