On unrolling some of the old Egyptian mummies, you will find wheat three thousand years old.
The Greek empire has risen and gone; the Roman empire has been riven and its dust has been blown away, and civilization has developed since the careful attendants rolled up that wheat; it has lain three thousand years doing nothing but keeping unconscious company with hideous mummies; and yet when taken out and planted in a field it goes to work, comes up, develops a stem, and brings forth fruit as though it had not taken a wink of sleep.
And if wheat will keep as long as that, I am sure that men will. Though they are for years wrapped up, yet when God unrolls them the seed will come up and the germ grow again. Then let us take a broader view.
Do not think of life as in the compass of a pint or a gill. Measure existence on a broader scale. How infinite the space! How enormous the duration! How transcendent the capacity which belongs to the human soul!—BEECHER.
