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Show SEEDTIME AND HARVEST. While we arc casting about for the seed we sow this spring this springtime of life, let us not be content con-tent with the sowing of apparently good looking seed, but have an eye on the harvest; what shall the harvest har-vest be? Every sowing must have its reaping, and as the seed is sown so shall the harvest be. We cannot, must not neglect to ask, what shall the harvest be, for, tho an apple may be a good one, it does not follow that we must put out nothing but early apples; or confine our fields to fall wheat when spring wheat would of- H ten be the only grain practicable; or 1 sow the seeds of a ministerial career when we arc better fitted to herd , L sheep. fj Many of us have our lives behind I us, but the greater portion of us, let H us hope, have the best of our liven H ahead of us. We are sowing our fc seeds now for our reaping in old age; " U in fact, we arc always reaping, as we I are always sowing; every day has its seed time and its harvest; we are reaping the wlrrlwind or the golden grain. . We expect to reap what we sow, of course; we wouldn't expect to sow wheat and ra'se barley; if we sow the seeds of kindness, we are sure to reap a harvest from the sowing; and " the more and better the sowing, the ( more and better the reaping. If a young man studies four years in an agricultural college, he expects o harvest a knowledge of farming; and just as surely does the idler reap the drudgery of old age for the seeds of carelessness he sowed. The thief scatters the seeds of deceit and dishonesty, and reaps a prison sentence. sen-tence. It is very easy to sow too big a crop of w!ld oats; one that cannot can-not possibly be harvested in this life, for it is a simple matter to nourish a large crop in the fertile soil of an active brain. The sowing is generally a pleasure, but the harvest may be otherwise; in fact sometimes the worst fact 1 about the harvest is that we reap many times what we sow; a handful of wild oats will produce several pecks of 'rouble. You tlrnk you can easily garner the grain from what little lit-tle bad seed you have sown and be all the stronger for it, but can you, if , you continue to sow, day after day? Tlu'nk first of the harvest, and j then of the sowing; first of the re- ,.A suit and then of the act; first of the V career and then of the training. ... The habit of scattering seeds of t good cheer, kindness and usefulness, with an eternally diligent hand is the hab't that will permit even your , friends to reap a better harvest, for life will mean more to them if you have sown well over all the way. It often happens that thru some mis- , fortune your neighbor cannot sow 5 1 the seeds that should be sown, and it is up to you to furnish them, or there can be little reaping. Some one must always he the leader no ' matter how mutual the co'-operation. |