p. 2 | SEED AND HARVEST

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

SEED AND HARVEST.

Gal. 6:7: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

Not very long ago, says the Temperance Standard, a British paper, a methodical man died in Berlin, at the age of seventy-three. When a young fellow, he commenced keeping a record, which he continued for some fifty years. The record is a good commentary on the life of one who sows to the flesh. His book shows that in fifty-two years this man had smoked 638,715 cigars, of which he had received 43,692 as presents, while for the remaining 595,023 he had paid about £2,086. In twenty-five years, according to his bookkeeping, he had drank 28,780 glasses of beer, and 36,086 glasses of spirits, for all of which he spent £1,070. The diary closes with these words: "I have tried all things, I have seen many, I have accomplished nothing." Surely it is not a harvest which one could envy.