LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE 



He spoke as never man spake, we find the 

 same intimate pleasure in the landscape and 

 in its phenomena. There is, indeed, a cer- 

 tain important difference between Jesus 

 and the prophets, for while to them nature 

 was often fearful and awesome, to Him it 

 was always near and kindly. Better than 

 they He saw in all of it the immediate 

 expression of His Father's love. He spoke 

 with great tenderness of the sparrows of 

 the air and the lilies of the field. 



"Behold a sower went forth to sow; 

 and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, 

 and the birds came and devoured them : and 

 others fell upon rocky places, where they 

 had not much earth; and straightway they 

 sprang up because they had no deepness of 

 earth, and when the sun was risen they 

 were scorched, and because they had no 

 root they withered away. And others fell 

 among thorns, and the thorns grew up and 

 choked them; and others fell upon the 

 good ground, and yielded fruit, some a 

 hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty." 



"He that hath ears, let him hear" this 

 story of the Syrian fields. Let him enjoy 

 this picture of the barren, stony fields and 

 the thorny, weedy wayside, and let him 



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