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11 Again, I see a little child, 



His mother's sole delight, 

 God's living gift of love unto 



The kind good Shunamite ; 

 To mortal pangs I see him yield, 

 And the lad bears him from the field. 



" The sun-bathed quiet of the hills, 



The fields of Galilee, 

 That eighteen hundred years agone 



Were full of corn, I see ; 

 And the dear Saviour takes his way, 

 'Mid rfpe ears on the Sabbath-day. 



" golden fields of bending corn, 



How beautiful they seem ! 

 The reaper-folk, the piled-up sheaves, 



To me are like a dream ; 

 The sunshine and the very air 

 Seem of old time, and take me there." 



Fields of ripe corn are ever tlie signals of joy and plenty. 

 The Psalmist sings, " The valleys are covered with corn, they 

 shout for joy." Seed-time is typical of the period of faith and 

 patience, " Blessed are they that sow beside all waters." " They 

 that sow in tears shall reap in joy." " Behold, the husbandman 

 waiteth for the precious seed of the earth, and hath long 

 patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain." 

 And in the same way the harvest is type of the crowning time 

 of faith " Be ye also patient, stablish your hearts, for the 

 coming of the Lord draweth nigh." " There shall be a handful 

 of corn in the earth high upon the mountains, the fruit shall 

 shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like 

 Grass of the earth." 



But the most solemn association of the corn field is with the 

 resurrection : " That which thou sowest is not quickened 

 except it die; and when thou sowest thou sowest not that body 

 which shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of Wheat or of 

 some other grain, and God giveth it a body as it pleases Him, 

 and to every seed his own body." " Lift up your eyes and look 

 on the fields, for they are white already to harvest." " And he 

 that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life 



