| Show INDIAN CORN A WONDER LESSON 1 r cuv Do YOU want a subject for a wonder lesson You are embarrassed J by riches They are hero on aIn ery hand by tens of fiouuands Almost anything will l I I do I know I nolhlng more common or more ctrlklng than tho Indan corn growing In our gardens and In tho fields I everywhere every-where about us one of tho most widely kno n nd frould userul groin In Ih world what a wonder stor you ran tell of this marvellous plantl Tim the blade then tile ear then the Mil corn In tha ear When as a hlld I until to avail theme familiar words In the lllblo I always thought It meant our yellow corn planted In the spring time and gathered to the crib In Ih aulumn Years later I tlie Ivan sed to learn that title corn trlr ido r we a I Ind of w heat or barley And thnt nil Iho w1alth oC Jeruslm could lot In tame lass have bought an er oC car common corn Tj cro Is it storj told I of selfish far m diin who haM Rot a net variety I of Indian Earn nM to 11 neighbor who wanted to buy a 11I110 DC II lie replied Not n gruln III Ills Ignorance b c thought bo coUld keep it all on his own farm lie did not know oC stamen sta-men and pistil pollen nail ova ary Ierhop only oC horses DM hog rind dollars knowledge very good to have Ir a small fraction oC n large unit but IF It be all n man hn then or little value lei the great account His neighbor neigh-bor more knowing than he Inllght him n leon In htany and If nil the corn both without buying It without his lentand without risk of a lawsull The nw corn happened to lie planted steel the line fence h < lween the fears The neighbor seeing title eleetNI the ht grains from the middle mid-dle oC some 01 his best on rR for Pred and planted them on the at her alde oC the fene The land was equal good the rlno fell and the sun obono alike on mr1oflold The corn grew Anne flourIshed flour-Ished aid neared the time lien the IDrnlnnlO hloorn oC the to1 would shed their pollen upon the lIken bloom below lie noted the tight nand n-and then cut the plume the lose Cray calls It from every talk oC his own corn AU that no Pollen front We own field should feet Jalize his ornIt must all come from tile other side or the fence The few corn woo rich In pollen blch floated on the air And Cell hero rind there with little regard to line fences The ire I forces went on orklng out their results In the Itoro tory or nature and When the husking time clime both haUled 10 their barns nearly the Famo kind oC ornmuh to the chagrin and omewhat to the edl ricntlon of the stingy farmer The lesson of the pollen Is I in this story and n deeper leon yet for the owing boy rind girl It Is good teachIng teach-Ing IC you con give many leon like this jnunren teacher good lo live v 11th I went to school on the nuke R reel hill nrnrlj fifty years ago to Ain a-in n lieD lought many such leon JN an he good 10 lIe 1 I IIh In those far air dn Hut WB want to look at the corn A green stalk may ho brought to the school loots nul all Take the circuit F alf811 T fr the 7ropp d into the ground In the late oprlg 10 the seed from the car In th Call The Kreenhool come lit the leaves of the beautiful vigorous lus thing are rapidly developcil the warm June days after n rain how they triivvl then the rustling lowedged jwordMadcs of July tile light yellow plume oC Inmlnnle 1loom home pollen Is I grains of piarl under the microscope and the loss I silk of the plstlllato flower the ear pink In color soft In texture with Its broad close flttlng sheath the husk for nolec tlon to the ovar > This long silken tassel Is I for use much more than for beauty though It Is I very beautiful We go to market and buy our dozen ears of coin husk them and strip down their soft and glossy threads of silk without n thought of Almighty design Look closer Itemove jour husk careful so that no thread of silk Is I disturbed Start with the grain furthest from tile silken tassel take the next the next tile next each hOB its own thread In orderly ueeelon and It Blonds nt ono end of that thread where Is I the olher end Outside of tho sheath each thrgd ending In Its ellgn1 II wonderful wonder-ful structure hundred oC ten together to-gether making up the soft rich silken tassel 1 swaying In the breeze nnl I kissed by the sunlight waiting for the touch of the now lire nnd energy that must come from a The polen hoes burst arid spread Dbron1 their treasure uC penrlsfo the shop la IenrlI have npr seen any pollen truer pearls than these uC ome oriel flex oC tile ion As tho line shower falls through this warm pummi air these waiting stigmas grasp It eagerly ly I gather oC II abundantly and through tile long style the thread oC milk connecting the light and life without with the embryo seed within the vllallzlng Influence passeshow no man cn lollunlll every ovule Is I Cer Llllzed and develops In Gods good nay Into n seed that can be own the next season to repent the old tale of mDreI as from the beginning another anoth-er link In a chain of apparently end less I ucceolon An1 you and land the farmer maybe may-be as little Interested In this marhl as Ignorant of It arid as blind to It as are tho horses and the CA tile or the trees and the stones Let us get this thought clearly Into our own minds arid then preach this great Gospel of Wonder to our children Dut If you cannot feel It you will not do much wllh It do away and pray God to give sou tho seeing eye the hearing car the Coelng heart Alas for our children when the only things we can teach them are a little ciphering which we call arithmetic the cal Iron orders of letters In word Well wo cn spelling some ROunding oC word from the prlnle1 page ivJilch we call rending a little geography geog-raphy and hlstor most of which Is soon forgotten some rule In grammar gram-mar that we ourselves too often violate vio-late almost without thought or silent protest Let U now and try to teach things Urn my startle and awalts and bless things that have In them the enduring quality The world about no Is I full oC marvels suggestIng suggest-Ing the Divine 1 I have taken but one Look at the cherry ties or any other tree in fruit How differ cut from the corn but no Iona wonderful Look at the strawberry straw-berry or any other li rryat anything any-thing that has life and law behind It or law without life Ilo n poet when you talk of these things that Is I full oC the spirit uC wonder and reerenc Cellag somehat ns Moses felt hon from out the burning bush the Almighty spake to him Irom outfield out-field and bush and tree the same God speaks to us na to him Can we too see anti hear IC we cannot then lei JM pry that sonic lIealer mllY como 10 touch our hlh1 1 eyes And unstop our dC ear IC not for ourselves at least far our children that their filter men olbilitle may ho Awakened arid their Men bo bleed |
