...will not excuse you, in that you use it not, and plead, contrary to your own knowledge, that you have a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed : and that you were afraid, and hid your talent, or the injunction, in you. As wisely should we shut...

...notions; it will prevent him from engaging in Jehovah's service, by impressing him with the idea he is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he lias not strawed ; it will keep him from lodging the slightest suspicion against itself, though he...

...for them to fulfil many of the ceremonial requirements. God, therefore, (who is no hard and exacting Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed,) was pleased to dispense with many of those rites and ceremonies, of which, under more favourable circumstances,...

...either drives them to negligence or to stubborn, blasphemous opposition to God, as an austere being, reaping where he has not sown and gathering where he has not strown. This is the rock upon which thousands have perished. Go immediately, my son, to that poor weeping...

...God hath given much, He will expect much again; and let not folly persuade itself that he is a " bad master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed." This species of casuistry may do for the passing moments, but when the day of reckoning comes there...

...which is by no means to be identified with true happiness: it paints God either as an "austere" and "hard" Master, "reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed;" making requirements of man which He has not given him the power to fulfil, and therefore not able justly...

...producer, without his interference, as with it ; all he possesses is as pensioner on the bounty of others, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. Again, no government has ever acted on the principle that a class of mere consumers is necessary or...

...be mournful and difficult, — that the Lord whom you are called upon to serve is an " austere and hard Master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed,"* look at what you know, remember what you have heard, of her who is gone from us. There was indeed much...

...beauty of all that He has created and made. Theology hu often portrayed Him as a harsh and austere Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strewn ; but to that theology Nature gives the lie through all her mountains and rocks, and woods,...

...When we suppose that God requires of us more than He has given us the power to perform, we make Him a " hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed," — a taskmaster, not a loving Father. He has set us our task now, and we find it a very hard one,...