 | William Stevens Perry - 1885 - 720 sivua
...apprehended. There is a law of growth and development in Christianity, as Christ Himself foretold, " First the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear." Being thus conservative and free, linked to the past by an indissoluble tie and in full sympathy... | |
 | W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 424 sivua
...likelihood is that there has been a correspondence in each in their different stages of advancement. " First the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear," would seem to express a law of progression in all organic growth ; and we cannot conceive the... | |
 | 1889 - 1104 sivua
...perhaps been more healthy because it has not been too fast. It has followed the analogies of nature : first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. The best work of humanity has been done in just this way. So it was with slavery : first exclusion... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1889 - 30 sivua
...developed the consciousness of the imperative need of Him and of his redemption. There must be fijlt the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the e¡ WIDENER LIBRARY Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 02138: (617)495-2413 If the item is recalled, the... | |
 | 1890 - 814 sivua
...and developed the consciousness of the imperative need of Him and of his redemption. There must be first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. 1 The first and second articles in this series on the Methods and Resnlts of Biblical Science,... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1890 - 500 sivua
...Ten thousand INSECTS are seeking to destroy his seed, and hungry armies of VERMIN are waiting for " the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear." The artisan has to contend against as many enemies as the husbandman. Decay — DECAY, is stamped... | |
 | Robert Collyer - 1893 - 224 sivua
...heaven is as when a man casteth seed into the ground, and it springeth and groweth, he knoweth not how, first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. Let me take this Easter lesson to my heart, then, as it rests first in the question, What shall... | |
 | 1893 - 1054 sivua
...sun still shines on. after nge« of undimmed splendour, and the earth still brings forth of herself, first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. We can always rely on th« force of gravitation and on those subtle chemical affinities on which... | |
 | 1894 - 722 sivua
...for gradually and slowly takes in, digests, and assimilates each day its daily bread, and builds up first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. It is none the less true of the mental development of a people,— they must receive mental food... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1895 - 1120 sivua
...childhood. Since ever the world was made beautiful, timeliness has been the order of the universe. It is "first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear." Economy in moral training in elementary schools makes imperative a higher tone and subtler skill... | |
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Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. 
