SPIRITUAL
GROWTH; DISCIPLESHIP; BIBLE: NEGLECT OF

Every farmer knows the hunger of the wilderness, that hunger which no modern farm machinery, no improved agricultural methods, can ever quite destroy. No matter how well prepared the soil, how well kept the fences, how carefully painted the buildings, let the owner neglect for a while his prized and valued acres and they will revert again to the wild and be swallowed up by the jungle or the wasteland. The bias of nature is toward the wilderness, never toward the fruitful field. That, we repeat, every farmer knows.…

We cannot escape the law that would persuade all things to remain wild or to return to a wild state after a period of cultivation.

What is true of the field is true also of the soul, if we are but wise enough to see it.

Psalm 119:9–11; 1 Timothy 4:13–16

The Root of the Righteous, 115, 116.