Chapter 12 THE SOWER AND THE SEED.

"A sower went out to sow his seed."-St. Luke viii. 5.

It is significant that the first of the Saviour's parables is the parable of the sower, that the first thing to which He likens His own work is that of the sower of seed, the first lesson He has to impress upon us by any kind of comparison is that the word of God is a seed sown in our hearts,