Those who have found traveling conditions rather difficult of late may not contemplate another journey with much enthusiasm, but the one which they are now invited to take will bring them to their destination quickly, and without effort, for it is wholly a mental journey. The reader is asked only to turn his thoughts toward that which in the United States is called the Middle West, and to imagine himself looking down upon a ripe field of golden wheat, swaying in the hot July sunshine.
Our great Master, Christ Jesus, often made use of simple stories to elucidate profound truths, and he once gave to his listeners that which has been called the parable of the tares and the wheat. All Bible students remember its succinct, graphic word picture of the field sown to wheat into which the enemy sowed tares.
Some today may not know the exact nature of the tares to which Jesus referred, except to suppose that they were weeds of some kind. But they were far more than that. Because in the process of growing they so closely resembled the wheat that no one could tell them apart, the householder forbade his servants to root them out, lest by so doing they should gather up also the wheat with them. "Let both grow together," he said, "until the harvest."
