Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-05
SILVER BELTS SUNDAY SERMON
The Harvest of Mankind

The Harvest of Mankind God has built His universe upon the law set forth in the words, "WhatsOever man soweth, that shall he also reap" That law is wrought into the warp and wool of creation.
 That law stands on the statute books of etern- tv. It stands there unrepealed and unrepealable That law is the eternal expression of the d- vine nature, eternally operative.
 And so God Almighty Himself is pledged to! the execution of that law.
 It is the unacceptable law upon which God has built His moral universe
 This law of sowing and reaping has cast a spell of fascination upon all great writers. Lit erature is full of pictures and exhibitions ot thls law of the seed time and harvest. Shakespeare's dramas and the immortal tragedies of casslc Greece could not possibly have more approprl- ate heading than the words: Whatsoever man sOweth, that shall he also reap.
 This law reveals the great principle according 4o which evil is punished and good IS rewarded There is identity between the harvest reaped and the seed sown. Like yields like; the eIe- ments of the one pass into the other, even as the elements of mist pass into water as the elements of heat pass into flame. What we SOW, that and nothing else, we reap. Sow thOrns and we reap
  lilies and we reap lilies; SOW roses and we reap | T'';a law is the key that unlOcks the se-
 government throughout the unI-
 " gives us the fundamental prin- cipIe copc.lung the essential things that make up hell or constitute heaven in all worlds. The universe is not a shifting scene of contradictory forces, but an infinite system of order justice and righteousness.
 Those who are skeptical of this law of sowing and reaping and lay to their souls the hattering uncton that they can dodge the operation of this law, are taken in by their own cOnceit, only to be kicked out by moral disaster. The fires of Sinai still burn in the lives of those who think that they can Outwit God and cheat the power which is at the heart of things. From the be- ginning, no man who has done wrong has ever escaped the adequate result of his wrOngdoing. Every bad man pays a tremendous price for his badness Nemesis works the shifting scenes in his life until he is meshed in the web of retrbu- ton.
 God has started man in this world that he may SOW to the Spirit, and that of the Spirit he may reap life everlasting. Then does man fulfill his nature as the watch fulfls it's nature, when it keeps time as the compass, when it points to the north; as the tree, when it bears fruit.
 The Bible reveals the next world as a contnu- atiOn of the moral constitution of this world. There is organic connection between our present and our future life. As the railway train in go- ing out of the United States into Canada, glides along without break, even so does our life glide from this world into the next world Five minutes after death we will find ourself just what we were five minutes before death The picture language and the imagery which the Bible uses in describing the hereafter are as moral paintings which God has hung down out of the bosom of eternity to show us that in the reign of the old familiar law: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"