The Home of The Wheat

 “ And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain”—I Corinthians 15:37

       Did you ever see a field of golden grain out on the western prairie? How wonderful it is! How wide and long the field is! There are acres and acres and miles and miles of waving wheat soon to be cut and then threshed and then ground up into fine white flour. It is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. And how useful, for all these great gardens of wheat are to be turned into bread. Where did the beautiful wheat come from? We know now that wheat is very, very old. We are told that wheat was harvested ten thousand years ago. They grew wheat and ate bread, but not beautiful bread like ours, away back in Egypt and Greece and Babylon. Last year in America there were hundreds of thousands of bushels of what is called Marquis wheat harvested. This is the wonderful spring wheat which grows in Canada and the United States. Now the marvelous thing is that all this mighty harvest of wheat came from a single grain of wheat planted in a garden at Ottawa in Canada by Dr. Charles E. Sanders in 1903. This is the way wheat multiplies, in 1903 one grain and in our time, millions of bushels. How many loaves of bread would a million bushels of fine hard wheat make?
       But where did that one single grain come from? Where is the home of this great bread-making plant? Well, we are told that its home is on Mt. Hermon, and along the Jordan in the Holy Land. For this reason the Middle East was called the “cradle of the cereals.” There it still grows wild and it has been taken and cultivated and developed, and now we have our wheat and our beautiful bread. This is very interesting. Jesus called Himself the Bread of Life, and we have found that out of the same country that gave us Jesus there has come also the bread that feeds our bodies. From the same Holy Land has come the bread for the soul and the bread for the body. And both have come from God our Father, who cares for all His children. Of Jesus, the living bread, we think when we say: Kerr

‘‘Break thou the Bread of Life,
Dear Lord, to me
As Thou didst break the loaves
Beside the sea.”

Of the great harvest wheat fields we think when we say:

“Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
And back of the flour the mill;
And back of the mill is the wheat and the shower,
And the sun and the Father’s will.” 

And so we pray:

“Give us this day,
Our daily bread.”

"Indeed the LORD will give what is good,
And our land will yield it's produce." Psalm 85:12