The Hope of the Gospel

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Author: J. D. Jones ISBN: 1230001930160
Publisher: CrossReach Publications Publication: September 24, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: J. D. Jones
ISBN: 1230001930160
Publisher: CrossReach Publications
Publication: September 24, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

“A root out of a dry ground”! What idea does this figure suggest to you? It suggests to me the idea of unexpectedness, unaccountableness, miraculousness. A “dry ground”—that is not exactly the kind of place we expect a root to shoot out from. A “dry ground”—that is not exactly the kind of soil in which we expect plants to flourish. I notice that when the bedding-out season comes round, gardeners, even when they put their plants into prepared ground, take care to keep that ground moistened and well watered. If they bedded their plants in “dry ground,” they would not spring up at all. If a man took it into his head to plant seeds on our highways, he need not look for flowers in the spring. They are “dry ground.” And if by chance a root should spring up out of “dry ground,” it is usually a very poor and stunted and shrivelled thing. Some time ago, as I travelled through one of the Welsh mining valleys, my eye fell upon three or four trees that were growing out of the very midst of a hill of coal waste. It was a most unlikely place in which to see a tree growing at all, and I marvelled at the vitality that could exist amid such surroundings. But I also noticed that it was a very precarious and poverty-stricken existence these trees on the coal heap were leading. Compared with the trees that were growing in the green and fertile fields near by, they were poor and sickly-looking specimens. It is hopeless to expect a strong, vigorous, beautiful plant to spring out of a “dry ground.”

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“A root out of a dry ground”! What idea does this figure suggest to you? It suggests to me the idea of unexpectedness, unaccountableness, miraculousness. A “dry ground”—that is not exactly the kind of place we expect a root to shoot out from. A “dry ground”—that is not exactly the kind of soil in which we expect plants to flourish. I notice that when the bedding-out season comes round, gardeners, even when they put their plants into prepared ground, take care to keep that ground moistened and well watered. If they bedded their plants in “dry ground,” they would not spring up at all. If a man took it into his head to plant seeds on our highways, he need not look for flowers in the spring. They are “dry ground.” And if by chance a root should spring up out of “dry ground,” it is usually a very poor and stunted and shrivelled thing. Some time ago, as I travelled through one of the Welsh mining valleys, my eye fell upon three or four trees that were growing out of the very midst of a hill of coal waste. It was a most unlikely place in which to see a tree growing at all, and I marvelled at the vitality that could exist amid such surroundings. But I also noticed that it was a very precarious and poverty-stricken existence these trees on the coal heap were leading. Compared with the trees that were growing in the green and fertile fields near by, they were poor and sickly-looking specimens. It is hopeless to expect a strong, vigorous, beautiful plant to spring out of a “dry ground.”

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