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Title: Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful book..
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Peltz, George A. (George Alexander)
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Publisher: Philadelphia
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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represented Himself as a farmer sowing seed. His words were theseed; He Himself scattered, or sowed it as He taught. That was His parable of the Sower, wasnt it? asked Mary.That was our Sunday-school lesson one day.* Yes, answered Grandpa. In Matthew xiii Jesus tells of a sowerwho went out to sow. As he sowed, some seed fell on the path, orroad, where the soil was trampled hard and the seed could not sinkinto it, but lay exposed on its surface, to be trodden under foot, orto be carried off by birds. This. He said, was like people who listento the truth, but are careless about it. Then Satan, like a bird whichfollows the sower, catches away the seed, or some wicked thought oract crushes out the good thought, and it is lost. Thats like a boy who dont attend to his lessons in school—henever gets up. Thats it exactly, Charley, said Grandpa; and one who doesnot attend to the Lords lessons will never get up either. The Lordalso said that some seed fell in stony places, where there was not
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SCATTERINC THE SEED. 876 GRANDPA GOODH/NS STORIES. much soil. This sprouted up quickly and seemed very promisingbut no sooner did the hot summer sun shine on it than it was scorchedand died. This, He said, was like people who hear the truth andseem to be delighted with it, but who dont hold out. They soongrow weary of doing well, and give it up. Thats like lots of girls in our school, said Carrie. They getpromoted or begin a new study, and they work as if they would standNo. i forever, but in a few weeks they fall off and are at the tail ofthe class. A new broom sweeps clean, added Mrs. Reed, the childrenreadily catching the point of the old proverb. The true way, said Grandpa, is to begin sweeping clean andto keep on doing so. The stony-ground hearers began, but didnot keep on. Many such persons are in the world. Other seed,Jesus said, fell among thorns, and by and by, as both thorns andwheat grew, the thorns became rank and choked out the wheat.This is like people who attempt to be

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