![]() Not something else, but “ that.” The proportion holds in kind - it holds, too, in degree, in spiritual things as in natural. As tare-seed comes up tares, and wheat-seed wheat and as the crop in both cases is in proportion to two conditions, the labor and the quantity committed to the ground - so in things spiritual, too, whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. The keen eye of Paul discerned this principle reaching far beyond what is seen, into the spiritual realm which is unseen. In almost all departments it is “the diligent hand which maketh rich.” Success, again, is proportioned to labor in degree, because, ordinarily, as is the amount of seed sown, so is the harvest: he who studies much will know more than he who studies little. In kind and in degree, success is attained in kind for example, he who has sown his field with beechmast does not receive a plantation of oaks a literary education is not the road to distinction in arms, but to success in letters, years spent on agriculture do not qualify a man to be an orator, but they make him a skillful farmer. He tells us that there is a law in nature according to which success is proportioned to the labor spent upon the work. It was on this principle of analogy that St. He feeds the ravens - He clothes the lilies - He will feed with His Spirit the craving spirits of His children. God supplies the wants which He has created. For instance, if it were a question whether God would give His Spirit to them that asked, it was not replied to by a truth revealed on His authority the answer was derived from facts lying open to all men’s observation, “Behold the fowls of the air” - “behold the lilies of the field” - learn from them the answer to your question. His human mind, in perfect harmony with the Divine mind with which it is mixed, discerned the connection of things, and read the Eternal Will in the simplest laws of nature. Truths come forth from His lips, not stated simply on authority, but based on the analogy of the universe. It was upon this principle that Christ taught. You can not study agriculture long without finding that it absorbs into itself meteorology and chemistry: sciences run into one another till you get the “connection of the sciences ” and you begin to learn that one Divine idea connects the whole in one system of perfect order. ![]() Begin with what science you will, as soon as you get beyond the rudiments, you are constrained to associate it with another. For it is impossible to study the universe at all without perceiving that it is one system. Or rather, they are but one book, separated into two only by the narrow range of our ken. Just as two books, though on different subjects, proceeding from the same pen, manifest indications of the thought of one mind, so the worlds, visible and invisible, are two books written by the same finger, and governed by the same idea. They bear the impress of the same hand and hence the principles of nature and its laws are the types and shadows of the Invisible. Here is a close analogy between the world of nature and the world of spirit. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” – Galatians 6:7,8. ![]() “Be not deceived God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Robertson: The Principle of Spiritual Harvest
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