 | 1882 - 666 pages
...doth not lie in the heart as a stone in the earth, but as a seed in the earth, which will spring up, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. Grace cannot but grow, from a believer's engrafting into Christ; he who is engrafted into this noble,... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1882 - 298 pages
...followed the Divine order of human growth, as a plant follows the Divine order of vegetable unfolding, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. And hence, the reserve of the Scripture narratives regarding the first twelve years of our Lord's life,... | |
 | James Jackson Wray - 1883 - 392 pages
...and it will germinate, will sprout, will prosper, even in droughty weather and under sunless skies. First the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear, must wave and ripen at the Master's will. Grip thy sword ; put thy hand to the plough ; drop in the... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...So in the continued creations which are going on still in the natural world, we have first the bud and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. There is to-day an unsightly, mis-shapen bulb put into the earth, and to-morrow there is a fragrant... | |
 | John Dickinson Knowles - 1884 - 300 pages
...its Finisher, and make our souls partakers of the bright illuminations of Thy grace. Thou sendest " first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear," thus bring us on unto perfection. We see Thee now " as through a dim glass, darkly ; " now we know... | |
 | Rhode Island. Board of Agriculture - 1894 - 708 pages
...stook which we desired. The unfolding of a few delicate leaves may guide the eye \vh?re to look, for, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear, and behold, a miracle is wrought, before which we stand with uncovered head, with hearts overflowing... | |
 | Owen Street - 1887 - 430 pages
...us that the new life begotten from above should be in the soul, and should be a growing life, — " first the blade and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear." The difference that stares us in the face at every step between the dead stones and earthy clods and... | |
 | Caleb Davis Bradlee - 1888 - 296 pages
...Almighty does not move right away. " With Him a thousand years are as one day." He taught the law, " First the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear." He ordered the world to wait four thousand years before he sent his Son ; while now nearly nineteen... | |
 | William Milligan - 1894 - 264 pages
...conditions for its growth, and to which it is no sooner committed than it begins to sprout, and to send up first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. Would we know the power of any truth that we have believed, we need to be constantly returning to it,... | |
 | Swami Vivekananda - 1897 - 144 pages
...the fowls of the air. They have taken root in the soil, and will, as the years roll on, first put out the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. And all this has been effected within the short space of three years. Where is the Hindu, who can help... | |
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first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear" in the physical world, we must not expect development with lightning-like rapidity in any social institution. 
