The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-04-04
What Shall the Harvest Bel

Editor The Washington Herald;
One Of the marked distinctions between
rational man and the so-called lower anil
mails is that he sees and recognizes the
relation between cause and effect, and
the additional fact that there can be no
effect without an adequate cause. Notice,
please, that / say rational man." for
wish 10 distinguish between the thinking
being and the one that acts simply from
blind Impulse 1t is lamentabiy true
that
How few think Justly Of the thinking few
How many think they think who never do!
The goose in the cage viii thrust her
head and neck through an opening hun
dreds of times a day and not learn
that she is unable 10 escape. One effort
will not satisfy her and induce her TO
desst. Another kind Of a goose, biped,
| IL you please. viii attempt TO I'll burn
ing lamp with oil. She may have heard,
or possibly read, of the many efforts to
do similar thing proving fatal. The
trouble is she does not think. She is a
goose.
One of the greatest and grandest laws
OF the universe Is thus expressed by the
great Apostle. Whatsoever a man SOW
eth, that shall he also reap" If he sows
corn he VIII reap corn. II he sows this
ties, he win reap thistles, If he SONS or
plants weeds or flowers. no will reap ae-
cordingly
But this Apostle went a step further,
and announced a truth just as fixed and
invariable in the mental and moral world:
He that soweth TO his flesh shall of tbs
flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth
TO the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting
l care not what a persons religious
position may be. u is no matter whether
he is believer in this doctrine or that
doctrine. or in any particular doctrine.
The law just announced holds whatever
his notions or whims may be. u Is fixed
and absolutely without an exception. II is
the unehanging and Interchangeable law OF
the universe, physical. mental. and
! spiritual
If person takes poison into the stom-
ach or into his system. he suffers. Il
matters not whether he be a saint or a
demon. he has 10 pay the penalty. If he
eats unwholesome food and takes into hts
stomach injurious drinks. he Will suffer
the consequences. He cannot escape.
If young man persists in reading pol
sonous and villalnous books or papers Ills
| mind becomes perverted. and he becomes
a criminal It could not be otherwise.
Whatsoever he soTs. that shall ne reap.
I
nado OF crime that is sweeping over the
world? 1t is a crop, a legitimate crop
| from the sowings that. have been made.
| Il cannot be charged to this theory OF
| legislation or that theory: not TO the
election OF this party or that one, except
/ As individuals have been corrupted IN
their mental and moral makeup.
! Somebody has been sowing 10 the wind,
and the whirlwind Is now being reaped.
individuals and communities may SOW
wild oats. They will sooner or later reap
an abundant crop. The craze for becom-
ing rich quick" OF without work, has
had its effect in producing dishonesty and
malfeasance in office.
/ What is the remedy We specify Just
an item or two.
| l. Industry, honest industry. must be
| held up as the important thing to be
cultivated
,. The genius OF work-faithful. plod-
ding work-needs TO be recommended.
! 3. Let men and women be appreciated
and commended for what they intrin-
sicaily are. and not simply for what they
/ accidentally have
| l. Let greater care be exercised IN
| choosing reading matter and companions
for the young. EVIL associations corrupt
| good morals.
| Think not the thistle seed to cast
And reap the rose fun blown:
For men shall gather. hrst or last
The harvest they have sOwn.
6. Let teachers. preachers. physicians,
editors, and all others that deal with the
public conscientiously remember: Happy
is he that condemneth not himself in
that thing which he alloweth." This i'm
pliess the difficulty which Shakespeare
! expressed so forcibly, II can easier teach
twenty what were good TO be done than
to be one of the twenty to follow my own
instructions" Examples will enforce
precept.
Let all the educational processes be ap-