The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a grain of mustard-seed, which, is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches. MATTHEW xiii. 31, 32.
"All is God and His idea." The idea of the great mustard-plant is complete in the tiny mustard-seed, no larger than the head of a pin. It was created there. Under fixed modes of God's thought, which is the spiritual law of all that God has created and made, the idea of the mustard-plant, twelve feet high, is complete.
The fulness of the tree is in the seed. The conditions of becoming a tree are both within and without the seeds, the passive earth beneath and the positive quickening Spirit of Life above, with the rain and and the dew of the clouds, and the blessing of the sunlight.
