The very people that asked for them in
spring will curse you for them in autumn.

BIBLE IDEAS ABOUT GOD:--

His love of righteousness, His hatred of evil; His love of man, but His
dislike to sin; His delight in benevolence, but His determined hostility
to wrong-doing. We need to show not only God's pity for sinners, but His
inflexible justice, which did not spare His well-beloved Son, when He
bore our sins.

BIBLE IDEAS ABOUT CONDUCT:--

Never mind being called legal, if you can back your preaching by the
Bible. Put the truth into the people about honesty, industry, and self-
denial. Let others spend their time in talking of the angels with bright
wings of gold; let us teach men how God means them to live in this world.
Those of us who wish to learn how to sow, should study Jesus and Paul.
They are examples of what sowers should be.

BIBLE IDEAS ABOUT REPENTANCE:--

"These things teach and exhort." One secret of the want of lasting
success, is that we do not preach repentance. Men need to have right
ideas on this subject. Those who have not repented cannot believe unto
righteousness; they can believe unto feeling, but not to right doing! It
is not a question so much of tears, as of turning away from sin. The
greatest of penitents said, "I turned my feet unto thy testimonies."

BIBLE IDEAS ABOUT JESUS:--

That He died for us according to the scriptures. When the Master wished
to take away the sadness from His disciples, as they walked to Emmaus,
"He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
Himself." This is what we must do. Put the truth, as it is in Jesus,
into the hearts of the people. Let us show from the word of God, that
"By His stripes we are healed." Nothing gives abiding peace like the
thought, Christ has died for my sins. This will lead to loving Jesus,
with the kind of affection which will not be tempted to grieve Him by
doing that which is evil. Let us see to it that we get the seed in.

IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO GET IT ON THE LAND, WE MUST PUT IT IN.

No preacher has done his work thoroughly who does not use the harrow.
There are some so-called teachers, who don't know what the gospel harrow
is. This is why the catechism is not taught. The ancient plan of
catechising in the church ought to be more general than it is. Why
should we not hide the word of God in the hearts of our hearers, by
causing them to think over what we have said? We may not be able to get
t