What You Sow You Reap!

Go into the fields and country lanes in the spring-time, and you will see farmers and gardeners busy sowing seeds in the newly perpared soil. If you were to ask any one of those gardeners or farmers what kind of produce he expected from the seed he was sowing, he wolud doubtless regard you as foolish, and would tell you that he does not "expect" at all, that it is a matter of common knowledge that his produce will be of the kind which he is sowing, and that he is sowing wheat, or barley, or turnips, as the case may be, in order to reproduce that particular kind.Every fact and process in Nature contains a moral lesson for the wise man.

There is no law in the world of Nature around us wihch is not to be found operating with the same mathematical certainty in the mind of man and in human life. All the parables of Jesus are illustrative of this truth, and are drwan from the simple facts of Nature.
There is a process of seed-sowing in the mind and life a spiirtual sowing which leads to a harvest according to the kind of seed sown.

Thoughts, words, and acts are seeds sown, and, by the inviolable law of things, they produce after thier kind. The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks lvoing thoughts is loved.
The man whose thoughts, words and acts are sincere, is surrounded by sincere friends; the isnincere man is surrounded by insincere friends. The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds, and prays that God will bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat."That which ye sow, ye reap; see yonder fields, The sesamum was sesamum, the corn Was corn; the silnece and the darkness knew; So is a man's fate born.""He cometh reaper of the things he sowed." He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings. He who would be happy, let him consider the happienss of others.Then there is a second side to this seed sowing.
The faremr must scatter all his seed upon the land, and then leave it to the elements. Were he to covetously hoard his seed, he would lose both it and his produce, for his seed wuold perish.
It perishes when he sows it, but in perishing it brings forth a great abundance.

So in life, we get by giving; we grow rich by scattering.
The man who says he is in possession of knowledge which he cannot give out cause the world is incapable of receiving it, either does not possess such knowledge, or, if he does, will soon be deprived of it - if he is not already so deprived. To hoard is to lose; to exclusively retain is to be dispossessed.Even the man who wolud raise his material wealth must be willing to part with (invest) what little capital he has, and then wait for the raise. So long as he retains his hold on his precious money, he will not only remain poor, but will be growing poroer everyday.

He will, after all, lose the thing he loves, and will lose it without raise. But if he wisely lets it go; if, like the farmer, he sactters his seeds of gold, then he can faithfully wait for, and reasonably expect, the raise.Men are asking God to give them peace and purity, and righteousness and blessedness, but are not obtaining these things; and why not?