+III. Whatsoever a man sows in deeds that shall he also reap.+--1. _Cruel deeds._ If we take a savage delight in torturing beast or bird or insect, if we plot how we can inflict the most exquisite pain on our fellow-man, if we make sport of the anguish and distress of others which we make no effort to relieve, we shall inevitably reap the harvest--reap it in the embruting and degradation of our finer sensibilities, reap it in the tempest of rebellion and retaliation which those we outraged will launch upon us. 2. _Selfish deeds._--If we live for our own selfish gratification, indifferent to the rights and woes of others; if we surrender ourselves to a covetous spirit, living poor that we may die rich--as we sow we reap. The thing we lived to enjoy ceases to gratify, and our noblest sentiments are buried amid the rubbish of our own sordidness. 3. _Generous and noble deeds._--If we aim at the elevation of ourselves and others, if we seek to act on the highest level of righteousness and truth, if we are diligent, unwearied, and persistent in well-doing, then in due season we shall reap the harvest--reap it in a heightened and expansive nobility of character, in an intensified influence and enlarged capacity for doing good, and in the eternal enrichment of the Divine plaudit, "Well done." _Be not Deceived._--This phrase occurs several times as preface to warning, seeming to indicate thus that the subject of the warning is one about which we are specially liable to deception, and upon examination we find that observation justifies the presumption. We are thus guarded against any deception as to the following important practical truths:-- +I. The contaminating influence of evil associations+ (1 Cor. xv. 33). +II. The personal responsibility of each for his own sin+ (Jas. i. 16). +III. Entrance into heaven conditioned on character+ (1 Cor. vi. 9). +IV. Human destiny, once settled, irreversible+ (Gal. vi. 7).--_British and Foreign Evangelical Review._ Ver. 8. _Sowing to the Spirit._ +I. The natural man has no desire for immortality.+--He has not been seized with the earnest and real wish for a future life; but he is entirely bound by this world in all his thoughts, aims, and wishes: he identifies life and existence altogether with this world, and life out of this world is a mere name to him. He is shut up within the walls of the flesh and within the circle of its own present aims and projects. +II. The spiritual man has a strong desire for immortality,+ and it is the beginning and foundation of the religious life he leads here. Every field of action becomes unimportant and insignificant compared with the simply doing good things, because in that simple exercise of goodness lies the preparation for eternity.