No word is spoken, but the little bosom heaves, the little heart softens, the little eyes grow tenderly penitent, the little hands come up and clasp my neck, and my relentings and my sorrow have produced after their kind. All of you. Your work, your play, your lessons at home or at school during the week or on the Lord's Day, when you were at your games, when you were reading some story or other book, when you were amusing yourself or other people — it was a seed which you were sowing — sowing, indeed, for this life, but sowing also for the life to come — for eternity. In which matter they deceive themselves for want of considering, that God is not a party, but the Judge and Governor of the universe; who punishes wickedness, not that He himself suffers anything by it, but as being repugnant to the nature and reason of things, to the eternal laws of His righteous government, to the welfare and happiness of the whole creation. Life will then be rounded and made whole, moving on from true beginnings to worthy ends. Facts show this: what moral changes have taken place in human nature: read the history of Paul. M. Taylor, D. D.)Importance of this life in the light of the futureW. They are ever scattering seeds — as weeds do. For the most part, men are fearfully inert, awfully indifferent, strangely unconcerned about religion. By the way this messenger eat up the figs, but delivered the letter, whereby his deed was discovered, and he soundly punished. It fills the mind with false, distorted views of religion. Beecher. We do get according to our deeds, then, and, through the mercy of God, we get, in addition, all the fruit our deeds bring forth. If we lose the spring, we lose the harvest; and so we want to make the most of every hour. When the whirlwind sweeps through the forest, at its first breath, or almost as if the fearful stillness that precedes had crushed it, the giant tree with all its boughs falls crashing to the ground. God is faithful; He will not fail those who sow in dependence on Him.II. You may have been in the country in spring, when the frost and snow have disappeared, and preparations are being made for the work of the coming year. Grace grows upon grace. If you begin not early to sow to the Spirit, you may never sow to it.(W. A few years after a stranger came to Neff, saying he was greatly indebted to him. Let us sow it plentifully, that we may reap in proportion. You may wonder that I so gravely assert this. Neff did not recognize the man, and begged him to explain. centuries answer to it.2. The master mechanic and the merchant, and men of business of every name, know well how universally applicable to their respective callings is the principle we are considering. He who from the one gained as much as made it five, was set over five cities. THE SOWING. THE APPLICATION OF THIS LAW TO THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE LIFE.1. It has never troubled you. THE LAWS OF GRACE AND RETRIBUTION ARE PERFECTLY HARMONIOUS.1. The holiness of the present is only the bud from which will blossom that vision of God which is the full-flowered beatitude of heaven.(W. "Have you no other sin to confess?" To begin with the wicked. THE SEED IS OF DIFFERENT KINDS. The splendid mansion he has reared may stand in castellated pride for many generations, and his domain may smile for ages in undiminished beauty; but in less, perhaps, than half a generation, death will shoot his unbidden way into the inner apartment, and without despoiling the lord of his possessions, will despoil the possessions of their lord! The seed we sow consists not merely of overt acts, but comprehends whatever goes to constitute or to manifest character. Do you ever think of it? We have to school ourselves into the recognition that a man is rich or poor really not according to what he has but according to what he is. It increases at compound interest. B. And the grounds or reasons upon which they are justly so esteemed are very evident. Clarke, D. D.)Self-deceit and future retributionS. )Sowing and reapingJ. They may float over wide oceans, and rest themselves in foreign countries. But also further, because 'tis an entertaining of very dishonourable and very injurious apprehensions, concerning the perfections and attributes of God Himself.3. 2. Our whole life is nothing but a seed-time, and the present and the future already stand facing each other. "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." An act performed at one time leads to products at a future time. It is not his way to tear the parchments and rights of investiture from the hand of the proprietor, but he paralyzes and unlocks the hand, and they fall like useless and forgotten things away from him. The expression is a strong one, taken from that organ of the face by which we express careless contempt. In the service of the public, and whether you have your reward or not you will have honorable distinction in the kingdom of God.V. They have wings, and they fly for miles. The wealth he has acquired may not be taken from him; but he will, sooner or later, be taken from it. It is not as if you were scattering clay, or stones, or bits of wood. Johnson, M. Idleness, either in respect to temporal or spiritual things, is utterly incompatible with the circumstances or the destiny of our race.3. Broad.Liability to imposture is perhaps inseparable from human frailty; the best of men have been numbered with its victims. 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