The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1920-09-09
HARVEST MESSAGE DELIVERED IN
LOCAL PULPIT HAS PARTICULAR
APPEAL AT THIS SEASON OF YEAR

A sermon preached by Rev. c. Z.
while the earth remaineth, seed
time and harvest shall never
cease"
whatsoever man soWetn, Una, sudii
he also reap"
The harvest is come again with us
busy days and weary nights. II las
brought wealth 20 the farmer ana
fought 10 bring lessons 70 US all.
That we may learn few lessons
from the harvest is the purpose or
this hour.
/ Gods word IS full OF lessons drawn
( from the harvest time; such rs the
lparable OF THE Sewer" with It's four
kinds OF soil; and the parable OF
The Tares. with its teachings OF
the imperfect church and the coming
Judgment; the fields white already
10 the harvest, and the scarcity or
reapers 10 gather the ripened grain
But Il is not our intention to try TO
study all Of these teachings, Import !
ant as they are, but rather to constd- !
er a few truths presented by the |
texts.
A Discouraged husDandman
The world is ready for the sower
and the seed. But the husbandmdn
does not know whether the past
year is 10 be repeated or not. As Sc \
often in our discouraged moments,
God comes with MS wonderful prom
Uses and gives assurance OF cooper
alton. or course there could be no .
seed time and no harvest except God
gives them. Man is so limited he S
cannot make a seedtime or harvest '
His senior Partner must do the larg- I
er and more important part Of the {
work. S
A Harvest Assured
The assurance 10 Noah led him to c
plant vineyards. and SOW seed. and d
cap haryests. The promise has been o
10 well kept to men that through all Il
he centuries men have plowed the u
ioil, sOwed the seed and reaped the q
larvests. Not only in every locality, I
'ut in all the earth the promise has "
'een kept; and to all the race. so c.
nen have lived and have been cloth il
ID and fed in all the intervening CEN "
uries al
But Gods promise is for others p
han the farmer, and the fruit-grow- OF
r. This promise for all of Gods W
usbandmen in all of Gods broad Sc
ores. The promise holds good in
ne intellectual, moral and spiritual W
ealms; even more so than in the pc
hysical realm. But in the material
calm men must trust God absolute be
:; and shall we not trust Him in WI
lie higher realms of the soul? When w
men and women toll in the ST
ome 10 rear their children up for DO
cd and humanity, shall there be no in
lrvest? When faithful men and tel
omen toll in the Sunday school to bl'
ain the young life for service in the m;
CHER realms of God, shall there be sci
harvest? When men and women an
God toll to make the community tin
which they live a better communi-
than IL has been before. shall
ere be no harvest? Surely the ha
omise is TO all of Gods toilers. for bal
lod standeth with the shadows. aft
eping watch above His own ha,
The Harvest Determined on,
Shakespeare said Of
len az some time are masters of onl
their fate; bot
9 fault, dear Brutus. is not in our sou
stars. be
I in ourselves. that we are under is l
ings." cen
To very great extent God has pen
ced within our own keeping both by
size and quality OF our Hfe-har- Fes
I but the seedtime is in our hands He
course, the farmer decided wheth- way
certain field shall grow grain witt
rs or potatoes certain season you
expects TO do il; but shall the har
mold more absolutely there than rich
the realm in which we live and ban
'st Can the individual determine TAX
harvest in his life as well as The you
life