【赫临译笔】秋天，收获的季节 - 心云驛站

秋天来到了我们身边，百果成熟，稻麦起伏。每每我们看到的是农民辛劳的结果，这一切在春季就可以预测到。那时，农民需松土，播种，修枝，护苗。现在我们看到了成熟和收获。金黄的果实压枝弯，丰盈的收获慰辛勤。

请记住，人生之秋正向我们快步走来。我们现在播种什么，那时就会收获什么。要想收获多多，摘取珍贵的果实，确保丰盈的收获，现在，在人生的春季，我们必须勤奋并精心地开垦自己的心灵。我们只能养成收获善果的好习惯。行为要高尚，思想要纯洁，言词要纯真，情感要善良。因为我们现在的播种，定是秋后的收获。如果我们播下清风，只能收获旋风。

Autumn－the Harvest Season

The autumn, with its ripening fruits, and waving harvest, is now with us. We see on every hand the results of the farmer’s toil and forecast in the springtime. Then it was that he broke up the soil, sowed the seed, pruned his trees, and guarded the tender plants. Now wesee the ripening crops. The trees are bending with golden fruit, and abundance rewards farmer’s toil.

But suppose in spring the farmer had left the soil unturned, the seed unsown, the trees untrimmed, and everything neglected, what would now be the result? We should see nothing but barren fields, overrun with weeds and biers; and the farmer would feel that a winter of want and distress is before him.

And let us remember that the autumn of life will come on apace; and that what we now sow, we shall then reap. If we would reap an abundant harvest, and gather precious fruit, and secure an autumn of plenty prosperity, we must now, in the springtime of life, be diligent and careful in the cultivation of our hearts. We must form only those habits which will produce good fruits. Our acts must be noble, our thoughts and our words must be pure, and our feelings must be kind. As we now sow, we shall then reap.If we “sow to the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind”.