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Many men think that in their youths they can sow their wild oats and live for pleasure. When they are ready to settle in life, they say, they will reform and become pure, religious men. They are mistaken. There is no short cut from sin to righteousness, and the only thing that can atone for their past is a complete change of inner feeling, which will not come at command. Good aspirations must precede any effort to reform, and the starting point must be the change of the very purpose of one's life...
...choir sang the anthems "Sleepers, wake, a voice is calling" and "sow Lovely are the Messengers" from Mendelssohn's Oratorio "St. Paul." Mr. Merrill and Mr. Thomas sang the duet "Now we are Ambassadors," also from "St. Paul...
...certainty that "what we sow, that we shall reap," the most relentless law of nature. A deceitful man will have deceitful sons, and defaulters are the natural result of the tampering of consciences by tricky employers. Jacob and David advanced by the cynical man as "typical" saints. No man suffered for their sins more certainly or heavily than they, "Jacob killed a kid and goes and lies to his father, then Jacob's sons kill a kid and lie to him," forms a fit summary of Jacob's life to those who are acquainted with it. David, a powerful king...
...reap many times what we sow. A man may commit a crime in one night, which will take him his life and part of eternity to atone for. Abstinence from strong drink earnestly urged. Nine-tenths of our criminals are made by liquor, as well from the upper ranks of society as from the slums. Ignorance of what we are doing can make no difference as to the harvest. Disrespect for religious things can only work ruin in our own characters. No nation has prospered that has cast off the worship...
...planted naught, - we reap but what we sow...