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Seed Corn For The World - Illustrated Report For The British And Foreign Bible Society 1904-5
Seed Corn For The World - Illustrated Report For The British And Foreign Bible Society 1904-5 Author:Various SEED CORN FOR THE WORLD A POPULAR ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1904-5 - INTRODUCTORY NOTE. EXCEPT where otherwise stated the incidents and statistics in thefollowingpages belong to lastyears record. It should be noted that this period is reckoned to end, as regards the Society s foreign work, on Decem... more »ber 31, 1904 and as regards its home work, on March ist, 1905. T. H. DARLOW, THE BIBLE HOUSE, Literary Superintendent. August 1905. CONTENTS PROEM i PAGB THE GRAIN IN THE GRANARIES 8 THE SEED-BEARERS 19 THORNS, TARES, AND GOOD GROUND . . . - 37 BESIDE ALL WATERS 51 THOU KNOWEST NOT How 62 IN THE FURROWS OF IHE BATTLEFIELD . . . -77 THE AFTERMATH OF THE CENTENARY . . 85 APPENDIX 93 SEED CORN FOR THE WORLD. PROEM. Speak but one word to me over the corn, Over the tender, boitfd locks of the corn. WILLIAM MORRIS. FEW sights are more commonplace and familiar than a field of ripe wheat yet few are lovelier or more suggestive. A million waving lance-heads of tawny gold, deep-dyed with the colour of sunshine, set on a million rustling stems which bend and rise again in every breeze who shall tell quot us how they grow Fluted shaft or clustered pier, how poor of art, beside these grass-shafts built, first to sustain the food of men, then to be strewn under their feet.quot Husbandry must have been the earliest of the arts. quot When Hesiod sang of Works and he meant Days,quot by work the primitive task of agriculture, the labour of the ploughshare and the sickle. We vaunt ourselves vain- gloriously over modern progress, but the mightiest inven tions and discoveries occurred long before history was born. The genius who first kindled a fire and the craftsman who first fashioned a wheel have left no record of themselves on earth except the wheel and the fire, by which almost every« less