SOWING AND REAPING by Joseph Pollard

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1900

SOWING AND REAPING.

By Joseph Pollard

"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." Ps. 126:5.

OUT on the highways, wherever we go, Seed we must gather, and seed we must sow; Even the tiniest seed has a power, Be it of thistle or be it of flower. Here where it seems but a wilderness place, Wanting in beauty, and wanting in grace, Some little creature in tenderness goes, Plucking the nettle, and planting the rose. Gathering seed, we must scatter as well; God will watch over the place where it fell. Only the grain of the harvest is ours. Shall we plant nettles, or shall we plant flowers? Out of those gardens so gorgeous with flow'rs, Seed we may gather to beautify ours, While from our own little plot we may share Something to render our neighbor's more fair. Out of each moment some good we obtain, Something to winnow and scatter again. All that we listen to, all that we read, All that we think of is gathering seed. That which we gather is that which we sow; Seed-time and harvest alternately flow. When we have finished with time, 'twill be known How we have gathered and how we have sown. —Joseph Pollard.