THIS summer I have watched the wheat from the time it appeared above ground until it was cut down a week ago, and have from time to time examined dozens of roots, and am surprised to find (1) that, without a single exception, each tuft of wheat―having from one to over twenty stalks―is one root, and springs from only one grain of wheat; (2) that in nearly every case the husk of the original grain adhered to the root, and was always beneath the root (that is, the grain had sprung up towards the surface on the top and over and around the original grain); (3) and that there was never more than one husk to each tuft or root. One grain I found had produced twenty-one ears. It would seem that only one grain of the many which must fall upon the same spot can live; the others completely disappear and there is no trace of them.
One Christ only died that we might live. He is the corn of wheat Who has fallen into the ground and died, and Who has brought forth much fruit.
The husk remains connected with the root and the resurrected grains until the very end. After the corn was cut I examined the stubble, and there I found the remains of the original seed. Surely apart from Him we have no life. The roots were upon and around the original seed; this, too, is significant.
God’s unwritten book of nature is very interesting, and is full of spiritual truth. “All things were made by Him and for Him.” Is He not the center―the sun―of His own universe? All God’s works point to Him as the center.