The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-29
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THE LAW OF THE HARVEST
(5y Rev. John Beverly Jones)


soweth, that shall he also reap"
1t is very fortunate thing for us
that this is a world of law. What
goes up must come down." sounds
trite, but 1t lis complete expression
of our assurance that things are not
left to chance. What an opening for
disaster if things came down some
times and sometimes they didn't. 1t
would be extremely unfortunate If
summer came by chance. We might
become very hungry before another
crop grew to feed us. The man who
wants wheat sows wheat, for the law
is definite that, whatsoever man
soweth. that shall he also reap" Our
demands are very great and if there
was no assurance that we could de-
termine, by sowing, what we were to
reap, the earth would soon lose it's
population.
Now Paul was not trying to teach
farming, but was taking this well
known lesson from the. field and using
1t as means to teach the same truth
In life. He found plenty of people scat
tering poor seed in their own lives,
with never thought that it would
plague them in the harvest.
Several boys were arrested in one of
our cities some time ago for attempted
highway robbery. They had rented
room for place to meet and had
stocked 1t with books and when the po-
hce made and investigation, 1t was
found that most of the books had
robber as hero. The connection be-
tween the seed and the fruit is easily
seen in this case. When they allowed
themselves TO love that type OF hero,
there was no escape from the harvest.
Those who sow indifferently never
reap anything good. If you want any
thing good you must SOW 1t. Examine
the seed you have been sowing today
and If 1t is of base quality get ready
for discomfort and tears sometime in
the future. have met hosts of people
growing about their hard lives, try
ing to lay the blame on God or their
aeighbors. who could easily find the
cause of it all. in previous years when
they scattered the seed.
1t is a great comfort to the sower to
kRow that this law is constant. He
gets his seed and cleans it until there
is no cookie in it and the cheat is all
eliminated and then he sows and nev-
er worries about the harvest. He sows
good seed aud he reaps good wheat.
This is as certain as the rising of the
sun and the falling of the ball. The
same omnipotent hand that rules one
determines the other. The man who
selects his private thoughts, his loves
and his CONSIDERATIONS, for we all con-
secrate ourselves to something, with
diligence and wisdom, will reap q til
umphant harvest, regardless of care,
suffering or disaster. When he was a
boy he had the choice between sowing
good seed, when 1t was easy or looked
Immediately profitable, or sowing the
best all the time and he chose the lat
ter. This resolve made him Chris
tian, honest, kind, patient, brotherly
and true In every way. Full of years
he came to his coronation, thankful
that he had chance to live, loved by
men and honored of God.
Getting more than you SOW" Is the
second law of the harvest. The man
who takes a bushel and peck OF
wheat and .sows 1t on an acre of ground
wants twenty-five in return. On the
whole we are bound to get much more
than we SOW. A man placed rail on
the railroad track and spent ten years
in the penitentiary reaping. He gath
cred the same he scattered and lot
more of it. Many person has spent
five minutes in sin and then the rest
of their lives gathering the fruit with
scalding tears Ye this Is gracious
law. A high school boy went out oi
his way one day to defend small boy
who was being imposed upon. After
that there was never a day that he
was not hero in one nome. IWC
friends parted, one refused to drink
and was called baby by the other
who went his way drinking and reap
ing the gutter. The other sowed thai
one refusal and went his way reapine
perpetual sobriety and endless sue
cess. She had failed to induce little
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she offered him a dime and he went
He continued to go and one year hi
work In the mission field saw a thou
sand conversions.
And after his work had been goini
on for twenty-five years, one yea
there were ten thousand conversion
OF Telegus. The teacher was poo
seamstress. but the good seed sh'
rnUad rave no Amos Sutton and th,