Word: sowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...