...us to think of Him as our Father in heaven. Slothful servants may tell you He is " an austere Man, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed." But those who " know the gift of God, and who it is that saith to them, Give me to drink," will testify,...

...return, as a Father longing to embrace His lost child; too often we approach Him as "an austere man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed," and slink into His presence like thieves, as though we would steal that from His hand which He is unwilling...

...in the Old and New Testament, proves the Divine recognition of our weakness; but our loving Father is not a hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed." As in every phase of our spiritual life, so in this, we only need the hand of faith to grasp and hold...

...miracles. We have the means, and should employ them. Much has been given, and much will be required. God is not a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. He is not calling unto us to do that which We cannot do. God owns the universe. God owns the...

...well assured that what he enjoins upon us, he will graciously enable us to do. He is not "an hard T 2 master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed." He bids the weak accomplish a feat of strength, but then he gives him strength to do it. That which...

...gather among these non-professors, just as much as among the professors; and he is not a hard man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. He has been sowing and strewing here now these many years. O, will any one of us be the wicked...

...the legal Right and moral Wrong of any man to claim as his own that for which he has not wrought — reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. Justice to women. This is what the phrase means ; this и where the thing is truly wanted...

...vice." This, therefore, is the Lesson the Church would have us lay to heart. God is not an austere Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed. He does not punish us for not doing that which we are unable to do, but for not having the readiness...

...help to avoid it. This, says he, is a " hard," government ; this is a hard master to serve. It is " reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed," and the talent is hid in the earth. No effort is made to improve it ; no desire is felt to comply with...

...fear God implies the grant of grace sufficient to render obedience possible, since the divine Lawgiver is not a hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed; but it would hardly be safe to lay much stress on this consideration, for it might have been part of...