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Farm Sermons Preface Farm Sermons by Charles Spurgeon Preface While the earth abideth with her seed-time and harvest, some men will be tillers of the soil. The day may come when there will be no more squires, but there will be sure to be farmers. Whether there be lords, they shall cease, or lawyers, they shall vanish away, but farmers shall remain. Both good and evil husbandmen, Cains and Noahs, will plough furrows and reap harvests until the end come. Hence there will always be need of Farm Sermons. Sermons to slingers and archers, to falconers and troubadours would now find scarce a reader, but farmers are as plentiful as ever and discourses designed for them will find hearers if they deserve them. It is fit that farmers should have sermons gathered out of their own occupation, for it is one which, above all others, abounds in holy teaching and as it would be ill for dwellers in the Indies to go from home for gold and spices, so would it be unwise to leave the field and the plough in search of instruction. He who dwells at Newcastle wastes time when he goes far for coals. He who lives by the labor of the field will be foolish if he neglects the teaching of nature for the most glittering philosophy. Some of the mightiest of prophets and preachers came from the plough and surely that must be a good college which has furnished such able divines. As all the world is fed by the produce of the farm, so may all men’s minds find food in meditating upon the ways of God in nature and providence, as seen by the husbandman. Hence we have sought Lessons From The Acres. He who despises truth because it wears in this case no other adornment than a garland of the flowers of the field about its neck or a wreath of barley around its brows, has no eye wherewith to discern beauty, which is as fascinating in rural dress as in classic attire. So long as the soul is fed, it is small matter whether the subjects were suggested by the palace or the barn. Reader, if you are a farmer, it will be for your eternal pleasure and profit if the Great Husbandman should meet you by His Holy Spirit in the pages of this book and exercise His skill upon you that you may become in His hand as a land which is both tilled and sown. Paul says of believers, “Ye are God’s husbandry.” May this be true of both reader and author. Farmers should make brave Christians when grace renews them, for God is everywhere about them and in His presence gracious souls are sure to thrive. Of old the Lord met men by the bush, the brook, and the well, and spake with them in the field, the threshing-floor, and the sheep-fold, and He still seems nearer in the country than in the grimy town. Never can the tiller of the ground open his eyes without learning something, if he is willing to be taught. Weeds and plants, frost and sunshine, green shoots and yellow ears, drills and reapers, hedges and ditches, foxes and sheep, drought and flood, wagons and horses, harrows and ploughs—all reveal some spiritual mystery concerning God and our own souls. Surely those men should learn much who find a schoolmaster and a lesson-book in every acre which they cultivate. Moreover, the farmer is in a very special sense made to see his dependence upon God from season to season. He has never done. His labor is never ending, still beginning, and his hopes are never all fulfilled. From the time he sows the seed to the day when he sees the corn in the ear, he is every hour dependent upon the Lord for sunshine and shower, and even when the grain is ready for the garner, a stretch of rainy weather will take his harvest from him and leave him mourning at the last. He can never count his profits till he has them in his pocket and hardly then. This manifest, absolute, and daily dependence should help the good farmer to learn the lesson of faith right thoroughly. He must look up, for where else can he look? He must leave his business in the Lord’s hands, for who else can be his helper? Faith which is daily tried, and tried all the day long, has a fair opportunity of becoming unusually strong, and hence our agricultural Christians ought to be the strongest believers in the land. They have not of late been indulged with much temporal prosperity, but our hope is that a succession of adversities may have driven them to set less store by the world, to look more eagerly for the better portion, and to leave all things more believingly in the Lord’s hands. This will be good out of evil beyond all question, and such good we ought to look for. Sharp discipline should by this time have made good soldiers of our yeomanry. If it be so, the failing purse is more than recompensed by the enlarged heart. If our farmers are wiser men through their bad seasons that will be better than being richer men. For farmers these sermons were prepared and to them I dedicate them, with fervent prayers that when I am dead and gone some living seed may spring up from these pages, and bring forth fruit to God’s glory and the benefit of immortal souls. True religion in former generations found many of her sturdiest defenders among the farmers of England and Scotland. It is to be feared that things have sadly changed in many a homestead and the world has the mastery where once there was a church in the house. Oh that the good old times might be repeated in grange, and farm, and lodge, till every village shall have in it a sanctified people who shall glorify the Lord. Reader, yours truly, C. H. Spurgeon Contents The Sluggard’s Farm The Broken Fence Frost and Thaw The Corn of Wheat dying to bring forth Fruit: The Ploughman Ploughing the Rock The Parable of the Sower The Principal Wheat Spring in the Heart Farm Laborers What the Farm Laborers can do and what they cannot do The Sheep before the Shearers In the Hay-Field The Joy of Harvest Spiritual Gleaning Mealtime in the Cornfields The Loaded Wagon Threshing Wheat in the Barn The Sluggard’s Farm “I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.” Proverbs 24:30-32 NO doubt Solomon was sometimes glad to lay aside the robes of state, escape from the forms of court, and go through the country unknown. On one occasion, when he was doing so, he looked over the broken wall of a little estate which belonged to a farmer of his country. This estate consisted of a piece of ploughed land and a vineyard. One glance showed him that it was owned by a sluggard who neglected it, for the weeds had grown right plentifully and covered all the face of the ground. From this Solomon gathered instruction. Men generally learn wisdom if they have wisdom. The artist’s eye sees the beauty of the landscape because he has beauty in his mind. “To him that hath shall be given,” and he shall have abundance, for he shall reap a harvest even from a field that is covered with thorns and nettles. There is a great difference between one man and another in the use of the mind’s eye. I have a book entitled, “The Harvest of a Quiet Eye,” and a good book it is. The harvest of a quiet eye can be gathered from a sluggard’s land as well as from a well-managed farm. When we were boys we were taught a little poem called, “Eyes and No Eyes,” and there was much of truth in it, for some people have eyes and see not, which is much the same as having no eyes, while others have quick eyes for spying out instruction. Some look only at the surface, while others see not only the outside shell but the living kernel of truth which is hidden in all outward things. We may find instruction everywhere. To a spiritual mind nettles have their use and weeds have their doctrine. Are not all thorns and thistles meant to be teachers to sinful men? Are they not brought forth of the earth on purpose that they may show us what sin has done and the kind of produce that will come when we sow the seed of rebellion against God? “I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding,” says Solomon, “I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.” Whatever you see, take care to consider it well, and you will not see it in vain. You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs out of the ground.
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