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After Pentecost     Pentecost 6     Matthew 13:24-30 & 36-43, particularly verses 24-30

The Parable of the weeds (YA No 58)

By day a sower sowed good seeds

But while he slept that night

An enemy sowed many weeds,

And then he fled from sight.

The wheat and weeds grew side by side;

When ears of corn came through,

The servants wanted to divide

The plants just where they grew.

“To pull the weeds while in their prime

For wheat, could be the worst;

Let both grow until harvest time;

Then pull the weeds up first.

 Tie weeds in bundles to be burnt;

Put wheat into my store”

By this advice the servants learnt

'Don’t act until you’re sure.’

When right and wrong at first appear

They may look much the same;

To root out one might be severe,

Might kill an upright aim.

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