Consider the lessons taught us in the rustling language of the standing corn.
I. Here are revelations from God. In the fields we see (1) His power; (2) His wisdom; (3) His goodness; (4) His faithfulness.
II. Life comes out of death. A few months ago this bright field of teeming life was a graveyard, and every individual grain died, and was buried here in sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrection. The cemetery is the field of God. I hear the winds of heaven making music through the standing corn, and this is the burden of their song, "Sown in dishonour, and raised in glory."
III. Like comes forth from like. This heavy crop of wheat is all the outcome of scattered wheat, and no other kind of plant could possibly arise. "What a man soweth that shall he also reap."
IV. Much comes from little. In a small compass of bag and basket was the seed-corn contained. What spacious yard, capacious barn, and extensive granary will be required to hold the vast result. "Despise not the day of small things."
V. Fruit comes from labour. Success is the offspring of toil. This grand field is no happy accident. This field of waving wheat is the farmer's fee for hard and willing work. Nothing is to be gained by listless indifference.
J. Jackson Wray, Light from the Old Lamp,p. 138.
References: Song of Solomon 7:11; Song of Solomon 7:12. Spurgeon, Evening by Evening,p. 130. Song of Solomon 7:11-13. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. x., No. 605, and vol. xviii., No. 1066. Song of Solomon 7:12; Song of Solomon 7:13. J. M. Neale, Sermons on the Song of Songs,p. 307. Song of Solomon 7:13. Spurgeon, Morning by Morning,p. 275.Song of Solomon 8:3. J. M. Neale, Sermons on the Song of Songs,p. 321.Song of Solomon 8:5. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xv., No. 877; G. Brooks, Outlines of Sermons,p. 291; J. M. Neale, Sermons on the Song of Songs,p. 330. Song of Solomon 8:5-7. R. M. McCheyne, Memoirs and Remains,p. 342.Song of Solomon 8:6. J. M. Neale, Sermons on the Song of Songs,p. 341; Spurgeon, Evening by Evening,p. 289. Song of Solomon 8:6. J. Vaughan, Fifty Sermons,5th series, p. 113 (see also Old Testament Outlines,p. 166). Song of Solomon 8:6; Song of Solomon 8:7. Spurgeon, Sermons, vol.vii., No. 364; Expositor,1st series, vol. x., p. 386. Song of Solomon 8:11. J. M. Neale, Sermons on the Song of Songs,p. 352.Song of Solomon 8:13. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xxix., No. 1716; Ibid., Evening by Evening,p. 306.