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"Behold, the sower went forth to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them" (R.V.); "some.
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Each man by sincere introspection can best find for himself the real measure of the danger. The philosophy of Egotism crystallises itself slowly out in the maturing youth and swoops like a proud bird of prey upon the seeds which are cast from the Sower's hands. So, too, does each lightest thought with which we excuse or bolster up our evil, catch away that which is sown in the heart. Truth rejected and unabsorbed becomes the very nourishment of falsity. Like the first part of the parable, the second indicates a state of life common in varying degrees to all men.

The quick germination of truth, leading rapidly to a weak maturity, and lapsing equally quickly to decay, is a common experience of life.

Christ's Object Lessons/"The Sower Went Forth to Sow"

The stony places, we read, indicate a historical faith. Here it is important to note there is growth, but a growth so weak and sickly that it cannot endure. Evidently a historical faith is but poor ground for the seeds of Divine Truth. Now, all of us have something of this historical faith.

It is the faith, the system of precepts concerning moral and spiritual life, given us by parents and teachers while we were young. This of course is a most essential provision of our life. But in the parable the words are added, " where there was not much earth ". So it is a faith not our own, foreign to our real life, yet looking on the surface like good ground. The precepts of our youthful days do indeed find a lingering expression in our conduct, suggesting an integrity and wholesomeness when yet it is but a veneer of habit, artificially imposed.

Through early education, and the whole tradition of our home influences, there is a response to the seeds of truth which come to us from the Word. But, to use the word describing this state in the Writings, this response is the mere " imitation " of genuine goodness of life.

The seeds of truth germinate in our conduct either independently of our volition or because we recognise the value of such conduct from our early education.


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But it is not the expression of our real character. If truth is to develop at all, it must have a soul within it, and that soul must be genuine goodness. When our faith is merely historical, imposed by education and upbringing, it lacks this soul; and lacking thus all vitality, it shrinks and dies when the glowing fire of our real inner interest of self-love asserts itself. The sun that rises and scorches this harvest of pretence is the fire of our ruling love. Sooner or later, that dominating fact of our life, that real selfhood of ours will blot out the fictitious fruit of mere historical faith and leave us harvest-less.

The green growth of pretence may last a lifetime, but we pass into the other life only with what is our own, that which by conviction and affection has become our inmost nature. The thorns crowd out the seeds. This is a picture of the world being too much with us. And where there is no room for truth, there is no knowledge of good and consequently no perception of sin. This may mean that worldly concerns occupy man's thought too exclusively for Divine precepts to find any reception. That indeed is a common enough condition. But the Lord is directing our attention to still more universal conditions.

The very principles of religion which we hold may themselves be deceitful riches, wealth which withholds from us the living seeds of truth. Those principles may be false, and when false it is easy to see how they lead to the choking of truth from the Word.

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On the other hand, they may be true and yet may be as thorns stifling the. For often enough man rests satisfied with the knowledges of truth, fixing his interest on the all-absorbing task of accumulating unfruitful facts of religious life.

A Sower Went Forth To Sow

To deal thus with truth is to lose all knowledge of good, it is to raise a harvest of thorns instead of fruit. It is to love not heaven, but the world; and so to love it, that heavenly life can find no place which to bloom.

Matthew 13:3-9 "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path..."

The life force of the thorns can be nothing but evil. Whether the thorns be the love of merely mundane things or the absorbing interest in mere principles of religious belief and life, self-love lies within and evil vivifies the useless harvest. The seeds of the Divine Sower can grow only as those thorns are completely uprooted and destroyed. The shunning of evils as sins against God can alone prepare the ground for the heavenly harvest. The amenable disposition which looks to the Lord in the effort to do His Will, is that which softens the hard surface of our mind and admits His Truth.

This fruit of good will differ with each member of the Church, and a general threefold division of man's spiritual harvest can be made which reflects the threefold division of the mind and of the heavens.


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