A missionary in Palestine recounts that one day on a journey he came past a field of grain totally white. He asked a companion what it was. “A field of wheat,” was the reply. “But why is it so white?” he inquired. “It is overripe,” was the response. “There are not enough men around here to cut it, and it has been left too long. Unless it is cut at once, the owner will get no harvest, for the birds will eat much of it, and the rest will fall to the ground and be lost.” And even as the words were spoken,