Some years ago a well-to-do man, caught in a scandal, was serving a prison term when a friend paid him a visit. The well-to-do man was sitting cross-legged, and with an enormous needle and a ball of twine was sewing burlap bags. "Hello," said the friend, "Sewing, eh?" "No," replied the prisoner with a sober-looking smile, "I’m reaping."

With the arrival of spring upon us, and soon to be followed by growing plants and a subsequent harvest, we who live in North America are reminded of the rhythmical pattern of seed time followed by harvest. This harvest season which quite predictably takes place in the physical world has its counterpart in the spiritual. And that law is, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap."

This passage which is generally tr…