With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . never grown from anacorn, or a peach tree from a chestnut. Each seed, always andeverywhere, bears its own kind. It is on this account that the Biblesays, Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a mansoweth that shall he also reap. (Gal. vi: 7.) There are some grown persons, as well as children, whothink that they can do very wrong things while they are young,and afterwards suffer no bad results. People sometimes say,Oh, well! let us sow our wild oats while we are young. Nowthe Bible tells us t
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . never grown from anacorn, or a peach tree from a chestnut. Each seed, always andeverywhere, bears its own kind. It is on this account that the Biblesays, Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a mansoweth that shall he also reap. (Gal. vi: 7.) There are some grown persons, as well as children, whothink that they can do very wrong things while they are young,and afterwards suffer no bad results. People sometimes say,Oh, well! let us sow our wild oats while we are young. Nowthe Bible tells us that if we sow wild oats, we must reap wild or five handfuls of wild oats will produce a whole bag fullof wild oats when gathered in the harvest of after life. Be assured,my dear friend, that those who sow to the flesh shall of the fleshreap corruption, and those who sow the wind shall reap thewhirlwind. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit,and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a des-tiny. It may seem a long period between the spring and the harvest. 194 The Harvest Fields Are Ripe and Are Waiting for the Husbandmen. REAPING. 195 time of life; but be assured, my dear young friends, that the earlyyears will speedily pass. Before you are aware of it, you will bemen and women with all the responsibilities of life upon you, andthen you will be sure to reap the reward of what you do now whileyou are boys and girls. Lord Bacon said that Nature owes usmany a debt until we are old, but nature is always sure to pay itsdebts. The ancients had an adage that said, Justice travels witha sore foot, but it usually overtakes a man. A few Sundays ago I told you that as the result of plantinga single grain of corn, a fruitage sufficient to plant the entire earthmight be secured in only five years. It is told us by historians that,in olden times, the harvest in Egypt and Syria would return anhundred fold for one sowing, and in Babylonia oftentimes twohundred fo
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