The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-07-09

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liar and that the truth is not in him.
There are no such short cuts to the
genuine goal of wealth or knowledge
or success in life. The great law
which is immutable, Interchangeable,
inexorable, is that a man cannot get
something for nothing. This is the
law which was the beginning it is
now, and ever shall be, world without
end.
In the next place, the law of COM
pensation demands that we reap what
we SOW. That is we are to reap the
same quality of the seed sown but not
the same quantity. There must be
an increase in quantity to compen-
safe the time and labor devoted to the
production. The former who sows
wheat does not expect to reap oats,
but wheat in increased measure. The
law is the same in moral life. We
reap what we SOW, but more than we
SOW But here, again, we are often
deceived because moral seeds do not
spring up and mature as quickly as
material. But the human heart is,
nevertheless, a fertile field and is sure
to quicken and cause to spring up
and grow the seeds that find lodg-
ment in its soil. 1t Is the function of
the physical heart, as we have seen,
to receive and send forth the blood
unchanged. If it receives 1t pure it
sends 1t forth pure; if it receives it
impure, it sends it forth impure. The
moral heart exercises the same func-
ton; it is a receptacle that receives
moral influences and impressions and
sends them forth unchanged in their
essential character. How necessary
is it, then, to guard the heart against
those seeds whose fruits we would
not have ripen into conduct in our
practical lives. How many unfortu-
nate souls there are in the world to-
day who are compelled to eat the bit
ter fruits of their sins, not because
they have a taste for bitter, but
because they were deceived into be-
lieving that they could allow such
seeds to be sown in their hearts and
then prevent their development into
active positive life. How many are
wearing the lasting scar of the flame
of sin, not because they willed to be
SCARED, but because they were de-
luded into the belief that they could
take fire into their bosoms and not be
burned. But some one will answer
mot all who have sown such seeds
have reaped such fruits. Some,
there are, who are shrewd enough to
| SOW and escape the penalty or reap
| ing" They have not yet reaped be-
cause the day of harvest in the case
of those seeds has not yet come. But
it will come unless time ceases to
move. Moral seeds are sometimes
long in maturing. Unlike the mate
rial, they are not dependent upon
weather and the changing seasons of
time. But they grow and develop,
nevertheless, whether their periods
be long or short; whether sown in
heat or cold, by the light of day or the
darkness of night. Sometimes the
seeds sown in childhood do not reach
full bloom until the maturer periods
of middle life and old age.
Hannibal, one of the greatest gen.
erals the world has known as we'll as
one of the most interesting characters
of antiquity, at the early age of nine
years was led by his father to an al
tar and there made to swear eternal
hatred against Rome. With the TAX
ing of that oath, there was planted in
| his young heart a root of bitterness
which did not mature until manhood.
For many years, his soul was fred by
one great passion-hatred for Rome.
That evil seed in Hannibals heart
bore many evil harvests, but the last
and most fatal of them all came fifty
| five years after its sowing, when de-
| feated and captured by the Romans,
| he broke the bead of his ring and
swallowed it's poison. Hannibaps fate
was suicide in old age; but its seed
was sown in childhood.
But again the law of compensation
requires not only that we must reap
what we SOW with reference to our
selves, but that we must reap what
we SOW of right and wrong with ref.
erence to others. This stipulation OF
the law may be worded as follows:
In the long run, we shall get our
just deserts of reward and punish.
ment for the good or evil we have
done our fellowmen." Sometimes
we become discouraged and condemn
ourselves for doing our fellowmen the
good turn because they are migrate
full and do not appreciate it. But in
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| to get our pay. BY the mysterious
and inevitable operation of a law
which no man can hinder, every man