speak of a hidden process set in action by apparently inadequate means. Dean Stanley, when travelling in the Holy Land, found in the scenery of the Lake of Galilee an almost perfect setting for this parable: “There was the undulating cornfield descending to the water’s edge. There was the trodden pathway running through the midst of it … hard with the constant tramp of horse and mule and human feet. There was the good, rich soil which distinguishes the whole of that plain.… There was the rocky ground