OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD
Illustration★★★★Mr. Kay Robinson, the naturalist, describes a com- petition witnessed by him in the fields. Owing to a peculiarity of weather the poppies had managed to get a start of an inch or so in the matter of height over the wheat and barley, and the obnoxious flowers were just beginning to burst into bloom that would have converted the stunted grain into lakes of scarlet, when down came the rain; in a single day and night the wheat shot up above the poppies, and for the rest of the season the poisonous things were overwhelmed in a wavy sea of prosperous green and yellow gold.
A similar competition is going on between our good and bad qualities; it is a rivalry between the wheat and the tares as to which shall get on top and smother the other. What is the true course to adopt whilst this The Art of Sermon Illustration struggle proceeds? Let us concentrate ourselves on the corn. We overcome the evil in the good (Rom. xii.
21.)-DR. W. L. WATKINSON.
The point
As young wheat eventually overtakes and smothers early-sprouting poppies, believers overcome evil by concentrating on cultivating the good.