The Gospel of a Country Pastor

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Excerpt from The Gospel of a Country Pastor: Sketches and Sermons"Back to Christ!"Back to the farm!"I was indulging in a day dream with those two momentous mottoes as a somewhat shadowy subject when one of my oldest parishioners handed me the following sermon on the soil:"I was born in the country. God's earth is to me a part and parcel of life. I live to dig. By digging I learn to think, I unearth strange sleeping silences, powers of thought fresh from the soil come forth to see Gods light and sky. Thoughts, like creatures, prone to rest all day, are made to move when I dig."I like to sow. By sowing I learn to trust, God's promises can never be forgotten when with Him I make things grow. He plants His word as I sow the seed, out of my life He bringeth fruit, weak though my will which makes me believe and pray, and trust and serve."I like to reap. By reaping I bring Joy, I gather God's promises in my hand, and my heart goes out to Him for His goodness and mercies to all mankind. He makes His Word fall in due season, golden grain and whitened staple tell of His wealth and purity. I like to live because to me it hath been given to dig and sow and reap.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.