Identifier: withchildrenonsu00stal (find matches)
Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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ound. Thus he walks from one end of the field to the other,sowing the seed, until he has the entire field sown and ready for themen who follow with the harrow to cover up the grain. Well, boys and girls, this is the spring-time of life with you.These are the pleasant days and years of your life. You have verylittle care. Yet it is, nevertheless, the spring-time. You are nowmaking preparations which will tell what is to be the harvest in thelater years of your lives. As the farmer goes out and plows thefield, so by discipline and by counsel, and by instruction are yourparents preparing your minds and hearts that in after years you mayenjoy a harvest of great blessing. In the spring-time of life, when young persons are to do thesowing, they need much careful counsel and instruction. I supposethat there are many boys and girls who, if they were to go into thecountry, could not tell the difference between wheat and barley, oroats and rye. Some might not even be able to distinguish between
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Copyrighted, 1911, by Sylvanus Stall. Behold a Sower went Forth to Sow SOWING. 189 oats and buckwheat. If the farmer were to send you out to sow,you would, most likely, sow the wrong kind of grain. In the samemanner, it is important that you should be directed by your parents,because they can distinguish between right and wrong. Theyknow what you should do, and what you should not do. There-fore it is important that theyshould direct you in the spring-time, lest you should sow thewrong kind of grain. And youknow the Bible says: What-soever a man soweth, that shallhe also reap. It is not only difficult forthose who have never seensomething of life in the country,to distinguish between the dif-ferent kinds of grain which thefarmer sows, but even after thegrain begins to grow, it is some-times difficult, even for thosewho are familiar with countrylife, to distinguish between thetrue and the false. In thatsame thirteenth chapter of thegospel by St. Matthew, towhich I referred in the begin

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